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Three Women Lip-Sync 'Bohemian Rhapsody' In A Car, Win The Internet

Three Women Lip-Sync 'Bohemian Rhapsody' In A Car, Win The Internet
Dominique Mosbergen
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Senior Reporter, HuffPost

Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see: Here’s a performance of “Bohemian Rhapsody” that's as hilarious as it is spirited.

In this viral video, watch as three ladies of Australian sketch group SketchShe passionately lip-sync to the classic Queen song in a car. It may be overdone at this point, but these ladies add flair.

“Road trip rock out,” the video caption reads. “[M]ay contain head banging, boob grabbing and heartfelt emotion.”

Shae-Lee Shackleford, one of the members of the sketch group, told NY Daily News that the three women are huge fans of the 1975 song.

“We feel it is the greatest song of all time,” she said. “It's an incredible song for having so much variety, one moment it's in the depths of heartfelt emotion the next you are rocking out with your best air guitar and head banging you can muster.”

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The SketchShe clip has been viewed more than 5.3 million times since being uploaded earlier this month. It’s even been noticed by Queen guitarist Brian May, who shared the clip with his Facebook fans this week. “Funny video,” the musician quipped.

Watch the full clip above.

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Before You Go

1. “Can’t Getcha Out Of My Mind” by Deep Dark Robot
This entire song (from what is essentially a wonderful-yet-heart-rendingly-confessional solo effort by Linda Perry) takes place in a car, using vehicular references as metaphor for a life spinning out of control due to romantic desperation. Sample:"Well the white lines on the highway/Headed straight for heartache/All I see are caution signs/I'm driving kinda crazy, coming for you baby, to make you mine"
2. “Magic Bus” by The Who
Perhaps the quintessential "going to see my baby" song, this tune is as well known for its infectious percussion breakdown as for its lyrics about a magic bus that takes the narrator to visit his girlfriend. (Using maracas, claves, and acoustic guitar to drive a rock hit was another in a long line of brilliant decisions by Pete Townshend.) Sample:"Every day I get in the queue/To get on the bus that takes me to you/I’m so nervous I just sit and smile/Your house is only another mile"
3. “Right Hand Man” by Joan Osborn
Rather than specifics about travel, this song is propelled forward by Osborne’s nasty/sublime vocal delivery and the fact that the music drops a beat at the end of every other bar, giving it a cool "falling forward" vibe as it pummels you into submission. Sample:"I walk into the street/The air's so cool/I'm wired and I'm tired/And I'm grinnin' like a fool"
4. “Take Me to the River” by Al Green/Talking Heads
Okay, this is a two-fer. Al Green wrote it (along with his guitarist, Teenie Hodges), and his yearning, soulful voice yielded the perfect blend of the profound and the profane, taking us to church via the river of redemption. And Talking Heads turned it on its head, slowing it down and using the minimalism of a stripped down four-on-the-floor groove as the perfect backing for David Byrne’s hypnotic, compelling vocal. But either way (and we love both), this song’s about making that trip to the river, to power-wash your soul. Sample:"I don't know why I love you like I do/After all these changes that you put me through/You stole my money and my cigarettes/And I haven't seen hide nor hair of you yet"
5. “Landlocked Blues” by Bright Eyes w/Emmylou Harris
Somewhere in the middle of all those high-energy road songs you need a few heartfelt slow numbers, if for no other reason than to have something to ponder when it’s your turn at the wheel in the wee small hours, while everyone else sleeps in the back. This may be the archetypal “It’s 2:00 a.m. and I’ve got to move on but I don’t know where” song, and the raw recording of Conor Oberst and Emmylou Harris has all the perfect imperfection inherent in a rough first take of a great song. It’s lengthy for a ballad at almost six minutes, but trust me—at 2:00 a.m. on a lonely road, you won’t want it to end. Sample:"If you walk away, I’ll walk away/First tell me which road you will take/I don’t want to risk our paths crossing some day/So you walk that way, I’ll walk this way"
6. “Going to California” by Led Zeppelin
Going from Bright Eyes to Zeppelin may seem like moving from the pondering to the ponderous, but this mandolin-fueled acoustic number ditches the distorted guitars and beefy drumming of typical Zep tunes and instead goes for a Cali-folk-influenced tale of a man leaving heartache behind and heading west to make a new start. Sample:"To find a queen without a king,/ They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.../Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn/ Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born."
7. “Something’s Wrong” by K’s Choice
Okay, time for the real deal. Ask anyone who’s ever sung for their supper somewhere along the road and they’ll confirm that this one speaks the truth. (After all, who can argue with the sentiment of, ‘When your pubic hair’s on fire, something’s wrong.’…?) The brother/sister team heading up K’s Choice—Gert and Sarah Bettens—have made some wonderful music in the studio (“I’m Not an Addict”, anyone?) but this appropriately-recorded-live-in-concert sing-along wins the reality award for road trip songs. Sample:"When you like music more than life, something's wrong/When you start sleeping as you drive, something's wrong/When your favorite drink is thinner, something's wrong/When you're proud to be a sinner, something's wrong…"
8. “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” by The Clash
All right, the three-song unplugged mini-set is officially over. Time to kick it back into high gear with this classic "get comfortable or get gone" missive from the Clash. Not that there’s anything groundbreaking here, at least lyrically (romantic indecision being a mainstay of rock), but this snotty, hard-driving song—with its double-time choruses and backing vocals sung in Spanish—turned heads when it became a post-punk breakout 30 years ago, and still works the same magic today. Sample:"If I go there will be trouble/And if I stay it will be double/So you got to let me know…/Should I stay or should I go?"
9. “The Letter” by Joe Cocker
Originally written by Wayne Carson Thompson and recorded by The Box Tops in the 60s, this tune’s been covered a lot, including Joe Cocker’s studio version. But the best is Cocker’s live version, from the 1970 Mad Dogs and Englishmen live recording. (Slightly different from the take in the film of the same name, by the way.) It benefits from Cocker’s gravelly vocals, Leon Russell’s soulful arrangement for the sprawling, energetic band, sax and trumpet solos from what has become the Rolling Stones’ horn section, and--perhaps best of all--the heavenly vocal support supplied by the "Space Choir"… a huge backing ensemble featuring a young Rita Coolidge. If this doesn’t make you want to move, nothing will. Sample:"Give me a ticket for an airplane/I ain't got time to take no fast train/Oh, the lonely days are gone, I'm coming home/Well, my baby she wrote me a letter"
10. “Highway to Hell” by AC/DC
Written by the band as a metaphor for the grueling life of a rock group on the road, this recording (helmed by uber-producer Mutt Lange) signaled a new sound for the band, which would eventually lead them to mega-stardom and tens of millions of records sold. Unfortunately for lead singer Bon Scott, he would never live to see the fruits of their labor, as he was found dead six months later (the official cause was categorized as "death by misadventure," aka alcohol poisoning). Regardless of (or perhaps because of) the untimely demise of one of rock’s greatest frontmen, “Highway to Hell”--with its twin-guitar attack and snarling, raspy vocals--is firmly in the lexicon of anyone who’s ever taken to the highway with guitars and drums in tow. Sample:"No stop signs, speed limit/Nobody's gonna slow me down/Like a wheel, gonna spin it/Nobody's gonna mess me around/I’m on the highway to hell…"
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