Hmm...I'd actually have to say that this song seems pretty totalitarian.
It seems that the person who this song concerns believed that making everything one would create the ideal society, a society in which everybody was the same. As he got older he realized that this would be impossible, as you can't force everybody to think the same. He is now lamenting about this in an incredibly rockin' way.
In an alternate interpretation, the narrator actually created this world he invisioned, but it all comes crashing down on him when he realizes that nobody's really any better off, hence the line "look what they've done to my dream"
And even though this is irrelevent, I think that when he says "I'm ready" he sounds a lot like Chris Tucker.
Oh, and the fried chicken line is bizarre. I think it's there because you expect to hear "one vision" so much that the words "fried chicken" are ridiculously funny (at least to me they are).
Actually, it was a joke made by the singer during the recording of the song : the band was going to have fried chicken for lunch... Freddie Mercury didn't want to keep this line at first, but his lover, Jim Hutton, encouraged him, and the chicken finally stayed.
You can find this story at : secouchermoinsbete.fr/musique/du-poulet-frit-dans-one-vision-de-queen-a7391 (in French)
Actually, it was a joke made by the singer during the recording of the song : the band was going to have fried chicken for lunch... Freddie Mercury didn't want to keep this line at first, but his lover, Jim Hutton, encouraged him, and the chicken finally stayed.
You can find this story at : secouchermoinsbete.fr/musique/du-poulet-frit-dans-one-vision-de-queen-a7391 (in French)
Hmm...I'd actually have to say that this song seems pretty totalitarian.
It seems that the person who this song concerns believed that making everything one would create the ideal society, a society in which everybody was the same. As he got older he realized that this would be impossible, as you can't force everybody to think the same. He is now lamenting about this in an incredibly rockin' way.
In an alternate interpretation, the narrator actually created this world he invisioned, but it all comes crashing down on him when he realizes that nobody's really any better off, hence the line "look what they've done to my dream"
And even though this is irrelevent, I think that when he says "I'm ready" he sounds a lot like Chris Tucker.
Oh, and the fried chicken line is bizarre. I think it's there because you expect to hear "one vision" so much that the words "fried chicken" are ridiculously funny (at least to me they are).
Actually, it was a joke made by the singer during the recording of the song : the band was going to have fried chicken for lunch... Freddie Mercury didn't want to keep this line at first, but his lover, Jim Hutton, encouraged him, and the chicken finally stayed. You can find this story at : secouchermoinsbete.fr/musique/du-poulet-frit-dans-one-vision-de-queen-a7391 (in French)
Actually, it was a joke made by the singer during the recording of the song : the band was going to have fried chicken for lunch... Freddie Mercury didn't want to keep this line at first, but his lover, Jim Hutton, encouraged him, and the chicken finally stayed. You can find this story at : secouchermoinsbete.fr/musique/du-poulet-frit-dans-one-vision-de-queen-a7391 (in French)