Queen Songs for Tonight
Finalists hail to the Queen By Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Here are the Queen songs the Idol finalists will be singing — and their comments. PREVIEW: Idols rock in Queen's Arena •Ace Young, We Will Rock You: "I urbanized the verses a little, just by riding on (the notes). I put a little R&B soul on it. When we were done, they said, 'That sounds like a record.' " •Bucky Covington, Fat Bottomed Girls: "Yes, we all love the fat-bottomed girls." •Chris Daughtry, Innuendo: "It's a relatively unknown song. It just had a mixture of a dark feel and a positive message. And I just found out they've never performed this live." •Elliott Yamin, Somebody to Love: "I was drawn to the passionate emotion of the song. I heard a lot of soul in it." •Katharine McPhee, Who Wants to Live Forever: "How could (this) not be fun? We're working with so many different legends." •Kellie Pickler, Bohemian Rhapsody: "We only have 1 minute and 30 seconds, and the song is really long. Having to cut so many pieces is really hard to memorize, because I'm not singing the song as it's originally played." •Paris Bennett, The Show Must Go On: "Being with the band was a big experience to me, never being with a rock band before. I was able to pick a song that fits me, that's still rocky." •Taylor Hicks, Crazy Little Thing Called Love: "You listen to a Queen song, it's really melodic and very powerful, and the dynamics (are) really cool."
Finalists hail to the Queen By Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Here are the Queen songs the Idol finalists will be singing — and their comments. PREVIEW: Idols rock in Queen's Arena •Ace Young, We Will Rock You: "I urbanized the verses a little, just by riding on (the notes). I put a little R&B soul on it. When we were done, they said, 'That sounds like a record.' " •Bucky Covington, Fat Bottomed Girls: "Yes, we all love the fat-bottomed girls." •Chris Daughtry, Innuendo: "It's a relatively unknown song. It just had a mixture of a dark feel and a positive message. And I just found out they've never performed this live." •Elliott Yamin, Somebody to Love: "I was drawn to the passionate emotion of the song. I heard a lot of soul in it." •Katharine McPhee, Who Wants to Live Forever: "How could (this) not be fun? We're working with so many different legends." •Kellie Pickler, Bohemian Rhapsody: "We only have 1 minute and 30 seconds, and the song is really long. Having to cut so many pieces is really hard to memorize, because I'm not singing the song as it's originally played." •Paris Bennett, The Show Must Go On: "Being with the band was a big experience to me, never being with a rock band before. I was able to pick a song that fits me, that's still rocky." •Taylor Hicks, Crazy Little Thing Called Love: "You listen to a Queen song, it's really melodic and very powerful, and the dynamics (are) really cool."