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I recently discovered Katy Perry, mainly because of the thread about her possible relationship with Mika. I really don't care about that by the way. But...I was listening to her song, "You're so gay", on her myspace, and I thought "this could be about Mika". Moreover, she says this song is about an ex boyfriend of hers. http://www.myspace.com/katyperry What do you guys think ?

This one is pure pleasure. It's like rasberry jelly with peanut butter or melted dark chocolate on a banana or apple crumble with vanilla ice cream...

Yeah well I am really not sure about Mika's ressemblance with MichelAngelo's David... See for yourself... http://renaissance.mrugala.net/Michel%20Ange%20(par%20Lapointe)/David.jpg And tell me what you guys think!

Ouawww Mireille!! Je suis tellement heureuse pour toi. Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais depuis le temps que je lis ce forum et le forum français, je trouve que s'il y a bien une personne àqui cette belle chose devait arriver, c'est toi! Alors encore bravo, et profite bien du concert en juin, je sais que j'ai adoré celui de Montréal ! Biz Lylemma

I live in Normandie, France It is in a very small village, called Torigny sur Vire. We have a chateau (castle) that used to belong to the french royalty, and that now still belongs the Monaco's Grimaldi royalty. You can even rent it to have parties, I know I did a lot of family parties in there, amazing!

I am french, so I would take him to Paris first, ask him to take me to where he used to live... Then I would take him to Montmartre, where the movie "Amélie" was filmed, an amazing place in Paris, very romantic. Then we would go to Eurodisney, one of my favourite places in France (I went there so many times!) He would call me Minnie and I would call him Mickey all day. We would spend the day eating huge lollipops and looking for Alice (of wonderland) and Mika would aks her for an autograph. Finaly we would take the Eurostar and crash in his flat in London, me cooking muffins and crepes, him playing piano, singing... The day after, we would have dinner with all his familly, and his mom would be thrilled to have me taste her lebanese specialities! (To be even more realistic): At the end of the dinner, Mika would make a toast to us and propose to me in front of his happy family! How is that for a fabulous week end with Mika ? A little bit of dreaming doesn't hurt...

Ahhhh he says "Everybody's gotta love" instead of "Love today"! Grrrrrrrrrrrr DO NOT MESS WITH MIKA'S SONGS

I can confirm what you've been saying, I was there! What an amazing show!! Too short for my taste of course...but amazing! Mika definitely rocks

Ok, careful ladies, this is serious stuff because... in this video, Mika simply reaches the top of cuteness... Especially when he says "as far as I'm concerned anyway". Well, see for yourselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrw4Jd070z8&NR Have a good day in cartoon motion ! Lylemma

Amazing! Thanks for that !!

Here is the article : British pop sensation Mika is tough to classify, but easy to love Radio slowly warming up to unconventional 23-year-old artist By NICK MARINO The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 02/17/2007 England's brightest new pop star has long fingers, gangly limbs and a tiny waist. His hair falls in dark ringlets. The American pop star he most resembles is John Mayer. The animal he most resembles is a giraffe. His name is unisex. In his 23 years, he's only met one other Mika, and that was a Japanese lady who accompanied him on piano in music college. This Mika  the English one, whose name is pronounced MEE-kuh  has the No. 1 song in Britain at the moment, "Grace Kelly." Perhaps you've heard it. It's a real piano-pounder with giant chord progressions and a stratospheric falsetto chorus. The song's lyrics allude to Freddie Mercury, the flamboyant Queen singer whose showtuney sensibility resonates in Mika's melodies. Some American radio stations, including local adult-alternative station Dave FM, have begun playing "Grace Kelly," while others are thinking about it. Mika is here in Atlanta to see if he can persuade them. Chris Brannen, operations manager at Dave, says the station is already spinning the song two to three times a day, focusing on weekends and overnight airplay, and that he's planning to start "hand-placing it throughout the day." He compares it to another left-field hit that swept England before breaking in the States: Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." "I think with the buzz and the flash and the pizzazz that Mika has around him, I think that it's going to be a hit ... it's catchy. And yes, it will be one of those songs that, after you hear it for the 300th time  very similar to 'Crazy'  people [will start] saying, 'If I hear that song one more time...' But that's how hits are made." Hits like Mika's album, "Life In Cartoon Motion," a kaleidoscopic record integrating piano pop and disco throb. While it won't be out in the States until March 27, it, too, is No. 1 back home in Blighty. 'Setting trends isn't easy' On this sunny Valentine's Day afternoon, he's high above Buckhead in the penthouse conference room of Top 40 radio station Star 94. He's already given a joint performance for employees of Top 40 station Q100, and alternative rock station 99X. Now here he is, helping decorate for his next promotional gig. After this, he's got a private concert at the Realm condominium tower, sponsored by Dave FM. Then it's off to Boston, then New York, and then back overseas for a tour. Mika grasps a purple balloon, fills it with helium, lifts it to his lips and inhales. He sings the hook of "Grace Kelly" in a comically squeaky pitch, riffing on his own voice, a voice that once caused a record executive to ask him, "Do you have to sing so high?" Well, he doesn't have to. The guy started studying voice at age 11; his first gig was at the Royal Opera House. He can sing in a low, rounded voice  and sometimes he does  but his trademark move is a vocal leap into thin air. Here in the States, Mika is still mostly unknown. Perhaps because of this, or perhaps it's just his nature, he punctuates his refined manners with a self-deprecating wit. He exhibits a rare combination of precociousness and modesty. If he were back home, he points out, he could be "swanning around" at the Brits  the U.K.'s version of the Grammys. He's not nominated, but that's because he's not eligible this year. "I keep getting text messages saying 'Have a great time tonight,'" he says. "And I'm like, 'I'm playing the condo next door.'" Balloons are placed at the doorway, and Valentine's candy is strewn across the conference room table. Before long, the Star 94 staff gathers around. Joel Klaiman, a Universal Records bigwig in a pinstriped jacket, introduces his artist by saying, "You probably won't ever see Mika in a conference room again." Mika, he says, already has confirmed dates on "The Tonight Show" and "Good Morning America," and "Saturday Night Live" is trying to work around Mika's schedule. Mika sits at a big keyboard and plays three songs. The first is "My Interpretation," a breakup song disguised as a jaunty pop tune. The second is "Love Today," a rave-up that starts big and grows bigger. Last comes "Grace Kelly," which he says was written in a fit of anger after feeling rejected and frustrated by a music business that wouldn't give him any attention. Needless to say, he's got plenty of attention now. With Mercury long dead and glam-rock band the Darkness looking like a one-hit wonder, Mika's closest stylistic contemporary is the singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, another restless soul whose work includes cabaret-pop and opera. After Mika's conference room performance, Klaiman explains his sales pitch for getting such an unconventional artist on mainstream radio: "Setting trends isn't easy." That's especially true when the competition is so much more familiar to American ears. In the Star 94 lobby are posters of Kelly Clarkson and James Blunt, the sorts of traditional pop acts with whom Mika is competing for air time. Defining artistic success After Star 94, Mika heads over to the Realm, arriving quite early for his performance. At the suggestion of his manager, Mika kills time by exploring the leafy grandeur of West Paces Ferry. His song "Billy Brown," about a gay love affair, plays on the SUV's stereo. "I think that I wasn't born out of any sound scene," Mika says. "I was rejected by pretty much all of them. So I kind of had to find my own way of doing things." He says he gets his songwriting inspiration from his life and his friends' lives, or perhaps from "trashy magazines or fancy books." Then the song "Big Girl" comes on  this is a kind of 21st century update of Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls," a song that Mika says was inspired by the Butterfly Lounge, a plus-sized ladies' club in Southern California. Mika soon reveals that, for him, success means being "massive" enough to continue indulging his artistic muse. "If I make a certain amount of money on my live shows," he says, "then I can turn my live show actually into a big-top circus tent and take that all around the United States. And not have opening acts that are sub-par bands that no one's interested in ... instead, let's have trapeze artists." He's already on his way. When word leaked about Mika's recent private gig at the Roxy in Los Angeles, fans lined up around the block  so he hired jugglers to keep them entertained. Time for the fans The Dave FM show is held in the 8th floor lounge of the Realm, an upscale condo tower. About 125 fans have crowded into the space, having won a little Dave FM contest. Essentially, the station started announcing the show at 9 a.m. one day not long ago, asking listeners who wanted to come to respond via e-mail. Within six hours, the guest list was full. Dave FM's Brannen introduces Mika by comparing him to Queen, Elton John and George Michael. After a brief delay due to an errant fire alarm, Mika bounds into the room, says, "Wow, that's the best entrance I've had in a long time," and plays the same three songs he played at Star 94. The performances are no less charismatic than before. Afterward, he greets a long line of fans, including 29-year-old Nikki Rahnert. She tells Mika that his songs make her smile, and he signs a picture of himself with the words "To Nikki  I am glad the tunes make you smile. [Heart] Mika."

Hello ! Sorry, but what is a "tee" exactly ? Do you mean tea ? Any way count me in, I don't like alcohol...I don't like the taste nor the side-effects (which I find ridiculous...) But I am a huge tea lover ! And fruits juices rocks Lylemma French Mika Fan

Oh My !! Soooo funny! Of course we all know that the real Mika would be way nicer and a lot more respectful...! Still I am sure that Mika would be the first one to laugh if he heard that !

Well basically there are NO weak track on Mika's album ! It is a pure jewel

Here are 3 very funny Mika pics I found on flickr !!

Hello, Here are two videos recorded when Mika was interviewed on Hit40Uk radio in January 07. Grace Kelly: http://rope.ih40.fimc.net/mediaplayer/videoplayer_mika_gracekelly.html# Love Today: http://rope.ih40.fimc.net/mediaplayer/videoplayer_mika_lovetoday.html# And here is the audiotrack of the interview: http://www.hit40uk.com/sectional.asp?id=3942&b=interviews (Scroll down and click on "listen" next to Mika's name) Have a very nice day in cartoon motion Lylemma

Here is the link http://www.mikalife.fr/ Just click on "Mika" and then on "Vidéos"

On Mika's french site : Mikalife.fr There is a new interview of Mika in french, in the Video section. Actually it's not a video, only an audiotrack with pictures of him. Basically he only traduces what we all know about him, his history (beirut-paris-london,...). One new thing, he says that it would be an honour for him, a bit like a mission, to be successful in France, since it is the country of his childhood. So obviously this interview is old, because he is already very successful in France! He also says that he loves Paris. There is also a great video interview in english under the name "L'interview exclusive en VO". Have a good night in cartoon motion Lylemma

Ouaw it is amazing! You should definitely send it with the scrapbook they're gonna give to Mika!

Allo ! C'est pas le plus grand des hasard que j'ai appris que Mika passait en concert et je me suis précipitée au club soda pour acheter mon ticket! J'ai convertie une amie àla Mikamania et on y va toutes les deux ! J'ai tellement hate, c'est une chance incroyable pour nous de pouvoir le voir dans une petite salle comme le club soda, car àmon avis la prochaine fois qu'il va passer au Québec ce sera au Centre Bell !! Une soirée inoubliable en perspective! Lylemma

And now Nathalie Imbruglia! I think that stuff wants something from me...it's way too nice!!

I am Angelina Jolie

I can't wait to see the "Love today" clip ! I hope it'll be as pretty and funny as the "Grace Kelly" one ! But we all know that Mika's going to come up with a great idea for his "Love today " clip that nobody would have thought of...because that's what Mika do, surprising people

I love the song and would love to have the lyrics. See i am french and not all the words are clear to me... Thank you for your help ! Lylemma

Greaaat song!!! I wish I could have it on mp3 !!! Just shows the amazing songwriter Mika is ! Everyone go listen to Your Sympathy !!