Queen the band sucks. I don’t get why anyone likes them. Aside from Bohemian Rhapsody, their songs are bland and fall short. Their rock is dry. And the opera-style singing is cringe. Examples:
Another One Bites the Dust
- Catchy bass line, fun to direct at an opponent, CORNY AF. The song is about people being killed, but sounds like a funky Michael Jackson song with an Opera singer.
We Will Rock You
- Good solo, repetitive and annoying simple beat. Boom-boom-ch. So lame.
We Are the Champions
- Such a self-aggrandizing and braggy song. “No time for losers”? Okay, Donald Trump.
Bicycle Race
- I don’t even have to say anything about this one. Everyone knows how corny this song sounds.
Somebody to Love
- Touching topic, cheesy lyrics and even cheesier choir-like singing. It’s cringe.
I am happy for the band and their success. I admire Freddie Mercury’s unapologetic flamboyance. The dude kept it real. But, I just can’t like the music.
I’m sorry if I’ve offended anyone. I understand we all have different taste and respect everyone’s freedom to like and enjoy what they want. I’m not trying to insult anyone for their taste, but merely expressing my own in a somewhat humorous attempt.
I like Queen as much as any person but I can understand some do the complaints in this post. But I would LOVE to hear some complaints about Bohemian Rhapsody. Even when I was too young to understand music I was like “this is a mastapiece”
Wish granted. It’s a haphazard mish-mash of two potentially-good songs and one frantic pile of word salad, resulting in a scattered, inconsistent mess.
I applaud the effort, but try and make it more believable next time
I basically just described my actual thoughts about the song, though. The opening is a banger, the part from “I see a little silhouetto of a man” to “Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me” is kind of a mess, then it goes to a bit that sounds like it should have been the opener of a third song, before finally finishing on something that actually matches the style of the first bit. The whole thing is a weird patchwork that somehow became a hit.
It isn’t a patchwork though, it’s just not structured as a typical rock/pop-rock/pop song. Mercury borrowed ideas and stylings from opera for it’s structure. And the part that you say is “kind of a mess” isn’t a mess, it just switches between even and odd meters. It does that to try and put the listener off-balance, sure, but that’s intentional.