i can read one book which destroys me and gives me a fucking mental breakdown and go straight to reading another which makes me laugh like anything and i can drink like 5 cups of coffee and go straight to sleep, these are just two examples of what is fundamentally wrong with me as a person
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 ridiculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)
How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stone me”
Hands up, hundreds, thousands deep for the final “ooooo”s and the last line to close the song
Canonically in Dante’s Inferno, Satan is situated in the very centre of Earth’s core, meaning that his bottom half is frozen in one hemisphere and his top in the other. Earth in the Divine Comedy is also considered to be the centre of the Universe. The implication of this is that the centre of the entire universe, with all the rotations of the planets and the heavens, the PERFECT centre of gravity which roots everything is
