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I bought a pair right after I saw my first pictures of Mika in them I have a black pair and a tan pair, and once my car payments are complete, I'm looking into more colorful pairs. My friend took some great pics of me in them, i'll get on her to upload them haha

I thought he said in some interview that she was a good friend?

I just bought my tickets! I'm so excited I was supposed to see him in NYC, but I couldn't But now he's even closer!

Thanks so much for that! Meh He's soo adorable lol

There's one just like that but he's sitting a little differently I think I found it on here once, but now I can't find it again Does anyone have it?

Grace Kelly- Freedom, individuality. I relate a lot with Mika in the sense that my tween/middle school/early high school years were hell. I started off middle school badly after a car accident the summer before it. 7th grade especially was traumatic, when my best friend turned her back on me when i needed her most and made utter and complete fun of me and tormented me daily, saying things behind my back, all the while playing the 'nice guy' front. I also realized I was bisexual in 6th/7th grade, which I surpressed for another five or six years, which put me into a rather serious depression. (I was a freakin' amazing musician though, for a while, atleast). Lollipop- Sex, I know it's kinda a 'don't have sex' song, but yeah... sex... especially with Mika xD My Interpretation- Just being alone. The song makes me a little teary every time I hear it. Reminds me of friends who I've fallen out with or I've fought with. Also reminds me of people who I've had feeling for who didn't necessarily feel the same way back Love Today- Mika in general. I hear it and I can see him dancing in the Love Today video and I squeal like a fangirl. After all, I 'love, love' mika Relax (Take It Easy)- Basically chill out and stop fighting it. It's my favorite song to paint to Ring Ring- Kind of a 'desperate for love' song. I've had times where I want someone to call to take an interest, and they don't, but I sit with my phone on inches away, hoping for a call. Any Other World- Again, just a relax, everything will sort itself out. There's no use fighting it because you can't control it and it'll all work out in the end Billy Brown- Kinda like, life's unpredictable. You can have total control and then be spinning completely out of wack completely Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)- It's an amazing dance song first of all. Second,I have a friend that's heavy and she has terrible self esteem sometimes, and the song just makes me appreciate her when she is happy, and it makes me appreciate Mika that he can appreciate 'big girls' Stuck In The Middle- I'm a middle child, so all the lines about family and all remind me of MCS- middle child syndrome. But also just being caught in the middle I guess Erase- All the mistakes I've made, all the things I've said, or haven't said, all the things I haven't done. Just kind of, being able to go and pretend they didn't happen or they'd happen a different way Happy Ending-Another kind of just pick it up and bear it, there's nothing you can do to change it. Kinda the same of Erase Satellite- Haven't listened to this much- I don't like the actual song so much (my brother pwns at playing it and I can't, hence he plays it all the time and drives me crazy), but the fact that Mika sings it is the only reason I listen to it

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GMA- Ask Mika a question

GMA- Ask Mika a Question

OMG He was beautiful

I think she's absolutely gorgeous. What was her old band? *girl power* *girl drummer power* *minority girl drummer power*

I believe so. The order of his siblings is not completely known, i've seen several variations, but i do believe he is a middie

Could stuck in the middle have to do with his family perhaps? sit and think about the day that you're gonna die, 'Cos your wrinkled eyes betrayed the joy with which you smiled. wrinkled eyees to me suggest someone older- parents or grandparents maybe? Is there anybody home? seems kinda family oriented plus Ours is a family that's based upon tradition But with my careless words I tread upon your vision. Are five kids better than one, who'd busy like to be gone? like maybe a sibling wished the others didn't exist or something But then the break your heart of mine might point another way, or maybe he's mad at a sibling and wants to hurt them?

Personally, I think I'd love him more. It takes a lotta guts to be able to come out, so I know I'd definitely respect him more for it. Plus, I think it's better for people to come out hen they are public figures because then they help make homosexuality more acceptable and all. In this day and age, the world's a lot more understanding than it was even a decade ago. I mean, Brokeback Mountain was a huge deal a few years ago and Breakfast on Pluto, and Queer as Folk etc... And all that is acceptable these days. Sorry to go on a tangent, but my pride and joy (my school's GSA) died due to lack of interest and I need somewhere to be an activist

(Copyright © 2007 The Irish Times) Don't stop him now. It's taken Mika eight years to reach his pop peak, conquering the charts with his quirkily refreshing single Grace Kelly. So what's next, asks Tony Clayton-Lea ANYONE suspecting that Mika Penniman is merely flavour of the month would do well to note that the tall, skinny man from a moneyed, well-travelled family (albeit one not without its share of trauma - his father was kidnapped during Mika's early teenage years) has the ammunition to shoot back at his critics. Sitting backstage in Dublin's Spirit venue last week, an hour or so prior to making his live debut in Ireland, Mika is effervescent, enthusiastic and persuasive. The perception of many is that Mika's success is instant, despite the fact that he has been performing from the age of 12 (admittedly in the rather more rarefied domain of opera). Yet in the way that pop music works, instant success this year could mean a gradual fade into obscurity by 2008. Could this happen to Mika? Yes, but not if he has anything to do with it. "I'm something now that has been 12 years in the making," he says. "Because I've gotten here completely on my own terms in every single way, and because I've approached it for the right reasons - music being the main one. All of this will stand me in good stead. All of this fits intrinsically into who I am as an artist, as a person and as a songwriter. I think my success is more to do with my take on things, and people relating to the way I look at life than just to do with one song. That said, Grace Kelly is a mark of honesty as opposed to just an electronic pop song, faceless or deceptive. That song is my game." Mika says he knew this phase of his life, his career, would go either fantastically well or horrifically badly. There would be nothing in between. "Up to 18 months ago, I had people saying to me they'd support me, they'd turn me into something great, they'd give me financial backing. And for all of this they would tell me to be what they wanted me to be, they would tell me to sing particular types of songs. But I made the decision to be myself and have it go terribly wrong than to be moderately successful, pretending to be someone else and being really unhappy as a result of it. And besides, that would lead to nowhere." All roads, then, lead anywhere but nowhere. If his family background is shrouded in mist, then his sexuality is enveloped by a miasma of conjecture. Mika is surprised that even in 2006/2007, some people are curious about what way he swings. "It's interesting how everyone talks about tolerance, and yet everyone is so desperate to pigeonhole. It almost infuriates them when you won't submit to their categorisation. Call that refusal pro- choice, give it some sort of political name and it immediately irks me again, because what's the point? "I get everything from 'oh, you choose to stay away from your private life in the press because you're afraid of taboos in America and you do that because you want to be successful there'. Now, if I was really worried about that would I put a song called Billy Brown [ about a married man's gay extra-marital affair] on the album, which is now resting on the shelves of Walmart? Would I write songs that say I try to be like Grace Kelly if I'm worried about sexual taboos? "The not wanting to go into the sexuality thing is more about self-preservation and self-respect than it is about anything else. I think there is a lot of pride and honour to be taken from the fact that you don't whore yourself out in every single possible way in order to get a story out of every angle." Is there a fine line, then, between public persona and private life? "There is, and I think I'm going to be able to maintain that. Some people say I'm crazy and idealistic to think that; some people say if I managed to achieve that then I clearly haven't made it, which to me sounds preposterous. But it's about self-respect; a lot of people are able to do it, but they have to be bolshy and self- aware enough to think about it well in advance. You either become tabloidy from the very beginning, or you make a conscious decision and effort not to be. Which is what I have decided. "I don't want people to misunderstand me, however - I think sexualising music is glorious. Putting sex into music is absolutely amazing. . . but politically sexualising music, at least as far as sexuality is concerned, is so boring. It doesn't go anywhere, especially as far as the music and artistry is concerned. It's not what I'm in it for; it's not what my music is about." According to Mika, his music is about how it makes you feel, it's about jacking it into your system, creating a world and dealing with reality. "And it's about making good music, good records. The challenge of that, the reward of it, the hook of the tune down to the feel of the beat when you're playing it live. That's what it's about." Our time is up. Mika is limbering up for the show, mischievously looking forward to seeing a UK music journalist (who has been trailing him for a couple of days) dressing up in a hired monkey costume. If Mika were a Queen song, which one would it be? He giggles like a little boy who has a deep secret he has been hiding for years. He pauses for the first time in 20 minutes. He thinks. He smiles. And then he sings: "Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time." Life in Cartoon Motion is on release. Mika returns to Ireland for the Oxegen Festival, July 7-8

That's what I thought. I think I remember reading on the board his dad was Michael, and I know it was the guy here from Gay and Night who said Mika put the 'my name's ****ing Mika' so emphasized was because people weren't sure how to say Micas Thanks And btw, just because it's from a gay.com/theadvocate/out.com or whatever doesn't always mean the person's gay... (I'm pretty sure all the guys from Queer as Folk were in one of those magazines at one time and all but three cast members were heteros)

Wait, question So I've heard his real name is Mica Penniman, and I've just found on Wiki it's 'Michael Holbrook Penniman.' can anyone confirm which it is?

haha, well ages ago it was Green Day, then the LOTR Boys, and then Max Benitz from Master and Commander (highly recommend the movie, go rent it) and then Gerry Butler from Phantom of the Opera, back to Green Day and then Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, Christian Bale, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and then Matthew Gray Gubler from Criminal Minds, then Brian Molko/Placebo because androg UK men are teh sex, and then OK GO and then David Copperfield- the illusionist because, come on, it's David effing Copperfield, and then back to Brian Molko and then finally to Mika. And that's the ABRIDGED obsession list

for those who've seen him before Does he come out so you can take photos?

I am SO HAPPY I ordered them last night and didn't wait for my parents to approve it. Sure, I need to get a ride down there, but hey, I gots 'em

I would ask who did his make p for the 4play interview he did haha No, I would ask what advice he has for aspiring musicians and what advice he'd give kids who are currently being bullied and tortured as he was as a child

I'm on the verge of crying My dad's doing the 'maybe/maybe not' and I'm freaking out because I wantt hem now or else I'm afraid they'll sell out. How big is Gramercy? Should I steal the parent's card and buy them now (paying parents back, of course, so it's not stealing per-se) EDIT: So I bought tickets I just have to make sure it's okay that I'm going....

... In a warm fully occupied bed. Does that mean what I think? Haha

AHH EHH! OMG I'm trying to talk mum and dad to letting me go see him. I'm in Boston on the 28th to see OK Go and it's just a three-four hour drive from there, and then I'm in Boston all weekend, so it might definitely be a possibility!

I think I'd love him no matter what. I love his music, and his originality, and the fact he's drop dead gorgeous definitely adds some charm. I'd like him to keep his hair though... It looks like it'd be fun to play with xD