As a monstrous fan of Queen, I’ve had much to hang my head about over the past few years. Paul Rodgers? Yeah. Guys, George Michael and Justin Hawkins were available, and you hit the road – as QUEEN – with a guy who has nowhere near the range of my beloved Farrokh.
But this? This is just awful.
Awhile back, our trusty Rennwick Brown ran a bit about the musical content of Zack Snyder’s feature-length cutscene Sucker Punch. And while I was thrilled to discover that the reunited Skunk Anansie was involved, the info – like the visuals – left me cold.
Here now, thanks the the Official Queen Facebook Page, we have our first taste of that musical content – specifically the fourth song on the track list (from hitfix.com and collider.com). It’s a “mash-up”/remix of two classic Queen songs, and it makes me wonder how broke the remaining dudes have to be to let this fly (in fairness, it could be the doing of Hollywood Records – an entity I can’t belive still exists).
I understand loaning music out to advertisers, or allowing samples – and I know that Queen isn’t a band that anyone could accuse of “selling out” (since there was never a time they weren’t about shipping units and cashing checks and mad parties on Scarface Mountain) – but why let someone just shit on the tracks? This sounds like Fred Durst should be whining over it. In 1998.
Gregg Gillis is available, guys. You wanted to sample/remix/mash some shit, you could have given him a call.
At any rate – here you go:
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go bathe in the Judgement Night soundtrack like I’m Ra’s Al Fucking Ghul.
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I love Queen, this is just wrong…
I think you’re overreacting. Not great, but no different from any of the other mashups/samples that have polluted our ears over the last 20 years. And yes, I’m a Queen fan.
If I were in a three day long depression spiral, that would be overreacting. I just wrote up a piece of news about a shitty song. 😉
And there have been innovative uses of sampling, energetic remixes that create a completely new emotional response to a pre-existing song, and witty and fun mash-ups over the past twenty years. This track is the antithesis of that.
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Jesus fucking christ, this is a mess.
Ewww.
Hollywood Records is owned by Disney, so yes they still exist
Like Hollywood Pictures still exists?
Costello is correct. Yes it’s crap, but how much worse is it than the Black-Eyed Peas or whatever other crap gets fed to us everyday? Of course it’s disappointing that it’s attached to what looked, for a moment, like a promising (and increasingly rare) original movie.
As someone who thought Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit were the artists who changed the music industry forever when I was 12, I had to stop this song after 30 seconds. That’s some wretched WWF theme song shit right here. By the way, the Judgment Night soundtrack kicks ass.
If there’s one thing this film never looked, is original, it looks completely derivative of every other film and video game around the last 10 years.
This sounds a lot worse that the ‘Q Unit’ mashups that were done some time back…
Might make a good workout song, but that’s about it.
H.A.M. Sighted.
Certainly no disrespect meant, m’man. And, agreed- there can be interesting directions for mashups & stuff… but they’re few and far between. This sure ain’t one of them. My hope is that in context the generic nature of this track complements the crazy visuals. Like, maybe in order to avoid completely inundating the senses it’s been toned down, or something.
In any event I won’t be adding this to the iPod rotation.
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