| Kuningatarr 15.01.2019 22:14 |
Is it just me or does Queen seem to be all over social media these days, from show biz news to Instagram (which I’m sure is not everyones’ place to be but I happen to have an account and see new Queen related fan accounts popping up everyday)? I’m sure this is greatly thanks to the Bohemian Rhapsody movie. So is it only a good thing that masses of people are finding Queen or sparking up an old flame? Any thoughts? I must admit that the ”freddie_4ever” and ”rogertaylorsbitch” fan accounts make me gringe, I just don’t get the idea. On other thoughts it’s great to hear more Queen on the radio again and I’m happy to see people appreciating the band’s history and talent. But is the hype really mostly about the movie? When I wear a band t-shirt it used to go unnoticed but today it’s a question of ”are you a new fan or a true fan?” |
| bucsateflon 16.01.2019 08:41 |
All that great stuff minus the fake tales that grow on social media about how great Freddie was. Most newbie fans on social media are in reality Freddie fanboys and not Queen fan. |
| dysan 16.01.2019 09:54 |
I hate instagram fan accounts with a passion. Misguided repurposing of something of value in a damaging way. That's just IMO - I'm sure there are many who get a lot of lolz from that kind of thing. They'll forget about it after puberty. |
| thomasquinn 32989 16.01.2019 11:39 |
I don't really care either way, but if it pisses the deranged alt right hate-spewer bucsateflon off, it's always a good development. |
| spiralstatic 16.01.2019 19:01 |
Freddie was dead already when I discovered Queen and it feels to me hypocrisy to consider kids only discovering Queen now, or due to Bohemian Rhapsody couldn't be true fans - sort of like saying you could only be a true fan if you'd seen Queen live or at least knew of and were a fan of them already by then. So you'd probably need to be around 50ish. And it'd imply there one day could be no true fans. All of us had to discover Queen somehow, someday. And if it was after Freddie died especially, even if we were a kid, there probably would have been someone at the time who would have called us not a true fan?? Also, I'm going out on a limb, but didn't most of us begin to love the music we love most passionately from the age of 11-18? Did we forget about it after puberty? I discovered Queen around age 11 and they were the only and for me until well into my teens when I began to find there was some other good music out there too. But I still love them. And for me, in fact the film - which I went to see, but thought I'd hate, instead brought me back more deeply to my love of Queen. I think it's great if people love Queen. Whether some of the people love Queen or just the film/actors in it might be in part a test of time, but hey. I'm pretty certain that in 1975 there were loads of teens and pre-teens adulating over whatever band member more than thinking of the music too, it's just they didn't have instagram. Most things don't change that much. And there'll be plenty of ”freddie_4ever”'s who actually do love Queen's music. No need to judge say I. :) |
| bucsateflon 16.01.2019 20:12 |
You sound really stupid spiraplastic, really! read what you wrote but try to detach yourself from your own stupidity, just try it. Maybe you can realize how stupid you sound. |
| Kuningatarr 16.01.2019 20:38 |
I don’t even normally use the phrase ”true fan” in my personal vocabulary, it was just to describe the way people have reacted to my merchandise t-shirts the past few months. I think ”true fan” is a very teenage thing to say anyways, as if fandom was some kind of a competition. Then again, it might actually be just that for some people.. But I still have no understanding towards those fan accounts, I just find them really disturbing. |
| Sweetandtenderhooligan 17.01.2019 00:07 |
My problem isn't with new fans, it's with new fans who think the movie is entirely factual and have done zero research outside of it. And the new fans who insist that "If Freddie married Mary he'd still be alive!" and all he other deniers of his sexuality. They mostly seem to be new fans or older women. |
| spiralstatic 17.01.2019 00:17 |
It's alright, I know I'm stupid, but thanks for only explicitly saying I sound stupid and at least tying the implication I could transcend my own stupidity into the bit where you confirm you think I am stupid, not that I only sound it. I won't re-read any stupidity I wrote though thanks, I'll just leave it there, a monument to my shame while I go bury myself in a pit of woe beneath my stupidity epitaph. I mean, "Here lies stupid" would maybe raise a laugh from someone, so I reckon it ain't all bad. |
| thomasquinn 32989 17.01.2019 05:56 |
bucsateflon wrote: You sound really stupid spiraplastic, really! read what you wrote but try to detach yourself from your own stupidity, just try it. Maybe you can realize how stupid you sound.This is what someone who is both extraordinarily stupid and an unusually hideous person writes when confronted with an intelligent thought - a total meltdown occurs, and a string of insults follow. Or, at least a string of insults would follow, if the extraordinary stupidity of said person weren't so great that mere repetition of the word "stupid" is all this individual is capable of. |
| Star* 17.01.2019 11:56 |
It is very easy these days for anyone to get hyped from American idol nobodies to Adele and frog face Ed Sheeran. Queen were not used to hype in the 70s or 80s and had to work damn hard to prove there worth which is a far cry today for current musical acts. Sorry to mention the AL word again but he is one of the biggest hypes in the entire American Idol history. You can have no talent these days and be as big as Little Mix & even Adam Mitchel Lambert. (sad) |
| Mark_Glasgow 17.01.2019 12:16 |
Facts: 1. As a dramatic piece of film making, Bohemian Rhapsody was shit. Great advert for selling more music however. 2. Lead role was good and managed to overcome some pretty poorly written dialogue. 3. The film became a great success because it managed to appeal to wide audience, just like Queens music in latter years, by being easily accessible rather than well written. 4. New fans are no different to old fans, may not know the bands history as in depth as those who like me grew up with the band, but they can love and connect to the music just as much. 5. So what if younger fans have a different image of Freddie as a result of social media. If it leads them to the music that's all that matters. It doesn't have any impact on anyone else other than condescending arseholes who believe they have some greater right to be a Queen fan than others. 6. Anyone who think of themselves as a "true fan" is just a gash. Don't think I missed anything out. |
| rockchic65 17.01.2019 13:03 |
^^^ This. |
| rockchic65 17.01.2019 13:05 |
EMI2565 wrote: It is very easy these days for anyone to get hyped from American idol nobodies to Adele and frog face Ed Sheeran. Queen were not used to hype in the 70s or 80s and had to work damn hard to prove there worth which is a far cry today for current musical acts. Sorry to mention the AL word again but he is one of the biggest hypes in the entire American Idol history. You can have no talent these days and be as big as Little Mix & even Adam Mitchel Lambert. (sad)You're becoming as obsessed as runner, you've just complained on the QAL forum about Adam even existing on these boards but still can't help yourself from mentioning him every five minutes, even in the non QAL related part of the forum - a psychologist would have a field day delving into your warped mind. |
| matt z 17.01.2019 15:14 |
It's pretty off topic, (unless connected by a corollary) but Lambert criticism is always fair. Dunno why people get angered about it. Queen were a rock band who worked tooth and nail, Lambert is a talent search singer who got the gig cause an old band needed range. (And Brian apparently spends much of his time with Anita at musicals) Just inform posters if they're straying too far off topic, THEN stick to the topic. And for the record I've been hearing a bit of "Queen? Yeah they're good but that's played out" (i.e. overplayed and no longer ideally fashionable since that's what compels some youth to "like" music, it's popularity and mass appeal make someone have something in common with others, even if the music sucks: i.e. mumble rap) Aside from that. ...and UNLIKE the person above who says "why does it matter? " I AM very bothered by the ignorance of the band's history. I'm VERY sick of every online "publication" spewing out another 3x a week story about "Why BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WORKS!" and "other musicians who need a bio pic" etc. ...CONSTANTLY they refer to the film "exposing generations old and new to the **HISTORY*** OF THE BAND" THAT blatant falsehood is what bothers the fuck out of me. There's relatively little in terms of history that's correct in the film. Just bits like : guy from Zanzibar band called SMILE Mary Austin was a girlfriend Jim Hutton was a hand friend Roger played drums John played bass John was useless cause Freddie said so (*oops, i haven't got time to correct the above) Brian played guitar (*that must make him the Guitary One!) Freddie sang and played piano Freddie did drugs Freddie partied Freddie contracted HIV virus, leading to AIDS the band had a manager named Jim Beach Freddie had a personal manager Paul Prenter That's about it if you don't get into the permutations of Queen wrote "___" song, etc. Aside from that it's not very "historic" and I'm bothered that so many media outlets continue to refer to it as "the history of the band" It's a poor reflection of journalism and group mentality ignorance. That's about it. That and missattributed songs "MY FAVORITE SONG is Who Wants to live forever by Queen and Adam Lambert" (I've seen that one) If it wasn't continually referred to as history I'd probably not give a damn about it. But that was their tag line: "the only thing greater than blah blah was HIS STORY" ! Who would've figured the channel 4 feature "the great pretender" would've emerged as the better film |
| Star* 17.01.2019 15:27 |
Rockchic This topic is about the hype in Queen and that surely is based around Adam Lambert by 100% Queen have been a massive hype since Lambert took lead vocals and its not for the better either. You repeat yourself on the threads too saying Adam this Adam that, so you go and see a shrink too. Your a girl with a crush on a freak (strange that) |
| rockchic65 17.01.2019 15:46 |
EMI2565 wrote: Rockchic This topic is about the hype in Queen and that surely is based around Adam Lambert by 100% Queen have been a massive hype since Lambert took lead vocals and its not for the better either. You repeat yourself on the threads too saying Adam this Adam that, so you go and see a shrink too. Your a girl with a crush on a freak (strange that)You're mistaking me loving the fact my favourite band of all time are touring again with the added bonus I love Adam singing with them as being a crush, definitely not the same thing. The hype around Queen at the moment is mainly generated by the movie and even before that when some of it may be Adam related how can that be a bad thing when it means fans like myself can see Brian & Roger live playing our favourite music? Can't see the downside myself except for people who don't like Adam's voice but even then they wouldn't be playing at all without him so the one's who aren't on board wouldn't be seeing them anyway so there's nothing lost there. It's quite simple to me, if you like them go see them if you don't ignore what they're doing, it's not like there isn't years worth of stuff pre Queen + to concentrate on. |
| Thistle 17.01.2019 15:51 |
EMI2565 wrote: Rockchic This topic is about the hype in Queen and that surely is based around Adam Lambert by 100% Queen have been a massive hype since Lambert took lead vocals and its not for the better either. You repeat yourself on the threads too saying Adam this Adam that, so you go and see a shrink too. Your a girl with a crush on a freak (strange that)No, it's not based on AL 100%. The current hype over Queen is surely to do with the movie and the thread is about their presence on social media. AL might be part of the hype, but not 100% of it. No-one said the hype was because of AL - it was you who mentioned him. Also, rockchic didn't tell you to go and see a shrink. Jeez...read what's being said. RE Mark Glasgow and TQ's comments....spot on. Well said. |
| Star* 17.01.2019 19:30 |
Thoughts on the new rising Queen hype, it says and i have told you my thoughts. The hype was going long before Bohemian Rhapsody film was released. Brian May done his best to hype Queen+ and Adam saying such ridiculous things as "he is the gift from god" Roger Taylor had his share in it too telling porkies to get bums on seats, and i can see through those two, they are devious and liars. If anyone was the "gift from god" it was when those two worked with Freddie. |
| Thistle 17.01.2019 19:49 |
No, it's about the OP's thoughts on Queen's new hype (even OP attributes it to the movie) and whether you think it's a good thing. No-one mentioned AL apart from you, hijacking a thread once again to make it about your deep rooted hatred for something you should be letting go of. You don't like it - once again, we get that. But you can ignore it and get on with listening to the Queen you like best. It really is as simple as that. |
| bucsateflon 17.01.2019 19:49 |
The hype is around Freddie, always! what the fuck are you all talking about?? Most people never heard of Adam Lambert. |
| space cow 20.01.2019 10:26 |
I don't mind it - if 1% of the new fans discover Queen music because of it and the film, then great.. Although I don't like the film, it's nice to see it has served to introduce Queen music to younger generations |
| musicland munich 20.01.2019 11:56 |
No big deal to me. Love the classic line up and their music/entertainment quality. Of course that has cooled down a little since the 90s. |
| Star* 20.01.2019 14:03 |
Yes if this film gets the young kids interested in discovering Freddie and checking out the Queen back catalogue then all is good. Once they hear Freddie sing they will be hooked. |
| Sebastian 20.01.2019 16:28 |
I don't care what others do as long as it doesn't affect me. |
| PAPA EMERITUS XIV 20.01.2019 18:56 |
“Black smoke is coming out of our chimneys. There is a new UNHOLY EVIL POPE: PAPA EMERITUS XIV, successor of the late PAPA EMERITUS IV !!! ALL HAIL TO PAPA EMERITUS XIV....THOU SHALL ALL OBEY HIM !!!” The Clergy has spoken! |
| Adam Is The Best! 20.01.2019 19:58 |
The movie is NOT the main reason why Queen is popular again. THE reason is Adam Lambert. |
| rockchic65 20.01.2019 23:22 |
Adam Is The Best! wrote: The movie is NOT the main reason why Queen is popular again. THE reason is Adam Lambert.Great, yet another troll a/c. |
| rockchic65 20.01.2019 23:22 |
Double post |
| Star* 21.01.2019 07:44 |
Rockchic Yet again you spout your shite for the USA, Lambert has not made Queen popular again, Queen were never out of the worlds mind to start with. Its Queen that has gave Lambert a climb up to the world stages and without Queen he would be dust. Lambert is not responsible for Queen selling out because Queen have been legends for over 45 years something that Lambert will never be. |
| rockchic65 21.01.2019 10:39 |
EMI2565 wrote: Rockchic Yet again you spout your shite for the USA, Lambert has not made Queen popular again, Queen were never out of the worlds mind to start with. Its Queen that has gave Lambert a climb up to the world stages and without Queen he would be dust. Lambert is not responsible for Queen selling out because Queen have been legends for over 45 years something that Lambert will never be.Do you need glasses? Or can you just not read? Adamisbest wrote that, my comment was "great, yet another troll a/c". Which part of that is me endorsing or writing the comment about Adam? |
| Star* 21.01.2019 11:50 |
All adam fans are the same - deluded and in there own bubble. |
| thomasquinn 32989 21.01.2019 12:17 |
EMI2565 wrote: All adam fans are the same - deluded and in there own bubble.That has to be the most pathetically lame attempt to save face after proving oneself such a complete and utter retard as to be unable to read the name of a poster I have ever seen. Let me spell it out so that even your sub-normal intelligence should be able to grasp it: YOU fucked up. YOU saw a post you didn't like, then attacked the person WHO CRITICIZED THE POST because YOU ARE SO DUMB THAT YOU CAN'T TELL TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT NAMES APART. That means YOU need to either apologize, or accept that you will now always be considered an IDIOT who CAN'T READ. If the retard EMI hadn't lost all semblance of credibility already, this would have utterly wiped it out. To think that this creature added the slur of being "deluded" and "in there [sic] own bubble", that's some powerful dramatic irony there! |
| Star* 21.01.2019 13:07 |
Thomasquinn 32989 Go and fuck yourself and you have never read a post wrong then? Who in there right minds would listen to you, as all your posts are utter drivel. |
| thomasquinn 32989 21.01.2019 13:23 |
You must have very little self-respect if you can't apologize for throwing a hissy fit over being a dumbass and misreading. But then, it's perfectly obvious that you a) are in fact a habitual dumbass b) have no self-respect at all, and c) do not possess enough decency to apologize for your misbehaviour under any circumstance. But hey, I don't think anyone will be surprised. After all, you never do anything except spout bile, whine and troll anyway. I guess you don't have anything better going on in your life, so trolling a forum is just what you do to give the illusion of meaning (to your diseased mind, at least) to what is really an empty and meaningless existence. I'm so sorry to put it so bluntly, but you really need to hear what a sad, pathetic failure of a human being you are. Who knows? Maybe even a basket case such as yourself has the potential for self-improvement... |
| Thistle 21.01.2019 14:31 |
Just give the young lady an apology Gerry. You made an arse of it, that's clear - it happens. No problem. No need to cover it up when you could apologise and move on. We don't get on here, but you apologised to me when you realised I wasn't your clone account, so I don't see why you can't give Rockchic the same courtesy. |
| Star* 21.01.2019 15:21 |
Thomasquinn You are the one who spouts bile and you were the one that attacked me instead of minding your business. Take a look in the mirror and see you are the one that has nothing in his life so you come on here and take the piss. You are a sad excuse of a man and obviously have mental health issues going on in your warped head. |
| Adam Is The Best! 21.01.2019 17:57 |
I can say only one thing about the fuss that came up after my last post: WHOEHAHAHAHAHA!!! |
| bucsateflon 21.01.2019 20:35 |
Thomasquinn is known as the "question mark boy-girl" and is a neurotic twat |
| Thistle 21.01.2019 21:37 |
It's the movie, a little bit of AL (whether we like it or not) and a surge in "listening to X for the first time" videos on social media. On that matter, I really don't believe these people when they say they're hearing Bo Rhap or WWRY for the first time. There's no chance they got to be 20-something and didn't hear it at some point. |
| Star* 22.01.2019 07:48 |
bucsateflon : Yea you can tell Thomas quinn is deranged because he goes on with negatives with everyone on here. Probably thinks he is on the samaritans web site ! |
| rockchic65 22.01.2019 09:08 |
@Thomas Quinn @ Thistle Thanks guys but I wouldn't expect an apology, EMI has me down as a 24 carat glambert so I'm the devil incarnate in his eyes. |
| Star* 22.01.2019 15:06 |
Rockchic Sure i am sorry if i got you mixed up, these things do happen. Yeah you are a Lambert fan but your still human and have a lot to learn about quality and talent but years to come you will look back at this period in your life and cringe, believe me! |
| Thistle 22.01.2019 15:27 |
^ lol. We ALL have a lot to learn, regardless of age (or how informed we think we are). You'll probably look back at this in years to come and cringe at some of your posts, believe me ;) |
| Star* 22.01.2019 15:53 |
Maybe but one thing is for sure i will never regret not going to see Queen with Adam, that for me has crossed the red line! |
| Thistle 22.01.2019 17:31 |
Lol |
| rockchic65 22.01.2019 18:12 |
EMI2565 wrote: Rockchic Sure i am sorry if i got you mixed up, these things do happen. Yeah you are a Lambert fan but your still human and have a lot to learn about quality and talent but years to come you will look back at this period in your life and cringe, believe me!Thanks for the apology. It's true we all have a lot to learn but being a Queen fan since 1974 I think I've got to an age where I'm pretty sure who I am and what I like so I very much doubt I'll be cringing about liking QAL. |
| Donna13 22.01.2019 18:49 |
Wasn’t the full moon beautiful? Even in the sky this morning it was so prominent. I think the new excitement over Queen is due to the movie. It is euphoria. It is the love for Freddie Mercury, Queen, the music, the actors, the time period, the story. Rami Malek is so careful and respectful regarding Freddie’s memory. He gets it. |
| fras444 23.01.2019 04:23 |
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| FunLovinCriminal 29.01.2019 00:58 |
I don't give a shit. Any hype will come to an abrupt end, eventually. |
| bucsateflon 29.01.2019 08:53 |
FunLovinCriminal wrote: I don't give a shit. Any hype will come to an abrupt end, eventually.Not really, Led Zeppelin hype is still strong, for example. |
| Dr Magus 29.01.2019 10:27 |
The music of Queen is timeless, as every new generation will discover whether by a film, a musical or whatever. Long live Queen! |
| Holly2003 29.01.2019 11:58 |
The current generation of nitwits brought up on social media only wants to hear their greatest hits, and I can't see anything reversing that, so probably a lot of their other songs will become forgotten about regardless of quality. |
| FunLovinCriminal 29.01.2019 15:35 |
Holly2003, do you really care about whether none-hits in the Queen-catalogue will get forgotten one day? Humanity is forgetting that it is human at this point in time. There are more important things to think about at the moment than Queen-songs. I personally don't think that the "nitwits“ are even interested in music at all. It's all about noise and attention for barkers. It's not about dynamics, harmony, rhythm and melody. Jim Beach is a very clever man. He knows very well that the legacy of the band can not be milked again by putting out new editions of records. Thus he invented the musical, the movie and next, maybe a television series. When May and Taylor cannot go on tour anymore, he'll send them out as holograms. |
| bucsateflon 29.01.2019 17:36 |
Holly2003 wrote: The current generation of nitwits brought up on social media only wants to hear their greatest hits, and I can't see anything reversing that, so probably a lot of their other songs will become forgotten about regardless of quality.those "nitwits" are known as snowflake-squaker-millennial |
| Donna13 30.01.2019 15:19 |
Some of the hits, such as Killer Queen, are so good that if a person isn’t curious enough after hearing that song to want to hear all their songs, then that person just isn’t going to be fan material. Anyway, even though a lot of people are not fan material, I am glad that they (the general public of movie goers) got to hear Now I’m Here, Doing Alright, and Keep Yourself Alive. |
| spiralstatic 30.01.2019 19:06 |
We all have to discover Queen somehow. For some people who have found Queen due to the film it will be a phase, they might love the film or actors more than the band or they won't delve into the whole Queen catalogue. For others, the film will just have been their route to discovering Queen's music and they can love and feel it and come to know it just as much as anyone else. Be it a release (such as the film), a Queen music release, something on the TV or radio, your own parents or mere chance - some thing led all of us to first fall in love with Queen, whether it was 45 years ago, yesterday or any time in between. |
| ShinichiKudo 19.05.2019 16:31 |
I don't hate new fans. Actually I welcome the to Queen world. I only hate nrw fans calling them "truefans" and a fan who has a fan account shite. |
| matt z 20.05.2019 16:33 |
fras?? Who's that guy? haha... ANyways, Strangest thing I've seen lately was 3 young club gals dancing outside a place that was playing ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST... which pretty much would've "just been " considered "old dude rock" a few years ago... It's startling, but it's also pretty cool to see it making some arses move a bit. |