We were just trying to enjoy a college football Saturday, when all of a sudden this came across our timeline:
This Bacon Bowl commercial has a song that might as well be by Queen
We tried to watch college football. We ended up watching this Queen-inspired bacon commercial over and ove and over.
That is an ad for a product called the Bacon Bowl (it wraps your food in a bowl of bacon) and it features a song by... Queen? Is that Queen? Is that a Queen cover band? Is that Freddie Mercury back from the dead?
Everybody who watched the video was floored:
Freddie Mercury and bacon are two of the greatest things in world history, and sadly, we currently only have one of them. For this two-minute commercial, we appear to have both. It is precious.
We were not the only people blown away:
How did the #BaconBowl marketers get Queen to record their jingle?
— TwittasVeritas (@jbshootforme) October 25, 2014 Is that queen on the bacon bowl commercial?
— Dakota Lewis (@d_lew53) October 22, 2014 The only thing more impressive than The Bacon Bowl is the Queen tribute in the commercial. #SEC
— John B. Scott (@johnbscott) October 18, 2014 However, some people were less than pleased.
Shame on you @SECNetwork for airing a Bacon Bowl commercial that uses a clear Queen ripoff to do their jingles.
— Ronnie Woodard (@Ronnie_Woodard) October 24, 2014 The music in the bacon bowl commercial is trying way too hard to sound like Queen...
— Jimmy Fillmore (@jimboslice2212) October 22, 2014 Did I mention the jingle is a shameless plagiarism of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody"? A ripp-off as it is so... http://t.co/wPvfpXkok8
— Luis Rodriguez (@partynator714) October 14, 2014 So we began questing for who sang this, and found our answer:
That Bacon Bowl spot song is brilliant - it's Rick Altizer ft. Vox by Mark Martel (Queen extravaganza) here http://t.co/bn55Cfxl8x #musicbiz
— Michael St James (@michaelstjames) October 24, 2014 This caused us to fall down a Queen Extravaganza rabbit hole:
We’re typically not a sucker for cover bands, but HE SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE FREDDIE MERCURY.
Long story short, there should be a Bacon Bowl in college football.
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