STUDIO: ORVILLE PECK TURN TO HATE SONG RESEARCH

After listening to my chosen song, Turn to Hate by Orville Peck, I began unpicking the lyrics to try and figure out what the songs meaning was. Here are a few key lyrics within the song that I took out.

"Don't leave, don't cry
You're just another boy caught in the rye
Don't say goodbye
Head full of nothing and I'm wondering why"

After researching further into the song I found an interview with the singer and he explained the song in his own words.

“essentially a song about the anxiety that comes with being on the outside of things,” Peck says. “Treading the line between existing as a loner but not letting that solitude turn into resentment. All that wrapped in a good ole’ country stomping barn-raiser!”

• It’s a song about being an outsider and learning weather to like yourself despite it and not let yourself hate the loneliness
• It’s about the struggle of being alone/ an outsider but also not letting that bring you down and make you hate yourself
• That’s why it’s called turn to hate, it’s about excepting who you are (an outsider) without turning to hate

The deeper meaning of this song could relate to several things within the artist Orville Pecks life and also others who listen to it. Orville sings about being an outsider as it could be a good thing even though it could also be seen as a negative one at the same time. This idea can be applied to his sexuality growing up but also his romanticised idea of being a lonely cowboy travelling the desert. The idea of being confused whilst being a gay could be commonly relatable within our generation and showing that its ok to be different or alone is a great positive message. Other audiences could interpret this song in other ways however, relating it to their own lives specifically taking something else positive from it.