Hozier Performs Stripped-Back Set at Grammy Museum, Talks Poems, Musical Activists & Scientific Discoveries That Inspired 'Wasteland, Baby!'

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. "There’s a reason why the artists that are named in that song are heroes," he noted, before adding that Staples herself is the "kindest, warmest, most generous person with her spirit and time."

"In 2016, this was kind of a time where protests were fatigued and people were turning against it and didn’t want politics in their cornflakes," he explained. "They were sick of it, and I get that. People get fed up with it and turn against that propensity to protest.

"[The poem] is quoted a lot, this line at the end that says, ‘What rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?,'" Hozier explains. "Evoking this sort of Anti-Christ figure, written as if it were a fever dream, this awful experience this man is witnessing and what he imagines the Anti-Christ coming to be born."

He continued pulling ideas from greater concepts for the full-length album, which skyrocketed to the top of the's songs were drawn from literature and poetry, "No Plan," on the other hand, was actually inspired by an astrophysicist named Katie Mack. "I was always fascinated by science—first of all, biology, my favorite, and just the awesome complexity of everything fascinated me.

 

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Hozier Nice to read an article by someone who actually “gets it”! Thank you for this! I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Hozier perform 5 times (4 this tour) & it still isn’t enough....🖤

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