Previously, I explained how Morrissey the lead singer of 'The Smiths' showed feminine signs even though he was male, e.g. swinging flowers, wearing chains etc.
However, it has come to my attention that I have missed one of the biggest music videos when discovering different genders in a video.
Queen's song 'I Want To Break Free' shows the complete gender swap as he waltzes round in heels a tight top, a skirt, fish net tights, a wig and a moustache.
All the other band members also took part in this complete gender swap almost as if a protest with Transgenders on how they 'want to break free' from their bodies and become the real them.
This, however is just my perspective onto the video, Freddie Mercury being a gay man himself fully supported all rights in that respect and this seems to be the only logical solution.
However, as this kind of behaviour was looked down on even in the 80's it may have been a hidden message below the ridiculous idea that a man would want to change his body to be seen as a woman.
But in today's modern day society I see it as a way for people to break free as shown in the video, which I personally feel is a very noble thing to do by Freddie and as that I believe this video is worth the watch.
Including this in our preliminary task would have been interesting and effective for the audience especially for the time of the song release as being gay, bisexual etc. was frowned upon in the 60's and is only just becoming acceptable in today's society.
However, Dusty Springfield came out herself as lesbian, including this in our preliminary would have been an interesting thing to include purely for the audience effectiveness.
Unfortunately, we did not include this in our preliminary because our storyboard was already complete at this stage of the process.
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