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Hozier on Finally Making It to No. 1 With ‘Too Sweet’: ‘It’s a Very Sweet Landmark After 10 Years’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Hozier discusses reaching No. 1 on the Hot 100 with 'Too Sweet' — after nearly doing it a decade ago with 'Take Me to Church' — and his smash tour.
So the artist’s easy ascent to Billboard’s pinnacle after a decade of not having a song chart at that ranking at all is still puzzling those who didn’t see this coming… less so those who have been to one of Hozier’s plainly magnificent concerts any time in the last couple of years and experienced the undying devotion. In another artist’s hands, the song’s somewhat cynical, anti-romantic lyrics might be easily taken at face value, but in Hozier’s, they are definitely meant to be coming from an untrustworthy narrator, or at least one who could stand to clean up his act rather than reject sweetness. Yeah, I wrote it in Wicklow initially, and Jeff Giddy (Gitelman) traveled over at some point during the pandemic, once orders were kind of slightly more open, and we sort of worked out the arrangement a bit more.
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