{"id":118259,"date":"2024-08-19T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/19\/hozier-almost-discarded-too-sweet-people-dont-want-to-hear-this\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T12:02:32","slug":"hozier-almost-discarded-too-sweet-people-dont-want-to-hear-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/19\/hozier-almost-discarded-too-sweet-people-dont-want-to-hear-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Hozier almost discarded “Too Sweet”: “People don’t want to hear this”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
Josh Brasted\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this year, Hozier<\/strong> scored his first-ever U.S. #1 hit with “Too Sweet,” a song that didn’t make the final cut of his last full-length album, Unreal Unearth<\/em>. It’s hard to believe he didn’t release it because was he felt people wouldn’t like it or care about it.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Hozier says, “Maybe it\u2019s the pessimist in me. I was like, \u2018People don\u2019t want to hear this stuff, we\u2019ll just put it away.\u2019” But when he decided to put the song on his EP of outtakes, Unheard,<\/em> and then release it as a single, he became the first Irish act to top the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 since the late Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor<\/strong> in 1990.<\/p>\n

Hozier is back with another EP of outtakes, Unaired<\/em>, which came out on Aug. 16. The first single, “Nobody’s Soldier,<\/a>” is about the frustrating and helpless experience of watching war and violence from afar. He says he chose it as a direct contrast to “Too Sweet.”<\/p>\n

Too Sweet\u2019 is one of the most lighthearted, fun songs that I\u2019ve ever put out,\u201d Hozier says. \u201cSo part of me was like, \u2018Well, I better follow this up with an anti-war song.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the other songs on Unaired<\/em> were, like the songs on Unreal Unearth<\/em>, inspired by Dante<\/strong>‘s Inferno<\/em>, which is part of the narrative poem The Divine Comedy<\/em>. Hozier says he’s so into poetry that he’d like to go back to school to study it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think poetry is something that I could probably put my focus into \u2014 and be hungry for \u2014 if I got rid of all other distractions,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve thought about it for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Josh Brasted\/FilmMagic Earlier this year, Hozier scored his first-ever U.S. #1 hit with “Too Sweet,” a song that didn’t make the final cut of his last full-length album, Unreal Unearth. It’s hard to believe he didn’t release it because was he felt people wouldn’t like it or care about it.Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}