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| Originally Posted by Koga I like the AKOM video as well, and I absolutely love the Break Free one. I don't find it disturbing, but hilarious. I think the Americans reacted differently to thedrag thing than the British (and other European countries), though. I believe it was even banned when it first came out in 1984.
Funny story: in 1985, they played Break Free as an encore in Argentina. Freddie Mercury entered the stage with fake breasts and some women's clothes. The Argentinians, however, had never seen the video, and were extremely offended, because the song had become an anthem for the struggling people of that country. |
Just got done with a car trip with my mother, and feel like mentioning a conversation we had.
I have a disc that's half Weird Al, half Queen. I had left it on the Queen half, "Save Me" to be exact. She turns on the radio, and I switch to Don't Stop Me Now because of the "I'm naked and I'm far from home" line (she can play music about MeatLoaf "drawing first blood", but if I have a song with the word "naked" in it it's a sin against God). A few seconds and I'm able to jump to her Civil War music disc. She asks who that was, I tell her it was a band called Queen. Her immediate reaction is "Oh, is that a bunch of gay guys? Because you know that a word for a gay guy is a queen because of drag queen."
I was so pissed I couldn't get my response together (this isn't the first time she's brought up some obscure homosexual fact as her first reaction to something). But it would have been something about the only one who isn't married is Mercury and that probably has something to do with the fact he's dead (or maybe he never was married. Maybe Koga can fill me in), there's a possiblity "Queen" comes from "God Save the Queen" because, oh, I dunno, they're BRITISH* (I really don't know where they got the name from, but there's still that possibility. Maybe Koga can fill me in on that too), and that the British don't look at dragging the same way Americans do (I do know they dressed in drag in one or two of their music videos).
* Granted, she didn't know what a flipping BOO was (I have that T-shirt from VGCats with the Boo on it, and she asked me what it was), so I wouldn't be surprised if she's never heard of Queen before that brief conversation.
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