--- title: Demi Lovato Covers Hozier Take Me to Church on BBC Radio 1 description: Demi Lovato sings Take Me to Church by Hozier for BBC Radio 1 canonical: https://time.com/4029208/hozier-demi-lovato-take-me-to-church-bbcradio1/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T14:14:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:31.496Z og:title: Demi Lovato Covers Hozier Take Me to Church on BBC Radio 1 og:description: Demi Lovato sings Take Me to Church by Hozier for BBC Radio 1 og:url: https://time.com/4029208/hozier-demi-lovato-take-me-to-church-bbcradio1/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Demi Lovato Covers Hozier Take Me to Church on BBC Radio 1 twitter:description: Demi Lovato sings Take Me to Church by Hozier for BBC Radio 1 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Demi Lovato Rock This Cover of Hozier's 'Take Me to Church'  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 10, 2015 2:14 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 10, 2015 2:14 PM UTC Pop star Demi Lovato covered Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge. Hozier took to Twitter to compliment the rendition: > [](https://twitter.com/Hozier/status/641706505524252672) The clip racked up more than 1 million views in about a day. Lovato is promoting her upcoming album _Confident_, which is expected to be released on October 16\. She is also slated to be a musical guest on [_Saturday Night Live_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/01/snl-musical-guests-demi-lovato-weeknd)_._ Hozier just did his own cover on the show last week — an upbeat rendition of Sam Smith’s “Lay Me Down.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4029208/hozier-demi-lovato-take-me-to-church-bbcradio1/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4029208/hozier-demi-lovato-take-me-to-church-bbcradio1/"},"headline":"Watch Demi Lovato Rock This Cover of Hozier's 'Take Me to Church'","datePublished":"2015-09-10T14:14:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:31.496Z","description":"Demi Lovato sings Take Me to Church by Hozier for BBC Radio 1","url":"https://time.com/4029208/hozier-demi-lovato-take-me-to-church-bbcradio1/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4029208/hozier-demi-lovato-take-me-to-church-bbcradio1/","name":"Watch Demi Lovato Rock This Cover of Hozier's 'Take Me to Church'"}}]}] ```