'Bog man cryptid faeries' and Hozier

[smmg]

"unreal unearth" hozier is never beating those bogman cryptid faerie allegations fr fr

aren't you people tired yet of acting like this about irish people and people from celtic nations in general. because we're really tired of hearing it.

something something the victorian-era romanticisation and othering of celtic peoples (and languages) is still alive and well, but people seem to think it's ok if they're being quirky about it.

i'm way too exhausted and brain-fogged to get into it properly now, but why are we (people from celtic nations) always viewed as like magical, otherworldly, nature-dwelling, musical, so-inherently-in-touch-with-the-natural-world, mythological, mysterious, fairies, or whatever.

this is really weird and uncomfortable. idk anything about hozier himself really either, i only know like 2 of his songs, but i know that he himself has said this is uncomfortable for him:

It prompts me to ask if he does, in fact, feel like a woodland creature who emerged from the glen one day to gift us with his poetry. “So, no,” he laughs kindly, shaking his head. In this modern age, he’s perceived by so many people through his work that he’s come to terms with the fact that he can only control so much, adding, “I think there’s a lot of Irish people that are resistant to that representation; Irishness is complicated… So I see [fan posts], and it’s fun, but I’m careful about how I engage with it.”