I really think of this as the 3rd wave of Queen. At this point they’re just a group of guys who know how to push through and craft pop hits. Maybe they were always that way.
Like “Under Pressure”, “One Vision” came out a group jam. And it sounds like it.
The Queen tropes are all there: Freddie’s voice. The multi-layered vocals. Brian’s Star Fleet guitar. An ENDLESS instrumental break that sounds like a guitar solo but is so overwhelmed by the electric drums, which do nothing inventive but keep time.
It’s a bluesbreaker of the kind Queen could write in their sleep.
I’m really not sure how they could write a song about Martin Luther King and then coda it with replacing “One Vision” with “Fried Chicken” and get away from being called “racist!”.
Maybe no one noticed.
Grade: B+
