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[lonelyasawhisper]

would like to say a huge fuck you to people who are just casually saying freddie was a pedophile who raped underaged rent boys in brothels because of some obscure baseless rumours on some sketchy internet forums back in the 2000s with only one alleged source being a lifestyle magazine

#not a lot of them out there but they exist #the rumour presents in a few different forms but the gist is that he raped minors in brothels in the Philippines or smth..... #had he even been in the philippines himself???? queen never toured with him there n if he had i have never heard or seen anything about it #there is so much misinformation about this man even down to his dating history which can be easily disproven and people will just easily #take some rumours on some dodgy website talking about how a gay man who died of aids was a pedophile (wow! how unpredictable! I've never #heard of that!) as truth #csa tw #rape tw #pedophilia tw #freddie #freddie mercury #negativity #rant #discourse

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having internet friends is the same as having irl friends but backwards. when you first meet someone irl the first thing you see is your face, and the first thing you learn is their name. maybe you ask where they're from, what their family is like, what they like to do in their free time. you have to figure out if you want to be friends. but if you make friends over the internet, you already have a shared interest. you might learn each other's routines, timezones, different habits. but learning their real name is a big deal. face reveals are an even bigger deal. the things you usually first learn about someone are some of the last things you learn about someone you meet online. you're making friends, but backwards.

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Why do I feel like a huge part of why most people do not bat an eye at Freddie’s infidelity in his relationships, compared to Brian’s affairs is because they tend not to see Freddie’s (gay) relationships as legitimate, valid and significant as Brian’s.

Obviously, there are children involved in Brian’s situation and that makes things more complicated and painful. But what Brian “ruined” was a 11-year-long marriage with his wife, his family! Freddie only ever had “lovers”, “affairs” and “flings” and somehow to some people, infidelity is to be expected on his part. The straight fans “do not understand” what it is to be “moved on” by a queer rockstar who, to them, has multiple flings every night, but they do know what it is like to have their lawfully wedded spouse cheat on them and their children. It’s like, if you got into a relationship with Freddie Mercury, you should’ve expected him to be unfaithful and knew that he would cheat. It roots from the whole thing about him being a party animal and promiscuous lover, and that is in turn perpetuated by the harmful bi stereotype that they can’t settle in relationships and are naturally promiscuous.

This was a dandy (sarcasm) of what I saw on which version of ‘Too Much Love Will Kill You’ they love.

And these two punch down Brian by saying the lyrics of the song that he’s making himself the victim and trying to justify his cheating.

Good god…. In no way I read the lyrics that no where Brian was ever trying to make himself look like the victim and trying to justify his cheating.

Yes, cheating is bad and I don’t condone what he did. But FFS why do they love to point blame Brian for cheating when Freddie did the same thing when he was dating too.

Oh wait, in their eyes: Freddie could do no wrong.

#ramblings #discourse #freddie #bri

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Favourite to least favourite Queen concert intros/openers

We Will Rock You (Fast)

Tie Your Mother Down

Now I'm Here

Procession (tape)

Flash (tape)

Machines (tape)

One Vision

Tear It Up

Jailhouse Rock

Rock It (Prime Jive)

The Hero

Father To Son

We Will Rock You (tape)

Thunderbolts and Lightning (tape)

A Day At The Races overture (tape)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Operatic section) (tape)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Rock section)

#hottesttake

#tell me if I missed anything #them using borhap and jailhouse rock (after thunderbolts and lightning) are the most puzzling decisions like WHY would you do that lol #i do not care for wwry they could've literally stopped performing it after the 70s and i wouldn't care but wwry (fast) is my baby my love #they NEED to bring wwry (fast) as an opener back #ramblings #queen band

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pull HIM in closer by his waist

#rb

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#can’t a girl like both?

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BRIAN MAY in Liar (1973)

#this is babie #tall lanky baby giraffe #look at his little mane of curls! #the cute windmill 🥺 #he’s just :3 in all of these #:] #bri #1973

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Do you consider Brian and Freddie a better writing duo than Lennon and McCartney?

Oh, this is spicy. I like it.

It's hard to compare them as duos because they didn't function in the same way. Lennon & McCartney were an established duo, and—at least to my knowledge—they were focused on combining their songwriting skills to create as many earworms as possible. And they were very successful at this. No one can take that from them.

Freddie and Brian, on the other hand, seemed to be an accidental duo almost. They worked together, sometimes on impulse (see: Is This the World that We Created?) but, more often than not, unconsciously. We Will Rock You/ We are the Champions are a perfect example of this. So is Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls. Both of these became double A sides because Freddie and Brian didn't want to separate them. They never intended for these songs to be a pair, and yet they inevitably became that anyway. 

Now, while that bit of their partnership is a bit amusing, what really stands out to me is the emotional aspect of it. Examples:

Brian was so affected by Freddie’s sadness after his relationship with Joe Fanelli ended that he wrote Save Me about it, from Freddie’s POV. But he also added his own voice (a verse-long guitar solo) to it. In that way, the song appears to function as a conversation between the two. It’s Brian trying to reach out to him, without ever having to speak about it directly. 

Freddie wrote Soul Brother for Brian, presumably after he had to walk out of their sessions with Bowie in frustration. The song was obviously an attempt to remind Brian of his worth and skill (because Bowie didn’t appreciate them). The song is, essentially, Freddie gushing over him for 4 minutes straight. 

When Freddie struggled with the lyrics to It’s a Hard Life, he asked Brian for help. They sat down together, pouring their shared sad experiences with romantic relationships into it. The song is credited to Freddie, as it was his vision, but Brian gave him the support he needed to articulate his feelings on paper. 

Brian wrote The Show Must Go On, telling the tragic yet beautiful story of Freddie’s strength as he faced his last days, saying, in no uncertain terms ‘His soul is so beautiful and full of passion, he’ll never really leave us’.

Freddie begged Brian to keep writing him songs as he was dying. In his desperation to cling to the things he loved most in the world—music—he knew which person he could always count on. 

Freddie and Brian weren’t partners like McCartney and Lennon were. It wasn’t about business. It wasn’t really about passion for music, either. They both had that, sure. It was something they shared, and yet what kept them linked musically was their personal bond. The mutual affection, respect, and trust they had for one another. Their partnership was vulnerable, not because it was driven by interests like money or success, but because it was them. Freddie and Brian. They wrote for each other, about each other, with each other, in a way that no one else has ever managed. It needs to be said. 

#screaming into the void rn #this articulates largely why I love this duo so much #it’s the emotional connection their marriage through music it’s the unspoken words of love and support and admiration written in between the #lines of their music. the very thing that brought them to each other. they can talk about how much they fought in the studio but when you #look at songs like save me or soul brother or any of their collaborations like it’s a hard life you can see and feel the love they had for #each other. they’re both sensitive souls and kindred spirits in a way and it shows in their music #maycury

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ahhh thank youuu you're a gem

No problem, this is the one area in which I have random useless knowledge lol <3

#ask #anon

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Here’s more of Brian talking about FBG, in case anon’s interested

heyyy how are you :) I was wondering if you could please send a link with the 2016(?) bbc interview where brian says that FBG is about guys. your blog is very cool by the way, thank youuu <3

Hey anon. I couldn't find the link (probably because it's taken from an archived or otherwise unavailable Mojo interview), but the quote is here:

I couldn't find any BBC interview where he's said it, actually, but it might exist. Sources for this band are incredibly hard to find because a lot of them are so old. Sometimes, we just need to take what we can get.

send me asks if you're bored

#quote #fat bottomed girls #bri

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Brian, Anita and feathered friends 🦆🦢

#so cute 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #people are sad about the walking stick (?) but I’m just going to pay it no mind 🫠 #bri #anita dobson #bri’s ig

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Preview clip of the The Miracle promo videos that will be in the new boxset, high quality version. Taken from Queen's page on Apple Music.

Thanks Leon for pointing it out and Vel for grabbing it!

#omg FINALLY SOME QUEEN VIDEOS THAT ARENT MADE UP OF 20 PIXELS #the miracle #misc

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im bored so share with me your fav song from every queen album? 🥺👉👈

Oooh

Queen: Liar

Queen II: White Queen (As It Began)

Sheer Heart Attack: Now I’m Here

ANATO: ‘39

ADATR: Long Away

NOTW: It’s Late

Jazz: Fat Bottomed Girls

The Game: Rock It (Prime Jive)

Hot Space: Dancer

The Works: Hammer To Fall

A Kind Of Magic: A Kind Of Magic

The Miracle: I Want It All

Innuendo: The Show Must Go On

Made In Heaven: Made In Heaven

Some of these were really hard (I'm talking 51-49), and some others were no-brainers for me lol. Thanks for the ask <3

#ask #anon

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Freddie Mercury, Jane Seymour and Boy George at the Fashion Aid event at the Royal Albert Hall in London on November 5, 1985.

Photos by Duncan Raban

#freddie #boy George #jane Seymour #1985 #fashion aid

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…I don’t know why this is just now hitting me, but I just remembered that Queen have said several times now that the new material being released from The Miracle sessions includes bits of the band talking in the studio as well.

which means we’re not just getting six new(ish) songs with Freddie singing, we’re gonna get new audio of Freddie talking and joking around too.

#SCREAMING CRYING IN EXCITEMENT #i cant believe we’re getting THE BANTS AND THE ARGUMENTS #i wanna get this so bad but it’s so expensive ._. #I’ll just wait for the uploads online #the miracle

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So... What all do we know about the history of Face It Alone, besides the fact that it was rediscovered among The Miracle session tapes?

Because the chorus is making me sob and I need to know now whether this song originated with Brian or Freddie so I can be properly emotional about it agfksgsjshksha

#love that everyone is in agreement that it’s totally a Brian song and he probably wrote it with Freddie in mind and for Freddie #face it alone

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#i think I would switch freddie and Brian but this works too 💀 #meme #four aging queens