Beyonce Botches Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

By AOL Music Editors Posted Jun 22nd 2011 02:15AM

Beyonce blatantly forgot the lyrics to Queen's famed 1975 hit 'Bohemian Rhapsody' while performing the song at a live show in France last weekend.

Beyonce performed the show in Nice ahead of her headlining gig at Glastonbury this coming weekend and attempted to sing Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody.'

Unfortunately, B very noticeably stumbled over a patch of the lyrics of the beloved tune.

We doubt that Beyonce will be blasted for her flub the way Christina Aguilera was for her treatment of the National Anthem at this year's Super Bowl, but 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is a classic.

Watch footage from the Beyoncification of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' below and listen to Beyonce sing her own songs (brand new tracks from her upcoming album '4') here.

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Wednesday 22 June

By Mike

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Makes no difference if she botched the lyrics--it wasn't done well at all.

By millo42

What the hell is wrong with you girl ?? stay with your own bs and leave what you can't sing alone !!
Leave Queen alone!!!! OMG poor Freddy, he's turning in his grave for what that bea....ch did to his song.Stick to your Jz whoever this thing is!!

Thursday 23 June

By Irene

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totally agree with you!!!

By AngelElement444

At least she wasn't lip syncing which is a worse "live" performance crime! LOL!

By stu

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Uhhhh, did you not hear her backup track? It's almost as loud as she is. She might as well be lip syncing.

By chriss456

This girl doesn't have any idea on what this song is about? empty brainless voiceless shack!

By tony

I agree, she has no clue what this song is about, and I don't think she wishes she was never born at all , she loves the green paper to much! LOL she's so empty, shame

By suga

As much as I like Beyonce, she had no business even replicating this song in any way, shape , or form. I LOVE this song. Im a HUGE hiphop/rnb fan , but I like my rock music too and that is one of my absolute favorites. It is not meant to be sung in this way, and no one could sing it the way Freddie Mercury did. Why did she even pick this song to sing??!! There are soooo many other songs she could have covered, what the hell made her think she could re-do this? SMFH. She must have been watching Waynes world.

By Rob Lucci

I totally agree! I love Beyonce, but unless she knows that song IN HER SLEEP like I do, she shouldn't be singin it. I wonder if it was her idea, cuz if it wasn't she should cuss out whoever gave her the idea.

By gpsagapo

What i want to know is WHY? Why on Gods green earth did this no-talent idiot even think about doing this beloved anthem? Nobody can ever do Freddie, and it should be left alone. Why doesnt she just stick with her own junk? Because its terrible?

By B

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She may have screwed up your beloved Queen song, but she has no talent, I wonder what your definition of talent is. You obviously have no idea what real talent is because your so caught up in your whitebread mentality and haven't really paid attention to music for the past 30 years. At least someone younger than you attempted to pay hommage to this song, which beats you and your drunk buddies trying to sing along with the 8-track in your apartment living room/kitchen without falling over each other and waking the neighbors. To sum up, you're all idiots. And I guess no one minded her covering a Prince song in the same video... I guess 1984 was a little to recent for you.

By Will

She needs to go away and take a really long break for years, find out what is the only thing she can do well and stop trying anything just to be everyday in the spotlight.

By Barry

Beyonce is supposed to be looked at, not listened to.

By ilea

A lot of angry posts, it's a great song, but her messing up is no reason to call her names, it's a hard song to sing.

Realized my mistake, because people will say that she shouldn't have done the song to begin with, but, be that as it may, there's still no reason for name-calling.

By deboss

AHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA,,WHY IS SHE SINGING THAT SONG,,SHE HAS NO RIGHTS TO IT,,IF I WERE QUEEN I SUE HER FOR HER BUTCHERY,,,PERIOD!!!!!,,,.

OH,,AND STOP LIGHTENING HER SKIN IN PHOTO SHOOTS,,,SHES BLACK-ISH!

By Javadude54

I think Beyonce will have better luck sticking to the simple little songs she's best known for. She has a very nice sounding voice but lacks the vocal skills to do a song like that justice.

By dave

stick with that other bullsh#it she sings,freddie mercury was rolling in his grave,pathetic!!!!!!!!!

By Wendy

Not only did she botch up Queen-she did no justice to Prince either...

By cac006006

I liked her when she was with Destiny's Child. I find most of her recent songs very aggravating.

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