r/Hozier • u/Kemr7 • 12d ago

Annunciation - a little laugh

I know there’s a running joke/discussion about Hoziers lack of enunciation (edit) in some songs, so this was too good to not share with the masses.

My daughter (she’s 5) was singing yesterday and she said “mom, why does he say limmy jimmy?” And I said “I’m sorry but I don’t understand what you mean” and she said “when my time comes around, limmy jimmy in the cold dark earth” 😂😭

Safe to say Work Song will never be listened to the same again.

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u/GinAndDumbBitchJuice 12d ago

Fyi, Enunciation is pronouncing things clearly. Annunciation is Gabriel telling Mary she's pregnant.

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u/Kemr7 12d ago

Oops LOL. That’s what I get for quickly writing at 6 AM.

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u/GinAndDumbBitchJuice 12d ago

It gave me a little chuckle thinking about Hozy acting as a divine pregnancy test.

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u/Bright_Spread_9084 9d ago

He causes pregnancy tests 😂

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u/Stringr55 12d ago

As an Irishman with a similar accent to his, this is quite funny. We are not known for the clarity of our enunciation lol

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u/Jealous_Attorney6871 12d ago

I'm proper culchie Irish, living in the UK and the things people mishear me saying are pretty funny 😭

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u/puca_spooka 12d ago

Ah god, I only travel to the UK every now and again and I genuinely don’t think I could live there because no one knows what the fuck I’m saying😂

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u/ApothicWitch 5d ago

Well, I’ll be in Dublin area at the end of June. We need to connect. You can talk to me all day long.😆

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u/Stringr55 12d ago

I can imagine! I spend half my year in the US…I repeat myself a lot 😂

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u/Jealous_Attorney6871 12d ago

Yeah it's rough out here lmaooo. Me and my friend have started mixing random words as gaeilge into our conversations to see if anyone questions lol

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u/Stringr55 12d ago

Hahaha I will try this!

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u/ApothicWitch 11d ago

I started gaeilge on DuoLingo! My son was like, mom what are you listening to?!?

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u/Stringr55 10d ago

Oh cool! Its a tough language if you have no grounding in it but its also super poetic and fun

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u/ApothicWitch 5d ago

Agreed! My son‘s like, “ Ma that’s a dead language!” I said not in Ireland🤣

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u/Stringr55 5d ago

Níl sé básaithe fós!

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u/latenightneophyte 12d ago

Listen, I used to think the lyrics: “I wanna be loud - so loud I’m talkin’ seismic” from Anything But were: “I wanna be loved - so Lord come circumcise me” and for too long I just rolled with that because I thought it was some metaphorical shit I was too dumb to understand.

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u/No_Inspection_5556 12d ago

Literally laughed out loud bc this is so reallll. Like idk maybe if I go with it enough I’ll get it eventually 🤣🤣🤣 it’s very Hozier to use circumcision as a metaphor too. So relatable.

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u/Realistic-Ad5121 12d ago

When I was at his Toronto show there was a section during Movement where he randomly started annunciating REALLY well like “you are the rightT oF movemenTUH” and it caught me off guard so bad lmfao

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u/Leading-Variation-61 This Phantom Life 8d ago

Ooh I love it when he does that too hahaha it’s either one or the other

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u/Logical-Librarian766 Icarus Fan Club 12d ago

My oldest thought it was “Dont wanna be a saucepan or a soldier”.

And honestly, both are valid.

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u/Kaltorian 12d ago

🤣 what a delightful thing to wake up to this morning

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u/ad-star 12d ago

Lol I had to look up the lyrics 'cause once I read Limmy Jimmy it fit in the sound

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u/oh_mygourd 12d ago

I sang "So much of the living, love, is the piano notes" instead of "So much of the living, love, is the being unknown" for weeks 😭

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u/United-Education-214 11d ago

Out of the mouths of babes