I completely agree, the majority of my friends like Queen, at least a little bit. I see people round college wearing Queen tshirts and such. Loads of young people like Queen and it doesn't make you 'weird' at all, I think it's just that people like to feel 'special' and 'different' so they declare themselves a social outcast.
I have to say I was surprised myself at how many people know Queen. When I was on a college trip to France, on the last night, when we had all drunk too much, loads of us started singing Bohemian Rhapsody at the top of our voices, and I was pleasantly surprised at how many people knew it completely.
Of course, there are also plenty of people who think Queen are crap, but from my experience most seem to like Queen, at least a tiny bit, anyway.
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I remember an small argument I had with my English teacher: he didn't appreciate Queen much and said they didn't deserve that success. Of course I told him the contrary.
Later that year, I had a talk with my philosophy teacher about art. He said art was objective and you could build a kind of hierarchy. I told him it was subjective, that you couldn't say someone had bad tastes if he didn't like the same things, and I used the argument I had with my English teacher as an example saying he was entitled to his opinion even if I disagreed with him.
The next day my English teacher came to me and said:
"Thanks to you I had an argument with the philosophy teacher who couldn't understand how I could not love Queen"
That made me smile (Sorry the story was a bit long)
Later that year, I had a talk with my philosophy teacher about art. He said art was objective and you could build a kind of hierarchy. I told him it was subjective, that you couldn't say someone had bad tastes if he didn't like the same things, and I used the argument I had with my English teacher as an example saying he was entitled to his opinion even if I disagreed with him.
The next day my English teacher came to me and said:
"Thanks to you I had an argument with the philosophy teacher who couldn't understand how I could not love Queen"
That made me smile (Sorry the story was a bit long)
i think that whilst there are young people out there that like queen it is very difficult to tell other people when you are that age as you leave yourself open to really hurtul comments along the lines of you must have aids! you mus be gay! kids are very cruel and its horrible to have to face that when you r completely unsure of yourself and who you are anyway (as most people are as a teenager). if you just go along with the rest of the crowd its much easier. they probably fell they are the only ones because they get so much negativity that te positive comments hardly seem worth noticing...
No one, I've talked to understands my tastes in music, except my family and my closest friends. I'ts kinda irritating actually, the people I've talked to about Queen, just stare at me blankly and say 'Who?'. But EVERYONE knows the Beatles!
So, as far as I'm concerned, all of us here, are young people and we like Queen, but there aren't a whole lot in Colorado.
So, as far as I'm concerned, all of us here, are young people and we like Queen, but there aren't a whole lot in Colorado.
I wear Queen top most time
I dont give a shit what people think
There people out there with worse clothing but do they care nah
I have seen people wearing elvis top too and so what up to them
:)
also it good for young people to like Queen mind you when people say who are they bet you they know but act a if they dont anyway they are big now with the biggest show ever all over We will rock you and the longest too
QUEEN ROCKS !!!
my daughter is doing stage show musical training for high school musical and Kids will rock you so good for the young ones ;)
I dont give a shit what people think
There people out there with worse clothing but do they care nah
I have seen people wearing elvis top too and so what up to them
:)
also it good for young people to like Queen mind you when people say who are they bet you they know but act a if they dont anyway they are big now with the biggest show ever all over We will rock you and the longest too
QUEEN ROCKS !!!
my daughter is doing stage show musical training for high school musical and Kids will rock you so good for the young ones ;)
Ummm. Queen are the 3rd most successful band of all-time and the 7th most successful overall artist. So, no surprises...those are just effects of their lasting popularity in Europe. =P
I LIKE QUEEN!!!! And I'm not even 13 yet! And ppl think Queen are gay and that I'm weird :(.
A lot of my friends listen to Queen. If they don't, then they at least know who they are...Of course none of them are in LOVE with them, but they like them, at least a little. Some people DO criticize me and say they are gay, though. There's even one other guy in my class who has a Queen shirt, but I asked him a couple of songs he liked and he could only name two... :P OH well...I like them, and I'm young! WEEEEE! :D
I love Queen... and so do a lot of my friends! I also have other friends who dislike them, and other friends who have never even heard of them before. But heck, I don't give a care if people think I'm weird because I like Queen and a lot of other old bands... in fact, I think they're jealous of my coolness. hah. =P
I actually feel sorry for kids my age who dislike/haven't heard Queen and such, because all they listen to is rap, punk, etc. Old music is just way better. All these new bands/artists are trying to be the best, and come out with the best songs, but they just can't do it, 'cause the best has already been done. Same thing with TV shows and such. =P
Alright, that's the end of my speech. =]
I actually feel sorry for kids my age who dislike/haven't heard Queen and such, because all they listen to is rap, punk, etc. Old music is just way better. All these new bands/artists are trying to be the best, and come out with the best songs, but they just can't do it, 'cause the best has already been done. Same thing with TV shows and such. =P
Alright, that's the end of my speech. =]
Well, i personally don't really make a big deal about Queen at school. I'm a queen fan. That's all my school mates know. They don't know about my member "obsessions" or the extent I like queen to or anything. I wear Queen shirts and listen to Queen. The rest of it I keep to myself (and msn and queenzone). I know my school world doesn't give a flying fuck about the music I listen to.
Who would like Queen - honestly?
I about get pummeled at school for liking 'old music' Because most people bum off rap music. Alex says hello. "HELLO" there we go. Tokeyflimshpip.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color= white>NOTHING! wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Who would like Queen - honestly?[/QUOTE]
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Also - they played "Bicycle Race" at CMU today and a lot of people sang along. :D
[QUOTE]DonnyMars[/QUOTE] AC/DC ! Haha ! I like them, but once you've heard three songs, you've heard them all. :p
O, and my test to get out of Health Class included questions such as, "True or False : One can get AIDS for a toilet seat". Honestly, I don't think people are educated about it at all, and it's sad - I learned more from an article in National Geographic than I did from school.
Yeah, and as people grow older, they do learn. :p
[QUOTE]markaw[/QUOTE] You're not old enough to be my grandfather ! :p Thank you for sharing your "story" - it's always nice to hear from people who were there when Queen (and other bands) were just kicking off. And the albums, though used, that I have cost about that much !
[QUOTE]Thirtynine ?[/QUOTE] I never saw that shirt ! D: I know people that LIKE Queen that make "gay" slags. But I always make more outrageous ones and everyone's cowed and they laugh nervously about it.
[QUOTE]its_a_hard_life[/QUOTE] "We respect each others taste and that's that." Exactly !
[QUOTE]queen4eva224[/QUOTE] You can always try to "introduce" people to "new" music ! I once played Queen II to my whole Publications class as my "revenge" for the country (not a fan :P) music they had on the last day - one computer had speakers and I nabbed it. People asked who it was !
[QUOTE]Freddies Delilah[/QUOTE] Convert the masses !!! I had a teacher (who was old enough to have "been there") once ask if they "were all gay". It was funny. :P
[QUOTE]vallie[/QUOTE] XD That's cute - the remix. I recently lent a guy my MP3 player so he could listen to "Bohemian Rhapsody" - he had never heard it and I trusted him enough to part with the player for an hour. :P
[QUOTE]Deakys Bitch[/QUOTE] It might just be your age now. Trust me - there are plenty of people who like plenty of things - and most young people think they're "weird". I know PLENTY of RHPS fans at my school. And it's not a weird school. I just assualt someone with a Frank-N-Furter and the reaction is usually "I love that movie !" (or "What the fuck is that ?!" - but that's cute, too). Trust me - I would bet there are other kids like you, unless you live in Kazakstan and everyone is looking for Pam.
[QUOTE]?Freya? [/QUOTE] "Loads of young people like Queen and it doesn't make you 'weird' at all, I think it's just that people like to feel 'special' and 'different' so they declare themselves a social outcast." EXACTLY. >.>
I can understand the desire to be special - but I don't see how professing love of a very popular band helps one become so. :P
[QUOTE]Elizabeth Knightson[/QUOTE] XD "Thanks to you I had an argument with the philosophy teacher who couldn't understand how I could not love Queen" A "long" post was worth it ! - that's so funny !
[QUOTE] i'm going slight mad...[/QUOTE] I can understand that... But I guess I now take "insults" as a challenge. And it's so cute when people are wrong ! Such as the speculation that "Fat Bottomed Girls" is a song Freddie wrote about boys. I never really had problems with other kids when I was a pre-teen / barely-teen... and I certainly "went with the crowd" on some things - I just don't know... I'm glad I "snapped out of it" - and I hope that most other people do as well. :)
[QUOTE]Mercury Lover[/QUOTE] I know - I've had so many people just NOT KNOW who wrote "We Will Rock You". I hope Brian really does take that as flattering. But "Classic Rock" is really popular with college-age and high-school kids here - in Michigan, at least.
[QUOTE]QUEENROCKS_1991[/QUOTE] "I dont give a shit what people think" ==> The right attitude ! :D
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Also - they played "Bicycle Race" at CMU today and a lot of people sang along. :D
[QUOTE]DonnyMars[/QUOTE] AC/DC ! Haha ! I like them, but once you've heard three songs, you've heard them all. :p
O, and my test to get out of Health Class included questions such as, "True or False : One can get AIDS for a toilet seat". Honestly, I don't think people are educated about it at all, and it's sad - I learned more from an article in National Geographic than I did from school.
Yeah, and as people grow older, they do learn. :p
[QUOTE]markaw[/QUOTE] You're not old enough to be my grandfather ! :p Thank you for sharing your "story" - it's always nice to hear from people who were there when Queen (and other bands) were just kicking off. And the albums, though used, that I have cost about that much !
[QUOTE]Thirtynine ?[/QUOTE] I never saw that shirt ! D: I know people that LIKE Queen that make "gay" slags. But I always make more outrageous ones and everyone's cowed and they laugh nervously about it.
[QUOTE]its_a_hard_life[/QUOTE] "We respect each others taste and that's that." Exactly !
[QUOTE]queen4eva224[/QUOTE] You can always try to "introduce" people to "new" music ! I once played Queen II to my whole Publications class as my "revenge" for the country (not a fan :P) music they had on the last day - one computer had speakers and I nabbed it. People asked who it was !
[QUOTE]Freddies Delilah[/QUOTE] Convert the masses !!! I had a teacher (who was old enough to have "been there") once ask if they "were all gay". It was funny. :P
[QUOTE]vallie[/QUOTE] XD That's cute - the remix. I recently lent a guy my MP3 player so he could listen to "Bohemian Rhapsody" - he had never heard it and I trusted him enough to part with the player for an hour. :P
[QUOTE]Deakys Bitch[/QUOTE] It might just be your age now. Trust me - there are plenty of people who like plenty of things - and most young people think they're "weird". I know PLENTY of RHPS fans at my school. And it's not a weird school. I just assualt someone with a Frank-N-Furter and the reaction is usually "I love that movie !" (or "What the fuck is that ?!" - but that's cute, too). Trust me - I would bet there are other kids like you, unless you live in Kazakstan and everyone is looking for Pam.
[QUOTE]?Freya? [/QUOTE] "Loads of young people like Queen and it doesn't make you 'weird' at all, I think it's just that people like to feel 'special' and 'different' so they declare themselves a social outcast." EXACTLY. >.>
I can understand the desire to be special - but I don't see how professing love of a very popular band helps one become so. :P
[QUOTE]Elizabeth Knightson[/QUOTE] XD "Thanks to you I had an argument with the philosophy teacher who couldn't understand how I could not love Queen" A "long" post was worth it ! - that's so funny !
[QUOTE] i'm going slight mad...[/QUOTE] I can understand that... But I guess I now take "insults" as a challenge. And it's so cute when people are wrong ! Such as the speculation that "Fat Bottomed Girls" is a song Freddie wrote about boys. I never really had problems with other kids when I was a pre-teen / barely-teen... and I certainly "went with the crowd" on some things - I just don't know... I'm glad I "snapped out of it" - and I hope that most other people do as well. :)
[QUOTE]Mercury Lover[/QUOTE] I know - I've had so many people just NOT KNOW who wrote "We Will Rock You". I hope Brian really does take that as flattering. But "Classic Rock" is really popular with college-age and high-school kids here - in Michigan, at least.
[QUOTE]QUEENROCKS_1991[/QUOTE] "I dont give a shit what people think" ==> The right attitude ! :D
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I think I must be really sad 'cause it took me about 5 minutes to figure out that RHPS was...I was thinking Royals Honor Prince Sperm...