| Queen – Killer Queen Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality. Freddy Mercury said: "It's about a high class call girl. I'm trying to say that classy people can be whores as well. That's what the song is about, though I'd prefer people to put their own interpretation upon it - to read what they like into it." He did say that it is open to interpretation. I would take it a step further and say that it is about a female assassin / secret agent who poses as a high-class prostitute. Throughout the song it refers to the technology she uses as a secret agent / assassin: Gunpowder Dynamite Laser Beam (not sure about the reference to gelatine) Other references to her secret agent / assassin: -Of course, the most obvious, she's a "Killer Queen" -Khrushchev and Kennedy- they were key figures during the cold war....it implies that she spies for one or the other or both -met a man from China, possibly a target of hers -never kept the same address (covert) -Fastidious and precise Then of course all of the references to her "cover" as a prostitute and how well she played the part: -champagne, caviar, perfume, etc. -well versed in etiquette -blow your mind (double meaning- sex and also assassin) -recommended at the price (this could also be a reference to her work as an assassin or prostitute) -reference to Marie Antoinette, the queen of France -Geisha (not sure about Minah...it is a legend of the Sisters' Islands...off the islands of Singapore....maybe a place she had to go for her secret agent work) -spoke like a baroness -Insatiable an appetite Apparently she is out the business for a spell: "Then momentarily out of action Temporarily out of gas" An awful lot of information in a song of 3 minutes 1 second!! |
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