I have stumbled across a fun experiment for kids or really anybody unfamiliar with the rock band Queen. I have had the song Somebody to Love stuck in my head for more than a month. So, the other day, I pulled up this YouTube clip showing Queen singing that song:
Anyways, my kids were in the room. They heard the music but did not watch the video. I asked them to guess what the people singing music looked like.
Queen, of course, is a group of--frankly speaking--butt ugly white guys with 70's rocker hair who give off a drugy vibe. And honestly, their funky clothes that they wore during their concerts did not do them any favors.
When I asked them what they thought, my daughter thought that the music was sung by "black people in a church choir." My son thought it was sung by a group of girls. I have asked other kids with other entertaining yet similar responses: starting with the politically correct "jazz people in robes" and ending with "some black guys wearing stripes singing with girls." One of my nephews thought that it was a group of guys and girls all with long hair, so that was somewhat close. (And, I have to concede that Brian May was wearing stripes in the video I was watching and that I did find a picture of him on the Internet wearing robes. ) The response I still can't really get my mind around was that one of my nephews thought Queen sounded like "a few black midgets." I wonder how Freddie Mercury would have taken to that... or what Gary Coleman would think for that matter.
No wait... I guess I do have a guess how Gary Coleman would respond:
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Good post...I always wondered just how ugly a rock group could get away with and still make a boatload of hits and money..."Queen" is the perfect answer...but now I have that crazy "Bohemian Raspsody" playing in my head Scara MOOsh, thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightning me...UGH ! Galileo, Figero...oh, oh, oh ! I see the little...Thanks a lot !
ReplyDeleteQueen is the soundtrack of our lives right now. Our kids listen to them all the time. Even our one year old sings "we will, we will" while we're in the car (although someone else with more language skills has to say "rock you").
ReplyDeletejen, it is funny you mention this. Yesterday, our two-year old was singing that song in the car. I had no idea she even knew it.
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