Queen – Killer Queen

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  My Interpretation:From an interview to Freddy Mercury: “It’s about a high class call girl. I’m trying to say that classy people can be whores as well. That’s what the song is about, though I’d prefer people to put their interpretation on it.”

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  General Comment:"People are used to hard rock, energy music from Queen, yet with this single you almost expect Noel Coward to sing it. It's one of those bowler hat, black suspender belt numbers – not that Coward would wear that. (...) It's about a high class call girl. I'm trying to say that classy people can be whores as well. That's what the song is about, though I'd prefer people to put their interpretation upon it – to read into it what they like." - Freddie Mercury

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  Song Meaning:The name is the title Killer Queen A man with all the aspects of a woman that would drive men crazy. This is a guy who drove somebody in the band nuts. Women know how to do this but men can do this better than women because being the same sex you know what drives men wild! My cousin who is gay says men are whores I believe him. He is not looking down on them but you can see from his view a real queen would be a killer for her knowledge of how to please a man.

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  General Comment:The "Went down to Geisha Minah" has the same sounding as "Asia Minor"...Freddie Mercury's parents were Persian, a country that borders Persia (Now Iran) is Turkey...which was once Asia Minor and it was ruled by the Persians at one point as well as Pakistan, and Mercury's Religion was Zoroastrianism, The Persians that would practice Zoroastrianism, would have a stronghold in India and be known as Parsis. And even though Freddie Mercury will be known as the best Indian-British Musician ever (sorry Jyoti Mishra and Tony Kanal) and also...Freddie Mercury has LOVED Japan when he went there in 1975, as a matter of fact he pwned many artifacts that were Japanese as well as getting his pic taken with a group of Geishas. He even has a song called "Teo Toriatte" which many Japanese have embraced!

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  General Comment:publisher block -.-

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  General Comment:People are used to hard rock, energy music from Queen, yet with this single you almost expect Noel Coward to sing it. It's one of those bowler hat, black suspender belt numbers – not that Coward would wear that. (...) It's about a high class call girl. I'm trying to say that classy people can be whores as well. That's what the song is about, though I'd prefer people to put their interpretation upon it – to read into it what they like. -Freddie Mercury

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  Song Meaning:"A built in remedy, for Khrushchev and Kennedy" (Both people of immense power and targets of killers)
  "Gunpowder, gelatine
  Dynamite with a laser beam
  Guaranteed to blow your mind" (methods of killing)
  
  "Let them eat cake, she says" (this shows a major disconnect from what one would consider normal life just as it did for Marie Antoinette)
  
  She has the best of the best and is not impressed with things that most men are impressed by.
  This woman is an assassin, not a prostitute and possibly not even a woman (queen, as in drag queen)
  Queen was one of my all-time favorite groups. Such intense harmonies! No one since has done anything like it.

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    BTW, Khrushchev died of natural causes, but as a world leader, I'm sure many countries would have brought him down if they could.

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  General Comment:What's all this about homos and high-class women? I thought it was just a song about a crazy queen.
  
  Something about the sound of it makes me giggle.

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  General Comment:"Built in remedy for Krushchev and Kennedy" = CIA Project Midnight Climax (using high-class hooker to interrogate and drug communists and other political enemies of the CIA)

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  General Comment:It's about a sophisticated slut.

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