March of the Black Queen - lyrics.

Words mean only what you want/let them to mean.
This, unfortunalty, only works if everyone agrees.
But it's true nonetheless.

It's a bit like money. It's only worth something because we all agreed it would.


neverending discussions may now commence. :D

[QUOTE] [b]Fireplace wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]N0_Camping4U wrote:[/b]
I like how half of the replies are totally nonsense, and add nothing to the topic.
I know many, many people have used the word before, like I said I was just curious why he stuck with the word, when he could of structurally fit in many other words.
Dane, I didn't mean it as if Freddie was trying to convey the most intricate message any one has ever conceived, I just meant structurally, visually, etc.
And fireplace... It looks as if you think I'm acting like Freddie was the only person to ever say nigger in music..... If you really thought I needed to be proved via links to other people using the word then I don't even know how to seriously reply to you.
And M Train, I could say the same to your reply: "Who really cares" :-)
If you don't care - Don't reply!
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I have no idea what you're talking about and where I'm supposed to have posted any links. It appears you don't take the trouble to read answers to your posts carefully, but DO like to tell people off afterwards. So here's a hearty SCREW YOU![/QUOTE]



Annnnnnd now you're mad. Sorry I don't serious reply back to children.

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Annnnnnd now you're mad. Sorry I don't serious reply back to children.
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So you're a troll. Thought as much when you started this topic.

M-train wrote: "Well, I'll try to be on topic. There is way too much of a big deal made over that word today. {Just like this post}
The only thing I can say about Freddie is that the world wasn't so politically correct back then when he wrote the song.
And, I'm glad he stuck to his guns, and DIDN'T change the words to the song after it became politically incorrect to use the word NIGGER."

Wow, you're so courageous. Do you not realize that the word is one that filled with hatred and has a horrible history? It has nothing to do with political correctness, it is about being sensitive and being aware that it might not a great idea to use racist terms.

During the 70's, Freddie mightn't have been aware of the history and notoriety of the word, but do you really think that if he had written the song 20 or 25 years later, he would have used the term? I doubt it. As for changing the words, of course he didn't. Why would he? That is silly. However, regardless of what Freddie would have done or what he thought, don't pretend that he has the same views on race that you obviously have.

Finally, to use the word political correctness and to say that 'There is way too much of a big deal made over that word today' indicates that you have no idea how horrible that word truly is. Plenty of black people, whose views on the word are more relevant than yours, could tell you how disgusting it is.

I've been wanting to add a few thoughts here ...
1). Is that portion of the song a portrayal of the black queen's voice? After all he also wrote that she was vulgar, buse and vile. So he knew she was no fairy queen.

2) the pursuit of sugar for the upperclasses in history resulted in scores and scores of people being enslaved to work the sugar plantations - back breaking labor and high demand and greed. You can read more about this dark history on the Internet.

3) Freddie was a massive Jim Hendrix fan and painstakingly produced a portrait of his idol for his wall and I saw it at the Queen exhibition. It's well known that that he and some of the others would go night after night to admire his playing and show.

So I think you must consider all the dimensions of a person and also try to understand the entire context of the song and what is happening in the song. When I found out more about sugar and the slavery history associated to it, the innocent sweet stuff on my dinner table was suddenly not so innocent anymore. I find this particular period of history to be vulgar, buse and vile.

I think that line is spoken from the Black Queens perspective, though this is only going from memory of a portion of the song that I don't know the lyrics to very well.. The jist of that verse appears to be the Black Queen locking people in the cellar, enjoying their cries for help, and then eating them, or something to that effect. So it's fair to say the nigger line in there is also spoken by a villain. I must say I was fairly surprised when I realised he'd said nigger, I listened to it many times before picking up on it and I had to check the lyrics in the CD to make sure.. lol