What's Bohemian Rhapsody Actually About? 

it's just ridiculous how high the quality of these videos are

@@chrislarcombemusic8445 Pure magic and animation wizardry

You can tell he spent a ridiculous amount of time on it

As a starting youtuber myself, this editing is just mindblowing.

He is on a completely other level. Every video is an art piece in itself. The storytelling, his voice, the editing and the MF motion design

I feel you are deeply right.

the best song ever written

i don't think i have met another person who thought that. i always think about "to be or not to be" when i listen to that song. wow.

That's the cool thing about art, everyone can get a different interpretation, and have it mean something new to them outside the author's intent.

You took the words right of out of my mouth

Fam you're going too far 😂😂😂 Freddie was just high as a kite 🪁

@@Hello-mj2fw I'm with you on both of these...

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@@Hello-mj2fw galileo didn't discover mercury? he was the first to look at it with a telescope iirc

@@uniido1108 Im fairly certain it was considered a star prior to him seeing it, and when he looked at it through his telescope, he discovered it was a planet.

Of course, because there are not a really big number of men who directly relate guns to masculinity... Oh, wait.

Just stuff a slug into a well greased chamber, cock back the hammer and blow your load. Back in the day they had to use a ramrod.

it reminded me of a quote: "is that a gun in your pocket or you happy to see me"

and placement of microphone

Fellas, is it gay to put a gun against his head ?

I really hope u are still alive and doing great in life

@@Segotti doing a lot better. thank you.

yes, thats how the song goes.

fax!

Except Freddie doesn't play

@@2WheelsTrav ikr lmao

Not so sure it was him playing the guitar solo :)

I think you thought right. This video has a whole lot of reaching and a whole lack of real substance.

@@leodaly2310 That’s what I’m saying

@@leodaly2310 I was joking. The lyrics obviously means something more. Maybe Polyphonic didn't get everything right, but IT IS more than just a "rhapsody about bohemian life".

@@leodaly2310 So, pray tell your take on the meaning of those lyrics.

@@leodaly2310 I think you can project many things into a piece of art while it still gives guidance along the reading. There a meaning that the artist wanted to put into the song and there are a lot more that we can find in it.

This is definitely gonna be a series

Most people in this generation probably will, and it kind of makes sense in hindsight.

I also thought the same

I just assumed that it implied he had/ has sex with a guy and killing is just word play for an orgasm and hes admitting to it to his mum then the next line is "put a gun against his head pulled my trigger now hes dead" i figured that was implying a bj or something

@@lewispayne4725 Many people agree with your story. I don't think so. Funny how we can read different things from songs. I think it's a song about a guy facing death for murder. Plus, some creative play on words. .Freddie was all that.

@@lewispayne4725 hahahahaha, dude I love how u took the original comment by the idiot and turned it to 11, CAUSE ITS MORE THAN 10!!!!!

He didnt do the guitar solo, that was all brian (which is also the only part of the song freddie didnt write). Freddie wrote the heavy riff for the rock section ("So you think you can stone me") on his piano which brian then brought to life But yeah, i agree, they understood each other really well.

@@liam9807 Freddie and Brian were brothers of the heart along with John Deacon and Roger Taylor. When Freddie Mercury died it ripped the heart out of Queen. John couldn't go on. He helped complete Queen's last album and did a concert contributed to Freddie Mercury but afterward he retired from music completely. Brian and Roger moved on to do their own thing. But to me it was never really the same without Freddie Mercury out front strutting his stuff and playing with the crowd. Freddie loved the fans and they loved him right back.

Same, always imagined the "I don't wanna die" section as an electric chair execution, each one with each's interpretation i guess haha

I actually feel it's a bit of both. I think that the song references HIV, his guilt of having spread the deadly disease and having left the other guy to die, all while not wanting to die himself even though he knew it was coming, and that's a truth he had to face and accept. Having a devil put aside for him seems to indicate that there really is some sinful things that he has actively done, something like condemning someone to die of HIV. I get the feeling that he may not have known he had the disease when he first transmitted it but it was still transmitted by a deliberate action on his part, and where he was acting like a fool, and even if he didn't know he was infected, he should have known better than to act the way he did. I also think the stoning and spitting in the eye part is a bit more of a euphemism than most people realize. Stoning representing an action where someone is being repeatedly struck by another man's... euh... "stones", the spitting representing the ejection of a body fluid (not actual spit) and the eye... well that could represent an area below the belt where such "spitting" might happen inside of when "stoning" is happening... (sorry, kinda weird trying to explain euphemisms while keeping things youtube friendly) with the whole context, it would add some relationship between the phrases "stone me and spit in my eye" and "love me and leave me to die" the way he preceeded both those phrases by "So you think you can" is something that says that the 2 phrases are related to each other, like if they were referring to the same actions... and I think the act of pulling his trigger with the phallic gun also refers to the same action. Too much emphasis on the "my" when he says that. Anyways there is more but I've already probably written too much for most people.

I see it as Freddie’s “coming out”. When he says “mama, just killed a man” he’s talking about his old self. And when he says “ life has just begun, and now I’ve gone all it all away” I feel like he knows that if/when he comes out he will have a different view of him In the public.

@@Chepakishui Freddie didn’t know he had and probably wasn’t even infected with HIV in 1975. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1987.

@@finngerbrandy3523 But it doesn't necessarily have to be about himself. It's written from the vantage point of someone who does have HIV, in my opinion. It makes so much more sense in that context.

why else would you think the Sex Pistols have that name?

@@masicbemester I can't imagine. So maybe cops be shooting ppl in the States cause of X reasons

You should see From Dusk till Dawn now, with your new take on things…

Strike Back season 2 has an interesting take on that: "men never want to admit something about fighting each other: how intimate it is"

@@anthonyhayes1267 that's what fascinates me most about MMA: the fact that men seem to need to be brutally smashing each others face in for an excuse to hug each other. Pitiful, that is. And I don't mean condescendingly.

For what it's worth, with this theory, "I just killed a man" may be the "killing" of the "man" as a symbol of heterosexuality and what society expects a man to be / do ?

I always thought it was just about a real murder and the part where he says just got to get out means he's trying to get out of prison after being tried in court which is the part where they sing we will not let you go references as in part to where he's being held in court and put on trial

How did you read the song, pray tell! I'm a different sort of outsider, and I felt strangely represented without really getting any of it…

In other cases, it's a song about self discovery, and choosing what life you want to live. No matter if you straight,gay,etc. Being a person on the inside and feeling like you don't belong.

I hope I can aleast be half as good,in the future with lryics

I completely knew what the song was about when I first heard it as a kid. I’m a straight guy but I think this song formed my outlook on what it must be like to have the stress of accepting your sexuality as a gay man. A very challenging process no doubt.

@@marcuswilson3485 cut the crap what bs is this hahahaha

Being straight, I feel the exact same about this song meaning he's coming out

He could have said it bluntly like the Pointer Sisters.

@@_OG420are you that dense or do you think he actually killed a man? Lmao or is he throwing away his old life by killing off his former straight self

I suppose for many queer people it is a question of existence, so whatever meaning you get from it has validity. I agree that’s what shows it’s great art. It’s one of those songs where anyone can feel it’s power and feel it resonate :)

I thought about it too about existential conflict and suffering

Thinking that as I watched this. Exceptional.

It does now!! 😊

Salut! Si eu sunt roman. :)

Hai noroc!

"I thought crosses were cool"

@@HueGenex isn’t eva almost entirely about religion though

@@Borganov20 it's actually a deep dive into anti-social and depressive behaviours of young Japanese men and the societal pressures they must overcome BUT that's not a complete interpretation in itself, Hideaki Anno is more into deconstruction not making complex metaphors and analogies. So it really isn't about too much outside it's plot but it offers a lot to look into (if you want).

@@HueGenex oh no I just meant it’s sort of based around it with all the god’s in his heaven and angel stuff

@@Borganov20 It's all aesthetic Lilith, Adam, The angles all these titles were given just to make it seem cooler, The religious imagery is just because western religion is foreign and badass.

They did that 30 years ago

We did it with a translation in german class in 5th class back in 2010.

When I was in high school, we analyzed ‘Stan’ by Eminem. Fantastic song, but it’s no dang ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.

@@user-hy5jy7sf9j Agreed. We had to write an argumentative short essay on what we felt was going on. Half of us had the same answer. We all basically said that Stan is a closeted gay man who’s in love with Slim. Random thought: Elton John loves Eminem. I wonder what Freddie Mercury would think of Eminem. 🧐

@@rcc_96 I think he would’ve also help Eminem with his drug addiction

His pronunciation of "clown" actually makes clowns disturbing to me. OOF!

He does have kind of a strange accent on some words, I’ve always wondered about that.

He always said he was "Persian" - not wrong, either. Thus Sang Mercoaster.

I think people don’t realize how life consuming it feels to be closeted. While all you said would make complete sense to a general audience, a big part of Freddie’s identity was being gay in a culture that thought that was an abomination. And in fact, when you understand that part of Freddie’s identity, all other Queen songs do make a lot more sense. He wrote whimsical, campy pieces but in the end his lyrics spoke to his experience. Everyone is free to interpret the song differently and that is art’s beauty; but as a gay man, Bohemian Rhapsody is so clearly about what it feels to be gay in this society. The beginning is about self reckoning-a process all queer people go through when coming to terms with their identity. The opera a plead for mercy to the creator, begging to be “spared” for this “monstrosity”. The rock section a rebellion against those who try to beat you down. And finally the ending is a return to the beginning, a constant, defeating cycle. I know people like to say that gay people are fine because “it’s 2024”. People forget though, that there are still millions of gay people struggling in hateful settings. The experience is also so lonely. Unless you have a community of gay friends, nobody truly understands what it feels like to be constantly rejected, hated, and ignored for something you can’t control. Thats why I love this song so much. He wrote it for us-in my eyes-because he’s one of us. He understands that experience and perfectly assembled this masterpiece to reflect that struggle.

i dont think this song would be a last chance at a hit kind of song. it breaks too many rules .

Even if he was not completely sure about his sexuality, the song was written right after his first sexual encounter with a man and the song gives the picture of someone confused about themselves so it fits perfectly with it being about his sexuality.

Isn't his coming out song "I want to Break Free"?

@@mmyr8ado.360 No, "I want to Break Free" was written by John Deacon.

Readings traditionally start with the phrase "cross my palm with silver" after all.

Awh, I hope you are fine now, Madam.

His heritage was Zoroastrian but I read that as an adult he was non-practicing except for requesting Zoroastrian funeral rights (a big ask in my opinion)

yes, that's also what I heard and I heard that mercury read the novel earlier in his life and was very inspired when writing this song. the plot of the novel very closely follows the song's lyrics

This actually makes a LOT of sense

fukn right bud!

=)) is funny but sad

LOL

I saw it as him accepting his impending doom with the aids epidemic and carelessness/stoicism regarding knowing your death is soon to come. Also hence the struggle of the fighting that too “I don’t wanna die” wish I had never been born at all” Carry on carry on”

@@sad-qy7jz he probably didnt have aids in 1975, he didnt think about having aids back then.

existential crisis i guess

@@sad-qy7jz this song is from like 74-

Do you guys think AIDS didn’t exist until the 80s lol? And that they gay community wasn’t aware that something scsry was going down before the cursed media

That is a very literal reading of the song: what is on the page is not always what the story is about

No, not at all!!!! It°s a fake thought!!!! Freddie explained it in an earlier interview!!!!

@@nesimusic9153 what did he say?