| Nirvana – In Bloom Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I heard this song right after Smells Like Teen Spirit in my adventure into the world of Nirvana so many years ago and I was thinking, at the time, "What's to get?" But now, of course, I know there's far more to their repertuar. |
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| Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Lead Belly cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| @ Leadbelly: Music certainly does have great "stitching" powers. =) | |
| Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Lead Belly cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My guess as to the driving wheel part: Now, since it is really difficult to behead somebody as a way to kill them, though it is possible that happened, there was a problem with windshields before safety glass was invented. That problem was that when somebody hit a windshield in a car accident their head went through, their shoulders wouldn't fit, the momentum would bounce back and the head would be stuck in a collar of very sharp glass that did not break. And the neck would get sliced, like a messy guillotine. Perhaps she could not handle the concept that her husband's head was sliced off in a car accident and she carried his body with him out into the woods? |
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| Nirvana – You Know You're Right Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Haha, this is a suicide note? I laugh at so many things right now. I'm so happy that I so incredibly misinterpreted this song. Or maybe I didn't, but I guess . . . I just so intensely felt the same way, but with a different solution in mind. I quit things sometimes. I quit friends who are afraid of me, because I love myself and damn them if they fear me for no good reason. I'd never do anything to hurt them, but they take one look at my mind and think I must be joking. And right then and there they are an acquaintence. And that is what it meant to me. So I do not laugh at the writer, or the message, just the conclusion. I suppose that's why I'm not worried about my depression like other people are. |
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| Nirvana – You Know You're Right Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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What does this song mean to me? I, also, have never failed to fail, but the harder I try at it the closer I get to succeeding. But the harder I try to succeed the closer I get to failing. But failing never bothers me. I just want to love myself. So I'll move away from here, to make you happier. If you're afraid of me, and you don't have to be, but you know, if you are afraid of me I'll go. Because you're right. And that is the meaning I gather from this song, put to my own words, but I'm fairly certain the meaning I put to it was wrong because I obviously fiddled with pronouns and the directions of some of the sentiments. |
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| Nirvana – Moist Vagina Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've never read so much information about what it's like to give a girl oral, I guess that's what I get for wondering what the lyrics to the song were. I'm much less curious about weed, though. Nothing against it any more than any other plant people decide to set fire to, just not interested. Anyway, in answer to somebody, forget who, who asked early on in the commentary . . . wait, nevermind, I'd rather not give you all the image of what I think would be hot to combine with eating pussy. This is a site about songs not pornographic fantasies. ;) |
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| Nirvana – Lithium Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Well, most of my friends are in my head, ironically enough, though it would be preposterous to assume I was anything like Kurt except to feel a strange affinity. Perhaps all us lonely crazies are a little the same after all. I don't normally consider myself crazy but I must be because I strongly relate to every line in almost every Nirvana song I've listened to, hearing the irony in the singer's voice when it is present and the sincerity when it is most important. But anybody who thinks they relate that well to somebody they've never met has to be nuts. |
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| Nirvana – Something in the Way Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I enjoyed reading dellslave's opinion. Much like I enjoy listening to the song and thinking about why it was written. |
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| Nirvana – Been a Son Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@ seacrature25: I hadn't considered that possibility, only hearing the song, but that makes a lot of sense as well. |
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| Nirvana – Been a Son Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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=D Haha, I think this might have been inspired from a specific case but I think it is on a broader topic of parents who are so intent on having one particular child that when the child is different from what they planned they blame the kid. And I believe the words in the song are expressed in irony, since he finishes with "She should have had another chance" since it is obvious the said daughter had no control over what sex she was born as and therefore the chance refers to her chance at life. Just my thoughts. |
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| Nirvana – Breed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@55779 "Your all sucking up to him just like he hated people doing." Oh really? I thought I just liked listening to the music and being mildly curious about what inspired it. Of course you weren't talking to me, I'm not an idiot, but I don't really feel like I'm sucking up to other people when I become intensely involved in the creative process because, as a composer of a different sort (writing), I don't have any admiration: just interest and intrigue. I don't think it is worship to assume somebody put more emotion into a song than "I want money." |
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| Nirvana – Breed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think it is frustration with somebody else's ambivalence towards what she really wants. | |
| Nirvana – Come As You Are Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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responding to: "i wish he didn't lie in this song, wish he really didn't have a gun." So . . . he was lying. I'm guessing this is a song he wrote before he died, thus the trail of conversations I've been observing. Just a guess. And by "died" I don't mean natural causes, of course, I just don't really feel like entering into a controversy I know nothing about, I just want to speculate about the song itself. |
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| Nirvana – Come As You Are Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I got a very strange sense that there was a little more too this song than not being judgemental of other people because he insists towards the end that he does not have a gun. I mean, of course there is the "be yourself" aspect of it, and a definite "I don't care what you look like" . . . but why are they being invited over in the first place? Is it one on one, or a party invitation like the title suggests? I'm thinking . . . it is meant to be vague, so I'm not going to pin a particular meaning to it, but certainly apprehension is expected from the "you" to whom the song is speaking. |
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| Nirvana – Come As You Are Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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to quote xandisucksx: uh... it really is an original nirvana song. the david bowie cover is "the man who sold the world." David Bowie did that song? Oh yeah . . . I think I found that out somewhere and forgot, or wasn't sure. When one isn't looking for it it can be difficult to find out that a song is a cover of somebody else's song and very confusing to hear two different groups/artists sing the same song. |
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| Nirvana – Come As You Are Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@OwnPersonalDemon "Suicide is the ultimate selfish act." It may be a selfish thing to do, but it does not mean you do not care about other people. It simply means you do not want to live anymore, for whatever reason, whether it is self pity, self hatred, a feeling that the world would be better without one's self occupying it, and other delusions brought on by a suicidal state of mind. It is not a state of mind to which consequences of one's own death seem anything but positive, and therefore, is not a very clear veil through which to see the world. I'm sure he did not wish harm on anybody else, in fact, in my mind the ultimate selfish act is purposefully taking other people with you who do not want to die. |
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| Thom Yorke – Black Swan Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't see how it could be an anti-Bush song and contain the lyric: "With your fingers you can touch me" I've personally always seen it as an expression of frustration with the way life plays out, about life but directed in a sense towards a particular person, not quite a love song but just about. |
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| Thomas Dolby – That's Why People Fall in Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Ahhh . . . the in-love experience. Whenever I'm in it, this song is the thing. | |
| Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"failed me in biology" - she teases him about his biological aspects "failed me in geometry" - she apparently doesn't like his geometrical features, ahem, so to speak, either "hit me with technology" . . . well, now that I've set up the trend of thought, must I continue? So she isn't really that nice of a person, but she likes him as a person (though she wants to change him), and she's beautiful, and by his use of language he obviously doesn't get that much, so he's far too infatuated with her to care. At least, that was my initial interpretation. I listened to these songs all through my childhood so I may be a bit warped in my understanding. Naive if you will. |
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| Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I remember listening to this before I understood sexual innuendos, then listening to it later and appreciating it on a whole new level. But either way, I love this song to pieces. A nerd loves a woman who makes fun of his size and uses toys on him, but he's so infatuated with her he forgets himself ("tidied up and I can't find anything" . . . "antiquated notions") . . . she tricks him into changing despite himself. |
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| Thomas Dolby – I Love You Goodbye Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| That sentence doesn't make sense: if I had heard it later in life I'd have been reminded of other things, but since I only heard it early on I was reminded of earlier events and forever associate the song with those events | |
| Thomas Dolby – I Love You Goodbye Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Anyway, if I'd heard this song much later in life instead of overhearing my parents play it and later coming to understand it better as a child it will only ever remind me of the unusual affair described in the post above. | |
| Thomas Dolby – I Love You Goodbye Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm reminded of my first love. Which . . . was a very unusual affair . . . we were only four, best friends in the whole world, and a pair of misfits the both of us, but I think somebody treated him inappropriately at home and, not understanding the nature of things, I answered the question, "What does he do during nap time?" and I never saw him again. I think without him I'd only ever like girls. |
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| Thomas Dolby – Eastern Bloc (Sequel to "Europa and the Pirate Twins") Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I absolutely love this song. I loved it before I could understand a lick of the lyrics, I loved it when I started to understand enough of it for it to make more sense to me, I love it now . . . naustalgically, because I lost the CD and the last time I looked for it I found nothing. Maybe I'll get lucky, I should do another search for it. |
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| Muse – Endlessly Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In response to this: "I must say, first, that the lyric written above, should read, "the only thing I'll EVER show." I disagree, I distinctly hear an "n" every time I listen to the song, and I believe it is meant to be "the only think I'll never show." Because, there is one little part of his being that he'd never show, then the song pauses, and he explains that even with that little secret, that little piece of himself that she'll never see, he would give her everything else: his unconditional love, anything she needed from him, but the chance never arises, and he never gets to open himself up to another person. Because sometimes the only reason a person is shy is because they are surrounded by people who would hate who they are inside, maybe even that person they love. |
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| Muse – Bliss Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Well, I listen to it and think about knowing another person just well enough to know they're a lot more charismatic and do a lot more to better the world around them than I do, and not for lack of trying, and it feels like maybe I'm just a dirtier, more selfish person. I hung around apparent saints all my life who go around the world and try to "teach," in other words, be a missionary, by living frugally and helping other people improve their lives, and they always tried to pressure me into doing it, too, and the more I read what I was supposed to be teaching the more obscene I felt for feeling differently. Then I snapped and quit, but before I did . . . this song is what I felt: envious, sinful, disgusting, and horribly unhappy with myself for not meeting the standards of everyone around me, and even sicker with myself because they didn't even guess that I was something other than who I pretended to be to please them. |
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| Muse – Starlight Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yep, I have to agree with you, Supah Dude. I never got any other impression of the song so now I'll have to read up more about what other people thought . . . space travel? Um . . . guess it could be applied to something like that but I never made the association for some reason. |
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| The Killers – Somebody Told Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I'm pretty sure that he's not saying that the "boyfriend" is actually a female, that the two are lesbian. He's making fun off the girl's boyfriend (male, I believe), because he and the girl used to be together, she broke up with him and he wants to make her regret her decision." I hadn't thought of it that way, but I like the interpretation. |
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| The Killers – Somebody Told Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I thought it was about finding out that his girlfriend had dated the same girl he had, and "boyfriend" is the easiest way to put it into the English language since "girlfriend" for a girl means a friend who is a girl but "boyfriend" only ever means one thing. | |
| The Killers – Andy, You're a Star Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"In a car with a girl, promise me she's not your world Cause Andy, you're a star In nobody's eyes but mine" I use this song to vent the pain of being bisexual and only ever having been with the opposite gender. I love my love too much to experiment, I hate looking and never experiencing, I hate it so much I could cry. So when I get to the point of dwelling I get out this song and I sing it loudly and mournfully until I feel better. Gawd I wish I'd had the guts to actually have asked somebody out once in my life and not waited for people to come to me. |
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| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think there are a flood of different ways somebody could interpret the song, and any number of them could be right. I like to tailor the meaning of a song to my situation when I listen to it, and when I related to this best was when a lot of people were falling in love with me when I was neither single nor wanted to be, though there were some pretty strong temptations . . . some girls I liked, some boys, and I do love the sensations of falling in love with somebody who is infatuated with me. I see this song as the other side to it. A guy falls in love with somebody who is already with someone and he can't stand the idea of them together. Heck, I even feel the same way from time to time and I know I shouldn't. Giving up love for being in love is, in my opinion, a stupid mistake, even if at times it feels like a sacrifice. That's what it means to me. I don't know what The Killers originally meant when they wrote it. |
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| Pink Floyd – Brain Damage Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Quote:"Some of you need to let go a little bit. Yeah, it's good music, listen to it, then you're done. I fuckin hate it when people take something so trivial as music lyrics or topics and start arguing with others about it. Good song, Pink Floyd is good, it doesn't matter if you know who the hell Syd Barret is or who Waters is or Gilmour or anybody." . . . so, why did you join this forum? Because I joined it because I like to talk about what music means from time to time, and I don't just listen to it and be done with it because I am a critically minded person who pays attention to the things in my life that make it more than just a dance step from birth to death. Also because I am both curious about other people's opinions and opinionated. I do not expect you to be the same way, because life would be boring were we all clones of one another, but I'm confused why you joined a forum called "Song Meanings" if you don't want to talk about what songs mean. |
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| Pink Floyd – Brain Damage Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yes, it coordinates with Wizard of Oz. I found a YouTube cover and wasted far too much of my life watching it. I sincerely feel that each has far more meaning when you watch/listen to them as separate entities rather than taking the song "Time" and how it starts at the same time as when Dorothy visits the fortune teller. They coordinate, but they don't add to one another. | |
| Pink Floyd – Brain Damage Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Okay I'll read more in a moment but I just wanted to stop reading long enough to give my interpretation: "The lunatic is on the grass got to keep the loonies on the path" Got to keep people in line. Suburbias are very much about lawns and people not walking on grass, but on pavement, though only a few people really like to enforce it and I've never really met one of them, but I think I understand it as an analogy. Then again, this could be cultural, but in any case I think grass=weed is a rather shallow light to put on the song and I wouldn't like to think that Pink Floyd would be so blatant and shallow. Though there's nothing wrong with using it as a double meaning. "the lunatic is in the hall, the lunatics are in my hall" definitely implies an invasion of some sort, in this case, obviously insanity. Either a growing self awareness, since later in the song the lunatic is in his head. I've always been confused by the paper holding the faces to the floor and I actually sought out this forum to see if anybody bothers offering some sort of explanation for that turn of phrase, though "every day the paperboy brings more" is certainly an ominous reference to something mundane piling up . . . perhaps the faces are held to the ground by the sheer weight of a stack of daily newspapers. Aha! And all this time I was wondering about old fashioned methods of brutally treating the mentally ill, of which I've always been morbidly curious, but I just figured out a logical conclusion for that line. "and if the dam breaks open many years too soon . . . see you on the dark side of the moon" If you make the final transition into no longer being able to function, and people don't accept you, you'll find me there, in that place nobody goes and nobody sees but everyone knows is there. That brooding threat of completely losing one's mind and going over the edge, then not being able to come back. I'm frustrated with how the lyrics were laid out on the page because they pay no respect to the shifts and organization of the music. "you raise the blade" etc is a more direct reference to a labotomy, I believe, but also to how other people try to fix insanity, even today. I have a song off of the Juno soundtrack that I believe also relates to this issue. I have never met a person yet who've I've spilled my guts to who thought I could deal with my life without medication, that I could through strength of will and the tools God gave me be my own person and still be functional in society. "I walked away and I'm still me, free to go effin' crazy, free to know why I'm angry . . ." Then, of course, in the last verse the treatment contains, but does not fix, the problem, because the problem isn't always the person. Sanity is just the ability to adjust to your surroundings. Some surroundings are better left not adjusted to. I especially relate to, "You scream and no one seems to hear." |
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| Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I didn't know Freddy was bisexual. If he hid it it is a little insulting to me that people know anyway, depending on how well he hid it, but I'd have to know a little more about how people drew that conclusion to say. Speaking as a bisexual person, anyway. I wouldn't want anybody to just assume I was gay without actually my making it obvious, not out of shame but because I don't like assumptions made about my personal life and people are apt to assume things that are false. |
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| Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"The german translation says that his mum killed this person, and now I want to know what´s right. Did he or his mum killed the person?" Wow, that's a sorry excuse for a translation. HE killed a man; he is telling his mom that he did. Though, worse translations between German and English have been made I'm sure. I studied German and I could see how such a mixup might happen. |
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| Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I read four pages of commentary, the first four, and I did not see ONE person who apparently bothered to look up the word rhapsody. I just thought knowing the meaning of one of the two words in the title might be useful. "A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations . . ." I originally looked it up as a child in my grandfather's 1939 dictionary, but it is easier to copy and paste it on the internet than to run off and grab the physical book, flip through the pages, and transcribe. Bohemian, another word not used so much in everyday English (at least, not with the people I talk to), means a variety of things, including "This adjective means that something is relaxed and informal, and does not follow the normal rules of society eg a bohemian lifestyle." Combine those, and the sense is of something casual and improvised, much like how people say Freddy described it. Now, I haven't done a great deal of research on the band, I did in fact first hear of them from my dad though I've heard their songs all my life, and I didn't even know the singer was named Freddy until I came here, but as a writer and an artist (of manuscripts and illustrations of people, respectively) I know something about spur-of-the-moment composition. Sometimes, something you crack out on the spur of the moment is more wonderful than something you carefully plan and crank out over hours of thoughtful plotting and planning. That's how my best poetry comes to light, and since I'm not often in a poetic mood I tend to drift more towards novels than poems. Without studying anatomy, I've woken up in the middle of the night to draw near-perfect drawings of gymnasts, intimately knowing how each muscle should flow over each bone, the curve of the skull, the shape of the profile, etcetera. So to me, something being "pulled out of one's ass" is no insult, especially if the result is as noble and fantastic as Bohemian Rhapsody. It just means that the artists, in this case musicians, are exceptionally talented. I have an album called "Band On the Run" made by Paul McCartney & Wings (I stole it from my dad, the release date is before I was born). It is a mix of songs and interviews. One interview tells of how Paul wrote a song just because somebody asked him about how he wrote songs and he just started composing/singing right then and there a song fresh out of his mind about, then they recorded it later without much alteration. That is, in my opinion, what makes a person a musical genius and not just talented. The song is about how rain is good for you, with lyrics that aren't particularly complicated but sound amazing. Anyway, in response to what I've heard: Even I, at the tender age of early childhood, when I was watching Wayne's World with my dad on VHS, knew that they were singing along with a song in the radio and that he sung along with a few other songs that were popular around the time the movie came out. It was an aspect of Wayne's character. I love that movie, please don't make fun of it. More to the point: Bohemian Rhapsody is so obviously not written for the movie that I feel like I'm being condescending just to point it out, and I didn't know anything about the timeline of things made before I was born when I was a child. To the other point: AIDS. A hot topic, I can tell, and I cringe at those who think of the store and don't know what the meaning of that phrase is. Even things "about nothing" have inspiration from life, even if the inspiration is deeply personal and not nearly as dramatic as the song may suggest. When I was having difficulty coming to terms with an over sexed boyfriend who didn't understand why a never-been-kissed person would be so shy about being groped, I made a character based off of him that raped a character based off of me, then had another character based off of me torture and kill him. It made for a very interesting twist, and I didn't stop there. The awkwardness was echoed in smaller ways in the secret relationship between a closet gay and a closet bisexual. All from one stupid high school relationship. So maybe the singer, this Freddy, put something real into Bohemian Rhapsody. Maybe he did and didn't realize it, but people draw connections to events in his life because, being a celebrity, people who don't even know him know details of his life. In any case, I'm not going to insist upon anything except that: A) The song very well could have been a spur of the moment thing, not despite but because of its greatness . . . and the title . . . B) It's fun to sing along to and is generally agreed upon as an epic masterpiece, to which I heartily agree. |
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