Bohemian Rhapsody Documentary

andy-hughes | 23:06 Tue 02nd Jan 2018 | Music

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I watched and enjoyed this - apart from two parts.

I wonder how they persuaded a lot of Oxford Dons to sit around a table and dissect a pop song with full earnestness and nonsensical conclusions - they looked and sounded ridiculous.

But not as ridiculous as Richard E Grant declaiming the lyrics as though he was delivering a speech from Macbeth - he also looked and sounded ridiculous.

The entire point about pop is that it doesn't have to mean anything - why waste time pretending to find something that does not exist?

Other than that - it was good.

Anyone else see it?

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tonyav

It sure was, naomi, Ill blame him then.

naomi24

:o)

Peter Pedant

// "It is what it is" has a very long history indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fihi_Ma_Fihi//

Eye popping - especially after "lock them up forever" threads x 500 today
saw that ( fihi ma fihi) and thought that says- - - "it is what it is" in Arabic - the article says it is Persian which I dont think is right. 1280s slang which would be OK for downtown Aswan in 2018

Mawlana Celalladin Ar-Rumi (*)wrote mystic stuff in the 1280s and this was VERY popular in England in the seventies - "yeah wow man he says thing to me etc". The only thing is that - he was a mystic(**) so that when he says - "it is what it is" may be a humourous reference that in a mystic sense - "it is what it is" - erm isnt.(***)

(*) rumi in arabic is - "from Rome" - and means um Greek - the second Rome was Constantinople
(**) home base - modern Konya - you know where the whirling dervishes come from. Ancient Iconium in Nicaea (in Latin) - now Turkey
(***) o god they were all really mental - I think his son kills his fave pupil ( hur hur hur ) so ar-Rumi wanders off for twenty years - you know like AWOL, no postcards no emails - and returns to Konya 20 y later and says "now where was I?"