Do you think freddies songs leaned towards being gay?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Digitube wrote: [/QUOTENAME]:-D

This topic kinda reminds me of the interview Freddie had on the balcony of his hotelroom in Brazil with that very shy dark lady :-D
I was rolling on the floor when I first saw that one!

*Freddie looks in the camera, you can see him thinking "oh no, she really *is* stupid!" *

"...Yes...Yes I *am* the leader of the band, yes!..." LMAO!

But that lady also asks Freddie if IWTBF was about the gay world. Freddie's explanation in that interview says about it all, and - indeed - IWTBF was written by Deakie, who is a married man with a dozen children, so....

But now for something completely different!

People often speculate on what Bohemian Rhapsody is about. And I have a theory (OMG, Da Vinci Code revisited!)

Freddie was living with Mary in the early/mid-seventies, but suddenly, he broke up with her, and decided to be gay. Actually, Freddie was not gay, but bisexual, but wtf.

As Mick Rock once said, and also Mary, Freddie DECIDED to be gay at a certain point. It was a choice he made back then. That certain point was early 1975.

Could it not be that the line " Mama, I just killed a man, put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead" really is about Freddie saying to his mother " Mom, I know you disagree on homosexuality, because it's against your religion, but I just have no choice really. In your eyes I might not longer be a man, because I decided to be gay from now on, I'm sorry, but that's how it is"

The line "life has just begun, but now I've gone and throw it all away" could mean he was living together with Mary but he and Mary broke up, so he threw that away.

Well, I can go through all of Bo Rhap here, but let's not do that, that would be boring.

I know it's just speculation, and listen: I'm not sure on this, but it *could* be....

What do other people think on this?
Share please! :-)

(Oh, PS: I don't look upon people as heterosexuals or gays or bisexuals, but as people. I'm pretty damned sure that everyone on this forum thinks like that.
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Well said, Digitube:)

I remember once that Brian said that frm Fat Bottomed Girls and beyond, all the four had to be concious not to give a gay meaning, because, in fact, they did not want that.

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What about the song, "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy?"

the great thing about modern relationship-related songs...ie those about love/sex/attraction/not getting any....is...
ambiguity!!!
if you leave out the sex of the target audience ie you don't say he/she or you say both in a song...then it appeals to both sexes equally in the above contexts

some examples of queen songs that are neither (or both) male/female:-

somebody to love
you're my best friend
don't stop me now
...and of course...good old fashioned loverboy

I love how someone puts it here: "decides to be gay."

Awesome.

Today I am going to "decide" to be straight, tall, and have blue eyes.

D

Perhaps that person meant that Freddie decided to come out?

I remember that interview too, it's hilarious. The lady gets on Freddie's wrong side with a few incorrect assumptions, and surprises him by asking each question twice, once in Portugese and once in English.

Then he flabbergasts her by giving contradictory answers to the bilingual questions. Just as the poor thing is about to cry, he pinches her cheek and gives her that winning smile. Great television!

"Nevertheless, his sexuality was apparent throughout Queen's music, from their very name to their veiled lyrics -- it was truly bizarre to hear gay anthems like "We Are the Champions" turn into celebrations of sports victories. That would have been impossible without Mercury, one of the most dynamic and charismatic frontmen in rock history."

I just thought that was weird, it's at http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/artistbio.asp?z=y&CTR=69150 . I read it on one of those little scroll-y sit-down things they have (and found it now on their web-site).

Because, I mean, you COULD take it that way, and I consider it. But - NO a song doesn't have room for more than one meaning. That would be impossible.

Yeah, and from his name, I just KNOW Alice Cooper is gay. Why else would he be Alice ?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Fireplace wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I remember that interview too, it's hilarious. The lady gets on Freddie's wrong side with a few incorrect assumptions, and surprises him by asking each question twice, once in Portugese and once in English.

Then he flabbergasts her by giving contradictory answers to the bilingual questions. Just as the poor thing is about to cry, he pinches her cheek and gives her that winning smile. Great television![/QUOTE]


she was gonna cry?!? i never noticed....freddie was so nice to her....what a kind soul...but that interview is hilarious

i think his lyrics were generally ambiguous.
why limit your audience? i think fred was far too clever with his lyric writing to alienate any of his potential audience knowingly.what i like about most of queen's lyrics is that they seem like they've been written with me specifically in mind!!! i bet everyone else thinks they were written for them too.that's the sign of a good song.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=pink>The Millionaire Waltz wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]skiqueen wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=330066><bold>old barrow-boy wrote: [/QUOTENAME]It's a hard life, Play the game, I want to break free... A lot of the songs are open for suggestion and if you want to you can find a meaning suitable to you. I am not gay, so maybe that is not what these songs mean to me. [/QUOTE]


i want to break free was written by john[/QUOTE]

What?? I thought John was written by I wanna break free!?[/QUOTE]

My valiant knight!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]fat bottomed innuendo wrote: [/QUOTENAME]i bet everyone else thinks they were written for them too.that's the sign of a good song.[/QUOTE]

Except when you're John Lennon and you have a guy hanging out in your trees.