Worldview-Queen

Worldview-Queen

If you were to ask the band members of Queen the four questions of worldview, each of them would give you similar answers. All four members Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Meddows-Taylor, and John Deacon would answer the question, who are we, people who need help, where are we, trying to be better people, what's the problem, we live according to race, colour or creed (from Innuendo), and the remedy is love.

Who we are according to Queen is we are Princes of the Universe. Well maybe not all of us are Princes of the Universe, but they think they are. But for the rest of us we are people who want to break free from bad things and have a good happy life. When we have that good happy life we can have a person that loves us for the rest of our life.

The question where are we, is answered by the song Hammer to Fall. The song talks about creating your own future that does not replay anything else in history, especially cold war problems. Another One Bites the Dust talks about living adventuresome and if you can't make it you'll bite the dust.

Bohemian Rhapsody talks about one problem that humans can have, disappointing a person that we love. In the song the singer kills a man and wants to make it up to his mother. He goes on to say that his family should just go on without him and that what he did doesn't really matter. I think that this song shows a major flaw in the band's view on life. If you were to kill a person it is a big deal and it does matter. Your family should go on without him but saying that it does not matter is not right.

Like any other rock band from the 70's love is one of the major topics of their songs. They have a large number of songs that deal with love. They display love as a mostly sexual kind of love not the love that Jesus taught us about. For example, in I'm in Love with My Car, the singer of the song would rather spend time with his car than have a meaningful relationship with his girlfriend. In Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, he talks about all the different ways that he can show love in an old-fashioned way, but not in a meaningful way. In Too Much Love will Kill You the singer says that too much unrequited love will kill you. In this sense they are talking about love between two humans, but it could also be a song from Jesus directed to us. But beside songs dealing about sexual love or killer love one song, You're My Best Friend, talks about having a meaningful relationship that you can live for the rest of your life and the person you love is your best friend and can put total trust in them.

Queen for being a secular band do have some Christian ideas in their songs. In Friends Will be Friends the song talks about trusting friends when you have problems and how you can trust them. In the song the line "friends will be friends right till the end", the friend could be said is Jesus and we know that Jesus will never leave or abandon us. Another line in the song says that friends give us care and attention, and Jesus also does that for us. The song One Vision talks about having one vision to accept all people as equal. In many of their songs Queen talks about equality and helping people in need. But the song that shows the most Christian values is a song called The Miracle. In this song the group attests to God's miracles in this world. While these aren't turning water into wine, but small everyday miracles like "If every child on every street had clothes to wear and food to eat. That's a miracle. If all God's people could be free to live in perfect harmony. It's a miracle"

I think that Queen has a semi-Christian worldview. There are some aspects of theirs that differs from mine like love is just about sexual things and killing some body is a small thing. But there are a lot of things that I agree with like little miracles that happen every day and having too much unrequited love will kill you.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Is this the real life-

Is this just fantasy-

Caught in a landslide-

No escape from reality-

Open your eyes

Look up to the skies and see-

I'm just a poor boy,I need no sympathy-

Because I'm easy come,easy go,

A little high,little low,

Anyway the wind blows,doesn't really matter to me,

To me

Mama,just killed a man,

Put a gun against his head,

Pulled my trigger,now he's dead,

Mama,life had just begun,

But now I've gone and thrown it all away-

Mama ooo,

Didn't mean to make you cry-

If I'm not back again this time tomorrow-

Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-

Too late,my time has come,

Sends shivers down my spine-

Body's aching all the time,

Goodbye everybody-I've got to go-

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-

Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)

I don't want to die,

I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all-

I see a little silhouetto of a man,

Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the Fandango-

Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-

Galileo,Galileo,

Galileo Galileo

Galileo figaro-Magnifico-

But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me-

He's just a poor boy from a poor family-

Spare him his life from this monstrosity-

Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-

Bismillah! No-,we will not let you go-let him go-

Bismillah!