I Want To Break Free - Queen In Queen's music video for I Want To Break Free, released in the 1984 album 'The Works' of the classic rock genre. We can see how only the music video is filled with iconography, semiotics and representations which can encourage theories. Firstly, Barthes theory of Semiotics is about signs and signification which are what is seen in the music video, and the meanings we attach to this. For example, this can be applied into this music video in the obvious way which is Freddie Mercury dressing in drag. The meanings that can be attached to this are that it was slowly become more acceptable to be gay or transexual at the time this song was brought out, which was a large deal to Freddie himself, since he was gay. Another example is what Freddie is doing in the music video while in drag, which is being a housewife, the meanings that can be attached to this are once again to do with the lessening stigma of the time period, since women were in...