Maybe more of the hype comes from the fact that its a Lisp. To get a feeling for the "magic" of lisp, I would suggest either watching SICP video lecs[0] or reading the book. I started learning lisp, almost the same time I've started learning programming with Java (college). Honestly I was thinking why they don't just teach us that, instead of Java at that time.

Also Clojure is created by a fairly respected dude (afaik) Rich Hickey. His talks and Clojure design decision articles on the site are really insightful.

Also this talk[1] also pretty good overview of different paradigms and `Clojure way`, imo.

[0]https://youtu.be/-J_xL4IGhJA?list=PLE18841CABEA24090 [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1DazRK_a0