That sounds like a story intended to get certain people talking about an album that absolutely no one would be talking about otherwise.
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Yes I know she dies...This is Freddy Mercury group Queen.
New album classic Queen collection omits “Fat Bottomed Girls”. This was reportedly because the lyrics are considered too “raunchy”, and the title could cause offence to sensitive souls with a bigger than average bum.
diddums...god the world is going mad...
That sounds like a story intended to get certain people talking about an album that absolutely no one would be talking about otherwise.
The real story is even more mundane. It's on a kids audio player.
https://www.insider.com/queen-fat-bo...plained-2023-8
Average age of listeners: 5 years old
The daily mail version of this massive news doesn't mention that it's for pre schoolers, but instead says "young people".
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ollection.html
But it's woke gone mad and outrageous, according to the mail.
Great rock band in their prime
And Fat Bottomed Girls is a great song with very powerful backing vocals
But they turned into a bunch of ponces
A kind of magic?
Turn that crap off
I bought Queen's first album after they appeared on John Peel's radio show but they became such a panto act. Very blousey with many ditties akin to football chants. Yuck.
By the way, as a council employee, I was paid to be a steward at their gig with 10cc at the castle. If my memory serves me rightly, alcohol was banned for the punters whereas my duty was to schlepp booze up to the city fathers whiling away the time in raised portakabins (and was rewarded with a drop myself).
Never liked them at all. I'm a rock fan pure and simple and they ain't no rock band. Each to their own; I'm sure I'm in the minority.
I'm not a Queen fan, and I see that the real story is about lyrics for 5 year olds, but I don't approve of changing songs, books, or whatever to remove difficult or offensive words.
Bowdlerism works all ways, and never for the better. Censorship should never be done easily. There is sometimes justification, but usually not!
If there is a real problem with certain songs/books for certain audiences (age or something else) just don't use the words or the source material. Avoid it. Use something else. Don't butcher the original to fit a particular, sometimes transient, set of sensitivities.
Fantastic drunk music. Like Grease.
U2 and ABBA are the real problems