WWRY : 5ive.... why? a post Freddie manifesto?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wt9c6XITffg

My initial question in hindsight was "WHO GOT LAID for doing WWRY with 5ive?" Brian or Roger?

It's just the kind of hokey shit that's reserved for branding and selling out like George Lucas did to his Star Wars enterprise.

Maybe getting a musical theater singer was always a plan in the works and the acquisition of Paul Rodgers was a concession to a label idea?

Stranger things have happened?


Suppose WWRY with 5ive had caught on like wildfire. ..

Would there have been a Tour if it hit #1 in Europe and America?

WHY? and who benefited from it?

It just occurred to me that aside from not singing live, the 5ive collaboration isn't too far from Kerry Ellis land and Adam Lambert
.... Was this an idea always in the works?


The shitty musical DID premiere after all more than ten years ago.

Maybe given the ubiquitous nature of WWRY/WATC, This dirty sort of treatment was in the planning stages for years.

Maybe I'm so slow in my idol worship to consider that it all really happened more than ten years ago! ..

They're ALL retired! ... This is it! ... cash grab city. New business model every four years but it's cash grab city.nothing but a passing fancy every couple years on vacation.

Maybe I've finally seen things with clearer eyes rather than suspecting my teenage cynicism.

It's digested and well apparent that this business is a sort of business and nothing else. Hadn't been anything interesting for over 18 years. ... I've just been an unwilling curmudgeon bastard holding onto something meaningless in my life like Star Wars fans clung *(and still cling) onto the hope of George Lucas, as if he gives a crap more than a commodity to be exploited.

Could it be?

Could it be we were all RIGHT before?

Really?

I KNOW they don't owe us shit and Brian's mental interests have elevated many a dull mind but, .... Could it be that all the jokes and lanyards were properly directed. .. and that's really truly it?

John was right.... absolutely greatestly right?


Is this all a shtick?


Had it been happening but the phenomenon so compelling that it led to mass deceit and conquest?

Wasn't this a gift for Brian's daughter or something? And Roger joined for the single version / promo video?

I can just picture you slurring your post with a can of Carlsberg special(tilted at an angle), in your hand!
But I too am annoyed and agree.

Short story: Brian did try to get away from the Queen name but after a couple of short-lived hits failed. 'Made in Heaven' largely outsold 'Back to the Light'. Then Cozy died... which could be considered the main catalyst for Brian to lose interest in his solo career although that wouldn't explain why A, he released no albums in the last six years of Cozy's life, and B, he still went on tour for 'Another World.' Truth is, as great as the album was, the little media attention Brian got at the turn of the century was for either Queen-related things (GHIII, HOF intro, 5ive) or for his personal life.

He could make the best album ever and it would still be vastly outsold by a shitty re-re-re-re-re-re-re-release of Greatest Hits or Wembley.

As for Roger... he seemed to have been keen on continuing, whether it was with John (1993) or Brian (this century) or both (No-One But You and the Elton John thing in '97).

The 5ive thing seemed like a sellout I agree, however it was a UK Number 1. Some people were keen on it, but to call the musical shit. Really?? I thought WWRY faired well.

Wasn't this another attempt by Brian to get a Queen song to No.1 in five different decades? I recall him talking about that ambition. Seems rather pointless though.

It seems to me like a midlife-crisis kinda thing - they got famous when they were pretty young, they kept it up 'till they were in their fourties...and then they started fading away (from a charts-and-mainstream-audience point of view). John seems to have been ok with that (which I can understand and respect), and Brian and Roger weren't (which I can also understand), so the way I see it, they were trying to show that they were still "with it" by shacking up with some young charting band. I guess the money didn't hurt either.

If this rendition meant the original was going to be changed forever of course i would not approve...but i dunno. It's alright. It's kinda cute and i imagine it just fundamentally brought a great tune to a much younger and wider audience 15 years ago. It was a bit fun, they added some nice new bits of guitar and it's not like you hear this rendition too often these days anyway.

Thumbs up from me.

Personally I feel they were still trying to work out what they were post Freddie, and along came an opportunity to do something with a 'current' act, no doubt pushed by Jim. I guess it's pretty flattering to have a young band want to work with you after all the years, can't be bad for the ego... so why not try it and see?
As much as people moan about this kind of stuff i kind of like the fact they try out working with other artists, having spent 30+ years in the same band myself I can testify that when we get a young guitarist wanting to play with us or someone wanting to sing, it's great we all love it, it makes us feel like elder statesmen sure, but it's also nice to see what other do, isn't the creative part why you play in a band in the first place???

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]
It just occurred to me that aside from not singing live, the 5ive collaboration isn't too far from Kerry Ellis land and Adam Lambert
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Oh please......you're comparing that to Kerry and Adam, who both have more talent in their little fingers than some boy band?

Double post

[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]

Wasn't this another attempt by Brian to get a Queen song to No.1 in five different decades? I recall him talking about that ambition. Seems rather pointless though.[/QUOTE]

4 decades. This was released in 2000.

I think I remember some occasions in which Brian mentioned being asked for permission to use a song and deciding to play along instead. Maybe this was one of those cases?

As for the renditions themselves, I quite like the Queen+5ive version, which i find better than the 5ive feat. Brian May version.

Cheers,

Ogre-

Horrible. I was in UK when it was N1....Terrible feeling.
About Adam Lambert, listen his albums...I don't hear too much talent there.

In an interview a couple of years back for that reunion show Ritchie Neville said there version of We Will Rock You was much better than the original song. I liked how they did it at the brits, but so many artists have covered it and they all sound similar