#hot space

Album cover crosstitches I've made! I'm aiming to make 9 and frame them if you have any suggestions for albums (not too complicated) id be happy to hear!

1. Night at the opera - Queen

2. Hot space - Queen

3. Rumours - Fleetwood mac

4. Full moon fever - Tom Petty

5. Belladonna - Stevie Nicks

6. Damn the torepedos - Tom petty & the

Heartbreakers

The Marauders as Hot Space by Queen album cover

is that what’s happening in this picture? Or is this something else entirely

Lol, no *this* is his reaction to it

Okay let’s break this down shall we. The impression I get from various interviews and things is this:

After the success of Another One Bites the Dust, Freddie thought they should explore more dance/funk/disco music

John was on board with this

Crystal is on record somewhere saying that initially, ALL of them were enthusiastic. I think the result of the album very quickly soured Brian and Roger’s hindsight a little, but that’s just my opinion

Brian is on record as feeling “roped out” by Body Language because he felt it was an “overtly gay anthem” and due to the fact that the band had “friends of every persuasion,” he wanted everybody to be able to relate. I understand the sentiment but also: lmao

Roger has also said he didn’t want the music to sound like it was from a gay bar. Before anyone who may not be aware of Roger Taylor’s History of Allyship clutches their pearls, it’s ONLY because he doesn’t appear to be a huge fan of the disco/dance vibe of music. (He himself co-own(ed?)s a gay bar).

Hot Space comes out and is a flop, although I don’t know if they were close to being in debt tbh. But it wasn’t popular and it had become a source of internal tension

In the end, I don’t believe any of them liked it as a whole, and they all recognize that it didn’t do well and maybe they went too far out on the limb. Roger loves Under Pressure, but I don’t know how wild he is about the rest of the songs in there

The Works was then them going back to a more rock-oriented style, I think as a reassurance to both them and their audience

So TLDR, It’s true Brian and Roger don’t like it—but I don’t think they were in total opposition the entire time— and in the end, yeah none of them were that thrilled with it. It did flop but I feel like they probably had enough money at this point to not be in danger of debt, it just probably didn’t make as much as they were hoping. That’s just a guess though, I’ve never seen them talk about debt in regards to Hot Space

In my own opinion, they hate Hot Space too much but certain Queen fans hype it up too much too. May be controversial, but Under Pressure and Las Palabras de Amor are the best songs on there, Cool Cat is fun, and Life Is Real is nice. The rest are varying degrees of “meh” to “absolutely not”