So it's a real homemade job." It took him three months to write the song only two musicians feature on the track: Hozier and drummer Fiachra Kinder. He wrote the song after a bad breakup, as he later remarked that "the vocals were recorded in my attic at 2 o'clock in the morning. During this period, he penned "Take Me to Church" at his parents' home in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, and recorded a rough demo in their attic with a programmed backing track. In 2013, Hozier was a struggling musician, often seen in Dublin-area open mic nights. Problems playing this file? See media help. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards and has been certified six-times platinum in the US.Ī 24-second sample of "Take Me to Church" by Hozier, where a portion of the chorus is heard. "Take Me to Church" later crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number two in December 2014. The song also received critical acclaim.Īided by music platforms Shazam and Spotify to become a rock radio hit in the U.S., the song spent 23 consecutive weeks at the top of the Hot Rock Songs chart, tied with Imagine Dragons ' " Radioactive" as the longest-running number-one in its chart-history (at the time). In 2014, the song achieved widespread global popularity, topping the charts in 12 countries and reaching the top 10 in 21 other territories.
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Upon its YouTube release in September 2013, the video quickly went viral, leading to Hozier's subsequent license with Columbia Records US and Island Records UK. It was shot in black-and-white and follows a romantic relationship between two men and the subsequent violent homophobic backlash.
The accompanying music video premiered in September 2013, directed by Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson. The song caught the attention of Rubyworks Records, where producer Rob Kirwan collaborated with Hozier on the final recording. A mid-tempo soul song, its lyrics use religious terminology to describe a romantic relationship. A struggling musician at the time of its composition, Hozier wrote and recorded the song in the attic of his parents' home in County Wicklow. It was released as his debut single on 13 September 2013, originally featuring on his extended play of the same name, before being featured as the opening track of his 2014 debut album Hozier. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online." Take Me to Church" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Hozier. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are:
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