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it’s so strange to me to see how many people in the fandom simply aren’t aware that crowley doesn’t like queen, and that’s a big part of why it’s so funny that they’re pretty much all he’s been able to listen to since the 1970s.

like. nothing against people who do like queen, but our demon boi does not.

Do we know why the Bentley turns everything to Queen? He’d had that car for decades before Queen even existed. Before Queen, did the radio stations all, say, turn to Bluegrass in the Jazz era? Was it a punishment, or has his radio always been haunted? Did that just happen when he installed his first 8-track player? If it was the former, what transgression did he commit that this was inflicted on him? Or was it just an inexplicable phenomenon resulting from his gayness for Aziraphale? Like the Bentley just absorbed the radiated gayness for decades and now is expending all the pent up gayness in the form of Queen music, like the body releases excess chemicals through its pores, because Queen music is the most pure expression of that gayness. Does it play Queen because Crowley expects it to, and so it does? And what first caused him to expect such an odd occurrance? Could he not convince himself otherwise and cause it to stop? 

I just….I have so many questions.   

It’s not just the Bentley. All tapes left in any car for more than a fortnight turn into Best of Queen. So, canonically, every person in the Good Omens Universe with a car faces this problem, not just Crowley (though he gets the most angry about it and notices it more than most other people). You do pose a good question, though: what did it turn into before, if anything?

i mean, we don’t actually ever see it happen to anyone else, it honestly could just be that Crowley believes it does, even he knows he unconsciously influences reality

i do want to know when it started though

That’s true! We don’t actually know that it happens to anyone else. The line in the book says that it’s all tapes left in a car, implying any and all cars, but we also know the narrator isn’t a fully reliable one. We can assume it happens to everyone else and no one else pays enough attention to know or care except Crowley and a select few others. Or it could be, like you said, only happening to Crowley, and he just assumes it’s a problem everyone faces.

Personally, I think Crowley probably heard “Bohemian Rhapsody” one too many times and was like, “You know, this shit is so annoying. You know what would be even more annoying? If everyone who was dumb enough to leave their tapes in the car too long had to listen to it.” And he forgot he is someone who is dumb enough to leave his tapes in the car too long, and has had to listen to it ever since. So…at least since 1975, since that’s when that particular song was released.

I’m personally of the opinion that Crowley doesn’t hate Queen so much as he just can’t stand listening to it anymore. He would like to be able to have other options when it comes to music, but it’s been several decades and now he’s pissed.

Additional suggestion/caveat: Crowley, as suggested above, started out indifferent to Queen. He thought some of their songs were bops and bought a cassette or two.

The Bentley, on the other hand? Loves Queen. And once Crowley’s brief interest in their music faded and he took the tapes out of the car, the Bentley (who by this point isn’t exactly sapient but certainly has developed some level of sentience at least after fifty-odd years in the possession of a particularly inventive demon) is just like “well that shit won’t do at all” and insists on morphing every tape Crowley brings into the car into Best of Queen if it’s left in their for long enough.

Crowley noticed the trend, assumed this was a universal quirk now, and his belief in that “fact” had a certain amount of influence over reality. But my god he would love to listen to literally anything besides Queen’s greatest hits, it’s been twenty years, he’s so tired guys

Just imagine when tapes went out of fashion and he could switch to CDs! He must have been so excited because, maybe the problem was just the tapes, maybe they were the ones that were cursed, but the CDs will be fine, and oh boy he’s gonna buy a Velvet Underground CD and he’s going to listen to it and it’s gonna be fantastic and definitely not Queen!!! …  Cue to two weeks later, Crowley is driving, and silently crying while listening to the Velvet Underground Best of Queen on his brand new CD player.

Is it actually canon that he doesn’t like Queen, though? I reread the book with a view to it and it doesn’t seem to mention his personal stance on it much. I mean as a reading it’s perfectly respectable and I’m happy to be corrected, but I didn’t see it

Exactly. It isn’t, unless someone can point me to the bits that say otherwise.

In fact, it’s the other way around: there’s no evidence in the text that he likes Queen at all, although many people in fandom write him that way. But there’s little to disprove it as well.

The only indication that Crowley may not like Queen comes, I think, from his mortification when Aziraphale tries to play Tchaikovsky and Crowley is forced to say “you won’t like it, it’s been in the car for more than a fortnight”. Bit it’s a bit of stretch imo. There’s absolutely no line that I can’t think of that may indicate that he likes them. And that’s to say something because there is a lot of hints about Crowley loving a wide array of music in the book. So yeah, Crowley’s opinion on Queen is canonically ambiguous.

Personally I go with the above theory: he liked Queen well enough at some point, the Bentley liked Queen a lot more, and now everyone is stuck with Freddy through the power of a demonic car’s stubbornness and a demon accidental grip on the fabric of reality. Crowley regrets ever introducing the Bentley to “I’m in love with my car”

There is no possible way I can let a discussion like this pass without reccing this classic Book Omens Crowley vs. Queen-In-The-Bentley fic.

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I vote that Crowley took a ride in a Mercedes-Benz sometime around the 80s and the Bentley never let him forget it

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