Roger Waters - Blog Posts
I wish his time would stay forever in 1967
“We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year ”
60s rog..... gender swap!
Thank you!
really wanted to make a project with these arts (a book about the biographies of some bands) but one girl took it for herself and i thought we were friends lmao
idk what happened i just got back here after sending that ask about your analysis last week but i hope you dont feel discouraged from posting pf stuff, ur one of the carriers of this fandom to me literally so talented in both art and analysis, and through being critical too cuz its so necessary for a healthy fandom for there to be criticism of the material/writers and for people not to be afraid of criticising things that deserve it, i hope you havent been scared out of doing that bc your posts are based every time and your anger is so justified, there will always be people who feel the same and are glad to finally see somebody else saying it. every deep analysis of rogers work comes from critically examining him, like you said its what makes us interested enough to be here and draw him and stuff in the first place, so people shouldnt welcome art and analysis but reject criticism bc it all comes from criticism, even much of rogers work itself and a lot of his interviews are self-criticism. btw no pressure if you dont feel like posting right now, but i am seated for whenever you post next!!
damn thank you so much, actually, this is the first post i recieve where someone doesn't try to judge me for my opinion haha
i'm sorry i can't find time to do a detailed analysis of his songs now, but i will do it in the near future
i think within a week i will have some strength to do it
but thank you again really i would like to do this
thank you
and i am not a bad person
To @mrooops
I'm super sorry for sending that ask or thing. I just got really angry and thought you lied. I didn't think what I was doing either. I was just focused on getting everything right. Personally, I have a lot in my brain right now. Mostly it's about school and at home. I didn't read your whole thing because it hurt me already when I saw the replies. I don't know what I was doing. I thought you lied that you would stop and I thought you didn't. I didn't know you were going through a lot either. I hope I didn't affect you. I'm honestly not this type of rude person. Please forgive me, okay? 😭
To everyone else, please don't think of me as a bad person for what I did. I'm super scared for all of your reactions. I just wanted to tell the truth and make things right. I thought @mrooops was a bad person and I just judge them badly without thinking. Please don't hate on me.
this is THE LAST post i ever made to those confessions. think for yourself.
It's very good that I can write this anonymously because I would never say it out loud or in my posts. Because of all the Roger hate that's going on right now, I want to finally describe his beauty and not in a horny or stupid context, but in an actual one. In his youthful embarrassment and a certain fear of being abandoned or disliked, his real, gentle nature is hidden. His insecurities are evident in everything, the way he sings or the way he looks or who he really is. He is very emotional, from rage to tears, in a certain feminine way. That's what i like. He is incredibly human, if you look at it from the perspective of the masculine and feminine principles, because they are always competing with him. He wants to develop his masculinity because it would be correct from the side of public opinion, but he cannot put his femininity anywhere. And also his failures, his exaggerated struggle for justice, reaching the point of absurdity, and his heightened drama - these are all certainly incredible phenomena. For the most part, it seems to me that people who really like him not only because he is a “hot rock star”, but because he is very complex, like ourselves. He is afraid of being abandoned, but he himself pushes people away. He loves his wife, but constantly expects her to cheat on him. He is insecure in almost everything, but constantly claims that he is the best Pink Floyd member. Maybe we like him just because he's very human and all.
when i try to grab at least into a little something to be able to draw the guys from pink floyd again because you like it, but i immediately get bombarded with unfounded accusations bc someone decided to go full war on roger waters
happy 81st birthday to my pretty princess roger waters
im a fan of rog however i was sSO SO SO SO sick of people being like "yippee yippee he's amazing and perfect" every time he spoke up about Palestine. it felt so strange how people on there hate david but were fine with roger or didn't bring up what he's done. glorifying people is so strange to me
yeah yeah i really get you, bc this is something that always annoyed me on twitter too, but the irony is that in most social networks everything depends not on what you say, but on how many people follow you. and it works for both roger and his fans. waters fans actually tried to cancel me on twitter once lol
how interesting people are huh
me when roger waters: now let me say i'm the biggest hater, i hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress
pink floyd twitter fandom is finally caught up on roger's political opinions and have a less positive opinion on him now
yeah, the same dudes who recently licked his heels and simply ignored replies to posts asking "What about Ukraine? What about Taiwan?"
ubelievable fr but i'm glad
pink floyd twitter fandom is finally caught up on roger's political opinions and have a less positive opinion on him now
yeah, the same dudes who recently licked his heels and simply ignored replies to posts asking "What about Ukraine? What about Taiwan?"
ubelievable fr but i'm glad
remember my favorite moment that happened a month ago, when i was on a trip to a competition and played Pink Floyd for the girl vocalists (they were about 10 years old) so that they could say if roger waters could sing and when he started singing they said “it really would be better if he didn’t do that”
why small kittens are always either the most pathetic or the most evil creature you've ever seen
i could take roger in a fight. not like roger barrett, but like roger waters. jump on his back. put in a headlock. done
i love how many people here are an example of how people never care about other countries or world problems. everyone here just wants to have fun and for the sake of this entertainment you are ready to turn a blind eye to what your favorite member says or does. you all say that you do not support his political views, but you never spread condemnation of them, but simply ignore them. you like confessions where people want to choke on his sperm or eat members of pink floyd, but when the conversation comes about something serious, you immediately step back, and then also write how tired you are of this 😭 tired? really? someone lives in the world of these confessions, someone goes down to the basement every day because of a missile attack, someone is afraid that their father will be drafted into the army or is afraid that he will never return, but it’s still you who gets tired. and someone sits at home and writes how annoyed he is by such confessions, because “well, roger waters is my favorite member and all these things make me feel bad that i like him(“. well, it’s not our fault. we don’t determine what he says or does, we spread this because it’s wild and because EVERYONE decides to turn a blind eye to it, everyone decides that it’s better to close political confessions, because they’re too dark, everyone decides that it’s better to pass by than to reblog to themselves, because "oh, but then my blog will be negative". half of those confessions are not even mine lmao, some people just want to talk about it for real.
you're so comfortable in the entertainment business that when it starts getting to the point of roger fox hunting with clapton or writing a letter to the president of a war-torn country saying they should give up and give up territory, suddenly it's all out of politics or suddenly "it's too dark for my blog."
love him as much as you want, he doesn't end as a person with his political statements, there's nothing wrong with him being your favorite member. on the contrary, it’s very good that you like him, because now you can finally do the right thing. don't write a confession about wanting his dick, but maybe reflect on what smart things he said in his songs and how strange it is that he doesn't stick to them now.
talk about it because if you don't he will never see how disappointed his fans are in him. how disappointed they are in his statements.
Man seeing a lot of these confessions lately reminds me exactly why I started distancing myself from the fanbase. I still love Pink Floyd but some fans just love screaming the same hateful ragebait over and over and it's fucking annoying. It's hard for me to even listen to the music anymore because all I can think of is the negativity. Whoever runs this blog is a trooper because it must be draining as hell at times.
So this was sent as a submission and I’m posting like this to keep confessed anonymous. It is tiring and draining. It’s getting annoying seeing hateful confessions in my inbox now. I feel bad every time I see one about Roger. Yes, his political opinions are very controversial, but y’all are pushing it now. I love Roger and it makes me feel like I’m a horrible person for having him be my favourite member, and just one of my favourite musicians in general.
I also just realized the submitted by tag takes away the anonymity.
well, finally, the solemn occasion for which we have gathered here. let's discuss why i personally think that roger waters is 101% bisexual.
perhaps, let's start in order. teenage hormones associated with sexual desire begin to appear during school. i like to let you imagine situations, so imagine yourself back in the shoes of a boy in the 50s. his mother intimidated him with her strong character; adults around him believe that even mentioning sex is the height of indecency. nobody talks about this at all. there are no girls, the school you study at is strictly for boys and, accordingly, your first conversations about any sexual contact are only with boys. this closed male space becomes the motif for Empty Spaces, where waters reveals his fear of women. he was afraid of them because he was afraid of any intimacy with them, he was afraid to even imagine it, as i said earlier, women for him are like wild predators wanting to tear him apart. guys will be a more familiar experience, less scary, oh, and you all know what often happened in english boys' schools, yes (i'm not talking about anything mega sexy, it's just about exploring your sexuality). in his situation, i can’t say for sure, but i’m more inclined to believe that at school he had nothing but shameful curiosity. all the same, he was terribly pressed and everyone humiliated him. it’s unlikely that he would have even done something like that then.
let's move on. in general, let's talk about another very important psychological aspect, which left him with food for thought for many more years. Syd. imagine roger, who is ashamed of any intimate action, who is dependent on other people's opinions, is insanely tense and always attacks someone with aggression if they say something that seems offensive to him, and imagine syd, who is not afraid to expirience, he is not afraid of sex, he is not afraid to talk about sex, he does not need to listen to the people around him to know who he is and what he wants from his life. he's incredibly free. roger admires this freedom. i think he was openly surprised at this side of barrett more than once. even now, he talks insanely often about how much he and syd talked about things that he didn’t understand then.
and in fact, yes, syd greatly influenced his life. syd never needed roger to pretend to him like waters did with his other friends. syd never needed roger to be right about everything or for everything to work out for him. syd just loved being around him and knowing that roger was listening to him and that syd had something to share with him. he loved that sometimes roger is very emotional or very sensitive and he never judged him for that. i think their sheer revelation to each other is what made roger obsess over him. he could have chosen anyone to talk about all his life and write songs about, even his girlfriend or wife, but he chose syd because he treated roger equally, honestly and openly.
you might think it was some weird jump from talking about sex to talking about feelings, but it's roger's sexuality that we're talking about. and his sexuality certainly includes sex AND feelings.
i'll also clarify that i don't want to say that they had any kind of sexual contact, but i believe that at least once he really thought that maybe if it was syd of all, he wouldn't be against. roger is very sensual and emotional and he is very confused about his sexual feelings, he was one hundred percent just as confused about syd. the “i'm a homosexual” moment didn’t make the situation any better either.
and what roger described in Incarceration of a flower child is an incredibly intimate moment. he remembers it. this is what he wants to remember when he thinks about syd. when it was just the two of them, lying on pillows and discussing baby names. and the way he grabs onto this moment, afraid to let it go - this is also very significant. i mean, he deeply loved him, kinda romantically, kinda friendly. there are many examples of songs that can prove this if you think a little, but i won't do that here, it's already a long post.
when syd left, this whole long process of his “leaving” made roger angry. i can only compare this to when a wife’s husband dies and she begins to ask herself “why did he do this to me? why did he leave me?” (i have an example of real people with whom this situation happened). roger also likes to direct everything towards himself, of course it was syd who left him, not pink floyd. syd made them famous, they were being pressured to write a new album, and syd just decided that he was leaving. and roger didn’t need excuses for why this happened, he saw it as if he was simply left to deal with all the problems. and so he feels sad, because he feels sad he gets angry and you get the idea. but the anger passes. and he understands that he misses him and syd was very, very important to him. and then the realization comes that it was he who was selfish in this situation.
and when syd leaves he becomes who he was again. he is unsure of himself, he is waiting for approval, he cannot improve his sex life (in some way) because there is simply something missing in it.
he is kinda bisexual.
he will never admit it because he doesn't think it's anyone's business. he doesn't admit it because he's still closed and he still can't agree with himself. after all, even if he had thoughts and even fantasies, he was always ashamed of them because for society it was shameful then. and he was dependent on it.
you can agree or disagree, i am not claiming to be his sex psychologist, i am simply writing this as my own thoughts and conclusions.
if despising the political views of roger waters means despising the idea of peace, then i would rather continue to despise them, because by supporting his political views you are also the one who supports imperialism and the violent seizure of foreign territories. and i don't want to be the person who supports people who bomb children's cancer hospitals, but roger waters does.
if you shout about how you are for peace in the world on twitter while you hunt foxes off the internet, then you do not automatically turn into a peacemaker. if you carry out a gigantic campaign in support of Palestine, while you tell in an interview that you support putin and his decisions and believe that those who were attacked are to blame for everything, because they began to defend themselves and did not surrender, then you do not become a better person.
i know you all love him madly and i also enjoy learning about certain aspects of his early life, but i ask you to be a little more patient and accept the fact that he doesn't always make the right decisions or say the smartest things. it would be better if you reacted so strongly to his statements that Ukraine is full of nazis or that Taiwan is china than to statements that he is bad.
People who despise Roger's political views despise the idea of the peace as a whole.
i'm trying to write a post about waters' bisexuality and every time i stop i sigh with rage because i remember what kind of crap he supports in politics
say more about the bisexual rog hill you're dying on
oh it is mostly wishfull thinking and complete delusion.
the quote i was refering to was from this. Like a complete brain rot I am, I always clinged to the fact that he said sex and not just women.
and i always kind of saw his relationship with syd as him having a bit of the bisexual conundrum of "do i want to be them or do i want them?"
and, of course, the most important evidence of all: he just gives me vibes
this is a bi couple if i ever saw one
