To all the haters:

If you'd read an interview of her, you'd understand that she did not sell out to become what she is today. She loves the showmanship and style of Freddy Mercury and pop art, which she incorporates into her show and videos.

If anything, staying the girl in this video would have made her a sell-out.

Agreeing with zomgunicorns, it's fantastic that she didn't become the next Snor-ah Jones.

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>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Great, now all he needs is better pitch, tone quality, technique and some basic musicality.
Also, he only sings 2 1/3 octaves in the video.


Yeah, seriously, just because you can hit a ton of notes doesn't mean you're a good singer. I'm still waiting for the next Freddie Mercury to hit the rock music scene.

I miss Freddie Mercury

i so totally agree. watching band aid the other day was an interesting reminder in how incredible front figurs used to be. talent, personality, real x factor or whatever, sex appeal, uniqueness.. everything awesome which is summarized in freddie mercurys live performances.

Paul Rodgers is not Freddie Mercury. Nobody is Freddie Mercury.

One of their best songs, certainly.

Mika is awesome. Every single time he comes on the radio, cant help but think...man, this guy is like the new Freddie Mercury.

Further basis on which to compare Mika to Freddie Mercury, as this might be seen as his answer to Queen's "Fat-Bottomed Girls."

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for those who don't know, i go bananas over E6.

from wikipedia:
The controversial music video shows lead singer Dick Valentine as the ghost of Queen's flamboyant lead singer Freddie Mercury and a backing band of poodles. Queen drummer Roger Taylor, who wrote the song, said that he was "unimpressed" with the video; however, Queen guitarist Brian May reportedly liked it.
According to Dick Valentine:
“ Though some have claimed this video portrays me dancing on Freddie Mercury's grave, actually it's more like we are resurrecting Mr. Mercury for the duration of the song and his grave is the logical starting point. Anyhow, everyone knows we disliked the fact that we had to put this song on our record, so this ridiculous video took a little bit of the sting out of it for us and made it somewhat bearable. It was also very rewarding to work with dogs.

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Was this a tribue concert to Freddy Mercury?

Hi Swampgirl (sighs, blushes) When these guys came out with their album, it was all like hard edges looking, more like a punk-er Bowie,(than ELO), but before punk. Hard to believe, looking at their glammy selves from today's perspective. Also, no one had ever heard of Freddie Mercury, or his somewhat gay habitus that he became known for. The sound was a heavily produced sound just like Journey or someone like that.. wonderful FAT guitars and heavily produced vocals. This electronic overload, to alter anything like a natural sound, cost money, was fake, and sounded really cool! Garage bands and punk were in reaction to this later: poor, couldn't reproduce the production sound, Pissed off at its fakeness. etc. And so we got punk. Which is also cool! WOOT Now I'm all hopped up!!