- It's hard not to just jam with it.
- "Another One Bites the Dust." I love it.
- Everyone I know, all my friends and my kids, wanna go see it.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- ♪ Is this the real life? ♪ - It's the Queen one. I cannot wait.
- Oh, yes. I'm so hype for this.
- I cried when I found out they were doing this movie.
I'm so happy!
- ♪ No escape from reality ♪ - Damn, that's so sick.
Oh my gosh. This movie's gonna be insane.
- Oh my gosh. Iconic. - (Freddie) I enjoyed the show.
I also-- I write songs. - He's so good.
I feel like he's gonna be amazing in this part.
- (Mary) I love the way you move on stage.
- Bam, bam, bam. Oh my god.
- I love Queen. And I love Freddie.
- (Mary) Don't you see what you can be?
- The hair! - (Brian) No one will play us
on the radio. We need to get experimental.
- ♪ Thunderbolt and lightning... ♪ - (chuckles) "Bohemian Rhapsody"!
- (sings along) ♪ Galileo ♪ - (whispers) Galileo, Galileo, Galileo.
- (Roger) How many more Galileos do you want?!
- There are not enough Galileos in the world.
- (Freddie) Roger, there's only room in this band for one hysterical queen.
- (snickers) Ah, Freddie Mercury is the ultimate queen!
- (Ray) ...these words: No one will play Queen.
- Interesting. - (Jim) Fortune favors the bold.
♪ (funky rock music) ♪ - ♪ Dun, dun, da, da, dun ♪
- (Freddie) What more do you need to know? I make music.
- Man, they're really telling the whole story. That's awesome.
- (Brian) I wanna give the audience a song that they can perform.
- Ah. - (all clapping and stomping)
- (Freddie) What's the lyric? - ♪ Singing, we will... ♪
- That's pretty genius, actually. - ♪ ...we will rock you ♪
- God, he had so many hits. - I wanna see it. I don't care.
I don't care if it's crap. I'm gonna see it.
- I'm so excited. I don't know any of the backstory of anything.
It's gonna be cool seeing everything that went on behind the scenes.
- (Brian) You need to slow down, Freddie.
- ♪ And we'll keep on fighting... ♪ - (Jim) I just need a bit of time.
- It's gonna be so good. - (Freddie) What if I don't have time?
- I'm gonna start crying. - Oh, I'm gonna see
Freddie Mercury die! I don't wanna see it anymore.
- ♪ ...are the champions - This is gonna win so many awards.
I already know it. - ♪ No time for losers ♪
- I bet when this movie comes out, the whole theaters
are gonna be singing along.
- (Roger) You're a legend, Fred. - (Freddie) We're all legends.
- ♪ Of the world. ♪ - So cool.
(loud stomping and clap) - Oh gosh. It looks so good.
I get goosebumps watching it.
- I'm so excited, it's not even funny.
He's this icon in rock, but also in gay culture.
And he has the most beautiful voice. It's also really powerful.
- ♪ Ay, oh ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Ay, oh ♪
- His voice was so good. - ♪ Ah, la, la, la, la, la, la, lo ♪
- This also just captures the rock and roll experience to a T.
♪ (funky rock music) ♪ - "Another One Bites the Dust."
I love it. It's such great music.
- ♪Bum, bum ♪ ♪ Bum, bum, bum ♪
- (Freddie) Let's go! - ♪ Ow ♪
- It's hard not to just jam with it. - Now, this is cool.
It's more focused on the music. - The mustache.
- ♪ Doo ♪ - ♪ She's a killer... ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Queen ♪
- ♪ Just gotta get out ♪ ♪ Just gotta... ♪
- Oh, I really like how they mixed all the songs together.
- I feel like this is gonna bring a whole new generation
of fans to Queen. - (Freddie) This is when
the operatic section comes in. - (Brian) Oh, the operatic section.
Yeah. - (chuckles) I love that.
- Can you imagine? - ♪ Mama mia, mama mia ♪
- ♪ Mama mia... ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Let me go ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me ♪
♪ For me ♪ - ♪ For me ♪
- (Ray) It goes on forever. Six bloody minutes.
- (Freddie) I pity your wife... - Right?
- (Freddie) ...six minutes is forever.
- (laughs) That's a good line.
- (Ray) It goes on forever. Six bloody minutes.
- (Freddie) I pity your wife if you think six minutes...
- (laughs) That's so true. Whenever I listen to their music,
I'm like, "Their songs are so long."
- ♪ ...will rock you ♪ - (Freddie) Sing it!
- ♪ We will, we will... ♪ - Rock and roll, baby.
- I wonder if he had any clue at how many stadiums (chuckles)
that would be played. - I'm so pumped to see it.
I wanna see it right when it comes out.
It's just one of those movies that just watching the trailer,
you feel inspired, you know? And feel amped up.
- I normally try not to get super hyped for movies,
'cause I'm always afraid they're gonna disappoint me,
but I definitely think this is one movie
that couldn't disappoint me solely because it's about Freddie Mercury
and Queen, and that's one of the biggest things that I love,
and I feel like I'm gonna like it either way.
- (FBE) So, those were trailers for the upcoming film,
"Bohemian Rhapsody..." - I'm super excited.
- (FBE) ...a biography of Freddie Mercury
and the British rock band, Queen. - Yes.
- (FBE) So, first thing's first, would you consider yourself
a Queen fan? - No. I mean, I'm not a huge fan.
- Not super die-hard. I'm sure there's people
who are huge Queen fans, but definitely enjoy the music.
- Yeah. I feel like it's hard not to be.
- Huge fan of Queen. My mom is a huge Queen fan,
and all the time in the car, she'd be playing it nonstop.
- Absolutely, yes. If Freddie Mercury was around today,
how would they be accepted? You know, I really wonder.
- I have records at my house.
I've watched many interviews of Freddie Mercury.
I love the execution of adopting opera into rock.
I think that's [bleep] sick.
- Absolutely! There's a super embarrassing video
of my dad and I lip syncing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in his bedroom,
and we're just jumping around during the whole rock part.
- (FBE) So, the band's lead singer, Freddie Mercury,
unfortunately passed away on November 24, 1991.
And Queen released their 15th and final album, "Made in Heaven,"
back in 1995. - Did not know that.
- (FBE) However, the band is still performing today
with another lead vocalist, American Idol finalist Adam Lambert.
- I did hear that. - I used to watch American Idol.
I remember his finale, where they brought in all
of the different performers and he played with Queen.
And I couldn't imagine a more perfect fit.
- I feel like Adam Lambert is perfect for that.
And I also have heard that he's bringing his own thing into it,
so it's not like he's taking over the character of Freddie.
He's just kind of bringing in his own character.
- (FBE) Why do you think it's taken so long
for them to make a film about Queen and Freddie Mercury?
- I don't know. Maybe they were just trying to give it some time.
The longer that they waited,
the more special it would be when it came out.
- It's kind of neat that they waited a little while,
because now it might be, another generation of people
that don't know about Queen, and now they can learn about them.
- This was always maybe something that was on the back burner,
but just never really came up again until maybe Queen
started performing again. So, there was this resurgence
of Queen once they started performing again.
So, now, it's okay, let's go back to the origins of Queen
and Freddie Mercury and remember what a great performer he was.
- This thing was probably in development for, like,
eight million years. Queen's story, it's about the rise
of a rock and roll band, but he was also
one of the first casualties-- major celebrity casualties
of the AIDS epidemic. For me and for my generation,
the AIDS epidemic kind of defined us.
I lost a lot of friends. It hasn't gone away,
and it is a big deal. And, you know, I think this is
gonna maybe-- at least that part of the story maybe will bring back
into the public consciousness all the aspects.
- (FBE) Well, the excitement for the release of the film
spans across a wide range of ages.
On our channel, we've covered Queen with the kids and elders
in past episodes and have multiple fans
from both generations. - Wow. That's really cool.
- (Catherine) Ohh! (claps) Queen!
- (Sydney) Queen is amazing! If you asked me,
"Who's your favorite artist?" I will always say Freddie Mercury.
- (FBE) What do you think it is about the band
that transcends generations?
- I think it's just the fact that they had 15 albums.
There was something for everybody there.
If you didn't like one particular genre,
okay, there was another album for you.
- You could play it at any time when it first came out to now,
and it's still-- you just still rock out to it.
As new generations come on board, they just jump right into it as well.
- "We Will Rock You." I mean, you can participate
like they were saying. That's a big part of it.
You can participate in the music. It's fun to reenact.
- I've seen the Kids React with the kids singing to Queen.
They know it, and they love it.
The better the music is, you don't need to understand
what's being said. You just kind of feel it.
- (FBE) So, when the first trailer was released,
it received some criticism. Many were outraged at the fact
that Freddie Mercury's sexuality was not portrayed accurately,
as he was shown flirting with women and had little indication
of his love for men. - Well, yeah, I don't think--
Back in that time, it was so taboo
that if you were gay, people looked at you weird.
So, maybe they're showing that part of it.
- (FBE) What do you think about the fact that people
jump to conclusions without even seeing the whole film
or even trailer? - I don't know.
If that's the only thing that they've released,
and that's-- if they released their first trailer,
I mean, that's a pretty big deal.
I don't think it's that bad to jump to conclusions,
because you haven't seen anything else yet.
- A part of it is people really wanna be represented,
and I completely understand that, because I think especially
Freddie Mercury being a queer performer,
that's something that people wanna see,
especially if you're in that community yourself.
- They need to chill the [bleep] out. It's like, dude, go watch the movie,
and then-- the trailer is what? Two minutes long?
Like... if they didn't put it in the trailer,
it still might be in the movie.
- People need to calm down. Calm the [bleep] down.
Were you there? Do you know that Freddie
wasn't flirting with women? He was. In fact, he was, though,
'cause I've watched interviews about this. He was.
- (FBE) So, finally, "Bohemian Rhapsody" releases
in the US on November 2nd, 2018. After seeing the trailer
and learning a little bit more about the film today,
which song do you think will better describe
the film's success when it releases, "We Are the Champions"
or "Another Ones Bites the Dust"? - That's adorable! (giggles)
Definitely, "We Are the Champions." (ding)
- "We Are the Champions" for sure. (ding)
I feel like it's gonna have a huge opening weekend.
- Definitely "We Are the Champions." - It's "We Are the Champions."
Everyone I know, all my friends and my kids, wanna go see it.
- We are the [bleep] champions. This movie is gonna kill it 100%.
- I'm an optimistic guy. I think it's gonna be
"We Are the Champions." (ding)
- "We Are the Champions," because even if it sucks,
it'll be a cult classic. - "We Are the Champions" for sure!
I'm already hyped just off the trailer.
- "We Are the Champions" for sure. My prediction is you're gonna
walk out of that movie, and you're gonna be singing
and humming those songs all night long
and probably into the next days. And those who don't know Queen,
they'll probably look them up on Spotify or iTunes or whatever
and find all the other great music that they have.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Adults React.
- Shoutout to BlackNight and R M, who watched last week.
- Let us know in the comments if you're excited
for "Bohemian Rhapsody." - Later, guys.
- Hey, guys. Ethan here from FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode.
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