Why wasn't Queen as successful in America as in other countries? Then, after Radio Ga Ga, they couldn't even get into the top 40 in America even when these songs were top 10 hits everywhere else in the world.

The canonical answer (according to surviving Queen members Bryan May and Roger Taylor) is homophobia and, arguably, misogyny. Queen’s single after Radio Ga Ga was I Want To Break Free - and Queen cross-dressed for the music video. It wasn’t (other than Freddie) even “glamorous drag” of larger than life drag queens; they dressed as a family including a woman with hair in curlers (or rather Coronation Street style working class soap opera characters) doing things like vacuuming and washing up.

MTV’s first ban of a video ever had been Queen’s Body Language - but banning a video for being too sexy was rock. Being cross-dressed with a feminist message implying women might want to break free from suburban drudgery? Far “too homosexual” and the video and the rest of the album didn’t get much airtime.

Edit: As people seem to be questioning the question, Radio Ga-Ga only reached number 17 in the US Charts in 1984, and I Want To Break Free and all singles after it didn’t break the top 40. As for the albums, from 1975 to 1980 Queen had five top six albums in the US, and after that no top 20 albums (with the album after I Want To Break Free not even cracking the top 40 and even Freddie’s swan song Innuendo only made number 30)

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.