What's your opinion of the P!ATD bohemian rhapsody cover?
oh man I wish you’d asked me this question a couple years ago bc I would’ve delivered a full-fledged manifesto against it. and honestly I still could but I’m gonna try not to fly off the handle too much here
basically for as long as I’ve been a queen fan I’ve held the opinion that bohemian rhapsody is one of their songs that should never be covered bc no one can do it justice (the one exception is mcr, who I now consider the only artist I’d trust with any queen song including borhap). I used to rant ENDLESSLY about the moral travesty of some band butchering freddie’s masterpiece that he wrote on scraps of papers and phonebook corners and the piano he used as a headboard. I know freddie wouldn’t have cared about people covering his music but I cared, and as far as I was concerned they were making a mockery out of my favorite singer and my favorite band and one of the most important songs of all time. for the record, panic was only vaguely on my radar at the time so I had no personal grudge against them. I hated this cover, not bc panic did it, but on principle.
it is funny to look back on how passionately I berated it back in the day bc when your favorite band is one of the most popular bands of all time you can’t expect people to not cover their songs, especially a song as popular as bohemian rhapsody. but tbh I’m still a little bitter about it bc I remember all the panic fans back in the day being like “omg it’s soooooo good!!!” or even thinking brendon wrote the damn song, and it took years for people to start saying “how did we ever think this was good?” girl who is “we”??? it has been bad from the start and I have been saying this for half a decade. so yeah, long before brendon urie became a public punching bag I had a personal vendetta against him for this cover and I consider it foreshadowing to his downfall.
if we ignore my personal history and think of just how the cover sounds sonically. well. this ask actually made go back and listen to it again bc I haven’t heard it in years and WOW it is much worse than I remembered. scream.
i’m a paramedic student and while i was doing a field clinical yesterday, bohemian rhapsody came on the radio. the crew and i sang the whole thing. it was great and of course i had to share the moment with @dearscone.
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