Get Yourself to the Butterfly Lounge, find yourself a desperately lonely woman...
Well, I'm back, Hungary was nice. It was all very nice. I was knacked by the end of it, emotional and braindead, but all was well. I can't actually be bothered going into much detail on it just now until I can find my USB for the camera and get some photos up.
So that was that.
What's been playing on my mind this week, aside from OMFGIMMOVINGAWAYANDIMSKINTSHIT!!, is the sexuality of Mika and why I think the similarities between him and Freddie Mercury are all too familiar.
Briefly, he sings like him. That's a fair start.
But 'Big Girls'? Surely, I mean, surely an homage to 'Fat Bottomed Girls'? And I don't know how other bigger girls feel, but I find it a wee bit condescending, the whole song. Call me a Sensitive Sally... but who says if some 'big' (in what way, eh, Mika?!) guy just decides he wants a curvy lady, walks into the 'Butterfly Lounge' and they all FLOCK like a crowd of randy, pathetic sheep round his ankles?
What if we have standards, eh Mika?
I know I've spoken to a few larger ladies about this song and they 'found it quite empowering', but how? What makes that song in any way empowering? All it says, to me anyway, is that fat women are up for it. Right now. Doesn't matter how ugly the bastartin' guy is, she'll take anything. I don't think anyone needs a musical 'prophet' for the Curves of the World to point out that 'we're alright, really...'.
You know, I actually do like him. I bought his album. But I actually put it off buying it for a long while due to hearing this song in HMV... I was honestly confused as to whether he was being sarcastic or not. It makes me uneasy. I mean, I don't know what the whole ethos for it is - I certainly won't be using it as a 'Fat National Anthem' and gyrating around the dancefloor, pushing my double Ds into guys faces.
Not that I wouldn't do that for 'Maneater' by Nelly Furtado.
On that, what is the video all about? Have you SEEN the looks on the 'public's' faces, as those girls dance? A mixture of disgust and amusement. They can't help having a look, and quickly turning away when anyone looks at them. Much like you would do with a car crash. Its horrible, but strangely you can't help getting an eyeful.
The video's obviously a 'candid' set up, with no extras, and without telling people whats going on. It's horrific. I won't even start on the woman Mika dances with with the grey t-shirt on in the circle. I couldn't bear the thought of 'slating one of my own'.
She's fundementally not 'one of my own'. We are not some low-class sisterhood, an awful gaggle of 'Chubs Anonymous', huddled together in the darkest corner of the emptiest bar, desperate for a shag. Shit, I'm even saying 'We', now.
The song isn't getting me laid, like Mika said would happen. The video isn't helpful in any way to anyone. Least of all to Hairy Mary in that Carnivalesque Cirqué du Grosse Danse.
Maybe it's just a confidence thing. Musical honesty just doesn't do it for me, unless its Lily Allen or Kate Nash griping on about how men are arseholes. Thats fine by me. But I don't like this one, Mika. And I don't like FBGs, either. Yes. I don't like a Queen song.
Anyway, I digress. Freddie used FBGs as another in a long line of acts to mask his sexuality. So there you are. Mika's gay.
So that's that.
I miss being able to construct decent arguments...
Anyone else (body non-denominational) have any thoughts on it? Something that might help me make sense?
So that was that.
What's been playing on my mind this week, aside from OMFGIMMOVINGAWAYANDIMSKINTSHIT!!, is the sexuality of Mika and why I think the similarities between him and Freddie Mercury are all too familiar.
Briefly, he sings like him. That's a fair start.
But 'Big Girls'? Surely, I mean, surely an homage to 'Fat Bottomed Girls'? And I don't know how other bigger girls feel, but I find it a wee bit condescending, the whole song. Call me a Sensitive Sally... but who says if some 'big' (in what way, eh, Mika?!) guy just decides he wants a curvy lady, walks into the 'Butterfly Lounge' and they all FLOCK like a crowd of randy, pathetic sheep round his ankles?
What if we have standards, eh Mika?
I know I've spoken to a few larger ladies about this song and they 'found it quite empowering', but how? What makes that song in any way empowering? All it says, to me anyway, is that fat women are up for it. Right now. Doesn't matter how ugly the bastartin' guy is, she'll take anything. I don't think anyone needs a musical 'prophet' for the Curves of the World to point out that 'we're alright, really...'.
You know, I actually do like him. I bought his album. But I actually put it off buying it for a long while due to hearing this song in HMV... I was honestly confused as to whether he was being sarcastic or not. It makes me uneasy. I mean, I don't know what the whole ethos for it is - I certainly won't be using it as a 'Fat National Anthem' and gyrating around the dancefloor, pushing my double Ds into guys faces.
Not that I wouldn't do that for 'Maneater' by Nelly Furtado.
On that, what is the video all about? Have you SEEN the looks on the 'public's' faces, as those girls dance? A mixture of disgust and amusement. They can't help having a look, and quickly turning away when anyone looks at them. Much like you would do with a car crash. Its horrible, but strangely you can't help getting an eyeful.
The video's obviously a 'candid' set up, with no extras, and without telling people whats going on. It's horrific. I won't even start on the woman Mika dances with with the grey t-shirt on in the circle. I couldn't bear the thought of 'slating one of my own'.
She's fundementally not 'one of my own'. We are not some low-class sisterhood, an awful gaggle of 'Chubs Anonymous', huddled together in the darkest corner of the emptiest bar, desperate for a shag. Shit, I'm even saying 'We', now.
The song isn't getting me laid, like Mika said would happen. The video isn't helpful in any way to anyone. Least of all to Hairy Mary in that Carnivalesque Cirqué du Grosse Danse.
Maybe it's just a confidence thing. Musical honesty just doesn't do it for me, unless its Lily Allen or Kate Nash griping on about how men are arseholes. Thats fine by me. But I don't like this one, Mika. And I don't like FBGs, either. Yes. I don't like a Queen song.
Anyway, I digress. Freddie used FBGs as another in a long line of acts to mask his sexuality. So there you are. Mika's gay.
So that's that.
I miss being able to construct decent arguments...
Anyone else (body non-denominational) have any thoughts on it? Something that might help me make sense?