Queen’s classic song, “Fat Bottomed Girls,” penned by guitarist Brian May in 1978, is conspicuously absent from the band’s new Greatest Hits compilation on Yoto.

A track that has long stood as a lively and good-humored ode to the allure of curvaceous women, it’s disturbing that this song is now seemingly another victim of cancel culture’s relentless reach.

Decades ago, “Fat Bottomed Girls” secured its place as the fourth song on the original 1981 Greatest Hits album, joining iconic hits like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and “We Will Rock You.”

Yet, Universal Records’ recent unveiling of the compilation on the Yoto platform, primarily targeting younger listeners, saw the omission of this beloved classic.

One can only assume that lyrics like “left alone with big fat Fanny, she was such a naughty nanny, big woman, you made a bad boy out of me” and “fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin’ world go round” have been deemed offensive in cancel culture circles.

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Sources within the music industry expressed their bafflement. As one insider shared with The Daily Mail on Sunday, “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. It’s outrageous.”

“Fat Bottomed Girls” has historically sparked discussions over its lyrical content and accompanying promotional materials. For instance, the original song sleeve, featuring a lightly-dressed woman on a bicycle, was modified after some stores opted not to stock it. This decision saw the addition of underwear to the original image.

While there may have been controversy over the track sleeve in the day to go so far as to completely remove it from the Greatest Hits collection is absurd.

Brian May shared insights into the song’s creation with Mojo magazine in 2008, remarking, “I wrote it with Fred in mind, as you do, especially if you’ve got a great singer who likes fat bottomed girls… or boys.”

The recent decision to drop the song from the Yoto Greatest Hits collection, a collaborative effort between Yoto and Queen’s record label Universal, is not just a loss for the band’s legacy but also for rock music history.

How is the younger generation going to cope with the very real imperfect and unjust world if anything that is remotely controversial from the past is just simply erased?

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