This U student secretly tweeted the lyrics to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for 4 months
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Sometime around May 7, a University of Minnesota student named Madie hatched an idea she'd spend the next three and a half months executing.
She'd tweet out the 377 words to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" from her Twitter account @CostcoRiceBag, all in secrecy.
Last week, she made the big reveal:
Of course, this caught the digital world by storm. @CostcoRiceBag, a queen in her own right, had pranked us all.
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This is a form of local art that deserves local acclaim. As such, MPR News presents the first section of "Bohemian Rhapsody," in tweet form:
![Is this the real life?](https://img.apmcdn.org/5929712e3734911b487766a6e03339af7fe9bb6b/uncropped/4ca76b-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter01.jpg)
![Is this just fantasy?](https://img.apmcdn.org/878aae32a83a79ca4ae250a9ae13bd5ea386f89a/uncropped/faa3e8-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter10.jpg)
![Caught in a landslide](https://img.apmcdn.org/87e45ac52b5a0c0e8f64e698feebd2fa4b18d0bb/uncropped/8a6710-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter11.jpg)
![no escape from reality.](https://img.apmcdn.org/065e71e89a3b564b6c636d51751e352f69b2ebbd/uncropped/bf7756-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter12.jpg)
![Open your eyes](https://img.apmcdn.org/3ed8032ea550d2b2a130838b78bb98800266c806/uncropped/9d1212-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter13.jpg)
![look up to the skies](https://img.apmcdn.org/11f28054e2e2b7d6369a6589ca6cc9d6e0a7b996/uncropped/ec890c-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter14.jpg)
![and see.](https://img.apmcdn.org/b25bca35054cf0ae2160f735c171f74f8e5a4a1b/uncropped/2ffadb-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter15.jpg)
![I'm just a poor boy](https://img.apmcdn.org/0ce69c9d42e816168a7490e405b0f18a69dad6de/uncropped/f7f46c-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter16.jpg)
![I need no sympathy.](https://img.apmcdn.org/111a984743a134dacdea76ab2cea75ff04b6ebda/uncropped/49676d-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter17.jpg)
![Because I'm easy come](https://img.apmcdn.org/cb04fd21d34bfb3dfd8bfa9ddcead27d7e53037e/uncropped/5edcd2-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter02.jpg)
![easy go](https://img.apmcdn.org/d0a608ea78d8867411d15e640d12ea3294f9da65/uncropped/4adeb8-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter03.jpg)
![little high, little low](https://img.apmcdn.org/9edafe22646223948a6da37dcf4fd32054635718/uncropped/2d2192-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter04.jpg)
![Any way the](https://img.apmcdn.org/cf69d2ef53939d58f7c4d40bb58d7f7b598dbde0/uncropped/517d09-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter05.jpg)
![wind blows](https://img.apmcdn.org/27ee3f7ebd363dc50d06e346e4a716daf7a29ad2/uncropped/197aa4-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter06.jpg)
![doesn't](https://img.apmcdn.org/3615dbcd39e50f92d0a2c8472b6c25010f0e97ee/uncropped/eb8c74-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter88.jpg)
![really matter to me](https://img.apmcdn.org/b4fc217dc0283cbd78e4c0deb072e12a61d597b9/uncropped/26abd7-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter08.jpg)
![to me.](https://img.apmcdn.org/a05ddea6842b91a4ec7f78e219f298f08b5e27d3/uncropped/3986ee-20180827-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-twitter09.jpg)