#living on my own

[fuckyeahmercury]

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on September 2nd, 1985

Freddie Mercury released ‘Living On My Own’ bw ‘Love Is Dangerous’ (4th solo single), taken from 'Mr. Bad Guy', first solo album 1985

🔸Freddie Mercury: Well, that is ‘Living on my own’. Yes, that’s like… Basically if you listen to ‘Living on my own’ that is very me, it’s living on my own but having fun. There’s a bit in the middle where I do my scat singing and I’m just going… When you think about somebody like me, I mean my life-style, I mean I have to sort of go around the world and live in hotels and that can be very lonely but then… I look upon it and I don’t want people to say ‘Oh…’ you know, I just say that’s my life, it can be a very lonely life, but I mean I chose it and so, that song, it’s not dealing with people who are living on their own in sort of basement flats, or things like that. It’s my living on my own, and they are going to say ‘Oh my God, how can he live on his own ?’ But I mean, you can have a whole… a shoal of people you know looking after you, but you can be still living on your own because in the end they all go away and you live, you know, you live in a hotel on your own. And so basically what I’ve got to say is that I’m living on my own but I’m not complaining. I’m just saying I’m living on my own and I’m having a bogey time. Does that make sense, honey ?

Interviewer : It does, yes it does.

Freddie: It’s a different kind of living on my own, but I’m just saying that people in my.. with my success can be lonely and can live on their own as well.

Interviewer : So how do you hold on to real friends ?

Freddie: I don’t, I discard them. I don’t have any real friends. I don’t think I do. People tell me though they’re my friends.

Interviewer : Don’t you believe them ?

Freddie: No, no. Yes and no, I mean, I think what happens is when… I’m not afraid of them, but it is frightening, that’s the difference. Sometimes when they get too close I think they seem to destroy me, I don’t know, may be it’s my nature or whatever. When they get too close they seem to tread all over me, and when I lay myself bare on the floor it just seems to be my downfall. Maybe that’s my role in life and so I don’t… Yea, I’m very skeptical in terms of that. I seem to be at this point in time I think, I seem to be… make fewer and fewer friends, but life goes on…

Interviewer : So do you live for today rather than for the future or…

Freddie: No, I live for tomorrow. Quite different too, fuck today, it’s tomorrow. Oh, that’s nice…

Interviewer : That must have been a controversial remark.

Freddie: Somebody didn’t like what I’ve just said ? !

Interviewer : Shall we carry on ? In view of that, Freddie, surely there comes a time when you want to share your life with someone one day ?

Freddie: Yes, but nobody wants to share their life with me. Yes, I do, of course I do. But I think it’s… not easy living with me and I think at maybe I’m trying too hard you know, something… Of course, I think about that and in one way I think the more mishaps I have the better the songs are going to be, you know. Once I find somebody, I can find a long lasting relationship, bong goes all the research for wonderful songs. At the end I’m sort of you know, I’m sort of living on past mishaps. Well, anyway having said that, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know what’s in store for me.

Interviewer : So we can take it that your songs reflect the state of your life ?

Freddie: I think so, I think so, yes.

Interviewer : And that’s why on your songs there is always quite a diverse selection of moods, isn’t it ?

Freddie: Yes, it is because that’s my character too, you know. How boring to just be, you know, to have just one side of your character coming across in everything you do, you know, I just gather information… I’m a man of extremes, you know, I sort of change from day to day like a chameleon and each day is different to me and I look forward to that, you know. I don’t want to be the same person everyday and who knows ?, the way this Album has turned out it’s just a whole spectrum of what my life is, to be honest. But I was not ‘made in heaven’. A lightening bolt suddenly goes ‘crack.

Interviewer : You talk a lot about love on the Album.

Freddie: Yes, I know, I don’t know why.

Interviewer : It obviously means a lot to you.

Freddie: I’m possessed by love, isn’t everybody though ?

Interviewer : Yes, I suppose they are. Deep down there in spite of the tough fade you put on, are you a romantic at heart ?

Freddie: Well, I guess so, you know. Well i think, yes I just… I like writing songs about love, because I mean there’s so much scope and also they have so much to do with me and you can talk about your kind of lover. It’s something that maybe I’m striving for. I’m trying to say that I can be somebody’s lover, you know, a good lover, that’s another aspect of me too. I expect something different now, come on

- Freddie Mercury

Extract from interview 1985

👉 In 1993 Freddie Mercury received in memoriam Ivor Novello award for 'Living On My Own'

📸 Pic: September 1985, Henderson Nightclub, Munich, Germany - Peter Straker, Freddie Mercury and Jo Dare on the set of promotional video 'Living On My Own'

👉 Jo Dare (died in 2024) remembers meeting with Freddie Mercury

[no-brain-just-good-omens]

i wonder what the security guy thought when i called him at 3am to let me into my room that i’d locked myself out of and he got there and i was standing in the hallway staring at the front door (and therefore him) while holding a bowl of miso soup (the reason i left my room and got locked out) and not wearing my binder. i wonder.

[umihoshi]

some tips for people who just started living on their own

It's been 4 years now, and I'm not regretting a single day that I moved out. No more adapting to what my parents want, no more reporting where I'm going or who I'm bringing over, I can create my save haven the way I like it. For me, it was really the start of becoming myself.

But, there's a bunch of stuff here and there that would've been nice if I had known it from the get-go. And I thought: let's share them!

1 what appliances to invest in?

one thing that is going to come back every single day is cooking. and food is expensive AF if you're not careful. I found 2 great ways to save a bunch of money and they both rely on one thing: Invest in a good freezer! Many grocery stores have systems where they price down things that are close to the shelf life date. One of our local grocery stores can go up to 70% discount! But the problem with those is, you need to eat it right away.... OR DO YOU??? Freezing things close to expiring will let them last for a full freaking month extra. and vegetables go even longer. Plenty of time to use it when you need it (just don't forget to thaw) Be careful though: once you thawed it, you can't freeze it again.

Items are usually also WAY cheaper if you buy them in bulk. Chop them up and in the freezer they go! This one's also great if you don't always have the energy or drive to cook: cook up a large pot of whatever you like, put it in containers and freeze them. I always like doing so with pasta sauce and then cook the pasta fresh~ But it also works great with stews, curry and other types of sauces. stores like IKEA have containers that are just the right size for one meal.

For some of you, the next one may be a no-brainer, but.... My mom was really proud of how fast she was with doing the dishes. She was always like 'why get a dishwasher, I'm faster if I do it myself'. And I have lived up to that same idea up until half a year ago. My kitchen was always a mess, I didn't feel like cooking, inviting people over was embarrassing. I exhausted myself every time visitors would come and I had to fight that monster pile. Please, if you recognize these problems: invest in a dishwasher. Life became SO MUCH easier. My house is clean, my mind is more at ease, social contact increased cuz it's not as big a hassle to clean before guests show up. I really wish I wouldn't have wasted those 3 years fighting a monster that was this easy to tackle in the end...

2 easy cooking

Though it's also a bit of an investment: cooking becomes fucking easy with an airfryer. No oil is added, so it's a bunch healthier. you just put the temperature and timer and it's done. and a lot of things can just fry simultaneously. chuck in some meat and potato's at 400F (200C) for 20 minutes and all you'll have to worry about is adding some vegies with it. springrolls, pizza, potato's, meat. it all gets nice and crunchy too. (prepare vegies in a rice cooker for the same don't-have-to-keep-an-eye-on-it experience. you can cook them simultaneously with rice too!)

Something that became one of my fave dishes of the late is 'stir fried whatever'. it goes like this: Bake whatever meat you fancy, great with egg or tofu too. add whatever vegies (straight out of the freezer is fine). add stir fry sauce in whatever amount seems nice (little for coating, more if you want it to be saucy). make some carbs and you're fucking DONE! no measuring, no thinking what spices to use, it goes with anything and everything. and your local grocery has probably like 5 different flavors. (or at least, it does here. dunno if that's true for America...) like it creamy? add half a cup of soya milk. it takes like 10 minutes tops (not counting the cooking of rice/pasta/potato/bread)

3 think in money or think in space

With tricks like a good freezer, saving money with discount products becomes a whole lot easier. But there are also different discount products that can save you a lot of money. my mom always used to buy like.... packs of 4 toilet rolls. and if you calculate it, buying 3x4 rolls is so much more expensive than buying a 12 pack. But what you'll need for that is space. Try keeping account of a spot like that in your house. cupboard underneath the sink, the spot where they installed the boiler, top shelves you don't often use cuz it's high up, on top of the fridge, garage. I live in an apartment and have a small storage space for my bicycle. Perfect spot for non-consumables. (be careful to keep them out of reach for mice) think toilet paper, tissues, cat litter, soap, shampoo, toothpaste. they'll be good in 2 years too, and you'll still be needing them all the same. I once found this 6 pack of toothpaste for like 3,-! aint no one selling 1 tube for 0,50 when I buy it once I need it.

dunno if this is of any use to someone, but I hope this can help out anyone to safe some money, time or energy! Because it sure did for me.

[debdarkpetal]

[sherlockig]

will there ever be a song that goes harder than living on my own by freddie mercury?? is that song peak music?? might be!!

[t00mzzz]

Uuughh im so tired today, i dont want to do anything but stay in bed

[cetsuo]

Living on my own - #1

I recently moved out and started living on my own. Last time I did this was like 10 years ago and I was on the brink of depression nightmare so it didn't end too well.

This is meant to be a new start.

So far, I've learnt the following things:

If you are buying furniture, checking how long it's covered by the maker's warranty is a good indication of their quality.

Induction stoves are great. Induction stoves kitchenware is hella expensive.

Also, induction stoves heat up really quickly.

You can reheat mashed potatoes in a pan if you add a bit of butter first.

will keep updating, i hope.

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: July 19, 1993

Lyrics:

Dee do de de, dee do de de

Sometimes I feel I'm gonna break down and cry (so lonely)

Nowhere to go, nothing to do with my time

I get lonely, so lonely, living on my own

Sometimes I feel I'm always walking too fast (so lonely)

And everything is coming down on me, down on me, I go crazy

Oh so crazy - living on my own

Dee do de de, dee do de de

I don't have no time for no monkeybusiness

Dee do de de, dee do de de

I get so lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, yeah

Got to be some good times ahead

Sometimes I feel nobody gives me no warning

Find my head is always up in the clouds in a dreamworld

It's not easy - living on my own, my own, my own

Dee do de de, dee do de de

I don't have no time for no monkeybusiness

Dee do de de, dee do de de

I get so lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, yeah

Got to be some good times ahead

Songwriter:  Freddie Mercury

Dee do de de, dee do de de

I don't have no time for no monkeybusiness

Dee do de de, dee do de de

I get so lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, yeah

Got to be some good times ahead

SongFacts:

👉📖

[fuckyeahmercury]

Photos of Freddie Mercury's 39th birthday in Munich, Germany – 1985

[wellsbering]

therapist: glowing red eyes pogchamp freddie mercury isn't real, he can't hurt you

glowing red eyes pogchamp freddie mercury:

[pessimamentenerissima]

Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own (1993 Remix Remastered)

[debdarkpetal]

Freddie with Rudi Dolezal.

[whatkindofnameisella]

can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.

[mostlydeceased]

What a Spooky Season I've had...

Oh my. I've spent my fall busting my ass out of my toxic living situation and moving out on my own. I finally feel free!!! A pal came over and mentioned I was mighty ready for Halloween because of all the "decorations" up. I scoffed. Those aren't holiday decorations, it's home decor!

I'm almost finished setting up my apartment but it's a tad messy atm so no pix. But I live right by the lake so here is me and Dexter sitting by the lake.

xoxo Ali

[rotblume]

I don't need nor particularly want anyone else. They would have to improve my life.

Of course, there can be difficulties and hardships, discussions and arguments. It would not have to be perfect or easy, relationships do require work (though in a good relationship it shouldn't feel like work).

But in the end, it would come down to whether or not I'd rather be alone than together. Because I don't need a partner in addition to my friends, I can be content and satisfied and even happy on my own.

It does help that I'm an introvert and like my alone me-time (though if I had the space, time and money, I'd have a whole pack of dogs). And I've gone through (and still am going through) so much shit already that at the moment I honestly wouldn't have the energy for another person, but I should improve their life as well.