faun, redux
This should have gone in yesterday’s post. I totally forgot that Freddie Mercury channels Nijinsky’s Faune in the video for “I Want to Break Free.” The video was banned for a long time by MTV… I only recall seeing it once or twice as a kid (but thought it was awesome, even though I hadn’t really sorted out my sexuality by then). Freddie Mercury is fucking fabulous. The “Freddie Nijinsky” sequence (which also features dancers from the Royal Ballet) starts around two minutes in.