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Michaela McKuen's avatar

Isn’t Bohemian Rhapsody about the Faust myth? He tries to kill himself and writes about it so people will hear what happened even though he’s really cryptic about it, and makes a bet or deal with the Devil, the Devil comes to try to take his soul, the angels and demons fight over his soul during the opera part. Faust lived in Bohemia back when that was a mostly German-speaking territory so that’s why it’s Bohemian. People making deals with the Devil is a common opera myth and also a common rock myth, it would make sense an opera-inspired rock song would be about Faust.

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Jacqueline Rendell's avatar

HA!!!

The wind didn't stand a chance. It's just too perfect. I can hear the "zvip, zvip, zvip" from walking around in my k-ways now....

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