What am I missing or perhaps I should ask, what is she missing?
“The next track, “Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue)” is the most upbeat of the album; if you were ever going to dance to a Hozier song (but you probably weren’t) this would be the one”
Is she joking? Has she listened to his previous album? Are we so conditioned as a society to think that twerking and bump and grinding are dance, that we don’t understand the concept of what dancing actually is?
From Vocabulary.com
A dance is a series of movements — sometimes choreographed, but sometimes not — where the person moves in time to music. … If you move in a rhythmic manner — especially to music — you can use the verb dance to explain your actions.
Dancing is swaying to the beat. Dancing is being enveloped by a feeling so overwhelming that you have no other option but to let your body take precedence over your mind. Dancing is movement.
Anyone who has listened to Hozier’s body of work. Anyone who has actually felt his music undoubtedly understands what this woman clearly does not. For a moment, turn away from the lyrics. Turn away from what your brain is interpreting. Listen with your soul. Listen with the part of your brain that isn’t analyzing.
Obviously, I am clearly biased as far as this song goes, but how can you (unless you are petrified of or staunchly against dancing) not feel pressed to movement by Jackie and Wilson?
or by this song?
how about Someone New?
Even the slower songs. Is there not an urge to sway to Sedated?
Did not Sergei Polunin perform a famous dance to Take Me To Church?
And obviously I can’t use this argument as at the time of her article, the song wasn’t published, but it can’t escape my purview. Movement. If you don’t feel the dancing lifeblood coursing through this song… wow.
I recognize that we all have a right to our opinion, but it seems that some people are so intent on being cute and witty, so intellectual that they flagrantly miss the mark.
Written 4/8/2020, but, per my notes, I had the same reaction and held the same opinion 11/7/18