Get on your bikes and ride!

July 27, 2023 9:28 PM

Fat Bottom Girls, country-ish by Remember Monday. h/t to MissCellania

bonus bop Hysterical Women

posted by Gorgik (15 comments total)

The tone on that lead guitar, especially the opening!
posted by Gorgik at 9:30 PM on July 27, 2023

YEE HAW!
posted by wmo at 9:38 PM on July 27, 2023

They are clearly having a lot of fun with it, which really is a delight.
posted by armoir from antproof case at 10:33 PM on July 27, 2023

That was lovely! I’d like a bit more bass, and slightly less sliding on the chords but I’m a curmudgeon
posted by coriolisdave at 1:22 AM on July 28, 2023 [2 favorites]

OK that was kind of awesome. And then I see in the comments that there are only 3 girls, so the "group" is just done via editing. D'oh! I was fooled. Nice work!!
Guitar - Frankie South
Drums - Naomi Morris
Bass - Alice Gruden
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 3:53 AM on July 28, 2023 [1 favorite]

Here is a BTS video of how they did it.
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 3:54 AM on July 28, 2023

Speaking of Queen covers, Dolly Parton just released her version of We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You.
posted by cheshyre at 4:17 AM on July 28, 2023 [2 favorites]

I was fooled.

same same! what fun
posted by elkevelvet at 6:52 AM on July 28, 2023 [1 favorite]

I'm a sucker for harmony and a sucker for all-women rock groups. This was great even before I read about the "trick" in the comments.

I really liked how the singers were wearing the same fabric each in their own style (dress/tops) to make the look of the video coherent but show off their individuality. I also really liked that one singer had glasses on. As a girl with glasses myself, I never think of myself as being rock star potential, so that was awesome. I felt like the visual/costume choices really worked to express harmony and individuality.
posted by gentlyepigrams at 7:35 AM on July 28, 2023 [1 favorite]

That's really good. I've always liked The Band Perry doing this tune on Letterman too.
posted by COD at 7:48 AM on July 28, 2023

And then I see in the comments that there are only 3 girls, so the "group" is just done via editing. D'oh! I was fooled.

I think you weren't fooled.

I checked their web site and the three singers are called "Lauren, Holly and Charlotte" so that I imagine that Frankie South, Naomi Morris and Alice Gruden are the "backing band". So there are actually 6 people in that video.
posted by Zedcaster at 8:18 AM on July 28, 2023 [1 favorite]

It is such a fun song that anyone who approaches it from the proper attitude should be celebrated.

The OP is obviously one.

The Cottontown Chorus is another.
posted by delfin at 11:52 AM on July 28, 2023

That was awesome!
posted by Snowflake at 5:32 PM on July 28, 2023

From the first chord they sing, I was like, "Of course. FBG is totally a honky-tonk country stomp with a Seven Bridges Road chorus." They're just singing the song like it is.

Although there were a couple places where they countrified some of the harmony and my ear was like, "yeah...Freddie was a genius though."
posted by straight at 9:01 PM on July 28, 2023 [1 favorite]

Anyway, I'm glad Remember Monday revealed this to me and had such a great time doing it.
posted by straight at 9:20 PM on July 28, 2023 [1 favorite]