To celebrate the release of the single as a double-sided single with “Bicycle Race,” the label hired a group of women to ride bicycles naked around London. So clearly, “Fat Bottomed Girls” doesn’t exactly have a clean reputation.
Posted on 08/21/2023 9:30:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rock music has always been about tweaking the establishment. From the early rock & roll days, musicians have specialized in sticking it to the man. That’s all well and good when the man is a buttoned-down square with traditional values, but when the woke becomes the establishment — you kids had better turn that music off.
We’ve already seen the left go after authors, films, and TV shows, but that’s not all. Now wokescolds are going after classic rock music. It all started when Universal Records added Queen’s “Greatest Hits” album to the library for Yoto, a new entertainment platform aimed at a youth audience.
“Queen’s greatest hits are now available!” crows the Yoto website. Only it’s not true because one of Queen’s biggest smashes is missing. Universal left “Fat Bottomed Girls” off the Greatest Hits album on the Yoto platform.
“Fat Bottomed Girls” is an ode to women of the title, and it has been staple of classic rock radio for decades. It’s unmistakably Queen, and it’s a lot of fun to harmonize with.
The Daily Mail described “Fat Bottomed Girls” as “a humorous and hard-rocking tribute to a young man’s appreciation of fuller-figured ladies.” The tune hit #11 on the British charts and #24 on the Billboard Hot 100; it also went double-platinum stateside. But it’s too much for the woke folx.
Guitarist Brian May wrote the song specifically for lead singer Freddie Mercury to enjoy. He said in 2008, “‘I wrote it with Fred in mind, as you do, especially if you’ve got a great singer who likes fat bottomed girls… or boys.”
According to the Daily Mail, music industry insiders are mystified at the decision, with one telling the news site that the song is nothing more than “merely a bit of fun.”
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If anything should be canceled, it’s leftism!
Not so sure it’s an ode to women, given the group’s proclivities.
Sung by a gay man that would mostly def be a liberal and quite woke. No credit!?
Two words...”Brown Sugar.”
Will be top of the charts by end of the week. Streisand Effect incomming!
A while back Canada banned Dire Strait’s “Money for Nothing” because it had a reference to ‘faggot’ in it..................
Or…Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
Well, you walk into a restaurant all strung-out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shaking off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode
Most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can
All the same old clichés, is it woman, is it man?
And you always seem outnumbered, so you don't dare make a stand
"Is it man" is now "Is it Dan" in that iconic verse. It drives me nuts as it doesnt even make sense why they would change it. The song is about a rock performer (apparently with long hair) on the road feeling like he's being judged as a hippie by apparently short haired rural Americans. It has nothing to fags or denigration of women or anything else the woke crowd could possibly find offensive!
Wow, I finally got that off my chest.
Given what is spewed out by big entertainment these days this is a joke.
What about Whole Lot of Rosie by AC/DC
The New Puritans are proving quite as annoying as the old.
I’m just waiting for them to replace We Are The Champions with a song celebrating participation trophies and everyone getting ice cream after the game.
The worst part about the song is it describes child sexual abuse.
THAT should be the reason.
That may be why I had no idea about this song back then. Also a few other Queen songs I don’t recall hearing or not much (“Bohmenian Rhapsody” the latter, I suspect due to the lurid nature of murder). It may be our local radio banned them.
But that said, FBG only made it to a high of 28 on our charts.
That may be the problem!
It’s offensive because Queen was not embracing their true identify, singing about women!
Mostly they just play the short version. Recently I heard it without the faggot section at all! Talk about short! (I think satellite radio.)
A shame, being the rock song with the greatest whole intro ever.
You’re right about that. Almost every hit song is about screwing in one form or another.
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