So you might have noticed that I got taken off the blog schedule a while back.

This was because I

didn't like what I was writing under pressure, and so I got taken off. I relish this freedom by writing
nothing.
But due to the thousands (Read "Zero") emails I have received begging me to write something, and
because I'm bored, I will write something overly dramatic and stereotypical for a teenager to write.
Namely, a rock opera.
Now what is a rock opera, you might ask. A rock opera is a fusion of fine art and musical
Frankenstein.
Our story starts in 1936, when someone decided to put electronic pickups on a guitar, because it was
too quiet for jazz music. This changed the sound because the vibrating string would make electrical
signals and blah blah blah go do research yourself. The point is that people had made something
that was a guitar, but unlike any guitar ever made. It sounded amazing. People started making a new
kind of music. You know it, you love it, it's rock 'n' roll.
Rock originally was a mild, peaceful, almost relaxing music. However, people began experimenting
with the new electric guitar, and they found a huge range of sounds, from thick and barely
recognizable (Smells Like Teen Spirit) to bouncy and what I can only describe as "wangy" (Johnny
B. Goode) to sounding like power saws and motorcycles (Iron Man and Kickstart My Heart). I
could devote a whole post to the best rock songs ever made, but for now, we have the rock part.
Let's go to opera.
So at first, there were stories. Accounts of the travels and adventures of real or fictional people,
usually made for entertainment, to explain natural phenomena, or to drive home a moral point.
Then, there came books. Like so many great things, books can be traced back to the Greeks, when
Herodotus made a book on the human body or something, I don't know. The Greeks then made
plays, so that instead of having your brain do all the hard work of imagining what was happening in
a story, some people could pretend to be the people in the story and you could just watch. Greek
plays had pretty cool ahead-of-their-time special effects. But then one day, a small group of Italian
artists, writers, and musicians decided to retell one of these plays. But instead of standing around
and talking, they were going to sing and dance, because people just randomly start singing when
they are emotional. Enter someone called Jacopo Peri, who thought that random singing was
awesome. He wrote a play specifically made for people to sing instead of talk, and we have the first
opera.

Now opera was all well and good, and very sophisticated.
Operas would be the equivalent of modern-day operas. But what opera needed was spice. Pizzazz.
Stories more dramatic than anime voice actors were fun, but it was all the same. Orchestra and diva
singing in a high voice. Enter Queen.
Queen, for the one person who dosen't know, is a British rock band, considered by many to be one
of the greatest bands of all time. If you've ever heard "We Will Rock You," "We are the
Champions," "Under Pressure," "Another One Bites the Dust," "Bicycle Race," or "Don't Stop Me
Now," you have heard Queen. However, I am talking about their most famous song: "Bohemian
Rhapsody."
Bohemian Rhapsody is quite possibly the first example of a rock opera. It clearly shows how to
write a rock opera and inspired other rock operas, my favorites being The Wall (Pink Floyd),
American Idiot (Green Day), and The Black Parade (My Chemical Romance). But for now, let's just
look at Bohemian Rhapsody.
Bohemian Rhapsody tells the story of a young man who kills another person. The story probably
takes place in Bohemia, given the name and use of a distinct German word (Bismallah), one of the
main languages in Bohemia. The narrator wonders whether reality is an illusion, but then concludes
he is trapped in reality. He talks about how he threw his life away, and tells his mother (possibly in a
letter) that if he doesn't return the following day, to forget about him. The next few parts of the song
are his trial for the murder