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explanation of name[edit]

i wonder if we're missing something really obvious here. Hungarian Rhapsodies was a classical music ensemble by Franz Liszt. Bohemia is near Hungary. The name could thus be a tribute to Liszt's work. This theory does not negate the explanation we have written up, ... it complements it by helping explain why the band chose the unusual word "Bohemian" when some more commonplace word could have done. anyone know if this has been dealt with somewhere, e.g. in a music magazine? Soap 13:46, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've never seen such an explanation, and if Mercury had talked about it in a music magazine, I think it's absolutely certain that one of his or the band's biographers would have found it by now, given that there has been so much interest in the song's title for decades. Richard3120 (talk) 13:58, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Bohemian means doing nothing. Rhapsody is the event which takes place when you do that for a period of time. Buddha did it and confronted Mara (the Buddhist name for Satan) Christ did it and confronted Satan. Mr. Mercury states "..leave you all behind to face the truth." The song then goes on to describe the fight which ensues within the self once the ego is challenged by starving it. There is a book which details this, and describes the process in detail. If you do it, you will see the truth. Book: Conflict: A Life Nearly Wasted on Dualism.2A00:23C7:5981:A01:25DA:8506:141:2FA1 (talk) 01:48, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think that it just means that it is an avant-garde/unusual sung large tale, considering that its innovative-ness and grandiose-ness is part of its title too. As an adjective, the term “bohemian” means “socially unconventional in an artistic way.” (Source: Google English Dictionary, which comes from Oxford Languages) a rhapsody, according to my understanding, means a epic poem from the Ancient Greek days that is able to be repeated. I assume that this means repeated as in orally, like a creation myth or a folk song/tale. I think I read somewhere in a Wikipedia discussion that the term “rhapsody” is commonly used in Persia, in which Freddie Mercury is from, but I can’t find it again and I could just be remembering things wrong, plus it may not be really reliable at all. It seems like the title could be kind of ironic, like how this song is so big but yet everyone knows it word-by-word and it’s so famous and well-remembered from generation-to-generation. In fact, this song originally started out as multiple different fragments that all piled up together into a giant faux folk song. Like, this is possibly speculation but it seems like this song compiled multiple “folk”-like fragments into a giant body of work that is meant to be catchy and traditional, or maybe it’s just called “bohemian rhapsody” as a joke because it’s grandiose, avant-garde, and big. Maybe Freddie Mercury is trolling all of us by making us think this way. Welp. This is just my take on this. Hope this helps!(? Maybe it didn’t….) Tengoritmo (talk) 19:56, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

broken image file[edit]

The image that is supposed to be displayed, probably the single cover, is broken and links to a page to upload the file, rather than the file itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xwedodah (talkcontribs) 06:05, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Xwedodah: it was a result of vandalism which changed the file name... it's been fixed now. Richard3120 (talk) 14:59, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The meaning(s) of the song[edit]

I think it would be useful for somebody to research the meanings of the song. Mercury may have said something, others may have multiple conflicting ideas. Much of the article is about the commercial side of the song, but there must be something to say about the meaning. 17:04, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

My digital signature was rejected. trying again. Pete unseth (talk) 17:05, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Journalists and people have been searching for decades for the meaning of the song, and nobody has ever found it. The band members have said they know but they aren't saying, so the likelihood is that nobody will never know, sorry. Richard3120 (talk) 19:38, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It is the event which takes place within the self, also described with Buddha's "enlightenment" and Christ's fasting in the desert. Rhapsody is a psychological event, described in the book below, which is experienced when the ego (Mara/Satan) is starved in the correct manner. Book: Conflict: A Life Nearly Wasted on Dualism2A00:23C7:5981:A01:25DA:8506:141:2FA1 (talk) 01:51, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Don't have an account, would neither prefer to. Will remain anonymous as this is one-time, though i suppose i could be referred to by "forgetmenaut". Some of the meaning that i know: "Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger now he's dead" - 'Guns don't kill people, nuh-uh; I kill people, with guns." "I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy. Because I'm easy come, easy go. Little high, little low." Easily conceived, easily departed. A few feet above the ground, and then a few feet below. "Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me." Coriolis effect. Nothing new under the Sun: circles of circles, bubbles of bubbles, vanity of vanities. Life on earth is like chasing the wind... i too am a poor boi, dancing more gracefully than my ability to on the border between this life and the next. 2603:8080:2601:4972:F5D6:AB0F:83CB:EDBA (talk) 14:49, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure Freddie would have been mightily impressed with the reference to the coriolis effect. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:55, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
He Kills his ego (personality), not someone else. Like Buddha and Christ did.2A00:23C7:5981:A01:25DA:8506:141:2FA1 (talk) 01:53, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think (based on my understanding) it’s just about (let’s be honest) finding out that you’re queer, then being depressed and hating yourself, then accepting yourself and then realizing nothing really matters in this world, so fuck it, do what you gotta do. Freddie is known to be pretty bisexual/gay so…. Tengoritmo (talk) 20:30, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect So you think you can stop me and spit in the eye has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 22 § So you think you can stop me and spit in the eye until a consensus is reached. Utopes (talk / cont) 23:37, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]