I agree with Lisser, not to be too Stepfordy. :)
I read some earlier interviews where Freddie complained about negative critical reactions and bitched that reviewers were close-minded and didn't really understand all the band's artistic purposes -- it was all very art-school-boy. It was only later that he consistently said his work was disposable or meaningless. (This work that he persisted in doing until his last breath.) I think he just got tired of explaining himself and said "whatever." (Either that, or the early albums were profound meditations and the later ones were meaningless trash. Ha. I suppose some would debate it.) Anyway, it's a marked difference in how he spoke to the media. I think his distrust of the media just increased as he got older so he spoke less to them.
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I thought that I heard Brian say somewhere that Freddie would tell him he was coming into the studio so he'd start writing words for him to do and Freddie would insist on singing them despite protests that they weren't quite right.
Or am I thinking of something else?
Or am I thinking of something else?
Dissposable POP and you guys agree
shit why am I here!!
Bloody trash made pop!!! grr!!
shit why am I here!!
Bloody trash made pop!!! grr!!
right...
As a song writer, i know for a fact how hard it is to write songs with absolutely no meaning. I hate to say it, but freddie may well have said his songs were disposable pop because he didnt want to have to explain any hidden meanings.
As a song writer, i know for a fact how hard it is to write songs with absolutely no meaning. I hate to say it, but freddie may well have said his songs were disposable pop because he didnt want to have to explain any hidden meanings.
Definitely agree.
As a song writer, i know for a fact how hard it is to write songs with absolutely no meaning. I hate to say it, but freddie may well have said his songs were disposable pop because he didnt want to have to explain any hidden meanings.
What about just agreeing there are, there has to be MEANING in every song.. thats the whole essence and base of every song and in the starting point. without meaning, no song?.. nobody can sing and only half witties would write just random words. even a song like "The fairy fellers master stroke" has its meaning.. if U take a look a the whole concept the original painting.. the painter has very clear idea about a small society and its members.. which all has their own tasks and professions.. so when Freddie wrote the song about it.. the meaning is already there.. the fancied this imaginary reality and a life in of such a ludicrous droll reality. no need to create your own.. only to audiolize the work which is already visualised.
Or a song like "Another one bites the dust", it was a deaky's song.. and yes it has its natural OPEN meaning. Fools cant stay out of troubles.. left aside the exact personal feeling(s) deaky had in time of writing it.
Or as for the last one.. "'39" Brian wrote it about a science fiction story where a third encounter happens and UFO' come to take people from assembly points to another realms.
And when a casual listener listens to it.. the first idea you get is.. its about the beginning of WW2 for USA.. the uncle sam sends his troops overseas to fight for the free world out of facist tyrannies.
I dont understand at all why people seem to talk only about "possible HIDDEN" meanings.. why the fuck there is need for that expression. Its very obvious most songwriters like FM or BM had their own personal meanings but they also left some space for listeners to create their personal relation to their songs and to find their own meanings reflecting listener's own lives.
Well we cant fall for the human side of what Freddie action took because it was in some ways negative and this case unbelieveable....
But the soul inside him is the one that should be recognised, his will to do what he did, his will to go through what he did, his artistical and pleasurearble boost over powered his humanly shyness in all respects..... to make him take it to the limit.
My view is a view that is like most, on that Every song that Freddie sang (not necessarilly wrote) came true or had come true.. fromBoh rap, to dont stop me now to play the game to great pretender... time and the list is endless... if this was sang by the other members on the album then I would have some leaniant towards my speculations, but yeah his song was his life and telling his life, behind the curtains
But the soul inside him is the one that should be recognised, his will to do what he did, his will to go through what he did, his artistical and pleasurearble boost over powered his humanly shyness in all respects..... to make him take it to the limit.
My view is a view that is like most, on that Every song that Freddie sang (not necessarilly wrote) came true or had come true.. fromBoh rap, to dont stop me now to play the game to great pretender... time and the list is endless... if this was sang by the other members on the album then I would have some leaniant towards my speculations, but yeah his song was his life and telling his life, behind the curtains
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