This is a challenge card for any song but Bohemian Rhapsody. Too many lovely nights of singing have been ruined by drunken graceless performances of this song as gangs of up to fifteen people gather around a microphone trying to keep up with the frenetic parts and wide range of vocal layers. I mean...if you really must, go ahead but it's a hard song. Almost as hard as Gettin' Jiggy with It. Mistakes are made and fun is had but maybe you could challenge someone to a different Queen song...Fat Bottom Girls is nice. I find myself humming Bicycle on occasion. I mean nobody's ever gonna' touch the Muppet version of Bohemian Rhapsody--indeed the final nail has been deftly hammered into the coffin of this bloated overplayed classic.
If you're one of the three folks who haven't seen this muppet thing, here it is:
Jared Gniewek has been a freelance writer of radio plays, comic books, and fiction. Look him up through Tales from the Crypt (Papercutz), Earstage, and Audio Movies. He also has written comic reviews for GraphicNYC and about his writing for Sequential Art Collective. He has curated for MoCCA and has been teaching himself to draw for five years.
No comments:
Post a Comment