Freddie Mercury - Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow (Official Video Premier)

Huum...with this kind of video, the new Never Boring release cover, and the Adam Lambert ongoing colaboration I think Queen band and brand are trying to move towards his gay audience only.
It´s a shame because what I like most about Queen is the fact that they always try to reach everbody, never openly waving any kind of political, social or religious flag. Only pure fun.
Today is the first time in the last 30 years or so that I don´t feel Queen is talking to me or doing something who can works for me too...which is really sad.

I do understand that POV.

The animation is poignant though. When the infected guy starts to get really ill and his partner is holding him, all the straight folks just float by and ignore the situation. Ultimately the partner has to get tough and fight the virus himself. This reflects the actual history of HIV, as told in for instance the movie *How to Survive a Plague”. Also, “As The Band Played On” (more the book than the movie which changes a lot of history and leaves a lot of stuff out).

The press coverage at the time was pretty terrible. I was young and naive at the time and didn’t realize that when the disease was discovered the technology existed to grow the virus and start working on it. There were scientists who right away thought it was a virus and who knew how to grow viruses in the lab, or knew how to find people who did. I just thought it was a really tough problem. It wasn’t so tough, but there was a huge lack of political will. The first person who tried to grow the virus had to stop for lack of a $1500 piece of safety equipment. For instance.

It was not humanity’s finest hour and personally I think this concerns everyone.

But overall I do get what you mean. Although the main problem I have with AL is that I just don’t like his voice. If he had a voice I loved and dressed the same way I’d go see them.

Sorry, can’t edit posts on an iPad.

I forgot to say, to bring this back to Freddie. I often think, what does he need the tabloids for posthumously, he has QZ. There is a lot of criticism of his behavior and shade thrown his way about not testing, or supposedly testing positive and not adopting safe sex, etc.

At the time it was all madness and mayhem. As far as his personal behavior goes, when he changed, when he tested etc., he was about average. And a lot of the men getting this were just ordinary guys—teachers, bankers, nurses, psychologists, etc. Work hard play hard guys who had regular jobs and wild weekends.

It’s true he wasn’t among the first men to start thinking about changing their lifestyle, but they were a minority. I guess this post doesn’t really belong in this thread. Oh well, at least I’m not a bot.

sorry if that sounds too stupid:
but once again i recognize what a hell of a singer that "mr.mercury" was.
love his music.
is it never boring... well. it depends.

Remember that Simpsons episode when Krusty had to show a Russia cartoon Worker And Parasite because Itchy And Scratchy had been banned? I kind of feel like him after watching that. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT???

By the way, during countdown for the YouTube premiere, an atmospheric, instrumental mix was playing (it wasn't part of the extended version). Did anybody catch that?

LOL, if that had ended up being a Queen song in 1985 or 86 on the A Kind Of Magic album, and Freddie told the boys, that was going to be the video, Brian would have flipped a lid. "I remember having a go with Freddie." "I like our music to be universal" things like that. And it wasn't even like that.

While I understand the video and even like it, as the official music video... I'd have not claimed it to be as such. I can understand it as the official video for an AIDS organization, but why do they need to make it the "official" video for Freddie himsel?

That's my favorite Freddie solo song, by the way. It's just... that's not what the song is about at all. The video is irrelevant to the song.

It's classic 2019 - repurposing old things that people hold dear and attaching a message. Luckily for me I honestly can't say I have any emotional attachment to that song (I barely remember it beyond the title) so even looking at it objectively it seems heavy handed no matter what the no doubt good intentions were.

I like the video.
Mediocre song, but it sounds better than ever.

[QUOTE] [b]Wilki Amieva wrote:[/b]

By the way, during countdown for the YouTube premiere, an atmospheric, instrumental mix was playing (it wasn't part of the extended version). Did anybody catch that?[/QUOTE]


Perhaps it was from the full instrumental version on the Freddie Solo Collection from 2000?

I actually liked it. I do like that they are finally accepting the gay aspect though it would be better if wasn't solely in the context of HIV. It is true that this would never have been possible in 1986 but I feel like the Queen Machine is trying to put things right, recognizing that their acceptance of Freddie's private life wasn't enough while they, at the same time, tried to ignore it publicly.

Think how gay Freddie was. Think how much of his gay lifestyle/love life had to be held back or simply nodded to, rather than revealed. Freddie in the 1970's/80's would write 'she' isn't of 'he' in love songs, he would act alongside female 'love interests' rather than male. But that was 30/40 years ago, who's to say what he would do if he was that age in 2019, with the freedom he'd have these days to be homosexual. Maybe he'd be exactly the same. Never confirming and simply stating he sleeps with everyone, men, women and cats. Maybe not. Who knows?

However, I think it's appropriate that at the very least in 2019 we do not shy away from having a music video showing a story of two homosexual lovers - who also happen to be suffering from some kind of representation of AIDS, ya know, that thing that gone and made Freddie deaded. Complain if you found it boring, confusing or whatever. But I think 'this video is about gay people, this doesn't speak to me' is a very selfish response. And also a little odd. Was Freddie gyrating with the women in 'I Was Born to Love You' speaking to you? I'm straight, but it wasn't speaking to me. THIS speaks to me more because there's real emotion here. They're trying to tell a story and I can empathise with what the character's are going through.

For those who complain because originally the song was about Barbera Valentin... to be honest, I wasn't aware... and I consider myself quite knowledgable on that kind of stuff but maybe it slipped me by. However, unless clearly and publically stated by the writer as 'this song is about this and only this!!'... then I think it's silly to constrain the video to being about what the writer was thinking about for the song. One Vision was inspired by Martin Luther King and Live AID, yet not mention/glimpse of that in the video. You're My Best Friend was inspired by Mrs. Deacon, didn't see her in the video. Saw a shit ton of candles though. Which is annoying because John Deacon didn't write that song about candles, did he? TATDOOL was about Roger's family... if we're sticking to the rule of 'the video has to be about what the writer was writing the song about', Roger would have cartwheeled his family out, right in front of a dying Freddie preventing him to say goodbye.

So it doesn't really matter. I like the video but I'm also about to separate the song and the video. They're two different things.

That's a nice video. Audio version is on spotify!

[QUOTE] [b]Supersonic_Man89 wrote:[/b]

TTATDOOL was about Roger's family... if we're sticking to the rule of 'the video has to be about what the writer was writing the song about', Roger would have cartwheeled his family out, right in front of a dying Freddie preventing him to say goodbye.

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That's not a good example to use because TATDOOL video is a straight performance piece - it doesn't imply or link any other meanings to the lyric of the song, which is what some people are saying is very strongly the case with this new Freddie video. Ultimately directors have always given their own interpretation of a song which might be totally against the original meaning, but TATDOOL isn't really one of those!

Freddie was very private, he didn't even like talking about his upbringing.