It’s one of Queen’s most popular songs but Fat Bottomed Girls has been dropped from the band’s new Greatest Hits selection because Universal Music Group think it’s too raunchy and sexist for younger audiences.

The 1978 track, written by guitarist Brian May, appeared on the band’s original 1981 greatest hits album along with all their other classics. But on the new one? Nowhere to be found. The track, as the kids say, is a banger:

Oh you gonna take me home tonight
Oh down beside that red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat-bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go ’round

Hey, I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery (huh)
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me

Hey, hey!

I’ve been singing with my band
‘Cross the water, ‘cross the land
I’ve seen every blue-eyed floozy on the way (hey)
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time

C’mon!

Oh, won’t you take me home tonight?
Oh, down beside your red firelight
Oh, and you give it all you got
Fat-bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go ’round
Fat-bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go ’round

Hey, listen here
Now I got mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain’t no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh, but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you done made a big man of me (now get this)

Oh (I know), you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh, down beside that red firelight
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat-bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go ’round (yeah)
Fat-bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go ’round

Get on your bikes and ride

Ooh, yeah, oh, yeah, them fat-bottomed girls
Fat-bottomed girls, yeah, yeah, yeah
Alright
Ride ’em come on
Fat-bottomed girls
Yes, yes, right

What a beautiful tribute to all the plus-sized posteriors around the world. Just a skinny lad showing his appreciation for the larger lady who took him under her bingo wings and turned him into a man. It should be a song that resonates with audiences young and old, but instead it’s being sacrificed to appease the easily offended.

A music industry insider told MailOnline:

‘It is the talk of the music industry, nobody can work out why such a good-natured, fun song can’t be acceptable in today’s society.

It is woke gone mad. Why not appreciate people of all shapes and sizes like society is saying we should, rather than get rid of it.’

I’m not even sure who to blame for this; the younger generation that’s apparently too sensitive to handle a classic rock song or the adults who are enabling this sort of culture by censoring the classics we all know and love. Either way – it’s a shame.

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