Song Meanings and Facts

Song Meanings and Facts

Tagged: Queen

John Deacon

John Deacon

Top 10 Queen Songs written by John Deacon

John Deacon, the bassist for Queen, contributed several songs to the band’s catalog. While he didn’t write as many songs as Freddie Mercury, Brian May, or Roger Taylor, some of the tracks he did...

Queen

Queen

Queen’s “I Want to Break Free” Meaning

Queen’s “I Want to Break Free” is known not just for its catchy melody but also for its iconic music video, which featured the band members dressed in drag, parodying the British soap opera...

Songs from Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj is a Trinidadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actress. She was born Onika Tanya Maraj on December 8, 1982, in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago. When she was five years old, her family...

Figurative language

Figurative Language in Songs

Figurative Language in Popular Songs

Figurative language – i.e. the usage of similes, metaphors, allusions, personifications and hyperboles – is arguably the greatest tool at a songwriter’s disposal outside of words themselves. That’s because practically every song you hear, no...

Jesus

Queen

Queen’s “Jesus” Lyrics Meaning

Some people may find it odd that the late Freddie Mercury, back around the time when he was in his early twenties, not only wrote but recorded a song titled “Jesus” which is in fact about...

Was It All Worth It

Queen

“Was It All Worth It” by Queen

Queen’s “Was It All Worth It” is fundamentally a come-up song, though an unconventional one in that it revolves around the vocalist, Freddie Mercury, questioning whether or not the sacrifices he and his cohorts...

Face It Alone

Queen

Queen’s “Face It Alone” Lyrics Meaning

Maybe one of the reasons why Queen’s “Face It Alone” didn’t see the light of day at the time it was originally conceived was because the message contained therein, perhaps we can say in...

Mama

Bebe Rexha

“Mama” by Bebe Rexha

Even though the title of this song (“Mama”) makes it seem as if the content therein is familial, the lyrics are actually more religio-philosophical than anything else. And what Bebe is actually speaking to, let’s...

Ice Ice Baby

Vanilla Ice

“Ice Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice

A lot of people, such as Eminem for instance, may have issues with “Ice Ice Baby” and/or the artist who dropped it. But that does not negate the hard reality that it was actually Vanilla Ice, not...