How closely can YOU mimic Freddie Mercury's voice?

The FreddieMeter will tell you!

FreddieMeter
Author: Anna Sky MagliolaPublished 15th Nov 2019

'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of Queen's most iconic songs, and it has received more than 1 billion views on YouTube, with millions of fans singing along to Freddie Mercury's distinctive voice. Now YouTube, Google Creative Lab, and Google Research have teamed up with Universal Music Group to create the FreddieMeter!

The FreddieMeter is an AI experiment to find out how closely you can sing to Freddie Mercury’s one-of-a-kind vocals. It will analyse the singer’s pitch, timbre, and melody to assign them a score of 0 to 100. So, whether you're a massive Queen fan, or love a bit of karaoke, find out how closely you match Freddie!

FreddieMeter

By visiting the website, you can choose from four classic Queen songs, 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Don’t Stop Me Now', 'Somebody to Love' or 'We Are the Champions', then download the custom scorecard, and challenge your friends using the hashtag #FreddieChallenge.

The FreddieMeter has been created to support the Mercury Phoenix Trust, a charity founded by Brian May, Roger Taylor and Jim Beach to raise awareness and funds for the fight against HIV/AIDS.

The song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ has been incredibly successful, and in October 2018 a film of the same name was released. The film was a biopic of Freddie Mercury and did extremely well in the award season, picking up several awards.

The film won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Rami Malek), Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, two BAFTA Awards and several other notable awards.

Now take a look at some of the Oscars 2019 winners:

Best Picture: Green Book

Winner: Green Book
BlacKkKlansman
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Roma
A Star Is Born

Best Actress: Olivia Colman

Winner: Olivia Colman - The Favourite
Yalitza Aparicio - Roma
Glenn Close - The Wife
Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Actor: Rami Malek

Winner: Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody
Christian Bale - Vice
Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe - At Eternity's Gate
Viggo Mortensen - Green Book

Best Supporting Actress: Regina King

Winner: Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk
Amy Adams - Vice
Marina de Tavira - Roma
Emma Stone - The Favourite
Rachel Weisz - The Favourite

Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali

Winner: Mahershala Ali - Green Book
Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott - A Star Is Born
Richard E Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell - Vice

Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron

Winner: Alfonso Cuaron - Roma
Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite
Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay - Vice
Pawel Pawlikowski - Cold War

Best Production Design: Black Panther - Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart

Winner: Black Panther - Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart
The Favourite - Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
First Man - Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas
Mary Poppins Returns - John Myhre and Gordon Sim
Roma - Eugenio Caballero and Barbara Enriquez

Best Original Song: Shallow

Winner: 'Shallow' (A Star Is Born) - Lady GaGa, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt'All The Stars' (Black Panther) - Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar, Duckworth and Anthony Tiffith and Solana Rowe
'I'll Fight' (RGB) - Diane Warren
'The Place Where Lost Things Go' (Mary Poppins Returns) - Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
'When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings' (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs) - David Rawlings and Gillian Welch

Best Original Score: Black Panther

Winner: Black Panther - Ludwig Goransson
BlacKkKlansman - Terence Blanchard
If Beale Street Could Talk - Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs - Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns - Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman

Best Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman

Winner: BlacKkKlansman - Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike LeeThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Can You Ever Forgive Me? - Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
If Beale Street Could Talk - Barry Jenkins
A Star Is Born - Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters

You can hear songs by Queen on Greatest Hits Radio.

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