"We are the Champions of the World".....i've grown to hate that song

[mopaul]

i've never been a fan of queen, but i admit they were a kick ass rock and roll band with huge influence. their song, 'we are the champions' is now the anthem for the viagra commercials, (or some knock off). the excited choral arrangements, the screaming guitar solo, it has become OUR NATION's new anthem.

that title, encompasses the neocons PNAC plan perfectly. they should adopt it and use it at all their events, cranked up loud.

freddie mercury would have been proud to see these homo hating, aids ignoring, racist, imperialist sons of bitches turn his anthem into the national anthem. not.

every time i hear those words and that stirring refrain, i think of bushco and the neocons, championing greed and agression and conquering the globe. we are the champions, we are the overlords, we are the neocons, we are the americans, we are the rulers of the world.

i don't profess to know freddie's meaning behind the song, i surmise that it means the rock and roll generation is coming on hard and we will take back our world from the assholes who would steal and control it. but the meaning has been hijacked, and it's just a cheap tag line for a commercial to make old men's members erect again. fitting.

[lil-petunia]

1. mopaul,

they were brits. Doncha think that the neocons might screw that up too?

[Richardo]

2. What took you so long?

I like Queen, but I always thought that song was a transparent pander for sports airplay. Sort of Freddy's "My Way", I always found it trite and forced.

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Me too.

Blegh.

Give me "Killer Queen" anyday over that drivel.

[demnan]

4. I've never cared for Queen

but if they accompanied the ads with Bob Dole in a superman suit at least I'd get a laugh out of it.

What makes me mad every time I hear anything about viagra is that government workers are covered under insurance for it, but not for birth control.

Female soldiers in Iraq can't get it either.

So anyone who ever said that the birth control issue is not a woman's rights issue, rather than a moral one, is a whistleass.

[mopaul]

5. and viagra soared right through the drug line while other meds stalled

gotta get them erections back, and knock up more young girls and deny them birthcontrol pills. sick world

[frylock]

6. wait till you see william hung sing it..

that's what I thought this thread was going to address. I saw him on the television machine last night singing "We Are the Champions" in his all new music video. :puke:

[name not needed]

7. before extreme dogeball, right?

[BiggJawn]

8. Can't hear it without seeing old fat white men....

Dancing around in slow-motion just INSANE with glee because their BVDs don't fit right anymore.....

That song is RUINED!!! RUINED, I say!!!!!

[mzmolly]

9. Freddie Mercury was born "Farrokh Bulsara" in Zanzibar ...

Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on September 5th 1946 in Zanzibar, to parents Bomi & Jer Bulsara. Freddie moved to India in 1947. He attended boarding school in Panchgani, just outside Bombay. Whilst there he began his piano lessons, reaching Grade 4 in practical and theory. The family, with the addition now of younger sister Kashmira, moved to England in 1963.

Freddie left Isleworth school in 1964 with three "O" levels and one "A" level in Art. He went to Ealing College of Art to study Graphic Illustration. He left college in 1969 with a Diploma in Graphic Art & Design (the equivalent of a Degree). Freddie joined his first serious band in 1969, the were called IBEX.

Freddie stood 5ft 9 inches tall with black hair and dark brown eyes. He was single and shared his large house and garden with several cats, creatures he adored. He loved opera and ballet, Marilyn Monroe was his favourite actress and Aretha Franklin just one of his many favourite singers. He liked to drink either Champagne or iced Vodka and Indian food was one of his favourites. He sadly died on November 24th 1991.

Not a HUGE fan myself. But, the songs I like by Queen, I love. If only they didn't have some crap songs too huh?

Lyrics here.

I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand
Kicked in my face
But I've come through

And we mean to go on and on and on and on

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fighting
Till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the World

I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls
You brought me fame and fortune
And everything that goes with it
I thank you all
But it's been no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise
I consider it a challenge before
The whole human race
And I ain't gonna lose

And we mean to go on and on and on and on

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fighting
Till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the World

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fighting
Till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions