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A POTENTIAL PLAGIARISM dispute between Hozier and Canadian artist Chilly Gonzales has been cleared up following separate statements from the two musicians.
The discussion focused around comments made by Gonzales last week, when he suggested Hozier’s Take Me To Church hit resembled that of fellow Canadian artist Feist, and specifically her song How Come You Never Go There?
There were then reports over the last 24 hours that Hozier and his management team would be seeking legal action over the claim.
But the matter has been cleared up yesterday evening, with Gonzales releasing a statement on his Facebook page retracting his original comments:
It read:
I would like to fully retract any and all implication of copyright infringement in last week’s Pop Music Masterclass “Take Me To Church” and sincerely apologize to Hozier whose work I respect. Chilly Gonzales
Hozier then took to Facebook as well to say that the talk of legal proceedings on his part were inaccurate:
His statement in full read:
There has been some talk in the press of legal action and I’d like to clarify my position and the goings-on of the past week for fear that gossip runs unchecked, as it often does. What was sought from my end was an apology and redaction of an unfair inferral. This has been issued by Jason Beck (Chilly Gonzales), which I very much appreciate. I will continue to follow and respect his work and look forward to moving on from this issue. Jason Beck has been co-operative and understanding, and there are no hard feelings on my part.
Thank you.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
So now. All’s well that ends well.
This article was written by David Elkin and originally published on DailyEdge.ie
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Take me to Court….
Did you come up with that one yourself or just plagiarise Chilli Gonzales’ joke? You are soooo sued… :-)
Classy by Hozier!
Just proves that two reasonably intelligent men can offend one another and not be goaded into running to their lawyers, and these days that becomes a news story. Happens every day in my office. Still, well handled by both, full marks lads.
Now why can’t we just do something similar in Syria.. ?
Not a note in his head that lad
100% publicity on Chillys behalf
Is it really necessary to two versions of the same quote?
can’t have short articles now, can we?
Just listened to Feist’s ‘how come you never go there’ and while the tempo is vaguely similar in a few places it’s nothing like Hozier’s ‘take me to church’. I suppose the two song titles. ‘take me to church & how come you never go there’ are fittingly comparable though.
How could he sue over a mere suggestion the songs sound similar?
Because Chilly Gonzales accused Hozier of plagiarism after he claimed that his hit ‘Take Me to Church’ was essentially a rip-off of Feist’s ‘How Come You Never Go There?’ and he didn’t mince his words and it wasn’t a mere suggestion.
If Hozier let it go, then people would think it was true and perhaps Feist would sue Hozier for plagiarism.
There’s a lot of suing going on at the moment in the music industry over songs that sound similar and it’s costing a lot of money to the losers.
We want Chilly Willy
Fair play to hozier. But am I the only one who’s not fond of his music?
No he’s great. Prob the new Bono. Or Bob Geldof
Chilly Gonzalez is awesome. Love his stuff. Hosier is from Bray or something.
You’re in sooooooooo much trouble Del…..bend your knee before the image of His Hoziness!
The Church should sue him for bringing their good name into disrepute.
I really couldn’t give a f**k
I fukkkkking salute your direct approach sir.
… btw Chilly Gonzales real name is Jason!
Shouldn’t Hozier and Caroline Downey be more worried about Feist suing them or is this a case of attack being the best defence?
Silly Chilly jelly.
I was worried there that I was going to have to unlisten to the song a million times* *joke it’s a nice song
Pure publicity on Chilly’s behalf. And it worked.
Why did he apologise. It’s clear that Hozier was massively influenced by the song, essentially riffing his own version of it.
my bro played me the feist version not knowing about this controversy. he asked did i know the song and i was like thats take me church…different words tho!!! totally influenced by it and anyone who thinks otherwise has their head buried in the sand. still love the hozier aong tho
Personally I cant stand his music…..don’t know who would want to copy it, but on the other hand I applaud his success!
David Gray’s White Ladder is still number 22 in the charts.
Only so many songs can be sung with two lips, two lungs and one tongue.
Deep. Also completley wrong.
There are only so many books that can be written with 26 letters and a few punctuation marks.
Yeah, but your one doesn’t rhyme.
There wasn’t a massive earthquake in Japan today……….
Pay off
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