APRIL 1, 2024
PURCHASE TICKETS TO ROY & THE LOVERBOYS: LOVERBOY LUCIAN LIVE AT THE FAIGHT SF MAY 10TH
PRE-SAVE AIM FOR THE HEART OUT APRIL 26TH
Hello there! It feels so good to say that after being away from ya’ll for 4 whole weeks. It’s honestly therapeutic being able to share weekly snippets with you guys in real time. It felt so empty during the little hiatus. The loverboys and I played a fantastic sofar on Saturday night. We wanted to surprise our March audience and I’m glad we could pull through. This week we start rehearsals for our big live at the Faight release night show on May 10th. If you’re in SF, please come join us. It’s the first time that we get to play EVERY song live, from Loverboy Lucian. I’m really excited, and hope that this night will be very special for all of us on stage. Purchase tickets HERE.
Anyways, this letter is not about “Loverboy Lucian”, it’s about “Roy” turning 2 on April 8th. Normally I would have sent this out on the actual birthday of my eldest album, but I have a surprise for you on April 8th. We’re all about moving the story forward, so I chose to celebrate “Roy” with you on my newsletter first.
Can you believe that “Roy” is 2!? 2 years have flown by and when I look back on that era, that was a COMPLETELY different person. Through the process of making “Loverboy Lucian”, I’ve really had to look back and reflect. I think I’ve said this here before, but, while I’ll ALWAYS be proud of what we created and accomplished during those formative years, I continue to realize that era gave me more trauma that relief. Of course there were beautiful highs such as “Memories”. Let’s be for real, we all know “memories” is my favorite child, LOL. And I’m so proud of what I’ve been able to accomplish with that special song. I can’t wait to continue growing alongside it… you never know, I may just have to re-visit it and add some new lyrics (memories), as time goes on ;)… Then there are stand outs such as “Closed Doors” and “You & Me”, which have always been sibling songs in my mind. As a matter of fact I’ll give you some tea. It’s a trilogy of songs. “Closed Doors”, “You & Me”, and a BRAND NEW SONG on “Loverboy Lucian” called, “Falling In Love With You”. In my mind they are all related and telling an overall story arc. So you can see that era wasn’t all trauma. But be fucking for real, singing Scars live, reliving some shit through the film outlets, having to continuously talk about my past, it just wasn’t fun.
I’ll never forget how stressed out I was when “Roy” was released in April 2022. I was fucking miserable. I did my best to shield those feelings, but I was just not into it. It was so bad that it flared up my glaucoma and caused me to take several steps backwards with my treatment. Luckily we caught it early and we were able to course correct. That just meant I had to be put back on heavier dosages of prednisone. Something I’m not a fan of. I’ve been on the good old predy since 2014. But heavier dosages just make you bloated and drained. Hence the big physical transformation I’ve had in the last 8 months. I know ya’ll are thinking it, damnnn he’s a skinny legend now. LOL. And no baby, I’m not on Ozempic, haha. I am a skinny legend though, s/o Mariah Carey!!! We’re finally NOT taking that damn predy 8x a day. So god bless that!
“Roy” the album was embraced by some, but not all. For example, I was shut out from PR agencies because I was “too confusing of an artist with no firm direction of what I wanted to be”, or so I was told. Literally no one listened to “scars that bind”. It still only has 2k streams on Spotify. That’s been released since September 2021. Compare to “Finally Me” crossing 20k streams last week, 7 weeks into its release, yeah nobody understood the vision of scars. I have no regrets though. That song needed to release for us to eventually get to “Loverboy”. But through the backlash and distaste in what “Roy” the album was, it hurt. And I saw that it wasn’t working. So I did something about it, and through my healing process post “Roy”, I ended up creating “Loverboy Lucian”. I needed to relive trauma to see that I don’t want to live through that again. Which is why we made the rule no sad songs or negative vibes on “Loverboy Lucian”. If anyone wants that from me, “Roy” exists and has 16 songs on it.
That album was a rollercoaster of depression, anxiety, and the happier times in between. I think through that process of creating “Roy”, I unknowingly re attached all those feelings back to me. Even now that I’m in full loverboy mode, I think about “Roy” all the time. My feelings on the era continue to evolve. Like I said, I’ll always be proud. Especially of my beautiful “memories”. And now that 2 years have gone by, if there is one thing this album has thought me, we gotta keep the story moving forward. Ride the roller coasters, experience what you need to feel, and come out of the other side. “Roy” gave me new uphill battles to fight, but through those battles it has given me a second chance to do it all right within “Loverboy Lucian”. And I’m not gonna let my first album down, like the people who wouldn’t give it a shot. I’m gonna continue leveling up, so that one day our hard work will be looked at fondly. We love a cult classic, don’t we?
With that said, happy 2nd birthday, my flawed, yet beautiful debut album. One day the misunderstood will be understood. But until that day comes, I’m going to continue honoring EVERYTHING, pain, heartache, and all that is in between. With compassion, joy, and love.
I thank all of you have given an ounce of that to “Roy” over these last 2 years. There’s so much coming, and I hope you’ll continue to embrace me as I am, and what I’m becoming.
I know this was long, but hey! reading is good baby. Pick up a book, it’s healthy, haha… Maybe one day you’ll pick up a book written by Roy Loverboy Lucian… who’s to say I haven’t already been writing one ;)…
I’ll see you next week with something I want to share with YOU first.
Go stream “Roy” for me, alright?
Give my baby a little extra love on it’s 2nd year of life.
Forevermore, I'm forever yours.
-Roy “Loverboy Lucian”. 💘