{"id":379718,"date":"2026-10-22T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379718\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:20:33","slug":"why-queens-we-are-the-champions-sounds-so-triumphant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379718\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Queen&#8217;s &#8216;We Are the Champions&#8217; Sounds So Triumphant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talented British pianist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/davidbennettpiano\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">David Bennett<\/a> analyzed the specific chords and keys that made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queenonline.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Queen<\/a>\u2018s classic song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=28ZhddhVCkM\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">\u201cWe Are the Champions\u201d<\/a> sound so triumphant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Queen had a real knack of writing songs that bottled feelings, and a perfect example is We Are The Champions. This song literally sounds like a victory! <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bennett notes that the song starts with darker minor chords, then shifts to major chords, and finally to a five-chord progression that builds confidence before a significant key change, up a whole step from E-flat to F, evoking a true sense of victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not just the lyrics that make us feel like champions when we listen to this piece of music, but it\u2019s the music as well. The music evokes those feelings, those emotions of going against hardship, of overcoming challenges, and ultimately emerging victorious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Bennett also points out that the studio version never resolves, ending on a mysterious C minor 11 chord like a cliffhanger, though the live version finally gives the story its ending.<\/p>\n<p>Other Videos by David Bennett<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talented British pianist David Bennett analyzed the specific chords and keys that made Queen\u2018s classic song \u201cWe Are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-379718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}