The Yoto platform chose to remove the cut composed by Brian May in the version of the “Greatest Hits” album.
The song of Queen “Fat Bottomed Girls”originally published on the album “Jazz”from 1978, was cut from the album version “Greatest Hits” uploaded to Yoto, a music platform for children.
Although the site warns that “the lyrics of some of these songs contain adult themes, including occasional references to violence and drugs”, the song composed by the guitarist Brian May it did not pass the censorship filter due to the explicit nature of its title, warned the English newspaper The Sun when reporting the news.
“Fat Bottomed Girls”whose translation into Spanish is equivalent to “Fat Hips Girls”or even more precisely, “Fat Ass Girls”is a classic of the band led by Freddy Mercury which was part of the successful compilation album published in 1981, uploaded to the Yoto platform after an agreement with the Universal Music Group company.
The compilation album includes, in addition to this cut, classics such as “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “We Are You Champions”, “Somebody to Love”, “We Will Rock You” and “Killer Queen”among many
At the time of the album’s release “Jazz”the vinyl edition was accompanied by a fold-out poster where a squad of naked girls could be seen riding a bicycle, alluding both to the songs “Fat Bottomed Girls” like “Bicycle Race”another of the great hits that the plate contained.
In some countries, that edition was censored, including Argentina, where the last military dictatorship ruled.
Now the platform Yotowho uploaded the album “Greatest Hits” with a text stating that “is the ideal introduction to Queen’s music for young music lovers”questioned this song again.
For the coming months, the platform plans to include works by Bob Marley and the seal motown, among others. It remains to be seen what attitude he will take in these cases, where references to drug use and allusions to sex abound, respectively.
Source: Ambito
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