Can't We All Just Get Along - Tumblr Posts

Guys, I'm tired of the fighting between the two kinds of Hozier fans, so I'm gonna break it down for both sides so we can find a common ground.

The most obvious side in this is the fact that Hozier's music is heavily inspired by blues and African American artists. Additionally, he uses his song-writing ability to spread messages about topics, often political, that he finds necessary to address. To ignore all of this is to ignore the foundation of the artist himself. However, you can still find him mystifying, as long as it's in moderation. So you can understand why people think of him this way, I'll explain:

The reason why people see him like this is because of the more popularized songs and because his style of writing lyrics is esoteric; only a select few artists besides himself write in such a poetic manner, no matter what the content of the lyrics. In addition to political allusion, he often uses biblical and nature references to tell a story or send a message. This unique way of song-writing gives people the idea that he is mystical because so few people still verbalize the feeling of love, not lust, and do so in such a poetic manner. And that is completely understandable. However, it is important to only take this superficially.

Yes, you may admire his ability to use figurative language to reference nature, but you also need to understand that he is not just that. You can find him mystical and political at the same time, but it is important to be moderate about the former as to not discredit all that he writes about.

Guys, please, let's just all stop the arguing and understand both sides.

— Kindly,

Atlas

(the og post is a joke, i know, but i'm using this to address something i think is serious)

seeing stuff like this honestly scares me. i'm a trans person (something i don't like telling people but feel is necessary in this case) and this isn't how things should go. i think that anyone who is in a minority can agree that, at some point, we've thought "i wish the roles were reversed. i wish THEY had to deal with what i deal with," but those of us with logic would acknowledge that this gets us virtually nowhere.

posts like this, even joking ones, set us back. transphobes will see this, take it seriously and weaponise this mindset against the trans community, another reason we're inherently wrong and need fixing. this type of post feeds an us vs them mindset. fight fire with fire and the whole world burns, same with hate against hate, prejudice against prejudice and vitriol against vitriol. we don't have to stoop down to the level of transphobes and not all cis people are transphobes (not all men, i know, i see the parallels).

all this to say, can't we all just be friends and not other ourselves further? can't we waste energy trying to convince people to love us rather than wasting energy telling people we hate them? maybe i'm too young and naïve to understand, my only goal with this is to grow up in a world (could end the sentence there, honestly) free of hate.