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Your gay cousin and living Encyclopedia of Roy Orbison’s life and legacy (yes, I’ve been diagnosed with autism).

Random facts about me:

1. Night person.

2. Crying (1962) is my favourite album of all time.

3. Radical feminist, socialist and theology freak (not believing tho, ex-Catholic)

4. Alergic to sun (not metaphorically, I'm being serious) and light-sentitive.

fence-time

Jeff Lynne is seriously one of the coolest people ever,, I’m so serious, btw,,,,

Such a nice fella.

#roy orbison #rock and roll #rock n roll #rockabilly #classic rock #soft rock #rock #60s music #1960s music #60s rock #1960s rock #60s #1960s #60s icons #1960s icons #lgbtq+#lgbtq #lgbtqia

feviie

my husband

#so pretty and imaginative!!#I love it #george harrison #the beatles #the traveling wilburys

briancrackheadjones

OH MY GOD just suck his dick while you're at it

#this is killing me #chat is this real #the beatles #george harrison #bob dylan #dylarrison

twi1a

Umm, I got bored and made this on Pinterest...

Awww awww so cuteee

#I love this!!#it captures his essence so well 🖤#roy orbison #collage #fav

twi1a

Anyone else only watch the movie Blue Velvet because it has the song In Dreams by Roy Orbison in it, or is that just me. It's a good movie tho anyway.

#yes op I watched it for this exact reason #I wanted to know why Roy was so upset #well... I understand but this context for “In Dreams” is really interesting #Lynch seeing darkness in it while Roy insisting it's a “pretty” song #usage of “Crying” in Mullholland Drive is even more interesting #it helps to solve the mystery in this film #anyway

Fem Roy is serving the community.

#roy orbison #fem roy #she's serving #I wanted to give her a cute outfit #the traveling wilburys #jeff lynne #electric light orchestra #elo #george harrison #the beatles #tom petty #tom petty and the heartbreakers #the heartbreakers #bob dylan

stiingrei

roy orbison

#well said prev #roy orbison

feviie

Sketch with fem Roy

#so cool!#I'm during drawing fem Roy myself rn lmao #roy orbison #fav

lepetitghostcat

Then I came back to Christine. She was waiting for me..."Erik here rose solemnly. Then he continued, but, as he spoke, he was overcome by all his former emotion and began to tremble like a leaf: "Yes, she was waiting for me... waiting for me erect and alive, a real, living bride... as she hoped to be saved..."

georgeharrisonsmiling

Jeff 💀

#the shade lmao #i adore this guy #jeff lynne #electric light orchestra #elo

A catchy, upbeat song about working on the oil fields with a touch of romance or... Roy Orbison being politically radical?

In American slang (particularly in the South as I'm informed), The Man refers to an important, powerful figure, sometimes with connections to the government. The first speaker, titular the Man, after demonstrating his authority, alternates manipulatively between pronouns, which either connect or separate him from his employees: "We've got a deadline to meet / I'm gonna see you make it on time".

The song directly links capitalism with patriarchy: workers are expected to forget not only their physiological needs (such as thirst), but also women, who are viewed as a resource or a currency.

The same applies to the second spekaer – the worker. Terrible working conditions and class-based injustice awaken his lowest instincts, allowing him to treat the boss’s good-natured daughter as a means to his ends and a ticket to social climb. Sex serves as a form of class revenge: "She says meet me tonight love a me right / And everything is gonna be fine / So I slave all day without much pay / 'cause I'm just abiding my time / 'cause the company and the daughter you see / Their both gonna be all mine". So he’s calculating, while having sex with a girl who seems to have genuine feelings for him. How he's abiding his time - I think this is pretty self-explanatory, much like the sex that constitutes racial revenge in Boris Vian’s I’ll Spit on Your Graves (1946). The song’s finale confirms this theme: the worker, operating within the context of brutal capitalism, succumbs to moral degradation, triumphantly declaring that he himself will be the Man.

Orbison referred to the origins of this song on numerous occasions. For an instance he said "the lyric was too complicated" for an American audience, when asked why it flopped in the US. As the son of an oil refinery worker in Wink, he grew up in poverty and later worked there himself for a while, though he admitted that the part about the boss’s daughter was entirely fictional and served solely to reinforce the narrative. It also seems significant that the song became a permanent fixture in the artist’s live repertoire during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Odd, isn't it?