What is this song about?

Question

Without telling you the Artist who sings "Black Velvet", You Tell me........
In the song, Is she Drowning her sorrows with an alcohol called 'Black Velvet'?
Is she " painting on Black Canvas?
I will give you One chorus:
~ Black velvet in that little boy's smile.
Black velvet with that slow southern style.
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees.
Black velvet if you please ~
What is "Back Velvet" about?

Answer 1

Black Velvet by Allanah Myles
The song is about Elvis Presley. Col. Tom Parker said in 1954: if I can find a white man with a black [velvet] voice, I can make MILLIONS. Elvis was that man.He also dyed (coloured) his dark blond hair, to black.
The way Elvis performed R'n'R and the way he moved on stage, was a new religion for the younger people.
For that time, the 50's, his show was rough, vulgair etc.
So said older people. I can't remember the songlyrics much, bu if you read about Elvis and listen to Black Velvet, it's easy to fit to story. I hope my answer is enough for you to understand.

Answer 2

Elvis. Alannah Myles has said that is what it is about. It starts out with his love for music since he was a child, and then him entertaining as an adult.

The clincher is this line:

"Love me tender" leaves 'em cryin' in the aisle

But other references:
The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true...
(Elvis dancing was considered immoral by adults. They only showed him from the waist up on Ed Sullivan yo avoid his wiggling hips.)

Every word of every song that he sang was for you
In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon....
(a singer that is dead)

Elvis was known to bring black music to a white audience.
Good singers are described as voice like velvet.

Answer 3

it's about Elvis. Not only because it mentions a song that he sings, but it sets it up from the start. Jimmy Rogers is playing on the radio. Do we usually hear him now? Nope. but in the time when Elvis was little we would. Also the way he danced was a sin. listen to every word.

Answer 4

I've heard it said that it is about Elvis, don't know for sure tho...