Queen the band sucks. I don’t get why anyone likes them. Aside from Bohemian Rhapsody, their songs are bland and fall short. Their rock is dry. And the opera-style singing is cringe. Examples:

Another One Bites the Dust

  • Catchy bass line, fun to direct at an opponent, CORNY AF. The song is about people being killed, but sounds like a funky Michael Jackson song with an Opera singer.

We Will Rock You

  • Good solo, repetitive and annoying simple beat. Boom-boom-ch. So lame.

We Are the Champions

  • Such a self-aggrandizing and braggy song. “No time for losers”? Okay, Donald Trump.

Bicycle Race

  • I don’t even have to say anything about this one. Everyone knows how corny this song sounds.

Somebody to Love

  • Touching topic, cheesy lyrics and even cheesier choir-like singing. It’s cringe.

I am happy for the band and their success. I admire Freddie Mercury’s unapologetic flamboyance. The dude kept it real. But, I just can’t like the music.

I’m sorry if I’ve offended anyone. I understand we all have different taste and respect everyone’s freedom to like and enjoy what they want. I’m not trying to insult anyone for their taste, but merely expressing my own in a somewhat humorous attempt.

  • Ifera@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    “Sucks” is entirely subjective when applied to musical taste, I applaud your attempt for engagement. I do believe that Queen is overhyped to hell and back but other than that, big meh, lots of people don’t like the same music I do, so that is completely normal.

    Mild take.

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I notice you got nothing to say about the greatest Queen song ever, Dont Stop Me Now, I guess theres always an exception to the rule.

    • Zannsolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      One of my favorite things I’ve seen on the internet was a gif mashup of don’t stop me now with a gif of a porn where everybody looked coked out of their minds and this girl is dancing all crazy.

      • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Actually listening to Ogre Battle when i read your comment. So thats fun and i wanted to share and thank you.

        I found a deep cuts playlist to listen to before reading This article (i didnt agree with everything the article claimed, but was a passionate take on queen which was fun in its own way)

        I accidently opened up the wrong app when I finished reading it and intended to come back here. After seeing the track list Ogre Battle immediately caught my eye as it is also the name of one of my favourite video game franchises.

        Now i wonder if there is any connection between the song and the game. Now I really hope(and my head cannon until proven wrong!) is that the game creator or someone on the team was a huge Queen fan

    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      8 months ago

      To be fair, if someone listens to the six best known songs by a band and only likes one of them, it’s no surprise they wouldn’t bother digging into the catalogue further

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Anyone looking to dive into a Queen album, might I recommend A Night at the Opera?

  • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Not liking something and that something “sucking” is not the same thing.

    I don’t like Walking Dead. It doesn’t catch my interest I find it formulaic repetitive and downright mean.

    But it’s a good show. It’s incredibly well made. The acting is fantastic. The production is fantastic.

    Just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s bad.

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I missed the word “take” on first read. And was gonna ask what made them so bad live and was it Adam Lambert

    • amstafff@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I don’t like queen and I hate that stupid song every time I hear it somewhere I cringe. Blows my mind how it’s considered a masterpiece or even good. This is not rage bait. I listen to basically every genre but this song is overrated and silly af.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I like Queen as much as any person but I can understand some do the complaints in this post. But I would LOVE to hear some complaints about Bohemian Rhapsody. Even when I was too young to understand music I was like “this is a mastapiece”

        • harmsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          But I would LOVE to hear some complaints about Bohemian Rhapsody.

          Wish granted. It’s a haphazard mish-mash of two potentially-good songs and one frantic pile of word salad, resulting in a scattered, inconsistent mess.

            • harmsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              8 months ago

              I basically just described my actual thoughts about the song, though. The opening is a banger, the part from “I see a little silhouetto of a man” to “Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me” is kind of a mess, then it goes to a bit that sounds like it should have been the opener of a third song, before finally finishing on something that actually matches the style of the first bit. The whole thing is a weird patchwork that somehow became a hit.

              • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                8 months ago

                It isn’t a patchwork though, it’s just not structured as a typical rock/pop-rock/pop song. Mercury borrowed ideas and stylings from opera for it’s structure. And the part that you say is “kind of a mess” isn’t a mess, it just switches between even and odd meters. It does that to try and put the listener off-balance, sure, but that’s intentional.

  • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I agree with you 100%, every sentence, and now I don’t know whether I should up- or downvote you