Freddie-desperation and transgression through performance.

AlbaNo1 wrote:
I think its fair to see he had an "extra dimension" in the uncommon intensity of performance at times, and there had to be have been something from within driving that.

would that be the self same "driving" force that inspired freddie to write such critically acclaimed and intense songs like
body language
killer queen
lazing on a sunday afternoon
seaside rendezvous
bicycle race
crazy little thing called love
fairy fella's masterstroke
my fairy king
...and dozens more beside

c'mon people. freddie did not take himself seriously and there was no "intensity" - he was a singer who really "got off" on performing and enjoyed the ride that fame brought him

Theres a touch of brilliance in most of those, and theres a lot of Freddie in them. So I could probably twist an argument for them being intense...

AlbaNo1 wrote:
Theres a touch of brilliance in most of those, and theres a lot of Freddie in them. So I could probably twist an argument for them being intense...

you'd do well to squeeze "intense meaning" out of any of them in any manner

body language - worst and most crass lyrics ever
killer queen - humoured look at an upperclass call girl
lazing on a sunday afternoon - pastiche
seaside rendezvous - pastiche
bicycle race - read the lyrics...it's pretty silly nonsense
crazy little thing called love....see bicycle race
fairy fella's masterstroke....brilliant - but fantasist humour
my fairy king - freddie's attempt at "prog" even stealing a little bit from the "Pied Piper"....it has similar ideas to Genesis' "Musical Box"

Theres an intense musicality even though there is a lightness of touch. But Im guessing the original poster was more referring to the powerful stage performances of the 80s.

sorry about those posts...

I think i had my elbow on the enter button :3 didn't mean to spam

STELIOS wrote:
Do you ever see a certain amount of desperation in Mercury when performing? A friend of mine said the other day he was performing like there was no tomorrow.
That perhaps added an extra dimension in his delivery both on albums and especially on stage. There is a "if I am going to drop dead now i don’t give a shit because i had the opportunity to express my shelf" quality.
You don’t find that in too many artists.
At the same time that may underline an inner desperation and the pathos to fight it.
This is why a lot of his singing and acting looked like combats in my eyes when i first witnessed his charisma as a kid.

There are much better words than 'desperate' and 'combat' to describe Freddie Mercury. I think Brian May said it best when he said of FM that he was simply "a lover of life, singer of songs", and not much more.