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For anyone who wants to watch and hasn't thought about it yet!!

Damnitt why did my phone had to go on the washing machine yesterday:naughty:

I did that a few weeks ago!!

Luckily, it's dried out now but it took a good few days.

I think they find us annoying:naughty:

Us???

ANnoying???

Nahhhhhhhh!!! :roftl:

Another moment of togetherness on the MFC!!! :roftl:

I do like these times of collective watching/listening.

N-JOY-Star Act

Mika

Michael Holbrook Penniman aka Mika was with us for a visit. And we've asked him questions! In our N-JOY STAR Act, we collect all the guests, make them pose for a photo on the wall and they even paint/draw.

First self purchased album:

- Shabba Ranks

The three best albums in music history:

"Pandemonium Shadow Show" - Harry Nilsson

"Thriller" / "Off The Wall" - Michael Jackson

Anything by Joni Mitchell

Favorite Football Club:

The Dancing Pandas

Favorite food:

Spaghetti with Nutella

What job have you learned?

Politeness

Your worst job to date:

Washing glasses in a bar

What would you like to be when you're not a musician?

A guitar

What can you do not?

Driving

What super power would you like to own and why?

Driving

Do a self-portrait:

I love that everyone is getting nostalgic for 1999!

I can't remember any specifics from the rest of the year but I drove from Chester to London for the Millenium gig at Greenwich (in my Mick Hucknall loving days!!) then back home again.

I loved being in London that night...went for pizza and wine before the show and the city was buzzing...people in tuxedo's and frocks swigging champers from the bottle...everyone on a high...then waking down to Greenwich and enjoying the gig. When it was midnight it just went crazy!!

On the drive home it was really foggy and non of the services were open!! (For those who were too young - everyone thought that the moment the date changed to 2000 in every type of machinery that it would come to a grinding holt or that computer hackers would mess every thing up! Of course.....nothing happened!!:roftl:)

I drove home in a cold sweat incase we ran out of petrol!!!

Like Christine said (and others have commented on) I too wonder if I ever crossed paths with him when he was a teen and I was being a dutiful tourist!

Around 1997/1998 I used to stay in the same two hotels whenever I visited London which were in his stomping ground!

All right people, let's dispense with the horrendous acronym.

 

I hereby christen this album THE BOY.

 

Who is with me?

I was flicking through the thread thinking "why don't we just call it 'The Boy'" and then I hit your post!! :roftl:

Artwork is absolutely brilliant!! :biggrin2:

Is only similar to LICM because of logo size and placement, everything else wonderfully different and original - kinda prefer it to LICM , maybe just as colour scheme has more contrast of light and dark colours.

Also like title, a good summary of being a teenager in my eyes - there's so much whizzing about in your mind that sometimes you wish you could clear your head (conflicting thoughts, etc) Plus , it's this "knowing too much" and thinking of so much from many different perspectives that probably leads MIKA to create such original, out-there-in-an-awesome-way songs.

It's actually very similar to the Billy Brown artwork

(Excuse my flash on the glass frame!!)

hehe!!

The music press are having to start taking real notice of what he does now or else they'll be left behind.

He's now identified as a force to be reckoned with and not just the one hit wonder (Grace Kelly) that they all sniffed and predicted him to be.

Great review..on the nail and, I suspect, just what Mika would like to be reading about his shows.

Yeah I was just telling someone this.

 

 

 

Any of the comments I've made here are in direct relation to the video, nothing to do with Mika's sexual orientation in reality.

 

The idea that Mika and the director and everyone else involved in the production of the video are naive enough and so bad at their jobs that they wouldn't imagine that Mika dancing around with a huge inflatable penis on his head (among a million other things going on with this video) would be perceived as camp is laughable to me.

 

Of course that's people are going to think. If anyone believes that this is just Mika being his innocent Mika self then the only conclusion you can draw from this video is that Mika is really actually camp (i.e. gay).

 

I am more inclined to believe that his approach is similar to what he's often said about not fitting into mainstream music because he was perceived as too odd so he decided to be himself x100. You think Grace Kelly and Love Today are camp? Well this is camp Mika x100.

 

On a sidenote I can see that those are cupcakes on that sweater and there is even a pink teapot on it. Funny how people are imagining boobies where there are none and completely blocking out the penises

LOL!! I think they are too....and I love the fact that he's actually singing "we are not what you think we are" whilst his hands are making the little squeezy gestures!!! :roftl:

Oh, and I wasn't referring to anything you had said on this thread.....for the first time in a while I think we're on the same page!!

I'm with you in this. For me there is not just self-irony and self-affirmation in this, but he is mirroring back all the things that were and are said about him back to us, asking: how can you be so sure? How dare you judge? Many seem to believe that he is coming out with this, but I don't buy it. He sure has mannerisms we point our fingers at and say !GAY! But can I be sure that he doesn't use exactly this against me in the vid when telling me: I'm not what you thing I am! And there are just as many mannerisms shown that are 'straight' like boob-grabbing and some of the posing, and again it screams in my face: I'm not what you think I am!

 

So the overall message of this vid for me is not about Mika, but about me, my prejudices. It's asking for open-mindedness and meeting other people unbiased, out of respect. And actually, that's the message of the song for me too.

OH THANK GOD someone else thinks like I do!!!

"Why you staring? Do you still think that you know?"

No matter how many times people on here and them lot in the outside world carp on about how it is "obvious" to any but those in denial what "he is" I will simply mutter to myself...."you know nothing".

I have no idea and nor does anyone else.

I can't be bothered trawling out all my previous arguments on this subject but I just wanted to say "hurrah" to a fellow thinker!

This is such a great song!!!

 

I'll try

 

 

 

I look for joy in a strange place

from the back of the bar

from afar

I See the look on my momma's face

when her son's fallen over undone

 

She says that my life is over

But boy you don't know what you got till it's gone

Come put your head upon my shoulder

She gave me her hand but I ignored her

 

oh Dr. John

What am I doing

What am I doin' wrong

Cause I Keep on trying...

Well Summit' ain't going, summit' ain't going on

Oh Dr John

 

I look for joy in a strange place

From the back of the bar

From afar

I see the look on my Daddy's face

When his son's fallen over, undone

That part of my life is over

Well I didn't know what I had now it's gone

Can I lay my head upon your shoulder

If I fall asleep will it be over...

 

Oh Dr John

What am I doing

What am I doin' wrong

Cause I Keep on trying...

Well Summit' ain't going, summit' ain't going on

Oh Dr John

 

What am I doing

What am I doin' wrong

 

Cause I keep on trying

Well Summit' ain't going, summit' ain't going on

 

They say I'm a big heartbreaker

But Dr I never...... ??loved ya??

incase I got the urge

 

Oh Dr John

What am I doing

What am I doin' wrong

 

Cause I keep on trying

 

Repeats

 

Oh Dr John

 

You're not alone

You're not alone

 

Oh Dr John

 

You're not alone

You're not alone

 

Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

Dr John

Have had chance to have a listen today and wondered about these tweeks??

Hmmmmmmmmmmm....just changed my wallpaper!!

Thank you de-watermarking geniuses!!!

I was thinking .. New full version .. last night .. never performed before .. I was like "huh? :blink:" Then what was what he did in the Acoustic tour?

 

Here's my Brussels video if anyone's interested:

(Rain starts around 2:40 ).

 

 

I'm like 100% sure it's

"Trying to be ordinary

Was it me who was the fool"

 

But maybe I'm just hearing it wrong over and over and over again

Just watched it!! FANTASTIC!!!

 

This one, just completely floored me!

Thank you Dani:wink2:

Rose! You're supposed to be swooning over the other pic!! :roftl:

Indeed it's the first play for the new version. When he started playing it in the summer last year it was the acoustic one.

And it only had the one verse repeated didn't it??

Tell me I've not gone mad?!

We had a Rain thread, with lyrics, Vix:wink2:

 

http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15735

But maybe a fresh one is a good idea.

Was lastnight not the first playing of the new version??

I thought we'd only heard a snippet on the v-log but didn't know it had been played anywhere???

Have just decided that he looks like a cross between Hugh Laurie and Boris Becker...hope someone else will get where I'm coming from on this!

I'm so glad I mentioned this one now!!

Really glad that everyone else thinks he looks beautiful in it too.

I think the lights were so bright that he's squinted slightly, like he's in the sunshine, which gives him a very sexy look.

I can see avatars everywhere changing overnight!!!

Now we have another YT from Racha:

 

Someone else could attempt this now, this is my second try/fail.

 

 

I look for joy in a strange place

....

from afar

....

See the look on his momma's face

when her son's fallen over undone

 

She says that her life is over

Boy you don't know what you got till it's gone

Come put your head on my shoulder

She gave me her hand but I know that...

 

oh Dr. Johhhhhhn

What did I do

What am I doing wrong

Cause I Keep on trying...

Something ain't right something ain't...

Dr John

 

I look for joy in a strange place

From the back of a bar

From afar

I see the look on my Daddy's face

When his son's fallin' over, undone

...life is over

..

Can I lay me head upon your shoulder

If I fall asleep will it be over...

 

What did I do

What am I doing wrong

Cause I Keep on trying...

Something ain't right something ain't...

Dr John

 

unintelligible bridge

chorus again and again

....

on and on and on and on

:naughty:

 

 

....what am I doing wrong...

 

oooooooooo Dr John.

 

I give up

When do we ever have much to go on?! Never stops us!

Yipeeee!!

Good start!

WIll be back later to see if any more bionic ears have dropped by! :roftl:

I hope he wont cancel I wanna see him live sooo much!!!! The iTunes live online was GREAT but would be better beeing there at a show!!!!

 

Cant believe i still won tix for the iTnes show but had to cancel cos of the flight price only

I feel your pain! I couldn't even try to get tickets as I had a piano exam at 4.20pm 200 miles away!!

I can't believe someone wouldn't have started a thread already but on the unlikely chance that they haven't.....

Let's do it!!

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As of September 3

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I look for joy in a strange place

From the back of the bar

From afar

I see the look on my mama’s face

When her son's in the corner, undone

She says that my life is over

But boy, you don't know what you got till it's gone

Come put your head upon my shoulder

She gave me her hand, but I ignored her

Oh, Dr. John

What am I doing

What am I doing I wrong?

‘Cause I keep on trying

Something ain't going

Something ain't going on

Oh, Dr. John

I look for joy in a strange place

From the back of a bar

From afar

I see the look on my daddy's face

When his son's fallin’ over, undone

Well Father my life is over

Well I didn't know what I had now it's gone

Can I lay my head upon your shoulder?

If I fall asleep, will it be over?

Oh, Dr. John

What am I doing

What am I doing I wrong?

‘Cause I keep on trying

Something ain't going

Something ain't going on

Oh, Dr. John

What am I doing

What am I doing I wrong?

‘Cause I keep on trying

Something ain't going

Something ain't going on

They say I'm a big heartbreaker

But Doctor, I never hurt you

Isn't it obvious?

Oh, Dr. John

What am I doing

What am I doing I wrong?

‘Cause I keep on trying

Something ain't going

Something ain't going on

(Another day, another break up)

Oh, Dr. John

(Hold on, and on, Hold on, and on)

I keep on trying

(Another day, another wake up)

We hold on, and on

We hold on, and on

Oh, Dr. John

(Another day, another wake up)

We hold on, and on

We hold on, and on

(Another day, another wake up)

(I keep on trying)

We hold on, and on

We hold on, and on

Oh, Dr. John

What am I doing

What am I doing wrong?

I keep on trying

Something ain't going

Something ain't going on

Dr. John

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Dr. John.

Could anyone "de-watermark" this one or find it without them??

This is such a beautiful picture of him.