


Music Video Release Date: 14th November 2018Ĭhart Rankings: “Movement” hit the peak position of #3 on the US Billboard Adult Alternative chart in March 2019. As of November 2019, the video has over 15.7 million views and almost a quarter of a million likes. The video ends with Polunin looking over the top of a building while his lookalike runs behind him aggressively. It features dancer Sergei Polunin who turns up at an abandoned building, and dances with a lookalike of himself. The music video for “Movement” was uploaded to Hozier’s YouTube channel on the same day it was officially released – 14th November 2018. I wanted to write something that modulates from minor to major.” The way Hozier tells it, he wrote Wasteland, Baby’s title track after reading how threats of nuclear war caused the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to move our doomsday clock ahead 30 seconds. That’s kind of where the idea started at least. I don’t know if it was enjoyment of stuff like LCD sound system or whatever, maybe just allowing myself to enjoy the idea of movement. In a YouTube video by Hozier discussing the track, he explains his reason for using movement as a main theme for a track: “Rather than write a dance song, it’s much easier to write a song about dancing. Hozier first debuted the track live on September 4th 2018 at a rehearsal show in Dublin, Ireland. “Movement” was written solely by Hozier and is an ode to his lover about how they move, using their movement as a way to define and explain his love and admiration for them. “Movement” is the second track from Irish musician Hozier ‘s(real name Andrew John Hozier-Byrne) highly acclaimed 2019 album “Wasteland, Baby!”.
