But if Yoto added the album this week, it didn’t come with “Fats Bottomed Women,” a cheeky track that incorporates lyrics a few “naughty nanny” with a “large fats fanny,” in addition to “fats bottomed ladies,” who “make the rocking global pass round.”
The band declined to remark at the determination, however Phil Symes, a spokesman for Queen’s e-newsletter arm, Queen Productions, showed the elimination from the album on Yoto “used to be agreed with the band forward of its liberate.” Common Tune declined to remark.
The selection to wipe “Fats Bottomed Women” from Yoto drew complaint from Fox Information commentators or even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who wrote, “They’re looking to cancel Queen? Idiotic.”
“To mention, ‘All proper, that track by no means existed’ is totally ridiculous. And, through the way in which, the boomerang impact shall be extra folks downloading that track than they ever would’ve earlier than 40 years later,” Fox Information contributor Joe Concha advised “Fox & Pals First” on Monday.
However different social media customers, together with some Queen fanatics, contended that there wasn’t a lot of a debate in regards to the track’s elimination because it has provocative lyrics and isn’t appropriate for youngsters.
Yoto, which didn’t in an instant reply to a request for remark, advised the UK information outlet the Impartial that “the common age of our listeners is 5 years outdated, and after session, we felt [‘Fat Bottomed Girls’] wasn’t suitable for our younger target market.”
“While no swear phrases are used parental discretion is suggested when enjoying this content material to or round more youthful youngsters,” consistent with the “Biggest Hits” description web page on Yoto.
The track, which debuted at the band’s 7th studio album “Jazz” in 1978, nonetheless seems on Spotify and Apple Tune at the “Biggest Hits” album, sitting along different mega hits from the band together with “We Will Rock You,” “We Are the Champions” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
In 2011, Queen guitarist Brian Would possibly, who penned the track, advised General Guitar mag there wasn’t one explicit “backside” that impressed the venture.
“There have been a large number of bottoms concerned, actually, and no longer simply those in my direct revel in,” he mentioned.