There's two possible interpretations of the line, 'Can anybody find me somebody to love?'
1 - 'Somebody help me find someone that I can love'
2 - 'Can anybody consider me somebody worth loving'
I think the latter is more powerful, but it's very hard to tell which was intended. They both make sense within the song. Thoughts?
nothing to say really - the song is self explanatory. Freddie wrote a song of longing to be loved in the classic soul lovelorn mould - with a nice gospel feel
tomchristie22 wrote:
There's two possible interpretations of the line, 'Can anybody find me somebody to love?'
1 - 'Somebody help me find someone that I can love'
2 - 'Can anybody consider me somebody worth loving'
I think the latter is more powerful, but it's very hard to tell which was intended. They both make sense within the song. Thoughts?
Wow. The latter is actually pretty profound. Good on you, catching onto that..
In those days his mind was an amusement park crossed with a sage, so anything is possible.
Although there is no certain interpretation, I'd like to choose the first one (to my taste).
By the way, I guess most of fans in Japan probably conprehend the lyric as the former meaning because of a translated lyric sheet.
I always thought the lyrics means "please help me find somebody who will not care about my fame and my money and will simply love ME, Mr. Bulsara and not that famous rich superstar Freddie Mercury"
^ well, he found her before he got famous... but sometimes life just doesn't work that way. And the places he searched for something to fill in the gap ultimately took him in the end.
"Somebody to love" This was Freddie reaching out and longing for a male lover
even though he knew mary could never fulfill his emotional & sexual needs.
His frustration and regret over that probably fed into the song, yeah. Still, the way he wrote it, like so many Queen songs, is pretty universal - it appears to just be about longing to be loved.
Freddie was reputed to have had an affair with eric hall who was a record producer
and according to eric "Killer Queen" was all about him.
Freddie said he was the "killer" and eric was the "queen"! lol
We have also had people "confirm" that Bohemian Rhapsody was about Freddie suffering from AIDS...
To the OP, you're over-analyzing the song in my opinion
I'm sure lots of people claim songs were about them, doesn't make it true. Killer Queen is quite obviously not about a record producer, nor are the two words in the title referring to separate people, that's just plain stupid.
I don't think other members of Queen would have let eric tell the story if it was not true
and on an official Queen dvd.
Freddie had lots of male lovers, and eric was one of them back in 1974.
It wasn't an official Queen DVD, it was The Story of Queen - Mercury Rising.
Plus the fact that, you know, the lyrics are quite obviously about something else.
Killer Queen is so obviously Freddie writing about himself, end of.
His battle with his sexuality is what led to his greatest work. As soon as he figured it out, his work started to tank.
And as always, the thing that makes you great is also your worst enemy.
Nitroboy wrote:We have also had people "confirm" that Bohemian Rhapsody was about Freddie suffering from AIDS...
gerry wrote:
well that is a load of tosh for a start.
Bo Rhap released in october 1975 when freddie was 28 years old.
Aids did not exist in those days.
Gezza, you do know what the " " mean don't you?
and while you're telling people they are "talking tosh" - try looking in the mirror:
1975 - First time that wasting symptoms are noted in Africa - these were later called AIDS.
Although completely unrelated - the self-same year Bo Rhap was released.
NB - you do realise that HIV is NOT a new illness? first transmitted to humans as a simian immunodeficiency virus in the VERY EARLY 1900s.
The first identified case of HIV was in a man who died in the African Congo in 1959!!!
Do you realise that HIV & AIDS are not the same thing?
mooghead wrote:
Still can't believe someone is confused about the meaning of probably the most obviously apparent Queen song....
Did you even read the post? There was no confusion, simply asking which of two possible interpretations of one line makes more sense and has more weight to it.
The Real Wizard wrote:
^ well, he found her before he got famous... but sometimes life just doesn't work that way. And the places he searched for something to fill in the gap ultimately took him in the end.