{"id":2007095,"date":"2023-08-21T15:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T15:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T19:27:41","slug":"amid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s iconic song &#8220;Fat Bottom Girls&#8221; faces cancellation amidst the era of &#8216;body positivity&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-cancelled%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007095&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Queen&#8217;s\u200d &#8220;Fat Bottomed Girls&#8221; Left Off Greatest Hits Collection<\/h2>\n<p>From Lizzo to Meghan \u2062Trainor,\u200c music celebrating bigger women has become\u2063 big business in\u200d the era of big people. Perhaps if \u200bthe 1970s \u2063rock band Queen \u200dhad been \u200cled by a woman, particularly a bigger woman, they too would join the hall of fame of body-positive musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Except on Saturday, the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12424449\/We-woke-Classic-Queen-song-Fat-Bottomed-Girls-mysteriously-dropped-groups-new-Greatest-Hits-collection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> the\u200d band\u2019s blockbuster track, \u201cFat Bottomed Girls,\u201d was left off the group\u2019s Greatest Hits collection.<\/p>\n<p>Written by guitarist Brian May, the legendary 1978 record served generations as an anthem\u2063 to male admiration of \u200cwomen with larger-than-average bodies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut 45 years later, it appears that\u2064 lyrics \u2063such as \u2018left alone \u2062with big fat Fanny, she was \u2064such a naughty\u2064 nanny,\u2062 big\u200b woman, you made a bad boy out of \u2063me\u2019 and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fat-bottomed-girls-spurned-from-queens-greatest-hits\/\" title=\"'Fat Bottomed Girls' emerged from Queen's Greatest Hits.\">fat bottomed girls<\/a>, you make \u2063the rockin\u2019 world go round\u2019 have been hit by the woke cancel \u200dculture,\u201d the Mail reported. \u201cIt was such a popular hit for Queen that it\u200b appeared\u200b fourth on the band\u2019s \u2063original 1981 greatest hits album along with Bohemian \u200dRhapsody, \u200bDon\u2019t Stop Me Now and We Will Rock You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, however, \u201cFat Bottomed Girls\u201d \u2064was absent \u200cfrom a \u200clist of songs put \u200bout\u2062 by Universal \u2064Records highlighting Queen\u2019s greatest \u200bhits.<\/p>\n<p>While the \u2062exact circumstances\u2063 of the song\u2019s omission\u200b from the label remain unclear, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/siriusxm-pandora-cmt-iheartradio-pull-morgan-wallen-music-following-n-word-video-recorded-by-neighbor\/\" title=\"SiriusXM, Pandora, CMT, iHeartRadio Pull Morgan Wallen Music Following N-Word Video Recorded By Neighbor\">industry insider told<\/a> the Daily Mail the song was inappropriately singled \u2063out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the talk \u200bof the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-supporter-and-mother-of-two-fears-for-her-life-and-her-childrens-safety-after-kathy-griffin-doxxes-her-family\/\" title=\"Trump Supporter and Mother of Two Fears for Her Life and Her Children\u2019s Safety After Kathy Griffin Doxxes Her Family\">music industry<\/a>, nobody can work out why such a good-natured fun song can\u2019t be acceptable in today\u2019s \u2063society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the song was omitted for its male\u200d appreciation \u200bfor big women,\u200b the cancellation is not only ironic\u2062 under \u200dthe shadow \u200cof Lizzo\u2019s star power but signals a\u2062 threat\u2062 to\u2063 music by other artists who express reverence\u2062 for women\u200c of a larger size. Coincidentally, Lizzo\u2019s stardom has\u200b been recently dimmed by accusations of sexual misconduct and more <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/01\/is-lizzo-a-fatphobic-fake-new-lawsuit-suggests-so\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">frivolous \u200bcharges<\/a> \u200dof \u201cfat shaming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s 1978 release of \u201cFat Bottomed Girls\u201d was a\u2063 precursor to Sir Mix-a-Lot\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/features\/sir-mix-a-lot-on-baby-got-back-7809400\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">number-one<\/a> \u2063hit to follow\u200d 14 years \u200clater,\u200c \u201cBaby Got Back.\u201d The lyrics were far \u200cmore explicit, \u200bas is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/05\/is-npr-trying-to-start-a-race-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">typical<\/a> \u2062 with rap music. The\u2062 1992 song\u2019s opening narrator even characterized a big-bootied black woman as a \u201cprostitute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u200b mean, her\u200b butt, it\u2019s just so big,\u201d an unnamed woman\u2062 tells her friend\u200b named Becky.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-cancelled\/\" title=\"Queen's iconic song \"Fat Bottom Girls\" faces cancellation amidst the era of 'body positivity'.\">contemporary\u200b pro-fat movement operating<\/a> under the banner of \u201cbody positivity\u201d might celebrate \u2063music about male \u2062adoration for \u2062female \u2064bodies. But the ensuing cancellation of one of Queen\u2019s most defining songs\u2064 is a reminder that the movement\u2019s imposition of \u201chealth\u200c at every size\u201d often only goes\u200d one way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/26\/where-was-plus-size-ken-in-barbie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Where Was \u2018Plus-Size Ken\u2019 In \u2018Barbie?\u2019<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western\u2064 correspondent \u2064for The \u200dFederalist and the author \u200bof Social Justice Redux,\u2062 a conservative newsletter \u200bon culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The\u2064 Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington \u2064University where he majored\u200d in political science and minored\u2062 in journalism. Follow\u2063 him \u2062on Twitter\u2063 at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign\u200c up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lizzo to Meghan Trainor, music embracing larger women thrives in the age of body positivity. Had Queen been fronted by a bigger woman, they might have also achieved fame as body-positive musicians. However, the Daily Mail recently revealed on Saturday that this was not the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2007096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}