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she/her, 27yo, safe space 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[sahveia]

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. I drink mint tea everyday.

2. I cannot stand first 3 hours after waking up.

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

4. Pride and prejudice (1995) is superior.

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

6. I love white iryses.

7. I'm alergic to sun (not metaphorically, I'm being serious).

[sahveia]

Blond Roy in 1960. Monument Records studio. He looks annoyed on the 3rd one tho (Fred Foster too, tbh).

[bloodfromacl0ne]

bad attempt at reconnecting with drawing... sorry roy

i do not draw often enough to be good at this

[sahveia]

Roy in Paralives p4

Claudette couldn't stop thinking about romances and got involved in two. Roy got upset, explained the loser (the 2nd lover, he has no idea about the 1st one) and eventually released the tension, now he's focusing on music and being a father. Art truly imitates the life.

[sahveia]

Soft features of Roy Orbison.

[sahveia]

Roy Orbison's got the new bio on Spotify.

Wow, respectable description without bitching about his appearance?? It took us 70 years (since his debut in 1956), wow.

[sahveia]

Having big astigmatism is such a mess. No matter of glasses, you just can't see properly. It's always: Now kinda see better for small distances, but for longer it gets all blurry (or opposite) and things always have so many contours.

[surrealie]

he had to clarify he wasnt the woman😭

[sahveia]

I really like this one, because it's like the baroque poem. It's based on the concept: the protagonist for an almost entire song is telling his ex-lover that their breakup hasn't affected him, by using the phrase: "It ain't no big thing..." constantly. But at the end he reveals that's absolutely not true, ironically by using the exactly same phrase he used to lie (probably with the intention of not being the burden). That's just SPLENDID songwriting:

It ain't not big thing my losing you / Just ain't no big thing, I'll get over you / It ain't not big thing to see you go / It ain't not big thing that you don't know / It ain't not big thing I've been lying / It ain't not big thing that I'm crying / It ain't not big thing that I'm dying

[sahveia]

Roy has a special bonus option and that's crying in the shower.

Son (Roy Jr.) is finally there, but Claudette wants to have an affair. 💀 Little Lana meanwhile (the daughter of paraRoy and paraClaudette) has literally no friends.

Positives are: Roy finally has met his fandom. The situation in his marriage with Claudette is tense tho.

[stiingrei]

i feel like i’m being hit with grenades tonight

[sahveia]

Roy for the true connoisseurs.

[sahveia]

I love being Central European (well, sometimes, only sometimes). Strawberry and sweet cherry season is here. Sweet and fresh fruits everywhere. ❤️🩷🧡

[sahveia]

Happy pride month!

[phantoonsoftheopera]

As you listen to this, remember that at the time, Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman and Steve Barton were preparing to reprise their roles in the film adaptation. This is the quality of Phantom vocals that audiences would have experienced in movie theaters worldwide.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

© _ADwills

be kind to yourself and your creations ♡

[sahveia]

My analysis of Roy Orbison, fr.

[sahveia]

Roy Orbison's modern fandom

It might just be my own personal bubble, but I do think there's something to it.

Roy Orbison's younger fans (people under 30) tend to be (in high degree) represented by:

1. LGBTQ+ people,

2. Neuroatypical people,

3. Both.

Seems to me Roy Orbison resonates with these folks for a few very specific reasons (apart from the fact his music is pretty great).

1. His demonstrative anti-machismo was, and still is, gender-nonconformist cultural and social pracitice many people can appreaciate. His gender presence was not, like the other nonconformist performers (like Mick Jagger and later David Bowie), a flamboyant performance. He was quite serious and natural in his visual image, it was rather spontaneous, not put-together that much.

2. His demeanour in interviews and public appearances is relatable. He just answered questions, didn't know how to react to journalistic small-talk, didn't try to be brilliant, clever, nor funny. This anti-charisma is refreshing and makes very good representation for many neuroatypical folks. But it's also refreshing to watch. It's raw. At least more than usually when it comes to famous people.

3. His lyrics, which are extremely direct, intense, and rarely use metaphors, are often described as "high drama" and even "too much", also sometimes labeled as strange/creepy/dark/confusing. But imho they can be viewed as reflecting the raw nature of neuroatypical experience, also when it comes to love/relationships and so on. These frank and literal lyrics often convey the feeling of not being enough, not fully understanding the social situation the protagonist is in, the extreme devotion as well as despair. And constant existential pessimism tbh.

4. The dominant narratives about him actually encourage neuroatypical and/or queer people to identify with him. The media have consistently failed to understand him (canon event), portraying Roy Orbison as a fatalist and depressed loser. Comments about how much he hated the dominant model of masculinity (tough guys and macho types) were often ignored. They (the media) prefered to focus on the fact that the guy liked black clothes (which he had worn since he was a teenager, not as a sign of mourning), his tragic experiences and to pathologise the emotional expressiveness and rawness he revealed in his songs. Paradoxically then, many people identify with him because they themselves feel misunderstood by the majority, which is all too easy when you’re neuroatypical or queer.

5. Roy Orbison is well-known, but he lacks the mainstream popularity or cult following comparable even to David Bowie, an icon of bisexuality and androgyny. People don't tend to want to be like him, he's not on the pedestal, he's relatable as much as someone who sings in more than 3 octaves can be. He's splendid, but not aspirational in the most popular sense. This creates a rather favourable situation: albums, biographies, merch et cetera are available, so the necessary conditions exist to analyse his art and become obsessed with him, yet he remains unwatered down by the mainstream. The general public simply associates him with being "that ugly dude singing Oh, Pretty Woman or You Got It". It’s a superficial view, but thanks to this, Roy Orbison is only to a small extent a product, and has largely remained a flesh-and-blood human being who represented sth really interesting, important and unique.