Fat Bottomed Girls Quotes
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Source: Fat Bottomed Girls
Speaker: Queen
Fat bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round.
Context
This line was sung by Queen in the song "Fat Bottomed Girls," written by Brian May, from the album Jazz (1978).
Over their tenure as one of the greatest bands on earth, Queen has sung on a variety of subjects from saviors of the universe to Scaramouche and Fandango to the pain of immortality. But one of their catchiest songs is about women with large posteriors.
"Fat Bottomed Girls" is Queen at their most signature and self-indulgent. Cheeky lyrics (literally), vocal harmonies, and some killer guitar riffs from Brian May. It's a fun, saucy tune and easy to sing along to whether you're at karaoke, driving in your car, or watching a sitcom like Glee, The Cleveland Show, or the late, great Freaks and Geeks.
Where you've heard it
It's the easier alternative to "Bohemian Rhapsody" if you want to sing a Queen song with a few friends at karaoke. It's also popped up in a lot of TV shows in the past decade.
The fictional cover band Jeffster, which was made up of Nerd Herd employees from the NBC TV show Chuck, opened the show's 2009 panel in-character at San Diego Comic Con with a fun cover of "Fat Bottomed Girls."
Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
This line is pure, unadulterated truth from one of Queen's least pretentious songs.