Queen: We Will Rock You Meaning

Song Released: 1977

Covered By: In This Moment (2020)

We Will Rock You Lyrics

Buddy you’re a boy make a big noise
Playin’ in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on yo’ face
You big disgrace
Kickin’ your can all over the place singin'

We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you

Buddy you’re a...

1. 80s_DJ

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   Jan 4th 2016 !⃝

   It's a song about KISS. The clues are in the song and in the video. Kiss all wore "mud" on their faces (the make-up), blood on their face (Gene spit blood onstage), and they made a big noise. In their video, Mercury wears glasses with star shapes (a Paul Stanley reference) while Brian May shows off the large rubber boots he's wearing, a reference to the huge rubber boots Gene Simmons wore onstage. Mercury even point at May's rubber boot in the video, as though they're trying to make a point about something. So to be clear, Queen is not singing about how they will rock you, they are singing about ANOTHER band that sings about how they rock (and roll all night). The title of "We Will Rock You" refers to the Kiss hit "Rock And Roll All Nite" which Mercury hated and publicly complained as being too arrogant and boastful.
2. anonymous

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   Jul 7th 2015 !⃝

   I think this was a response to the punk movement at the time. Queen never criticized other types of music but punks didn't like queen's glam rock style. In this song, Queen responds and calls out the punks and lets them know that Queen will rock them and the punks will end as they began on the street.
3. anonymous

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   Jun 5th 2015 !⃝

   Freddy Mercury( the main singer in the band) in the band, Queen, woke up one morning with a stomp-stomp-clap beat in his head. He later wrote some depressing lyrics that describes a worthless man that had a dream and didn't fulfill it. In the lyrics, it begins with a young teen that has a dream of achieving an amazing life when he is older. In the second stanza the teen is now a man, a more responsible and mature man, who is battling to reach his goal. Then the song ends with an old mans dream being unfulfilled.
4. anonymous

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   Jan 17th 2015 !⃝

   I have heard this song for as long as I can remember my brother listened to Queen, The Gorillaz, Salt and Pepper, Tom Petty, The Beatles, etc. AWESOME MUSIC! So I grew up with the best music ever and then found out meanings of songs and then...well...gathered the pieces of my blown mind. Such as the Gorillaz are puppets and Feel Good is full of crap. I love this song so BRING BACK THIS MUSIC on #Facebook

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5. anonymous

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   Dec 26th 2014 !⃝

   The song is about those that Brown knows the way to the top and then when they get to the top they think that they have the right to rock covers or shake others another words we will rock you we will shake you up we're the ones in control you're just little boys we we are the ones that have grown up welcome to the new world order!

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6. anonymous

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   Oct 26th 2014 !⃝

   It was written in response to punk music at the time.
7. anonymous

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   Oct 25th 2014 !⃝

   Maybe there is some religious significance here. The 3 verses sound like the life of St. Peter...always in a mess of some kind. But always rocked by Christian love. We've all had mud or blood on our faces. Life is hard without a loving community of some kind to support us.

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8. anonymous

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   Jan 2nd 2014 !⃝

   I think almost everyone is right in what they think this song means to them. Me I believe. It means growing up with out a silver spoon and making it the big time. But yet your still not on top because of people who make it with a gimmick for people to pay attention to them. So what im trying to say is do it on your own and stay who you are or if not go back where you came from.
9. anonymous

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   May 3rd 2013 !⃝

   Moi je pense que cette chanson fait plutôt allusion a un punk, car quand cette chanson a été écrite les punks envahissaient la scène avec leurs chansons sur le société qui nous détruit. Je pense que Queen voulait leurs faire passer un message. au premier couplet on parle d'un enfant qui veux faire quelque chose dans sa vie, après sa devient un jeune homme, qui veut changer le monde, en brandissant des bannières, il a du sang sur le visage, pour montrer qu'il s'est battu (peut-être avec la police) car on a l'impression que le jeune homme fait une "révolte" (je sais plus comment sa s'appelle). Puis sa devient un vieil homme pauvre, qui demande de l'argent en plaidant avec ses yeux, on dit que sa va lui faire de la paix un jour, quelqu'un doit le remettre à sa place car il fait n'importe quoi. Le refrain qui est "on vous secourra" me fait penser que Queen essaye de "combattre" les punks, en montrant aux gens que ce n'est pas la société qui a un problème, mais que c'est nous qui devront changer.
   
   voila c'est ce que je pense, et je n'ai rien contre les punks, je ne fait qu'interpréter la chanson.
10. anonymous

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    Aug 17th 2012 !⃝

    We Will Rock You is about Freddie Mercury (The Lead singer of Queen) 's Love for rocks. He had a rock collection. He named the first rock Buddy. That's where he got the words 'Buddy your a boy make a big noise shouting in the street gonna take on the world some day' And his other rock was called, You got mud on your face. He hated that rock. That's why he said you got mud on your face you big disgrace. Also, he had constipation. He took some laxatives but then his rocks ran away.
    THE END
11. anonymous

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    Jul 4th 2012 !⃝

    I HEARD in an interview it was written as a "Gay Liberation song" which would make sense in some ways when you read the lyrics. I remember seeing an interview with either Brian May or Roger Taylor(I don't remember who though).
12. anonymous

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    Feb 29th 2012 !⃝

    It's a gay anthem about the Stonewall Riots where a few gay bars were invaded by police and the people there wouldn't just sit back and take it, so they threw rocks at the police, "we will rock you"
13. anonymous

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    Dec 17th 2011 !⃝

    Have you ever watched Scarface? This song is about Tony Montana. "Ready to take out the world someday" refers to Tony's fountain in his mansion. "You got blood on your face" refers to that chainsaw scene.

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14. anonymous

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    Oct 12th 2011 !⃝

    If people could understand the meaning of this song in an instant, than it wouldnt be a song. This song being written by a band called QUEEN and sung by a man named freddie mercury, who was a gay man, is inevitably about gay pride. gay activism was becoming very prevalent at this time in history, after the Stone wall riots in the late 60's, many artist and people such as mercury and harvey milk were looking for ways to have the ethic of the gay individuals rights spoken for...
15. anonymous

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    May 12th 2011 !⃝

    It's about a neighborhood bully then one day all the other kids say that's enough and beat him up which is why we will we will rock you means we are going to beat you up super bad.

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