love you guys

THESE DAYS People use auto tune and all that bullshit.....my neighbors dog can be a singer these days. FREDDY MERCURY IS 100% TALENT..they all are

You dudes are the best

Your questions about why real music like this is not happening in the mainstream now are questions which should be asked loud and clear and often. Yes, technology is one of the villains. Autotune, playback, keyboard digital "sound" rather than the playing of actual instruments - all these things amount to sound fraud. It cheapens everything - brings everything down to the lowest common denominator, which is a quick way to make quick money with inartistic, low-standard, disposable "songs", which the masses blindly gobble up because they don't know any better. This quick-buck strategy has taken place in exact timeline tandem with the gobbling-up of independent radio stations by corporate radio. These two entities - the mainstream music industry and their public relations machine working with corporate radio - have formed a stranglehold of control over what people are fed - and artistry, individualism, and craftsmanship are NOT welcome in this race-to-the-bank world. But beyond this culturally deadening situation, we've now logged 20-25 years - that's an entire generation - who have for the most part listened exclusively to one genre. One. Hip-hop/rap have totally dominated the mainstream scene for a quarter of a century. That's an insanely long time for a single genre to totally suffocate everything else - this sort of suffocation has never before happened anywhere in music history. Exposure to every sort of genre and era is essential to human listening and human creation of music. Freddie Mercury, his bandmates, and every performer ever prior to the 1990s had this exposure via home record-playing, wide and various radio airplay, school chorus and band programs, all manner of sources. They learned, by simple exposure, to form frames of reference, the ability to compare, to be influenced, to care about craft, to form a foundation from which they could develop their own way. It's the same as books. It used to be that every ordinary household had books in it. Some more than others, but they all had them. Now, look around, almost no home one enters has any books. No cultural exposure at all to the wider world past or present. More and more and more people are existing in an intellectual vacuum. The black hole. There is no nourishment there, there is no growth. It used to be that really everyone had record collections in their homes, and generally those collections contained a fair representation of assorted genres. People were not relying solely on radio, or any SINGLE source for their music. Today, the majority of people are existing also in a sound vacuum, listening to a single genre fed to them, never exploring anything else, and the music industry deliberately encourages this because it makes very easy money. These are not good times we all live in, from artistic standpoints. Genuinely good, real music artistry isn't dead, but it has been buried and shunted off to the "indie" category; people have to dig for it if they even know it exists to begin with, and good art should never have to be searched for that hard. It should be right out there up front where everyone knows about it. Where it all goes from here is very hard to say, but right now, aside from the indie artists, the landscape is a desert, and the questions you ask here should be shouted to the skies.

You want to know why the quality isn’t in todays music? I don’t think the bands are as passionate and don’t have the pure talent it takes to become legendary bands as Queen and others. It takes lots of special categories in a band to achieve what Queen has.

🤗👏👏👏👏👏👏

Superman’s possibly the only one fit enough to wear it.

I like that!!

Best comment about Freddie ever! ❤️

How is it that such an old joke never gets old?

You mean is!🙏👑

@@scottfarrington3780, indeed; that's what I wrote: is.

The only thing I ment is you put is probably but he is!what a voice what a showman

Most definitely the voice and best frontman ever.

Without a doubt.

Freddie's showmanship and stage presence was like no other, even to this day nobody can top him.

@@comfortablynumb5597 & that presence was akin to another band member.

So right!! We don’t have real performers anymore. Artists have lost the passion in the art! Sad...

@@frostbaneaarvid881 They said themselves that if you want the studioversion you can buy the record. They allways tried to do something different - exciting - at the concerts

The worst version is often the album version, not many bands con consistently do that

Nor another Freddie, the greatest frontman ever, a fabulous performer and singer.

Spot on! Pink Floyd, Queen, Led Zeppelin...examples of this.

True Professionals

A great band that puts thought and effort into their music and shows is Twenty One Pilots. They filled a Freddie/Queen void for me .

so lucky

4 octaves...and vestibular folds🤩

I love how Roger takes over the melodic line in the ending while Freddie scats over the top.

Epic!

While drumming and not looking at the drums. Love Roger

He most certainly did😢. Never will be another like him.

Much respect to my beloved Freddie, but don't forget Dio🔥 the most powerful voice of metal

@@dolphin8077 and long before Dio was metal, he was doo-wop !

Yes he was. Amazing vocalist, and is missed so much.

Your not wrong he was the best, still is . He sang with his ❤️., not just for the sake of it. PIP Freddie, you left behind a legacy.

Yup with lemon and honey

Omg! I am beyond jealous!!! 😁😁😁😍

I got to see them twice myself. First time was on this very tour for the "Game" album on opening night of the US leg at Madison Square Garden in September 1980. Saw them again during the "Hot Space"tour in July of 1982 at the Garden.

me too, i saw them twice in scotland, saturday december 1st 1979 at the glasgow apollo and wednesday june 2nd 1982 at ingleston, edinburgh, the best times of my life by far! at the ingleston show i was right at the front on brians side and freddie came to the edge of the stage and looked me right in the eyes, i was 19 at the time and can remember it still clearly 👑✊🇬🇧

Imagine pausing your PhD to become one of the greatest guitarists of all time💀💀

One of my all time favorites! Although that list is pretty long. White Queen is stunning live. Every time I watch, my mind goes "HOW?"

@@lcbcreative yes, at the Hammersmith stadium, that is perfection.

Nailed it!!♥️

I don't think I can agree more....

That's the best damn explanation I've heard yet!!!🔥🔥🔥

Absolutely nailed it. Also have to give a little blame to record labels/managers etc. They no longer have any guts and will not sign anyone with an individual sound, only "safe" artists who they can tag as 'the next......whoever'.

Today’s artists lack the talent......

Freddie was auto tune. 😉

@@maryannsavage3724 autotune was not invented until 1997, long after Freddie Mercury's death.

@@cherylalexander1948 I'm aware of that. I was implying that his voice was like auto tune because it was perfect, especially before he started smoking.

He had a four-octave range with a fast vibrato.

Yes, 1975 Hammersmith-Odeon, White Queen is amazing.

A hundred times YES! White Queen Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1975!

I agree, that was an amazing performance! Long before lip-syncing, etc. Queen ruled and still rules!!!

Yesyesyes good suggestion

Yes astunnig performance love it.

With show time approaching, towels and drinks for the band’s refreshment on stage would now be strategically placed: water and beer for Fred, beer for Brian and Roger and the Backstage Bar for John, comprising water, beer, soft drinks, wine and whatever spirit or cocktail he fancied at the time: Southern Comfort, vodka or tequila. - Peter Hince (aka Ratty), Fred’s and John’s roadie and head of Queen’s crew.

YEEESS! Now I’m Here Wembley is Epic! Who Wants to Live forever at Wembley is great but Budapest is way better! White Queen Odeon Hammersmith is best of them all. Lynn you and I have the same great taste

@@lillylee7658 Great minds think alike 🤗😂

Lynn, have you seen Nora or Hot Space around?

@@user-eh8eg4hp5t Saw HS commenting somewhere in the past 3-4 days, but haven’t seen Nora in a good while. Hope she’s OK.

@@lynnhoffman247 me too. Probably busy back with work now that we're getting back to some sense oof normalcy. I'll send a shout for HS. Know she goes by others as well. Cheeky girl. 😉

Yes!!! Couldn’t have said it any better!!! RIP Freddie!! Your a LEGAND!!!!

I second this request. Rogers voice is hair raising!

I third it too absolutely fantastic ❤️

Sexy, Funky, the most Epic bass ever! It’s more like a jam session but 🔥💥⚡️Hot!

@@lillylee7658 Don't forget Fat Bottomed Girls @ The Bowl. A lot of reactors watch the original video instead of that epic performance at Milton Keynes. Freddie was on 🔥

@@lillylee7658 I agree! Out of all of their songs, Dragon Attack had the best baseline in my opinion. John Deacon was their secret weapon. 😉

@@maryannsavage3724 He was so underrated wasn’t he? I loved his bass lines, and I loved how he was so “ into it” at their performances. He was always bopping and jiving. So sad that when we lost Freddie we lost him too

@@maryannsavage3724 Freddie at his friskiest wasn’t it. No pole was safe 🤣🔥❤️