| Queen-Obsessed 20.11.2006 15:26 |
I was wondering if anyone knew/had an opinion about what innuendo is about. I'm not really sure but some people have told me it was about Freddie dying. Any opinions? |
| deleted user 20.11.2006 15:55 |
Their are mixed opinions of course, but I do in fact believe that the album was done knowing Freddie didn't have much longer. In fact, Brian May himself has said so. When you really think about it, the album was very, very, very emotional. The very last song on the album is The Show Must Go On for crying out loud. Just to spark some interest, innuendo's definitions are as follows: 1. an oblique illusion: HINT, INSINUATION: esp: a veiled or equivocal reflection on character or reputation. 2. a parenthetical explanation introduced into the text of a legal document. Innuendo, the word, can also insinuate something sexual. I know this because my freinds and I do that a lot. :) Steve |
| olly1988 21.11.2006 06:04 |
I thought it was about the world as they saw it, and how people are wrong in the way they act. Thats the message I get. |
| Bohemian Rahpsody 21.11.2006 06:39 |
I think for me, it is almost like the journey of Queen, and sometimes I have wondered in quite far off directions with certain songs, such as I Can't Live With You, which could relate to Mary Austin, Headlong could be about the dangers of fame as such, as I said, thoughts that are quite far off. It just seems to me (other than We're All Gods People) the songs relate to some major part of Queen's history, and some songs represent particular elements of their characters, the most obvious for Freddie-Delilah. Any comments on this, it may be a bit far fetched, but meh... Take Care All, B.R |
| August R. 21.11.2006 08:11 |
I Can't Live With you is Brian's song, so Mary Austin connection is a little far fetched. |
| Queen-Obsessed 21.11.2006 22:33 |
K narrowing it down to 1 song...what are your opinions on what 'The show must go on' is about. I think it seems to be about freddies struggle for life my mom thiks I'm nuts. |
| deleted user 21.11.2006 22:53 |
This, for some reason, is hard for me to narrow down. Tomorrow I'll try and narrow down my opinion. I'm to tired right now. My brain hurts... |
| battledwithlies 22.11.2006 03:28 |
B.R, you're so fucking stupid! Go back to playing with dolls instead |
| ITSM 22.11.2006 20:24 |
Metal Head wrote: Just to spark some interest, innuendo's definitions are as follows: 1. an oblique illusion: HINT, INSINUATION: esp: a veiled or equivocal reflection on character or reputation. 2. a parenthetical explanation introduced into the text of a legal document. Steve...if it's a hint, maybe they tried to make a hint of Freddie's forthcoming death...? With all the song-titles and lyrics. I know this is something everybody says now that he's dead, but maybe they tried to make a hint to us before he died...? |
| Bohemian Rahpsody 23.11.2006 05:07 |
August R. wrote: I Can't Live With you is Brian's song, so Mary Austin connection is a little far fetched.Didn't realise that, so thank you, Take care all, B.R |
| Queen-Obsessed 26.11.2006 14:53 |
No one has actually answered my question that is just a bit depressing. |
| deleted user 26.11.2006 15:09 |
Um... looking at the lyrics of the song "Innuendo"... it seems to be saying... We'll keep trying even as things look bad, and we don't have much hope - Asking "god" or whoever to appear to show himself to assuage fears that life is hopeless. There's also a hopeful bit in the middle "You can be anything you want to be". And the "Don't take offense at my innuendo" could, I guess be applied to many things... song lyrics... personal things... malted milk balls. I don't know ... If I'm wrong, I don't care. I've given up on that long ago. :P Is that what you meant ? |
| Raststätte-Knödel 26.11.2006 15:41 |
QUEEN OBSESSED wrote: No one has actually answered my question that is just a bit depressing.Oh that happens a lot here, don't worry! lol :) |
| simps 26.11.2006 15:41 |
QUEEN OBSESSED wrote: K narrowing it down to 1 song...what are your opinions on what 'The show must go on' is about. I think it seems to be about freddies struggle for life my mom thiks I'm nuts.Might have been him struggiling to overcome his AIDS. I think that song sums up his 5 years living with AIDS.Didn't he know he had AIDS in the Magic Tour? |
| deleted user 26.11.2006 16:03 |
... Wasn't Brian supposed to have written "The Show Must Go On" ? I don't really know the biographies of their lives - but I remember reading somewhere that Brian was depressed at this time... wife leaving him... something like that - I have no idea. Hooray. I mean, I don't really see the big deal... Even if Freddie did write it or something. Just let it mean whatever you hear, it's like poetry, we could bicker about it for ages and still be pissity over what it "means". Some songs are more literal, but some just don't have a meaning you can nail down without having written it (and if you were "influenced" when you wrote it, not even you may know !). And some may really be nonsense. |
| Queen-Obsessed 26.11.2006 22:25 |
Thanks ppl very helpful :) and I do agree that is a very opinionated thing but that is what I wanted to hear peoples individual opinions :) |
| Queen-Obsessed 26.11.2006 22:25 |
MercuryLines wrote:I had noticed that lol :DQUEEN OBSESSED wrote: No one has actually answered my question that is just a bit depressing.Oh that happens a lot here, don't worry! lol :) |
| boca 29.11.2006 01:45 |
It's so fuckin' boring reading opinions of some fool that actually knows nothing about life... And that happens a lot on this forum... |
| Freddies Delilah 29.11.2006 09:44 |
Well, I've always thought that Innuendo sounds like a very... angry song. Whenever I listen to it, I always think of Freddie just saying that people are told to live their lives in certain ways ("while we rule by blind, madness, and pure greed"), but everyone really wants to just be themselves ("yeah, we'll keep on tryin'"). Maybe I'm crazy, I don't know. I'm not trying to analyse the song - just that's what I think of everytime I hear it. As for The Show Must Go On, I always look at it as Freddie, even though he was so sick, wanting to continue composing and recording music. Even though Brian wrote it, I think he wrote it for Freddie about that. Well, that's just my two cents. Feel free to comment on them in any way. |
| Freddies Delilah 29.11.2006 09:45 |
Well, I've always thought that Innuendo sounds like a very... angry song. Whenever I listen to it, I always think of Freddie just saying that people are told to live their lives in certain ways ("while we rule by blind, madness, and pure greed"), but everyone really wants to just be themselves ("yeah, we'll keep on tryin'"). Maybe I'm crazy, I don't know. I'm not trying to analyse the song - just that's what I think of everytime I hear it. As for The Show Must Go On, I always look at it as Freddie, even though he was so sick, wanting to continue composing and recording music ("Inside my heart is breaking, my make-up may be flaking, but my smile still stays on"). Even though Brian wrote it, I think he wrote it for Freddie about that. Well, that's just my two cents. Feel free to comment on them in any way. |
| mola 29.11.2006 14:14 |
Freddies Delilah wrote: Well, I've always thought that Innuendo sounds like a very... angry song. Whenever I listen to it, I always think of Freddie just saying that people are told to live their lives in certain ways ("while we rule by blind, madness, and pure greed"), but everyone really wants to just be themselves ("yeah, we'll keep on tryin'"). Maybe I'm crazy, I don't know. I'm not trying to analyse the song - just that's what I think of everytime I hear it.I do agree with you. I consider this song as very angry and trying to show that we are being manipulated by the so called people, who are also lost. we all try to show our real nature, but have to build our own shells, like shelters to hide from the sickness of the world. being fragile and vunerable is not worth showing. but we "keep on tryin'" to live our way. even if it seems impossible to some of us. i know it may sound a little bit strange and kind of itsy-bitsy in a way but that's the way i look at this song. if we relate this to the video, i guess that interpretaing the lyrics may be a little bit easier. life is a bitch, but we all have only one, so the only way to live and to die is to love it, whatever happens and whoever hurts us. |
| deleted user 29.11.2006 15:08 |
Well... Roger contributed to quite a lot of the lyrics and he is quite opinionated about the world we live in today. Innuendo's about the wrongs of the world... about greed and sin... but the lyrics are sung in a rather ironic tone... what with the reference to 'Don't take offence at my... innuendo' To me it's kind of like 'Sympathy for the Devil' which deals with sin in an ironic tone, or 'Stairway to Heaven' may be a better example, as Roger Taylor is quoted as saying Innuendo's 'Oscar Wilde meets Led Zepplin' |
| sparrow 21754 29.11.2006 20:56 |
well my own interp says that the songs about how theres different cultures and how easily ruined they can be by a misled word, and how sensitive the world is, hence the word innuendo. when things are taken wayy too seriously when its unessesary, and then then the time comes where it should be taken seriously, its not. |