{"id":2007867,"date":"2023-08-22T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-canceled\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:45:49","slug":"amid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s &#8216;Fat Bottom Girls&#8217; canceled in 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\">20<\/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-canceled%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=2007867&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 &#8220;Fat Bottomed Girls&#8221; Left Off Greatest Hits Collection<\/h2>\n<p>From Lizzo to\u2062 Meghan\u200d Trainor, music celebrating bigger women has become big business in the era of big people. Perhaps if\u200c the 1970s\u2062 rock\u2064 band Queen had been led by a woman, particularly a bigger\u200d woman, they \u200ctoo 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 band\u2019s blockbuster track, \u201cFat\u2064 Bottomed Girls,\u201d was left off\u2064 the group\u2019s Greatest Hits collection.<\/p>\n<p>Written by guitarist Brian\u2064 May, \u2063the <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'.\">legendary 1978 record served generations<\/a> as an anthem to male admiration of women with larger-than-average bodies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut 45 years later, it appears that lyrics such\u2062 as \u2018left alone with big \u200bfat Fanny, she was such \u200da naughty nanny, big \u2063woman, \u2063you made a bad boy out of me\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 the rockin\u2019 world go round\u2019\u200d have been \u200chit by the woke cancel \u200bculture,\u201d the Mail\u200d reported. \u200b\u201cIt was such a popular hit for Queen that \u200dit appeared fourth on the band\u2019s original 1981 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-weeknd-reveals-why-his-performers-wore-bandages-at-the-super-bowl\/\" title=\"The Weeknd Reveals Why His Performers Wore Bandages At The Super Bowl\">greatest hits<\/a> album along with Bohemian Rhapsody, Don\u2019t Stop Me\u200d Now\u2064 and We\u2064 Will Rock You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, however,\u2062 \u201cFat\u200d Bottomed Girls\u201d was absent from a list of songs put\u200d out by Universal Records highlighting \u200cQueen\u2019s greatest hits.<\/p>\n<p>While the exact circumstances of \u200cthe song\u2019s omission from the label remain unclear, an industry insider\u200d told the Daily Mail the song was inappropriately singled out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the talk of the music industry, nobody can work out why such a good-natured fun song can\u2019t be acceptable in today\u2019s society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the song was omitted for its male\u2063 appreciation for big women, the cancellation is not\u2062 only ironic \u200dunder the shadow of Lizzo\u2019s star power but \u200bsignals a threat to\u2062 music by other artists who express reverence for women of \u200ba larger size. Coincidentally, Lizzo\u2019s stardom has\u2064 been recently dimmed by accusations of sexual\u2062 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\u2064 charges<\/a> of \u201cfat shaming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s 1978\u2063 release of\u2062 \u201cFat Bottomed Girls\u201d was a precursor\u200b 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> \u200dhit to follow 14 years later, \u201cBaby Got Back.\u201d The lyrics were far more explicit, as is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/05\/is-npr-trying-to-start-a-race-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">typical<\/a> with rap music.\u2063 The 1992 song\u2019s opening narrator even characterized a big-bootied black woman as a \u201cprostitute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, her butt, it\u2019s just so big,\u201d an unnamed woman tells her friend named Becky.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-canceled\/\" title=\"Queen's 'Fat Bottom Girls' canceled in era of 'body positivity'.\">contemporary pro-fat \u2062movement operating<\/a> under the banner of \u201cbody positivity\u201d might celebrate music \u2064about\u2064 male\u200d adoration for female bodies. But the ensuing cancellation of one of Queen\u2019s most defining songs is a \u200creminder that the movement\u2019s imposition of \u201chealth at every size\u201d often only goes 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 correspondent for The Federalist and\u200b the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also\u200b written for The Washington \u200bExaminer and The Daily Signal. His work has also been\u2064 featured in Real \u2064Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored \u200bin political science and \u2063minored \u2062in journalism. Follow him on\u200c Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him\u2062 at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email\u200c newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that Queen&#8217;s lead guitarist, Brian May, revealed that the band had considered having a female frontwoman. This revelation adds another layer to the ongoing conversation about body positivity in the music industry and highlights the potential impact a bigger woman could have had on Queen&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2007868,"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-2007867","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\/2007867","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=2007867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}