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significant song, but SNL memes really cemented it, out of all the weird shit prog rock gave us

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every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony

like, what other song can make that claim?

Some of the highlights of that video include:

The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing
So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do
The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)
How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”
Hands up, hundreds, thousands deep for the final “ooooo”s and the last line to close the song

Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.

I love this narrative and all but as an old person I would like to point out an inconvenient fact:

Bohemian Rhapsody wasn’t really that big in the popular consciousness. Sure, it charted in 1976, and people knew about it, and were like, “what a cool weird song”, and moved on with their lives, because the 70s were full of cool weird songs. Like, just look at the charts from that era.

Then in the movie Wayne’s World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%27s_World_(film), released in 1992, there was a scene where the protagonists are riding around in a shitty little car and the main character puts in a tape of Bohemian Rhapsody as if it’s some sort of ritual and all of the dudes in the shitty little car go absolutely apeshit to the song. I don’t recall if they play the song in its entirety in the movie but there is a lengthy scene with it, and the part where everyone sings along (”FOR MEEEEEE”) and then headbangs is present.

THAT is why everyone knows that song, because everyone saw that movie.

(Having read the Wikipedia page, I had not realized, but Freddie Mercury was dying when the film was in production, but did see the scene, and thought it was fantastic.) (Also having read the Wikipedia page, Mike Myers was a big crybaby about headbanging in that scene, BUT had threatened to quit if they used any other song for it, so like, pros and cons there man.)