Bicycle Race Lyrics
I love the mixed music styles. This is an awesome song all about just wanting life to be simple and forgetting about the problems of the world with a magical ride on your bicycle.
It's just about the tour de france and how Freddy loves riding his bike. You guys are obsessed with finding gay connection in every queen song its insane. I mean, there was even a post in We Will Rock You saying it was a gay pride anthem. It wasn't even written by Freddy for god's sake, it was Brain May's song. Just because he was gay doesn't mean every song is about that.
@gimpyx2k Brian said that Freddie did not like riding a bicycle and he actually liked the things he said he didn't on the song. He said Freddie wrote it because the tour de France was passing the area they were recording and he was fascinated by watching them go by (and, sorry for the "gay" reference, watching their thick bottoms in tight bike shorts). Brian said he wrote "Fat Bottomed Girls" around the same time as a ribbing of Freddie's interest in the "fat bottomed" girls and boys riding by.
@gimpyx2k Brian said that Freddie did not like riding a bicycle and he actually liked the things he said he didn't on the song. He said Freddie wrote it because the tour de France was passing the area they were recording and he was fascinated by watching them go by (and, sorry for the "gay" reference, watching their thick bottoms in tight bike shorts). Brian said he wrote "Fat Bottomed Girls" around the same time as a ribbing of Freddie's interest in the "fat bottomed" girls and boys riding by.
Anyone saying We...
Anyone saying We Will Rock You was a gay pride anthem is just an idiot. It was a very aggressive, (very heterosexual) Brian song meant to let the audience participate with 8-10 people's foot stamps and hand claps that were repeated using Brian's hand-calculated logarithms (nerd alert) to make it sound like it was happening in a stadium.
It's talking about politics, the media, entertainment, religion, and everything else that is or was controversial of the time. He's stating he doesn't want to be apart of it, he just wants to go out and do stuff for his own and not worry about all that nonsense.
Well at least someone stood up for their convictions at a time when the world was Star Wars mad.
This song just signifies one concept of ourselfs and that is independent thought. You dont have to follow everyone and like what they admire. All of us sees reality differently and that what makes us significant. The message is be independent is what makes us divine.
its not about freddie's sexuality, its just about, Jesus man, the world sucks, i want to go ride my bike!....yknow just not being so stressed all the time and LIVING!!!
I know it certainly makes me want to ride my bicycle.
its a queen song theres millions of ways you can take it, you could take it as leaving your worries behing to have fun, you could take it as sex, you could take it a rebelling against everyone..... anyways it kicks ass so its kool
I just think it's simply about being free from the influence of others.
laragiesbrecht summed it up. i also think that it's about not being judges as a child by doing immature things, such as riding a bicycle. also being free from society and doing the things that you want to do. although freddie mercury was bi, it doesnt mean that all of his songs are about being gay or bi