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Orville Peck opens up about being a 'recovering love addict'
Orville Peck in 'How Far Will We Take It?' music video.
The country star, who's joined the Broadway cast of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, discussed his "love addiction" in a new interview.
Orville Peck is going behind the mask about his love life.
The country singer and upcoming Broadway star was featured in a recent episode of the Modern Love podcast from The New York Times and opened up to host Anna Martin about his love life — including how those feelings affect his music.
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If you've listened to Peck's music, you know that many of his songs are about yearning and longing for happiness and love, in the classic country tradition. Now, he's explained to Martin why that kind of lyrics resonate so deeply with him.
"I'm a recovering love addict myself," Peck revealed. "And I think the problem is when you are a sensitive person and you somehow feel ostracized, perhaps, you have this sense of yearning. I think this actually happens a lot with queer people."
"Not just queer people, obviously, but from my perspective, I grew up with a lot of yearning…" he continued. "I was out, but all my friends were skaters and punks, and they were all straight boys. And I was always in love with all these guys. And it was like, my whole life was centered around this sort of unrequited love. And I never really developed that sort of healthy relationship to love."
Peck is taking a short break from writing country songs while wearing a mask to put on the makeup of the Emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway.
He revealed his maskless look as the Emcee in a recent New York Times interview, saying "the mask is part of my expression personally as an artist and a very big personal part of me. But I'm here to play this role and to bring respect and integrity to it. I wouldn't have necessarily done this for just anything. But this is probably my favorite musical of all time."
Orville Peck's run on Broadway's Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club begins on Monday, March 31. For more information, visit KitKat.Club.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
