My Favorite Writing
There's something exquisite about unhealthy romance, something for the lack of a better term, romantic about them.
The numerous songs about unhealthy relationships are proof that people are attracted to the concept, perhaps because they are cathartic and allow us however briefly to experience the dizzying highs and crushing lows of a bad romance.
My favorite example of this marries the concept with the idea of worship to make something both transcendent and base.
Hozier's "Take Me to Church" is a subversive and dark look at romance that in itself captures the essence of every song about unhealthy romance.
The song puts forth everything beautiful and ugly about relationships, particularly bad ones, with evocative imagery and clever metaphors about church and worship that is both an exultation and condemnation.
The song also makes great use of contrast and contradiction in such a way that it touches the edges of what its like to be so in love (or in lust) with someone that nothing makes sense but somehow, it all makes sense anyway.
And yet as eloquently as the song is put together, as masterfully as Hozier blends together the sacred and the profane, ultimately the song is very human.
Though the song has a certain je nais sais quoi, it also describes an common human experience that resonates with me.
The numerous songs about unhealthy relationships are proof that people are attracted to the concept, perhaps because they are cathartic and allow us however briefly to experience the dizzying highs and crushing lows of a bad romance.
My favorite example of this marries the concept with the idea of worship to make something both transcendent and base.
Hozier's "Take Me to Church" is a subversive and dark look at romance that in itself captures the essence of every song about unhealthy romance.
The song puts forth everything beautiful and ugly about relationships, particularly bad ones, with evocative imagery and clever metaphors about church and worship that is both an exultation and condemnation.
The song also makes great use of contrast and contradiction in such a way that it touches the edges of what its like to be so in love (or in lust) with someone that nothing makes sense but somehow, it all makes sense anyway.
And yet as eloquently as the song is put together, as masterfully as Hozier blends together the sacred and the profane, ultimately the song is very human.
Though the song has a certain je nais sais quoi, it also describes an common human experience that resonates with me.
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