Thoughts on the new-risen Queen hype?

Is it just me or does Queen seem to be all over social media these days, from show biz news to Instagram (which I’m sure is not everyones’ place to be but I happen to have an account and see new Queen related fan accounts popping up everyday)? I’m sure this is greatly thanks to the Bohemian Rhapsody movie. So is it only a good thing that masses of people are finding Queen or sparking up an old flame? Any thoughts?

I must admit that the ”freddie_4ever” and ”rogertaylorsbitch” fan accounts make me gringe, I just don’t get the idea. On other thoughts it’s great to hear more Queen on the radio again and I’m happy to see people appreciating the band’s history and talent. But is the hype really mostly about the movie? When I wear a band t-shirt it used to go unnoticed but today it’s a question of ”are you a new fan or a true fan?”

All that great stuff minus the fake tales that grow on social media about how great Freddie was.
Most newbie fans on social media are in reality Freddie fanboys and not Queen fan.

I hate instagram fan accounts with a passion. Misguided repurposing of something of value in a damaging way. That's just IMO - I'm sure there are many who get a lot of lolz from that kind of thing.

They'll forget about it after puberty.

I don't really care either way, but if it pisses the deranged alt right hate-spewer bucsateflon off, it's always a good development.

Freddie was dead already when I discovered Queen and it feels to me hypocrisy to consider kids only discovering Queen now, or due to Bohemian Rhapsody couldn't be true fans - sort of like saying you could only be a true fan if you'd seen Queen live or at least knew of and were a fan of them already by then. So you'd probably need to be around 50ish. And it'd imply there one day could be no true fans. All of us had to discover Queen somehow, someday. And if it was after Freddie died especially, even if we were a kid, there probably would have been someone at the time who would have called us not a true fan??

Also, I'm going out on a limb, but didn't most of us begin to love the music we love most passionately from the age of 11-18? Did we forget about it after puberty? I discovered Queen around age 11 and they were the only and for me until well into my teens when I began to find there was some other good music out there too. But I still love them. And for me, in fact the film - which I went to see, but thought I'd hate, instead brought me back more deeply to my love of Queen.

I think it's great if people love Queen. Whether some of the people love Queen or just the film/actors in it might be in part a test of time, but hey. I'm pretty certain that in 1975 there were loads of teens and pre-teens adulating over whatever band member more than thinking of the music too, it's just they didn't have instagram. Most things don't change that much. And there'll be plenty of ”freddie_4ever”'s who actually do love Queen's music. No need to judge say I. :)

You sound really stupid spiraplastic, really! read what you wrote but try to detach yourself from your own stupidity, just try it.
Maybe you can realize how stupid you sound.

I don’t even normally use the phrase ”true fan” in my personal vocabulary, it was just to describe the way people have reacted to my merchandise t-shirts the past few months. I think ”true fan” is a very teenage thing to say anyways, as if fandom was some kind of a competition. Then again, it might actually be just that for some people.. But I still have no understanding towards those fan accounts, I just find them really disturbing.

My problem isn't with new fans, it's with new fans who think the movie is entirely factual and have done zero research outside of it.

And the new fans who insist that "If Freddie married Mary he'd still be alive!" and all he other deniers of his sexuality. They mostly seem to be new fans or older women.

It's alright, I know I'm stupid, but thanks for only explicitly saying I sound stupid and at least tying the implication I could transcend my own stupidity into the bit where you confirm you think I am stupid, not that I only sound it. I won't re-read any stupidity I wrote though thanks, I'll just leave it there, a monument to my shame while I go bury myself in a pit of woe beneath my stupidity epitaph. I mean, "Here lies stupid" would maybe raise a laugh from someone, so I reckon it ain't all bad.

[QUOTE] [b]bucsateflon wrote:[/b]

You sound really stupid spiraplastic, really! read what you wrote but try to detach yourself from your own stupidity, just try it.
Maybe you can realize how stupid you sound.[/QUOTE]

This is what someone who is both extraordinarily stupid and an unusually hideous person writes when confronted with an intelligent thought - a total meltdown occurs, and a string of insults follow. Or, at least a string of insults would follow, if the extraordinary stupidity of said person weren't so great that mere repetition of the word "stupid" is all this individual is capable of.

It is very easy these days for anyone to get hyped from American idol nobodies to Adele and frog face Ed Sheeran.
Queen were not used to hype in the 70s or 80s and had to work damn hard to prove there worth which is a far cry today for current musical acts.
Sorry to mention the AL word again but he is one of the biggest hypes in the entire American Idol history.
You can have no talent these days and be as big as Little Mix & even Adam Mitchel Lambert. (sad)

Facts:
1. As a dramatic piece of film making, Bohemian Rhapsody was shit. Great advert for selling more music however.
2. Lead role was good and managed to overcome some pretty poorly written dialogue.
3. The film became a great success because it managed to appeal to wide audience, just like Queens music in latter years, by being easily accessible rather than well written.
4. New fans are no different to old fans, may not know the bands history as in depth as those who like me grew up with the band, but they can love and connect to the music just as much.
5. So what if younger fans have a different image of Freddie as a result of social media. If it leads them to the music that's all that matters. It doesn't have any impact on anyone else other than condescending arseholes who believe they have some greater right to be a Queen fan than others.
6. Anyone who think of themselves as a "true fan" is just a gash.

Don't think I missed anything out.

^^^ This.

[QUOTE] [b]EMI2565 wrote:[/b]

It is very easy these days for anyone to get hyped from American idol nobodies to Adele and frog face Ed Sheeran.
Queen were not used to hype in the 70s or 80s and had to work damn hard to prove there worth which is a far cry today for current musical acts.
Sorry to mention the AL word again but he is one of the biggest hypes in the entire American Idol history.
You can have no talent these days and be as big as Little Mix & even Adam Mitchel Lambert. (sad)[/QUOTE]

You're becoming as obsessed as runner, you've just complained on the QAL forum about Adam even existing on these boards but still can't help yourself from mentioning him every five minutes, even in the non QAL related part of the forum - a psychologist would have a field day delving into your warped mind.

It's pretty off topic, (unless connected by a corollary) but Lambert criticism is always fair. Dunno why people get angered about it. Queen were a rock band who worked tooth and nail, Lambert is a talent search singer who got the gig cause an old band needed range. (And Brian apparently spends much of his time with Anita at musicals)

Just inform posters if they're straying too far off topic, THEN stick to the topic.

And for the record I've been hearing a bit of "Queen? Yeah they're good but that's played out" (i.e. overplayed and no longer ideally fashionable since that's what compels some youth to "like" music, it's popularity and mass appeal make someone have something in common with others, even if the music sucks: i.e. mumble rap)

Aside from that. ...and UNLIKE the person above who says "why does it matter? "

I AM very bothered by the ignorance of the band's history. I'm VERY sick of every online "publication" spewing out another 3x a week story about "Why BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WORKS!" and "other musicians who need a bio pic" etc. ...CONSTANTLY they refer to the film "exposing generations old and new to the **HISTORY*** OF THE BAND"

THAT blatant falsehood is what bothers the fuck out of me. There's relatively little in terms of history that's correct in the film.

Just bits like :
guy from Zanzibar
band called SMILE
Mary Austin was a girlfriend
Jim Hutton was a hand friend
Roger played drums
John played bass
John was useless cause Freddie said so
(*oops, i haven't got time to correct the above)
Brian played guitar (*that must make him the Guitary One!)
Freddie sang and played piano
Freddie did drugs
Freddie partied
Freddie contracted HIV virus, leading to AIDS
the band had a manager named Jim Beach
Freddie had a personal manager Paul Prenter


That's about it if you don't get into the permutations of
Queen wrote "___" song, etc.

Aside from that it's not very "historic" and I'm bothered that so many media outlets continue to refer to it as "the history of the band"

It's a poor reflection of journalism and group mentality ignorance.

That's about it. That and missattributed songs

"MY FAVORITE SONG is Who Wants to live forever by Queen and Adam Lambert" (I've seen that one)

If it wasn't continually referred to as history I'd probably not give a damn about it. But that was their tag line: "the only thing greater than blah blah was HIS STORY" !

Who would've figured the channel 4 feature "the great pretender" would've emerged as the better film