Is Queen's "One Vision" actually a demand for fascism?

Never take Queen's lyrics seriously. :-)

Despite their enormous popularity, Queen were never taken seriously by rock critics — an infamous Rolling Stone review labeled their 1979 album Jazz as "fascist."

and that was BEFORE "One Vision"!

To tell the truth, we never consider our work as completely musical, music is only one of our interests. We do like music as a language of expression but we don't want to limit ourselves to one single field of operation.Every form is political, you cannot say that Elton John does not have a political background. We've shown that Queen can be a very political group, we only translated 'One Vision' into German, it started to function as a political song. Some censorship doesn't do any harm - the state should close all the discotheques and shut down the concerts. Music is not a form of liberation any more, it is a very subtle system of controlling the youth, how could you consider MTV otherwise.

(God works in mysterious ways)

One man one goal one mission
One heart one soul just one solution
One flash of light yeah one god one vision

One flesh one bone
One true religion
One voice one hope
One real decision
Wowowowo gimme one vision

No wrong no right
I'm gonna tell you there's no black and no white
No blood no stain
All we need is one world wide vision

One flesh one bone
One true religion
One race one hope
One real decision
Wowowowo oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah

I had a dream
When I was young
A dream of sweet illusion
A glimpse of hope and unity
And visions of one sweet union
But a cold wind blows
And a dark rain falls
And in my heart it shows
Look what they've done to my dreams

So give me your hands
Give me your hearts
I'm ready
There's only one direction
One world one nation
Yeah one vision

No hate no fight
Just excitation
All through the night
It's a celebration wowowowo yeah

One one one one...
One vision...

One flesh one bone
One true religion
One voice one hope
One real decision

Gimme one light
Gimme one hope
Just gimme
One man one man
One bar one night
One day hey hey
Just gimme gimme gimme gimme
Fried chicken

was a scary/intense moment of my life.

i always though laibach were supposedly Tounge-in-cheek till that point, but this whole incident began to make me question their motivation.

I think they are tounge-in-cheek, but that a vast number of folks don't seem to be in on the joke.

According to Mercury himself, the lyrics were about Bob Geldof. So unless it was a call to get Bob Geldof as a fascist Führer, this thread is indeed quite ridiculous.

Geldof wasn't a fascist?

geldof_kfc_lovin_it.jpg plz

it's actually an aborted attempt at a KFC jingle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9_biM0qFQE

so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvNvBYTsGw

the original

HAHAHAHA

Ever since Momus called "We Are the Champions" fascist in another thread I haven't been able to hear that song without imagining Hitler belting it out from the bunker, in front of downcast troops who know defeat is coming, before Hitler drinks the poison, or whatever.

Or Momus actually called it a song that would be on "hitler's iPod"

pete9939 (13 hours ago)

This is a remarkable song with a message relevant to any decade, century or millenia.

No problem seeing the nazi imagery here, and Rammstein's version (and video) is brilliant, although I wonder how they dare, being Germans and all.

But still a bit unfair towards a lyric that was actually written in honour of Bob Geldof. I doubt Freddie Mercury wanted Bob Geldof to become a dictator (even though it probably would have been better than Reagan and Thatcher).

LOL @ tiger's wood

well who's ever confused rammstein with laibach before