Love your interpretations but the song dates from 1975, well before the AIDS epidemic. Apparently the lyrics were personal to him but he never made the meaning clear. Powerful in any case. Great channel!
He sold his soul to K'barbagg 'the Plutonion Menace' Johnson. Also known as 'oh my God i think the government is spying on me through the devices implanted underneath my skin. I'm getting my razor blade." Lawrence.
@@shaungoggin1811 - HIV didn't become a known thing until around 1980. There's some that believe that there is not a HIV virus and that people actually died from the treatment drugs. Research Carey Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test and what he thought of Dr. Fauci, the pusher of AZT that killed many while inappropriately using Mullis's tool to "diagnose" cases. Sound familiar?
Freddie put this together..... all of it. Freddie wrote the song. Freddie created the video.... all of it.... the look of it, the harmonies, the special effects. It was all Freddie's creation...... He was a genius. And.... best vocalist ever..... R.I.P. Freddie....
Leo, you clearly know every word, which means you've been listening to this song in your spare time. Would you please do a compilation video of your favourite songs you've learned in the past year? I'm sure all your subscribers want to know which songs have made it to your private play list. Please?
Yes. I'm curious to know if this has affected the way you listen to music when you're not entertaining us. I'd also be interested in hearing music you love and have you share it with us and tell us why it gives you chills.
Freddie never did reveal exactly what it meant to him. He wanted people to find their own meaning in it. They have, and it’s spanned generations, never getting old. There’s a new message, over and over. Bohemian Rhapsody is timeless.
I agree. Freddie never did reveal exactly what this song was about. This was definitely written and recorded..long before the AIDS crisis. He wanted to create a Rock Opera. Music producers didn't really understand the band's vision..at the time. It almost never got recorded.
@@Xcorgi Freddie wasn't gay. He was bi, and said so often. It was his coming out song of sorts but he was coming out as "not straight". He often said he loved men and women "I love everyone darling "
Guys, I have tears streaming down my face here. I've been a nurse for years and I just saw in this song the 5 stages of dying. You put me on to thinking about it. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and finally Acceptance..When Freddy says "nothing really matters to me", I freaking lost it. Best reaction to this song..ever..Thank you Leo and Sonny for this. Amazing.
Freddie didn't have AIDS when this song was written. However, when he did find out he had AIDS 15 years later, Queen wrote a few song called " who wants to live forever" and "The show must go on"
Brian May and Roger Taylor are still in Queen, with another guy to replace John Deacon who was invited but didn't want to be public anymore. They have toured and done Las Vegas with Adam Lambert as their new front man now to replace Freddie. Adam does his own thing, but also has a great voice.
Your evolution is complete. You now know every word of Bohemian Rhapsody and we could just throw you up on screen as the fifth member of the acapella section. Awesome! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Freddy (sadly) died from AIDS many years after this song was popular. RIP the King of Rock 🤴🏻 *BR was dropped in 1975. Freddy was diagnosed in 1987, and actually hid his illness from the world until the last days of his life in 1991.
Oh my gosh guys he's fully converted now, he has been baptized in the righteous ways of rock and now he's spreading the good word to his brothers 🤣 Seriously I love you man you're a kindred spirit, I'm exactly like you when I listen to this song ❤️🤘
Freddy the man was shy , Freddy wrote and scored this song. It's not aids it's life. Pain. anger, loss, regret, finding love, all the ups and downs of life ! Freddy is the voice and showman of which the likes we will never see again. Queen is timeless ! RIP We love you !
It is awesome how @MrVideo went from never learning of Queen to now he knows the lyrics by heart savoring every note like an aged bourbon and is sharing it with others! This is how Freddie Mercury will live forever. Happy to be on the journey with you bro!!
Life has come full circle.... I am reacting to someone that is reacting to someone else reacting to Bohemian Rhapsody. I'm glad I'm high as I am to fully appreciate all that reacting.
As the smash mouth meme goes: “The years start coming and they don’t stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming”
Although its open to interpretation what its actually about, the AIDS theory was debunked by Freddy himself. My take: It's more of an opera performance of a story like "The Outsiders". A story of a poor boy who fell in love with a girl out of his socioeconomic status, got attacked by the rich boys who were after the same girl, killed one of them in self defense and had to go into hiding
For some reason I am feeling so proud of Leo for knowing the words to this song! EDIT - the reaction when the rock part dropped was more than I could have hoped for lol. Wayne's World vibes for real!!
Bohemian Rhaposdy is basically 3 songs that he wanted to record and he decided to put them into one song. I just recently read that somewhere. But, as many commenters stated already, this was written and released at least a decade prior to his contracting Aides.
Further proof of this song and Freddies greatness is the video of the Greenday crowd singing this song note for note all the way through four or so years ago. You show him THAT video and you will better understand the POWER of music to unite, heal, inspire and awe!
I was in that crowd! Green Day, Hyde Park, 2017. It was a magical moment. If you can't sing every word to Bo Rhap (including the guitar solos), are you even British?
Dude, you have to react to "The show must go on" by Queen, is on another level. It was the last song that Freddie recorded with the band before he dies. And as a fact, the band was worried by the high notes on the song and if Freddie could record it by the health state of him. Freddie looks at the band, takes some vodka's slurps and he recorded the whole song on the first fricking take man. Good video as always, cheers from Chile dude.
Look at the crowd at the Green Day concert singing Queen in the intermission it's beautiful to see, He still warming up the crowd 30yrs after passing. 🙏❤️
Even 45 years later. I went to see Green Day just in Aug 2021...they played BoRap before they came out. The crowd was so united singing this. That is the power of Freddie❣️
The best explanation of this song that I heard is that this was Freddy admitting he was gay and saying goodbye to pretending and to just be happy and not give a damn about what anyone else thought. He was free to come out of the 'closet' and participate in life..
Freddie did what he wanted from his heart. He was a sophisticated educated artist and was so deep. I agree that some sell their souls. That's what made Mercury amazing he only did what he felt was great art/music.
a sign that they did sell their soul is when they die the casket is carried on the shoulders of the pall bearers. His was. It could be bull, but even Whitney was carried that way. It changes a person, look at what is coming out today, they all sold their soul. Deep down I pray they didnt, but deep down I kind of know they did.
@@debi9112 Don't believe everything you read on the internet, debi. Like malicious gossip, 95% of those sorts of claims are 100% BS. People just make this stuff up. Seriously. Don't fall for it!
True. This was there first hit....Freddy died yrs later. He never even told the world he had Aids until Nov 23....he passed Nov 24th....one day later. He didn't tell his band mates until later after he started showing he wasn't well....the man is a genius. He was & always will be the best.
Dude! Your guy immediately had a deep interpretation of this song that I never considered and I’ve listened to this 100+ times in my life. Is he an artist?
It’s never been officially confirmed, but all evidence based on this period in his life points to this song being about Freddie coming to terms with coming out.
Oh....look at you, sir! You are taking a great song that you grew to appreciate... and now helping us watch it through another pair of fresh eyes! You are amazing, and I love you and your reactions! I always look out for your videos!
Ok Leo, I have NEVER. posted to a reaction video before but you made me laugh. Every one who is hearing this song for the 2nd+ time become part of the song. I've been following you since you were dancing in front of your tv. Much love, always hit you first in my recommendations . Love from Canada!
Bohemian Rhapsody is one of, if not the, best songs ever written. And it goes without saying Freddie Mercury had a phenomenal voice and knew how to command the stage. 💜💙
Freddie is speaking metaphorically. When he says he killed a man he’s referring to when he told his mother he was gay, he killed off his straight self or the person his mother thought he was all along when he was in the closet. Usually when gays “come out” their mothers tend to cry. Especially back in those days when it was really frowned upon and not accepted. So that’s what he meant by “didn’t mean to make you cry”. This entire song is about Freddie coming out as gay to his family and friends. He never made a formal announcement in the media but he never tri d to cover it up either. I once saw in an interview where he said “If anyone who just got done watching my last show still thinks I’m straight, they must be absolutely crackers”.
Nothing to do with that at all. Come on do proper research and maybe ask someone who was around in the 70s and 80s ,not fucking bullshit some of these commenters come out with.
It's very touching that you respect Freddie and Queen and rejoice in their music so much! He truly was a great artist and also was a shy man who was transformed when he performed. But he didn't allow that information about having AIDS to be publicly announced until the day before he died in 1991. His bandmates suspected that he had AIDS but he didn't tell them until 1989. He didn't ask for sympathy and didn't want to talk about it. As guitarist Brian May said, "He coped incredibly with his illness. He never, ever complained about it in my hearing." Bohemian Rhapsody was first released in 1979, before AIDS was recognized. Freddie may have realized that he may have been at risk from or was already suffering from AIDS around 1982 - 1985 or so, but definitely by 1987 when the tests improved - eight years after this performance. He certainly knew that he was at risk for the same thing that was killing his friends. But some of his songs seem to have contained some intuitive or precognitive (psychic) elements. Freddie composed other songs that seem to contain precognitive elements, as in We Are the Champions, when he sings, "I've done my sentence, but committed no crime." Or "I've taken my bows, and my curtain calls, you've given me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it, I thank you all. But it's been no bed of roses, no pleasure cruise, I consider it a challenge before the whole human race..." Of course, the line, "Mama, I killed a man" could have applied to anyone who transmitted AIDS before treatments were available enabling people to live well despite the retrovirus, like Magic Johnson. Unfortunately, Freddie's illness came before the medical research had developed effective treatments and he suffered terribly before he died.
@@RoverWaters wrong. Freddie Mercury wrote this entire song (including the guitar solo and drum lines) on his own. Bohemian Rhapsody is actually the product of several songs Freddie wrote, and fused together, over the period of a few years.
Rock opera plus expose a man's soul up against every wrong thing he's ever done - and we all gonna die ...song by the most magical voice ever recorded. Man.....
I love the fact they all literally had to be in sync to record this song for the gezt take its just insane harmony to the fullest queen will be my all time favorite band .
Mr. Video -- It's so OBVIOUS that you are a Queen/Freddie Mercury fan. Love having you with me in our appreciation of Queen/Freddie. LOVED watching you sing along!
First off who gave this a thumbs down?! The hatin be REAL! It’s so crazy watching you go from reacting to the song on your own without any previous knowledge of the song or band, to now watching you rock out singing along and showing your bro! Great stuff, Leo!!! 👏
Leo honey, this was 1975, years before Freddie had Aids. But yes, he was facing his real nature. Loved watching you two watch it. Now you need to show your brother "Somebody to Love" Live Montreal '81. One of the best live performances ever.💙
This song is more about him discovering he was bi and trying to figure out his life going forward. No one knows the exact meaning except Freddie though.
He went through his stages of grief with his fans with this song. He shared it with the world leaving behind a legacy of music that will never be forgotten. The meaning behind the song may not have been public but the emotion behind it was pretty obvious. Something inspired that song and the world heard it loud and clear. People will continue hearing it for years to come. RIP Freddie!
Somebody to Love also shows Freddy's range. A must listen. Btw, this song came out in the early 70s, Freddy didn't get AIDS till the late 80s early 90s. You were so into it and told such a heartfelt story I didn't mind the wrong info at all.
@@kJ922-h3j to be honest, I'm not sure which live version the reactors I've seen are watching. If the Montreal one is different I will have to check that out.
Man to see you discover Queen and fall in love with them and to share that with your brother who doesn't prefer white music, is awesome and to still get chills after 3rd reaction says loads about the song.
I’m SO SO SO HAPPY that you love Freddy Mercury, Queen and THIS song!! Makes you the BEST reaction artist!! AND, I’m SO SO SO Glad that you watched the MOVIE!!❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👍🏼👍🏼
Hey Leo! I'm so very proud of you! Look at you sharing your knowledge with your brother about Freddie Mercury and Queen! Your singing along with the lyrics shows me that you have really studied this masterpiece. Bravo, young man!
I'm old enough to remember when this song came out. My friends and I were just blown away! We were just like, 'wtf did we just hear??' ' We gotta get this album now!' Thanks for the vid!
I've seen those interpretations of the song about the AIDS or the homosexuality, and they're quite interesting, but because Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the top opera rock songs, I always thought is more about telling a story than being a metaphore. And in that sense, I've read several times that the story of the song is more or less this: There is this guy, who said to his mother "mama I've killed a man", but then he talks about he's dying and telling his mother to go on, so I think the person he killed is actually himself, he commited suicide. And the reason? Probably he did something bad, but the first phrases about getting confused about if he's living a fantasy, saying his just a poor guy, and the last verse before Brian May's guitar solo, "I don't wanna die but sometimes wish I'd never be born at all" makes me think he got sick of life. So he dies when he's saying "goodbye everybody, I have to go". In the start of the operistic part, "I've seen a silhouette of a man", I think he's in the limbo and the chorus made by the band represents the demons (or Beelzebub itself) attaking him and demanding his soul for hell (because you know, suicide is a sin and all of that religious stuff). Then he got scared and ask for help and the angels (symbolized by the very high falsettos done by Roger Taylor, the drummer) come to rescue him from the demons and the suffering. After that when the guitar drops again and Freddie starts singing "so you think you can stone me and spit in my eye", I think that is Beelzebub yelling and complaining because he's getting defeated, and in the phrase "just get out, just get right outta here" is running away. And so the last part of the song, the "nothing really matters" is our guy who can finally rest in peace. And that's the end of the story. I don't know what you think guys, but for me sounds pretty cool XD
Actually its a power ballad you two get your facts right before saying operatic because Freddie was not the only singer with such a talented craft in his time -.- If I must just to add more salt to the injury of such insult to an amazing artist of many other top notch legends then your also insinuating without having to say it directly that Jon Giovanni, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Scorpions, The killers, The Police, Ozzy Osbourne, Meatloaf, Guns n Roses, Journey are operatic rock?! I so absolutely do not think so nor hear such an outworldly heretic statement like my ears wish to bleed and run from what I just heard out of you two. I'm sorry but damn that was lower to the belt than needed and offensive for my liking when I grew up to every genre's old or 'millenial' artists of their time from m.c to k-ci acdc to megadeth kenny rodgers to rascal flatts jojo to rihanna roxette to darude in my first 8 years and unknowingly revisited them from 12 up to 18 and have way more songs now in my library of songs I jam to for many of the same things while practicing to create my own works despite the shadows of my youth that hindered me 20 of the 30 years to date.
I am calm its not my fault 'the populous' lacks the coherence of interpreting texts just like with music -.- if I could make a reward it'd be the mega dunce of darwinism for the loser-- I mean 'winner' to wear for 5 years to indicate the irony of their idiocy. It may be operatic metal now but I am talking back in its time so crank yourself down a few notches just because of some new age dejected journalist critic calls it that out of his/her own lack of competancy to music
@@LyrikalMaestro well, acting like a jerk it's your fault. You could've pointed out our mistake and explaining it being completely respectful and polite, instead of behave like a freaking asshole with an enormous ego. I'm a physicist and I don't complain every time I see somenone using shitty arguments to defend terraplanism or saying stupid things like the atoms are structurated in orbits just like planets, or entropy as synonym of disorder, or mass is equal to energy. So don't get so cocky, you could've made your point without behaving like an idiot
Love your interpretations but the song dates from 1975, well before the AIDS epidemic. Apparently the lyrics were personal to him but he never made the meaning clear. Powerful in any case. Great channel!
That goes without saying…
So I was misinformed on the whole concept of the song and I saw it twice I’m hurt!!
@@MrVideo123 Some people say it's about him comin' out as gay, but I'm still not sure thou it matches the lyrics.
@@MrVideo123 i thought the same thing until I watched the movie, guess we're both idiots.
Actually this was 3 songs he was writing then he decided to put the 3 song into one this is finished results
“This ain’t no ordinary white-boy classic rock song. He took his time & constructed this joint”
The way you worded that... it’s brilliant
Greatest "QUOTE" ever! 😂
Maybe it's Freddie's Parsi-Indian heritage.
lol that was a good one
Amazing how closed minded and casually raycist blatts are against whytes.
And he's not even white. He's closer to being Indian.
Freddie never sold his soul either. He was always true to himself. He did what Freddie wanted to do.
You can’t know for sure though
Oh yes he did.
Oh he did. He had a phase where he hung out with real shit people in Germany instead of his band members
@R Lu , nice mouth 👍🏻
He sold his soul to K'barbagg 'the Plutonion Menace' Johnson. Also known as 'oh my God i think the government is spying on me through the devices implanted underneath my skin. I'm getting my razor blade." Lawrence.
Freddie’s favorite instrument to play? “The audience, darling!”
Such a legend, gone way too soon.
Love it, so true.
You two headbanging on the couch is giving me "Wayne's World" and "Beavis and Butthead" flashbacks!!!! LMAO
how could it be anything BUT Wayne's World with this song lol this song is the Wayne's World anthem :D
Exactly!
Nice.
Totally Wayne's World.
TRUER WORDS HAVEN'T BEEN SPOKEN
❤❤❤ FREDDY !
This song ISN'T about Freddie having AIDS! That happened much later than this amazing song guys! RIP Freddie darling. ❤🕊🙏
Your right... Nice ballad here! All his music is still great!;
He knew after going to New York in 1976.
Why would he sing these lyrics.
The facts are there.
So brave he was.
@@shaungoggin1811 - HIV didn't become a known thing until around 1980. There's some that believe that there is not a HIV virus and that people actually died from the treatment drugs. Research Carey Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test and what he thought of Dr. Fauci, the pusher of AZT that killed many while inappropriately using Mullis's tool to "diagnose" cases. Sound familiar?
This song is about freddie coming out as gay...
@@KS-ok4ym Freddie Mercury didn't come out until December 1976. This song came out in 1975.
Fat Bottom Girls by Queen would be funny after something so heavy.
Live at Milton Keynes 1982
I love that song!
Big Bottom
YES!!! Fat Bottom Girls is an AWESOME song!!! Definitely a must!!!
Angelina’s rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody and the show must go on a totally incredible. Nobody has covered them as well as this girl.
"This ain't no regular white people rock song" LMAO so true!
That got me laughing out loud when he said it. SMH
Quote of the decade!! 😂
Such a raw reaction. Never thought of it being a white song.. just a brilliant song. Loved it!
Side note, Freddie Mercury’s real name is Farrokh Bulsara. So not exactly white per say.
I laughed out loud cause he is so right!! 😂😂😂
Freddie put this together..... all of it. Freddie wrote the song. Freddie created the video.... all of it.... the look of it, the harmonies, the special effects. It was all Freddie's creation...... He was a genius. And.... best vocalist ever..... R.I.P. Freddie....
In my opinion, greatest song ever written, arranged and delivered of all time. Freddie was one in a zillion.
The guy on guitar is Brian May. He has a doctorate in astrophysics and contributed to NASA's New Horizons space probe. Pretty talented guy too.
Also he built his own guitar with his father
Yea.... Slightly talented lol
And an author on classical 3D devil art.
Brian May wrote the Bohemian Rhapsody guitar solo
He also BUILT that guitar he's playing. 😁💕
Leo singing the words to Bohemian Rhapsody is everything!
Yes!! I want to know what other songs he's learned by heart in the past year.
Makes me play-Auntie proud!
Priceless! It warmed my heart.❤
😃❤️...brings back memories of us as youngsters singing every word when it came out lol.
Seriously. Watching him sing along and rock out to it gave me the laugh I needed all day. His excitement is contagious!
Leo, you clearly know every word, which means you've been listening to this song in your spare time. Would you please do a compilation video of your favourite songs you've learned in the past year? I'm sure all your subscribers want to know which songs have made it to your private play list. Please?
Yes. I'm curious to know if this has affected the way you listen to music when you're not entertaining us. I'd also be interested in hearing music you love and have you share it with us and tell us why it gives you chills.
Excellent idea! Please Leo!
YES!!!!
Great idea!
I'd love to see that!
Freddie never did reveal exactly what it meant to him. He wanted people to find their own meaning in it. They have, and it’s spanned generations, never getting old. There’s a new message, over and over. Bohemian Rhapsody is timeless.
I agree. Freddie never did reveal exactly what this song was about. This was definitely written and recorded..long before the AIDS crisis.
He wanted to create a Rock Opera.
Music producers didn't really understand the band's vision..at the time. It almost never got recorded.
That's why it is re-released every decade since 1975. 75' 1st released, 85, 2nd; 95, 3rd; 1005 4th; 1015 5th; 1020 6th;
No matter who, what, when, where, or age, everyone becomes a headbanger on that transition! Love it!
Mr. Video lip syncing to the opera part is everything.
Absolutely! Great to see Mr Video
lip-sync opera!
I thought the same thing when I watched it!
It'z brilliant! I love this guy more with every vid I watch. lol
Wonderful to see the breadth of music he's covered! And what he digs! (Is my age showing? )
FACTS!!!
This song was released in 1975. Freddie didn't get diagnosed with Aids until about 1987.
And he didn’t let anybody know about it till almost the day he died 🇨🇦✌🏻🇨🇦
It was NEVER about AIDS. It was completely about Freddie coming out as gay to his mother. It’s not rocket science you know.
@@Dervanism He let The band and His inner circle know.He issued a press release hours before He passed.
@@Xcorgi Freddie wasn't gay. He was bi, and said so often. It was his coming out song of sorts but he was coming out as "not straight". He often said he loved men and women "I love everyone darling "
‘85, he knew before Live Aid.
Guys, I have tears streaming down my face here. I've been a nurse for years and I just saw in this song the 5 stages of dying. You put me on to thinking about it. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and finally Acceptance..When Freddy says "nothing really matters to me", I freaking lost it. Best reaction to this song..ever..Thank you Leo and Sonny for this. Amazing.
However, Freddy wasn't singing about his impending death. That came in the late 80s to 1991
Freddie didn't have AIDS when this song was written. However, when he did find out he had AIDS 15 years later, Queen wrote a few song called " who wants to live forever" and "The show must go on"
No One in QUEEN Ever Sold Their Souls. Pure 500% Talent. FREDDIE MERCURY, ROGER TAYLOR, BRIAN MAY, AND JOHN DEACON.
Every single one of them are amazing.
no formula, always did the music they wanted, they expermented alot.
How do you know? Do your think he would broadcast it ? It's a dark world in the entertainment world . Very dark. I been there
They don't need to sell their souls .. I have respect most of the band members, including Brian May who's an Astrophysist..
Brian May and Roger Taylor are still in Queen, with another guy to replace John Deacon who was invited but didn't want to be public anymore. They have toured and done Las Vegas with Adam Lambert as their new front man now to replace Freddie. Adam does his own thing, but also has a great voice.
This song is before the AIDS crisis. But the fact that it spoke to both of you is a testament to the power of damn good music and shared experiences!
Your evolution is complete. You now know every word of Bohemian Rhapsody and we could just throw you up on screen as the fifth member of the acapella section. Awesome! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
That made my heart smile when Leo knew every word of THE part we all know every word to. We're raising him right, y'all. LOL
I think I fell in love...
That's hilarious! Thanks for the laugh!
I'd love to see that!🎶
Well said
Freddy (sadly) died from AIDS many years after this song was popular. RIP the King of Rock 🤴🏻
*BR was dropped in 1975. Freddy was diagnosed in 1987, and actually hid his illness from the world until the last days of his life in 1991.
@Oz Lang wow no sh*t???
More accurately...the Queen of rock
@@pastorofmuppets22 Ahhh...yes!
Oh my gosh guys he's fully converted now, he has been baptized in the righteous ways of rock and now he's spreading the good word to his brothers 🤣 Seriously I love you man you're a kindred spirit, I'm exactly like you when I listen to this song ❤️🤘
Freddy the man was shy , Freddy wrote and scored this song. It's not aids it's life. Pain. anger, loss, regret, finding love, all the ups and downs of life ! Freddy is the voice and showman of which the likes we will never see again. Queen is timeless ! RIP We love you !
It is awesome how @MrVideo went from never learning of Queen to now he knows the lyrics by heart savoring every note like an aged bourbon and is sharing it with others! This is how Freddie Mercury will live forever. Happy to be on the journey with you bro!!
Life has come full circle.... I am reacting to someone that is reacting to someone else reacting to Bohemian Rhapsody. I'm glad I'm high as I am to fully appreciate all that reacting.
And the seasons, they go round and round, and the painted ponies go up and down..."Circle Game" - Joni Mitchell
As the smash mouth meme goes:
“The years start coming and they don’t stop coming
and they dont stop coming
and they dont stop coming
and they dont stop coming
and they dont stop coming”
A type of "Reactception"
Snort. Lol
Hahaha 🤣😂
There is a viral video of a drunk guy in the back of a police car singing every word to this on his way to the police station. It’s priceless.
Uh, I did this. Now I feel really disturbed. How many people have done this?
@@CarrotFlowers421 ....I thought it was a viral video. I saw it a couple of years ago.
@@9382georgia I have not seen it, I've only done it
@@CarrotFlowers421 ....on RUclips search drunk guy sings bohemian rhapsody in police car. Let us know if that’s you.
@@CarrotFlowers421 was it you?
It's actually a little chilling now, as he didn't have AIDS when he wrote this, so it's prophetic almost. Thank you for your love of great music.
It's nothing to do with him this song lmao people just assume that
The metaphor behind the man he killed was about him killing his old persona, his mask. This song was Freddie coming out. Its a story of his rebirth.
Although its open to interpretation what its actually about, the AIDS theory was debunked by Freddy himself. My take: It's more of an opera performance of a story like "The Outsiders". A story of a poor boy who fell in love with a girl out of his socioeconomic status, got attacked by the rich boys who were after the same girl, killed one of them in self defense and had to go into hiding
@@jimmyjennings5343 ooh, that's a good one. Never heard of that. I like it
I agree, yes it was pre AIDS but that's exactly why Juliana H is describing it as prophetic.....!!
I loved how this straight up turned into the Wayne’s world scene!! 😂😂😂 this song just does that to people. Epic.
😅😆🤣🤪😜
Also, Freddie created the entire thing in his own mind. He presented it to the other band members
Two pretty sharp young Black men sitting on a couch, smoking and vibing to Queen. I fucking LOVE it!
I love ❤️ how much you like Queen and explaining to your big brother how great Freddie was. Love 💕 it!!!
For some reason I am feeling so proud of Leo for knowing the words to this song! EDIT - the reaction when the rock part dropped was more than I could have hoped for lol. Wayne's World vibes for real!!
it was like a mirror image and made me soooo happy
Wayne's World for sure 😃
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Guys seriously, how do we get him to react to that scene in the movie? HE WOULD LOVE IT.
I love the fact that a whole new generation is now discovering the magic of Queen and the legend that is Freddie
Freddie reminds me of that old saying, "Don't try to be everyone else try to be the best you."
I was 14 when this song came out in 1975 it touch my heart than IAM now 60 it still touch my heart today. great band. Queen forever!
This is what it was like being a 70s brat back in 1975
Bohemian Rhaposdy is basically 3 songs that he wanted to record and he decided to put them into one song. I just recently read that somewhere. But, as many commenters stated already, this was written and released at least a decade prior to his contracting Aides.
When they start head banging I instantly thought of Waynes world.
The way you introduced the song and artist to your brother was like art itself 🤩🤣
Further proof of this song and Freddies greatness is the video of the Greenday crowd singing this song note for note all the way through four or so years ago. You show him THAT video and you will better understand the POWER of music to unite, heal, inspire and awe!
Was just thinking this and about to say so when I came upon your comment! That video is AMAZING!!!!
I was in that crowd! Green Day, Hyde Park, 2017. It was a magical moment. If you can't sing every word to Bo Rhap (including the guitar solos), are you even British?
Dude, you have to react to "The show must go on" by Queen, is on another level.
It was the last song that Freddie recorded with the band before he dies. And as a fact, the band was worried by the high notes on the song and if Freddie could record it by the health state of him.
Freddie looks at the band, takes some vodka's slurps and he recorded the whole song on the first fricking take man.
Good video as always, cheers from Chile dude.
💜
Never tire of Freddie...nice to see your Big Brother and hear his insight on the Rhapsody. ☮💜
I must admit Sonny surprised me, I think it’s the first time he showed real emotion watching a video. Great job guys!!!! 💯
Look at the crowd at the Green Day concert singing Queen in the intermission it's beautiful to see, He still warming up the crowd 30yrs after passing. 🙏❤️
I was there, amazing day
Even 45 years later. I went to see Green Day just in Aug 2021...they played BoRap before they came out. The crowd was so united singing this. That is the power of Freddie❣️
@Altairen ruclips.net/video/cZnBNuqqz5g/видео.html
Green Day is the opener for Queen!
The beauty of this song is as a listener, you can interpret the lyrics any way that you choose.
Exactly what Freddie said
There's nothing better than havin a little smoke and listening to music with someone and having a whole conversation.
The best explanation of this song that I heard is that this was Freddy admitting he was gay and saying goodbye to pretending and to just be happy and not give a damn about what anyone else thought. He was free to come out of the 'closet' and participate in life..
That was my interpretation, too. The gun being a phallic symbol and so on. Brilliant and powerful song
That's how I've always heard it too. What a powerful song.
Freddie never officially came out as gay which is great for a listener because interpretation keeps this song amazing
@@lastfirst5689 officially?
He was probably bi guys, man loved his wife and loved guys, stop the biphobia
I don't think Freddie ever sold his soul. For good or bad, he died the same way he lived and never compromised his artistic integrity.
Amen
Freddie did what he wanted from his heart. He was a sophisticated educated artist and was so deep. I agree that some sell their souls. That's what made Mercury amazing he only did what he felt was great art/music.
a sign that they did sell their soul is when they die the casket is carried on the shoulders of the pall bearers. His was. It could be bull, but even Whitney was carried that way. It changes a person, look at what is coming out today, they all sold their soul. Deep down I pray they didnt, but deep down I kind of know they did.
@@debi9112 Don't believe everything you read on the internet, debi. Like malicious gossip, 95% of those sorts of claims are 100% BS. People just make this stuff up. Seriously. Don't fall for it!
this song was made like this bc he had written 3 songs and just put it in to one.freddie was a genius.
You know his brother never saw waynes world and his headbanging just naturally came in. Awesome
If you can't sing a long to this classic..we can't be friends!
I don't know who said he did this song to tell his mom he had AIDS but they lied. This song came out in 1975 and he was diagnosed in 1987.
Yes you're correct. Someone misspoke, BR was about many things, one of which was his guilt and fear around telling his mom he was gay.
I doubt they purposely lied. Maybe they were given the wrong info.
True. This was there first hit....Freddy died yrs later.
He never even told the world he had Aids until Nov 23....he passed Nov 24th....one day later.
He didn't tell his band mates until later after he started showing he wasn't well....the man is a genius.
He was & always will be the best.
@@colleenmasse9368 ... that's true. I'm lucky to share the same birthday as Freddie, so I always think of him on 9/5.
people really believe that💀💀💀
This sure ain’t no ordinary white peoples song ,this is a masterpiece that everyone can appreciate!
And Freddie was Indian Parsi from Zanzibar anyway but it was a shame back then Farook Bulsara would never have been as big a star as Freddie Mercury
@@apocalypsenow1871 ** Farrokh
@@angelarodriguez_04 just saw...it autocorrected. For some reason samsung has Farook and Farooq and Farukh
Queen were not your typical rock band they always had soul at their core! :D
Freddie wasn’t white
I feel like Leo is ready for the Wayne's World version 🤣😅😂
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂 both were head banging
Yes I was thinking that too 😂😂😂
YES!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Freddie's voice is unmatched. He had a flavor all his own. Queen is Fiyah
They didn't want Ritchie Valens to sing la Bamba in Spanish either and that turned out to be one of his biggest hits.
Speaking of which, that's a good idea for next reaction!
I love the fact that you shared this with your brother and that you still appreciate Freddy as much as you did when you first heard him. 💜
Leo good for showing him Freddie everyone should know Freddie.
I’ve had a bad day and your appreciation for this song makes me so happy
Dude! Your guy immediately had a deep interpretation of this song that I never considered and I’ve listened to this 100+ times in my life. Is he an artist?
Haha Leo you must have been really high because that story about how the song got written was not even close!
Good Weed
I choose to adopt Leo's narrative. It works. Freddie was obviously clairvoyant.
You both together are cool af
You should show him the Live Aid performance!
It’s never been officially confirmed, but all evidence based on this period in his life points to this song being about Freddie coming to terms with coming out.
Freddie always wanted people to interpret his songs for themselves. Love your interpretation and the joy you show when you listen to the music.
Oh....look at you, sir! You are taking a great song that you grew to appreciate... and now helping us watch it through another pair of fresh eyes! You are amazing, and I love you and your reactions! I always look out for your videos!
Freddie and Queen will stay the best. They all wrote songs, all participate and bring something new that will last forever. Love you Freddie 🙏
This is why this channel and those like it work. It's just so much fun watching someone else geek out over something you enjoy... well done, guys!
Ok Leo, I have NEVER. posted to a reaction video before but you made me laugh. Every one who is hearing this song for the 2nd+ time become part of the song. I've been following you since you were dancing in front of your tv. Much love, always hit you first in my recommendations . Love from Canada!
This reaction gave me pure joy....thank you.
Bohemian Rhapsody is one of, if not the, best songs ever written. And it goes without saying Freddie Mercury had a phenomenal voice and knew how to command the stage. 💜💙
If you want to hear one of the last songs he recorded, check out “The Show Must Go On”. He was so sick but his vocals were amazing as always.
Such a powerful song, made even more meaningful because it was one of his last. Great recommendation.
That song sounds so good but at the same time it's so hard to get through because of how it "feels".
Freddie is speaking metaphorically. When he says he killed a man he’s referring to when he told his mother he was gay, he killed off his straight self or the person his mother thought he was all along when he was in the closet. Usually when gays “come out” their mothers tend to cry. Especially back in those days when it was really frowned upon and not accepted. So that’s what he meant by “didn’t mean to make you cry”. This entire song is about Freddie coming out as gay to his family and friends. He never made a formal announcement in the media but he never tri d to cover it up either. I once saw in an interview where he said “If anyone who just got done watching my last show still thinks I’m straight, they must be absolutely crackers”.
I killed a man could also mean he is saying goodbye to Farrokha Balsara. He then changed his name to Freddie Mercury. Just a thought.
Yep! Thinking about the movie when Freddie says he's going out his mother asks "with a girl?"
Nothing to do with that at all. Come on do proper research and maybe ask someone who was around in the 70s and 80s ,not fucking bullshit some of these commenters come out with.
just speculations, not reality
The irony of you and your brother head banging at that particular bit is superb
Dude, you really enjoy this
As a hardcore Queen fan i really respect you
God bless you my man
I love Queen.♥️ We still love you Freddie, and miss you so . 😢💔🎤🎵🏆🎖️🦋
You beat on your chest the house shook lmao you guys got me dying today.
Love that now you know the words, that you share with family, and how blasted you guys are 😅
It's very touching that you respect Freddie and Queen and rejoice in their music so much! He truly was a great artist and also was a shy man who was transformed when he performed. But he didn't allow that information about having AIDS to be publicly announced until the day before he died in 1991. His bandmates suspected that he had AIDS but he didn't tell them until 1989. He didn't ask for sympathy and didn't want to talk about it. As guitarist Brian May said, "He coped incredibly with his illness. He never, ever complained about it in my hearing."
Bohemian Rhapsody was first released in 1979, before AIDS was recognized. Freddie may have realized that he may have been at risk from or was already suffering from AIDS around 1982 - 1985 or so, but definitely by 1987 when the tests improved - eight years after this performance. He certainly knew that he was at risk for the same thing that was killing his friends.
But some of his songs seem to have contained some intuitive or precognitive (psychic) elements. Freddie composed other songs that seem to contain precognitive elements, as in We Are the Champions, when he sings, "I've done my sentence, but committed no crime." Or "I've taken my bows, and my curtain calls, you've given me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it, I thank you all. But it's been no bed of roses, no pleasure cruise, I consider it a challenge before the whole human race..."
Of course, the line, "Mama, I killed a man" could have applied to anyone who transmitted AIDS before treatments were available enabling people to live well despite the retrovirus, like Magic Johnson. Unfortunately, Freddie's illness came before the medical research had developed effective treatments and he suffered terribly before he died.
Freddie actually did all that on his own. It was his personal masterpiece.
no
Brian, Roger, John and Roy all contributed with bits and pieces of music for this song.
@@RoverWaters wrong. Freddie Mercury wrote this entire song (including the guitar solo and drum lines) on his own. Bohemian Rhapsody is actually the product of several songs Freddie wrote, and fused together, over the period of a few years.
@@MultiEMitchell you sound dim
Go read the single cover, it says:
Written by Freddie Mercury
Produced by Queen and Roy Thomas Baker.
It's about regret. Special or general. That's why everyone loves this song. We can all relate to it.
I dont relate to this song. I dont have inorder to like/love it.
Rock opera plus expose a man's soul up against every wrong thing he's ever done - and we all gonna die ...song by the most magical voice ever recorded. Man.....
I'm sure I've heard this song at least a thousand times, goosebumps every time!
I love the fact they all literally had to be in sync to record this song for the gezt take its just insane harmony to the fullest queen will be my all time favorite band .
Mr. Video -- It's so OBVIOUS that you are a Queen/Freddie Mercury fan. Love having you with me in our appreciation of Queen/Freddie. LOVED watching you sing along!
First off who gave this a thumbs down?! The hatin be REAL!
It’s so crazy watching you go from reacting to the song on your own without any previous knowledge of the song or band, to now watching you rock out singing along and showing your bro! Great stuff, Leo!!! 👏
Oh the hatin’ be real, fr. 😡
Leo honey, this was 1975, years before Freddie had Aids. But yes, he was facing his real nature. Loved watching you two watch it. Now you need to show your brother "Somebody to Love" Live Montreal '81. One of the best live performances ever.💙
This song is more about him discovering he was bi and trying to figure out his life going forward. No one knows the exact meaning except Freddie though.
That’s what I always thought
:D no thats silly! he was swinging either way for years before this... this is his eulogy to 10cc
He went through his stages of grief with his fans with this song. He shared it with the world leaving behind a legacy of music that will never be forgotten. The meaning behind the song may not have been public but the emotion behind it was pretty obvious. Something inspired that song and the world heard it loud and clear. People will continue hearing it for years to come. RIP Freddie!
Somebody to Love also shows Freddy's range. A must listen. Btw, this song came out in the early 70s, Freddy didn't get AIDS till the late 80s early 90s. You were so into it and told such a heartfelt story I didn't mind the wrong info at all.
The creative genius that was Freddie Mercury! In my opinion, this is THE GREATEST Rock song EVER made!
Somebody to Love ...official version
I agree. Most if not all the reactors watch the live version, which is a good one, but the album (official) version is much more complex and powerful.
@@jameskirschling7887 not live Montreal 1981, that performance tops almost everything
I thrid and fourth your motion!
@@kJ922-h3j to be honest, I'm not sure which live version the reactors I've seen are watching. If the Montreal one is different I will have to check that out.
I think it’s good to watch the studio version first so you can appreciate how amazing the live version is and how they recreated that sound on stage.
Man to see you discover Queen and fall in love with them and to share that with your brother who doesn't prefer white music, is awesome and to still get chills after 3rd reaction says loads about the song.
I really enjoy how much you appreciate the talent of Mr. Mercury!!!! The interpretation is TRUTH!
I get chills every time i hear this song. And tears.
My favorite Queen song?
Somebody to love.
Gotta be the live in Montreal version though
@@Bink808 I can dig it
I’m SO SO SO HAPPY that you love Freddy Mercury, Queen and THIS song!! Makes you the BEST reaction artist!! AND, I’m SO SO SO Glad that you watched the MOVIE!!❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👍🏼👍🏼
Hey Leo! I'm so very proud of you! Look at you sharing your knowledge with your brother about Freddie Mercury and Queen! Your singing along with the lyrics shows me that you have really studied this masterpiece. Bravo, young man!
💯% false information.The song was released in 1975 and he contracted Aids 12 years later in 1987
I just love that he loved it so much he had to show his big bro. And he is word perfect! Wish I could hear that song again for the first time
I'm old enough to remember when this song came out. My friends and I were just blown away! We were just like, 'wtf did we just hear??' ' We gotta get this album now!'
Thanks for the vid!
That was my era too.
I've seen those interpretations of the song about the AIDS or the homosexuality, and they're quite interesting, but because Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the top opera rock songs, I always thought is more about telling a story than being a metaphore.
And in that sense, I've read several times that the story of the song is more or less this: There is this guy, who said to his mother "mama I've killed a man", but then he talks about he's dying and telling his mother to go on, so I think the person he killed is actually himself, he commited suicide. And the reason? Probably he did something bad, but the first phrases about getting confused about if he's living a fantasy, saying his just a poor guy, and the last verse before Brian May's guitar solo, "I don't wanna die but sometimes wish I'd never be born at all" makes me think he got sick of life. So he dies when he's saying "goodbye everybody, I have to go".
In the start of the operistic part, "I've seen a silhouette of a man", I think he's in the limbo and the chorus made by the band represents the demons (or Beelzebub itself) attaking him and demanding his soul for hell (because you know, suicide is a sin and all of that religious stuff). Then he got scared and ask for help and the angels (symbolized by the very high falsettos done by Roger Taylor, the drummer) come to rescue him from the demons and the suffering. After that when the guitar drops again and Freddie starts singing "so you think you can stone me and spit in my eye", I think that is Beelzebub yelling and complaining because he's getting defeated, and in the phrase "just get out, just get right outta here" is running away.
And so the last part of the song, the "nothing really matters" is our guy who can finally rest in peace. And that's the end of the story. I don't know what you think guys, but for me sounds pretty cool XD
its not an opera rock song
its operatic rock
big difference
Actually its a power ballad you two get your facts right before saying operatic because Freddie was not the only singer with such a talented craft in his time -.- If I must just to add more salt to the injury of such insult to an amazing artist of many other top notch legends then your also insinuating without having to say it directly that Jon Giovanni, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Scorpions, The killers, The Police, Ozzy Osbourne, Meatloaf, Guns n Roses, Journey are operatic rock?! I so absolutely do not think so nor hear such an outworldly heretic statement like my ears wish to bleed and run from what I just heard out of you two. I'm sorry but damn that was lower to the belt than needed and offensive for my liking when I grew up to every genre's old or 'millenial' artists of their time from m.c to k-ci acdc to megadeth kenny rodgers to rascal flatts jojo to rihanna roxette to darude in my first 8 years and unknowingly revisited them from 12 up to 18 and have way more songs now in my library of songs I jam to for many of the same things while practicing to create my own works despite the shadows of my youth that hindered me 20 of the 30 years to date.
@@LyrikalMaestro yo, calm down
BohRhap is progressive rock with an operatic section...
Rock Opera is different
I am calm its not my fault 'the populous' lacks the coherence of interpreting texts just like with music -.- if I could make a reward it'd be the mega dunce of darwinism for the loser-- I mean 'winner' to wear for 5 years to indicate the irony of their idiocy. It may be operatic metal now but I am talking back in its time so crank yourself down a few notches just because of some new age dejected journalist critic calls it that out of his/her own lack of competancy to music
@@LyrikalMaestro well, acting like a jerk it's your fault. You could've pointed out our mistake and explaining it being completely respectful and polite, instead of behave like a freaking asshole with an enormous ego. I'm a physicist and I don't complain every time I see somenone using shitty arguments to defend terraplanism or saying stupid things like the atoms are structurated in orbits just like planets, or entropy as synonym of disorder, or mass is equal to energy. So don't get so cocky, you could've made your point without behaving like an idiot