Big Girl

I think it is about being in a relationship during/after the London bombings. Whether it has any personal relevance to Mika or not I don't know. I don't think he has ever said?

I think what it meant to say was "Copyright prevents us from showing this video in the UK"

Same here

I noticed it too, in fact I posted it on a different thread. They must share clothes1 Mind you I'm suprised it doesn't come down to his knees!!

I have only one thing to say...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think his real name is Michael? I think Michael Holbrook Penniman is his dad - I think the Daily Mirror incorrectly reported this once (suprise, surprise! ) . As far as I know his real name is Mika only spelt with a C, so it is Mica Penniman.

Brilliant! I love the Orbit packet, nice reference lol

I have been on a few forums when somebody new has joined and typed in txt talk and they have been totally blasted for it. Everybody on here has been so cool about this and even apologised. Therefore this is definitely the nicest forum in the world! We are so cool

Just watched this. Gorgeous as always. Don't want to seem picky, but who did his hair?! Looks a lot frizzier than normal!! Also did anybody notice the shirt Martin was wearing was one of Mikas?

I think thats a good idea Sou, makes it a lot more personal. Even if only some could do that.

I'm up for that, count me in!

OMG Radio Broadland, that brings back memories from living in Norfolk! btw Beckar, I went to school with Rob Chandlers wife Jo! Kerching? I love it! Hence the sig

Oooooppps, I thought it was in South America too ...we have soooo much in common...

Don't laugh peeps, but on one photo I used I got Drew Barrymore and on another I got... Danny DeVito!!! I nearly cried lol

I've given up trying to hide it. I used log onto the internet in a different sign in, but I don't bother anymore. Besides I think he likes Mika as much as I do (Ok, he doesn't fancy him though!) but just reluctant to admit it! When we get in the car he will put a couple of Killers songs on then play the Mika album and says "For you and the kids" ! Doesn't fool me lol

I don't think I hate it, but it passes me by. I don't really think it fits in with the rest of the album and I not so bothered it's not on my copy. I can forgive him though!!

Wow, Lucky, lucky you!! I'm not at all jealous. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not lol!

Love Autumn too, I think it is the prettiest season and I love Autumn smells. I love Winter too, but wish it would snow more here

I wanted to fit Pushy Q? Russian Singing Teacher in, but couldn't think of a Q!

Ooops missed out Q! A beautiful character deserves enormous fortune, gives hundreds immense joy. Kooky, loveable Mika – number one! Perfectly quite radiant, sings tremendously. Ultimately very worthy, xcellent young zoodlepop. (ok, you think up a good X & Z!)

Thank you, thank you *takes bow*

A beautiful character deserves enormous fortune, gives hundreds immense joy. Kooky, loveable Mika – number one! Perfectly radiant, sings tremendously. Ultimately very worthy, xcellent young zoodlepop. (ok, you think up a good X & Z!)

Exactly what I was going to say meimei!

outstanding

You were pleased to be involved... "£45 to me was a dream sum. I had no idea you were supposed to add a couple of zeroes to that number. For backbreaking soulless session numbers. But I was cutting my teeth, getting time in the studio, that's all I really wanted." Justin Hawkins from the Darkness made a tidy sum from ads. "Yeah, but I never wrote them. I was a kid doing work on them, but he actually wrote the IKEA jingle. He funded that first album right? £100,000? Pretty good." Did you like them at all? There's a falsetto thing going on in your music and theirs... "I never really connected with that album ['Permission to Land'], I have to be honest. I look for different things in albums. It was hooky and entertaining." I take it you're a Queen fan. "Not as enormous a fan as a lot of people would assume." You can hear Queen in 'Grace Kelly'. "Freddie is there, but 'Grace Kelly' came from the idea that if I were going to write a little stick you insult song to the music industry I would do it with the most obvious melody. So I based it on this kind of classical opera melody - a classical choral opera chorus section from an opera. That's where the theatricality comes in, that's why it's reminiscent of Queen. But I name checked Freddie, so..." You say you won't talk about sexuality or sexual orientation, but when writing a song like 'Billy Brown' [about a married man falling in love with another man], shouldn't you justify yourself in some way? "No. I don't see how the two come together. Just because you write about things doesn't necessarily mean you have to immediately stick them into your own life. I mean I write a lot about a lot of things." I noticed recently Kele from Bloc Party had started being a little more open about his sexuality because he was exploring it in song... "You know, talk to me in a year. I've come across this before, people say 'why do you come up with little characters for songs? Why did you write 'Lollipop' if it wasn't about yourself? Why do you write about Big Girls?' all this stuff. The one thing about songwriting, especially in the 60s and 70s was that people used to tell stories and paint little pictures. You know, the Beatles flipped from story to story, they cut out newspaper clippings and wrote stories about them, that's how they got a lot of their inspiration. And I don't see nowadays why you can't do that? You can't get away with writing little movies. "I understand that in an era of tabloid culture everyone feels a subject matter has to be justified by the songwriter or the singer's motives or personal experience. That's not necessarily as old as the caves. My sexuality has nothing to with it, it's a rule of thumb for songwriting and it means you don't get stale or stagnant as quickly. "The right I do want to defend is my right to write about absolutely anything." ...and the link is - http://www.playlouder.co.uk/feature/+mika/ Sorry if this is a duplicate