I Want To Break Free Queen Meaning

Written by the band s bassist john deacon the track was the second single to be taken from the band s hugely successful album the.

I want to break free queen meaning. There s nothing he wants more than to break free i ve got to break free. Album single and extended. In fact i was unhealthily underweight but that s not the point. You can be gay if you want to and you can be a drag queen if you want to or you can be an astronaut if you want to or a housemaid if you so please to.

You don t have to live in the shackles of societal norms and constrictions. I want to break free is a song by the british rock band queen written by their bass guitarist john deacon. Queen bass player john deacon wrote this from the male perspective of the women s liberation movement. When i was a boy and by that i mean a younger version of myself.

There are also no gender specific nouns or pronouns in the song to identify the gender of the person to whom the narrator is. I think we proved that. I don t mean to imply that i ve ever identified otherwise i was a massive queen fan and by that i mean i really enjoyed the music of queen i wasn t the overweight monarchist i was in my early thirties. Written by deacon it can mean that someone is not confortable in any relationship or marriage and he she wants to break up but it is not easy probably because the other spouse is an autoritarian and bad person but he she still in love the other possible explanation is the gay pride one.

It appears on the album the works 1984 and was released in three versions. This song became an anthem for the anc in south africa in the late 80s when nelson mandela was still in jail and the white government s apartheid policies were still in place. Echoing the song s lyrics all of them want to break free of their lives. We wanted people to know that we didn t take ourselves too seriously that we could still laugh at ourselves.

Roger taylor said we had done some really serious epic videos in the past and we just thought we d have some fun. It came to be included in most live concerts by the group in several videos and in the freddie mercury tribute concert where it was sung by lisa stansfield. The first two verses i want to break free i ve fallen in love are very strong positive and defiant in the desire to get out of whatever it is a relationship i think that s gone wrong. I want to break free is one of queen s most enduring songs.