Results for “Queen Latifah”

Artists

Queen Latifah Dana Elaine Owens, known professionally by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American…

Songs

Cell Block Tango

Queen Latifah

This track reworks the Chicago musical's "Cell Block Tango" into a hip-hop cipher, with Queen Latifah anchoring a repeated…

domestic abuse and retaliation justice vs. legal guilt female solidarity under duress

U.N.I.T.Y.

Queen Latifah

A hip-hop address aimed squarely at verbal and physical disrespect toward Black women, built from three linked vignettes --…

gender respect within the Black community street harassment domestic abuse and self-respect

Queen

Perfume Genius

Perfume Genius takes on the persona of a defiant, diseased drag monarch, turning stigma into swagger. The song weaponizes…

queer defiance stigma and disease as metaphor camp as power

Face It Alone

Queen

A previously unreleased Freddie Mercury vocal, built posthumously into a full Queen track, this song is a stark meditation on…

isolation mortality self-reliance

Flash's Theme

Queen

This is Queen's title theme for the campy 1980 space-opera film, built almost entirely as a chant-like hero salute punctuated by…

heroism vs tyranny spectacle and camp chosen-one mythology

Tie Your Mother Down

Queen

A hard-rock stomper about sneaking past disapproving parents to get to a girl, played entirely for comic, cartoonish swagger.…

teenage rebellion forbidden romance comic machismo

Under Pressure

Queen

A collaboration between Queen and David Bowie built around a rolling bass riff, the song treats societal pressure as a physical…

collective anxiety urban alienation the erosion of love as a value

Keep Yourself Alive

Queen

Queen's debut single is a wry survival manifesto disguised as a rock anthem, tracking a narrator who has chased every…

disillusionment with self-improvement excess and hollow experience survival versus success

Dragon Attack

Queen

A groove-driven, riff-heavy jam built more on sensation than sense, "Dragon Attack" trades narrative for pure sonic and sexual…

sexual conquest altered perception surrender to instinct

Cool Cat

Queen

A slight, groove-driven vignette about attraction to someone effortlessly stylish and self-possessed, filtered through…

infatuation cool detachment vs. desire surface style over substance

'39

Queen

Written by Brian May, '39 is a folk-tinged science-fiction ballad about a crew who leave Earth on a voyage and return to find,…

time and relativity exploration and departure loss and separation

Don't Stop Me Now (…revisited)

Queen

A pure momentum song: the speaker declares himself an unstoppable force of pleasure and energy, piling up cosmic and mechanical…

hedonism and release self-mythologizing speed and momentum

Love of My Life

Queen

A ballad of direct, almost naked pleading, structured as a repeated appeal to a departing lover rather than a story with events.…

romantic loss pleading and supplication devotion despite rejection

I Want to Break Free

Queen

A deceptively simple breakup anthem built on repetition and plain declarative statements, John Deacon's song uses the language…

liberation romantic disillusionment self-assertion

Queen Bee

Taj Mahal

A blues-boogie tribute to a woman rendered almost entirely through the honey-bee conceit, where sweetness, stinging, and…

desire and physical devotion nature imagery as sexual metaphor call-and-response repetition

The Queen and the Soldier

Suzanne Vega

A ballad built like a fairy tale in which a war-weary soldier deserts the battlefield to confront the monarch he's been fighting…

emotional repression power and isolation war as metaphor for control

Little Queen

Heart

A portrait of a female performer trapped inside her own celebrity, told by an outside voice that watches her glamour and her…

fame and its costs performance vs. private self female autonomy and constraint

Queen Bitch

David Bowie

A voyeuristic narrator watches a street-corner seduction unfold from a hotel window, alternately mocking and envying the…

voyeurism and surveillance queer desire and rivalry gender performance and camp

Queen Of The Scene

Buzzcocks

A late-period Buzzcocks track that trains its pop-punk energy on reality-TV celebrity culture, watching a media-manufactured…

celebrity and spectacle media saturation self-destruction as performance

Planet Queen

T. Rex

A glam-rock incantation that fuses science-fiction imagery with erotic obsession, built almost entirely from repeated, dreamlike…

cosmic eroticism obsession and surrender dream logic

The Queen of May

Shirley Collins

This is a pastoral courtship ballad built on the ancient English association between May Day, flowers, and sexual awakening. A…

courtship ritual springtime fertility symbolism pastoral idealization

Rock and Roll Queen

Mott the Hoople

An early Mott the Hoople track built on a swaggering put-down dressed up as rock bravado, with a narrator addressing a woman he…

misogyny/double standards rock star posturing public image vs private reality

Go with the Flow

Queens of the Stone Age

A driving, hook-heavy rock song that masks a numb, detached narrator behind a catchy refrain of nonchalance. Underneath the…

emotional detachment disposability of relationships desire for meaning amid numbness

No One Knows

Queens of the Stone Age

A hypnotic, riff-driven track that uses disorientation as its subject and its method -- the lyric moves through swallowed pills,…

disorientation and altered states obsessive devotion isolation within intimacy

Paper Machete

Queens of the Stone Age

A scathing breakup song that dissects a former partner's habit of performing both aggression and victimhood as needed, with the…

betrayal and manipulation performed victimhood collapse of trust

The Birds of St. Marks

Jackson Browne

A song written decades before it was released, this is Jackson Browne revisiting a song of romantic dissolution wrapped in…

emotional distance the failure of communication romantic disillusionment

Nosferatu Man

Slint

Slint's "Nosferatu Man" builds a fractured gothic fairy tale around a narrator who casts himself as royalty and monster in the…

predation disguised as romance domestic entrapment self-mythologizing delusion

Steve Biko (Stir It Up)

A Tribe Called Quest

A three-MC posse cut built almost entirely from boasts, wordplay, and Queens pride, borrowing the name and instrumental cue of…

hip-hop bravado and lyrical skill group identity and borough pride fleeting social consciousness