Hozier, Too Sweet | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 30^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we highlight “Too Sweet” performed by Grammy-nominated, Irish singer/songwriter, Hozier.

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 30^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we break down “Too Sweet” performed by Hozier.

“It can’t be said I’m an early bird / It’s 10 o’clock before I say a word.” Word, indeed! Grammy-nominated, Irish singer/songwriter Hozier (Andrew John Hozier-Byrne) is a straight-up vibe – you heard it, rather, read it here, folks! The socially conscious “Take Me To Church” speaks for itself as one of the best songs of the 2010s.  Beyond “Church,” Hozier has written and recorded some fantastic songs, including a second, top-five Billboard Hot 100 hit, “Too Sweet”. “Too Sweet,” from his 2024 EP, Unheard, and the expanded edition of his 2023 LP, Unreal Unearth (Unreal Unearth: Unheard), is sugary sweet, and perfect in every way.  He penned this opening earworm alongside Stuart Johnson, Tyler Mehlenbacher, and producers Bēkon, Peter Gonzales, Sergiu Gherman (Chakra also produces).

“Too Sweet” features smart, often poetic lyricism from Hozier – we expect no less. That said, the song isn’t difficult to decipher or decode.  Hozier has been in a relationship with her, but he knows that she is “too sweet” for him – they’re incompatible.  “You keep tellin’ me to live right / To go to bed before the daylight,” he sings in the first verse, adding, “But when you wake  up for the sunrise / You know you don’t gotta pretend.  He paints the picture of a more polished person – “Pretty as a vine / As sweet as a grape / If you can sit in a barrel / Maybe I’ll wait / Until that day” – which is not who he is or desires to be with. Hence, that’s why he asserts in the centerpiece, the chorus, “I think I’ll take my whiskey neat / My coffee black and my bed at three / You’re too sweet for me / You’re too sweet for me.” In addition to a masterful pen, Hozier sings delightfully, while the instrumental backdrop is DEFINITELY – wait for it – “Too Sweet”!

Hozier // Unreal Unearth: Unheard // Rubyworks Ltd. // 2024

Hozier, Too Sweet: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 30 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Rubyworks Ltd.; cottonbro studio, Harry Shelton, Kool Shooters, Lucas Pazeta, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Teddy Yang, Wesley Souza from Pexels]