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There are multiple layers of irony at work here. One is that Freddie Mercury, a flamingly gay man, performed this heterosexual anthem with gusto and sincerity; in 1978 art still trumped "identity." Another is that a Queen song, a joint effort by a gay man and some straight men, has been cancelled in 2023 for being too... something.

Fat-bottomed girls need love too. The song has a very simple message. I don't know why it's OK why Lizzo conveys it but it's not OK when Freddie Mercury conveys it. Cultural life in 2023 is a puzzlement.

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Freddie would never be tolerated now. They would consider him "too white."

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Doesn't matter, he had fair skin and that alone makes him fair game for the woke communists.

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Wasn’t Mercury bi though? Stop bi erasure! (kidding/not kidding)

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You'd think they'd like Fat Bottomed Girls, because the song says that "they make the rockin' world go 'round".

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This is like cancelling "Brain Damage" by Pink Floyd because it's not sensitive to the "neurodiverse community."

Ironically, I can totally see a modern band like Ghost B.C. doing a cover of this song and everyone being totally fine with it.

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Screw the woke commies and the horse 🐴 they rode in on! 🖕🖕🖕

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Oh lordt. Not the best word to use, but the way Axl delivered that phrase was impeccable.

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Wait for Thursday's paid post. Oooooo boy are you going to freak out when you read it. 😂

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Without any good reason, I've recently grown a distrust for Piratebay, afraid that some malware could be hidden inside files I download from it....especially when the file has had few downloaders before me, I don't see how I could check for a threat before it settles on my hard disk....

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Always a risk, I guess. Use Linux or maybe macOS. Avoid Windows as most of the malware seems designed for it.

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