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    Origin of Love - Song and Lyrics Discussion

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

    Posted

    It's just occurred to me that this song sounds a bit like Life by Des'ree in places :shocked: Well to me it does, anyway.

     

    I would post a video of that song but I seem to have completely forgotten how to embed videos here :blink::blink::blink::lmfao:

     

    Haha, you're right.

     

    From the air I breathe to the love I need

    Only thing I know is you're the origin of love

    From the god above to the one I love

    Only thing that's true the origin is you

     

    reminds me of this part

     

    Life, oh life, oh life, oh life,

    doo, doot doot dooo.

    Life, oh life, oh life, oh life,

    doo, doot dooo

     

    This is soooo much better. He seemed to be singing out of sync with the rhythm at Nibe (or maybe it's just the videos), but this sounds so much more polished. I still don't like the Nicorette lines but it's easier to imagine how this could be a single/dance track.

     

    [YOUTUBE]gCkiPBlWi4w[/YOUTUBE]

     

    I have to say that after I've listened to the Tallinn version I like it a lot better!

    But as someone already have said, it sounds a bit like underwater in the beginning.

     

    True! Tool sounds better and catchier in this video.

     

    Maybe listening to the live versions first wasn't such a good idea :huh:

    Lola - new song

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

    Posted

    Lola sounds good so far.

     

    why after MYH and Underwater do I find the rest banal or cheap?

     

    I definitely need to listen to a proper album on CD :dunno:

    Looking forward to my home gig anyway, I'm sure I'll make up my mind then :original:

     

    Same, the album probably sounds quite different. Though I have to say the videos I've heard from tiibet today were very good, resulting in the songs sounding a bit better too :naughty:

     

    I've been like this for TBWKTM too, I haven't liked WAG or Rain completely, honestly. Nothing will compare LICM as surprise effects, originality and amazingness :naughty:

    But I loved the second album too, and I picked up my favourites. Probably it will be the same with the third one.

    Too early to tell :wink2:

     

    Thanks for trying to cure me...you are my nicorette :lmfao:

    what demential lyrics

     

    True enough, but I already accepted that a while ago.

    Origin of Love - Song and Lyrics Discussion

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

    Posted

    @rosa: I'll be honest with you, I'm not liking the new stuff so far. From what I've heard there isn't any song that sparks the same enthusiasm as I had before. Not underwater, not karen, not myh, not tool... I really liked celebrate at first, I guess it's still my favorite of the new stuff, but it's not like I'll get the sudden urge to play it a lot.

    The worst thing about it is that I wish it was different. I wanted to like the new stuff but I got disappointed. And with every new song I hope that it will be different and that I will love it immediately like I did with most of the old stuff. So here's me looking forward to Lola, and hoping that will be the song...

    Anyway, even if I don't like this album, that's not the end of the world imo. I expect more albums to follow + maybe the studio versions of these songs are totally different, time will tell. :wink2:

    MIKA @ Ollesummer - Estonia: July 5, 2012: REPORTS/PICS/VIDEOS

    in Concert Reviews

    Posted · Edited by mari62
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    Another new song performed tonight! Lola!! I'm sure we're all curious to hear it!

     

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    As usual, please keep the chit chat to a minimum in this thread.

     

    Mika in the Estonian press part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5

     

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    "The Origin of Love" - the pieces of a puzzle

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Some more info in this article. Thanks to Hippieibbie for translating!

     

     

    Mika: It was nice not to be alone!

     

    After 5 years of waiting, Mika finally came to the Nibe Festival to play. And Gaffa was with him

     

    Gaffa got the opportunity to meet Mika after the concert, and then there got raked up in a old wound.

     

    You should have played at Nibe 5 years ago, but you had to cancel. That didn’t make you popular. Do you feel you and the audience “kissed and made up” during the concert?

     

    Mika: (laughing) I don’t know. Ask them. When I cancelled last time, was it all wrong with me. Lost 60% of my hearing. When things like that happen you, get scared of you might get death, and if the career is over. I went all the way to the rats (a Danish saying). But I found the balance, and got the most of my hearing back again, but I have never got over it. If I have to go at a restaurant, I have to sit in a corner with the one ear against the wall, to hear something. But It wont let me down. It wouldn’t help my career. Så I shut up and swallow the caramel, that was the best I could do. I want to stand up and say “I’m a bit late. But I’m here now”

     

    And now it's now. You got a new album “The Origin of love” on the way (out in September), There is filled with love songs…

     

    Mika: (smiling laughing) Yes, not normally love songs. Pretty different.

    And that makes a kliché question, and I would like to hear, what there make you do an album with love songs?

    Mika: Hmm, to lose the love and then fall in love very quick again. And to follow the flow. First I haven’t wrote a song in a half year, and been on tour for 2 years. And I didn’t knew how to get started again. And each time I thought about writing a song, I felt the pressure. And then I felt in love again, felt in love with writing songs again. I have wrote songs since I was 11 years old, so to write songs is my job. Not to write for a half year was very strange. But to fell in love with a new person, was motivation enough to leave my life in London, pack my bags, call Nick Littlemore (producer) that I would like to work with. Then I wrote the tittle track to the new album “the origin of love” and I didn’t take home for a half year, and wrote the album during that time

     

    You say that the album contains unconventional love songs. What makes them unconventional?

     

    Mika: "There are all kinds of love songs. There is one called" Love you When I'm Drunk ", a song about hating love, which is" The Origin of Love ", which is about the Roman Catholic church, and my contempt for religion's chains. It's not exactly 90s-ballads (laughs). "

     

    Fortunately. Now that you are the Roman Catholic Church and chains. How else would you describe your relationship to religion?

     

    Mika: "I have no respect for religious authority. I think they are terrible. But I think it's good to have faith. Whether it's a tree or in one that is called God. I grew up with religion . I was brought up by a hippie Roman Catholic family. a strange environment. It was always that I should go to church, or I would be punished. "

     

    If we return to the love songs, what do you think the perfect love song contains?

     

    Mika: "(laughs) Probably a Diane Warren and Celine album. But hatred. Absolutely. Anger. There will be resentment in a love song. Tension between" I love you but I hate you also "do a love song valid. when you love someone, you appreciate them not only. you hate them also for the control they have over you, how weak you feel. you hate how much better you feel, now that you're in love, for why can not you be happy enough alone. Blondie is a good example. Blondie has written the best love songs. There are plenty of sexual tension. "

     

    What love song are your favorite? Is it one of Blondie?

     

    Mika: "Yeah, or maybe Björk with 'It's Oh so Quiet'. It is good love song. Psychotic, crazy, disturbed. All the things that a love song must contain".

     

    What’s the best song to make love to?

     

    Mika: "Hmm, I know hardly. I think many of my generation probably was conceived for an East 17-plate, and it's certainly not sexy music (laughs). The best songs to love to is probably not the best songs to make love to. I hate the idea of what song I was conceived, and I have no desire to figure it out. The idea makes me really badly. Sex and music may not work so well together, unless you is really drunk and then you probably just f*ck the wrong person anyway.

     

    Which song do you feel the audience enjoyed the most during the concert?

     

    Mika: "'The Origin of Love' felt good. There was another love song I wanted to try, called" Under the Water ", but I dropped. I do not know why. Maybe because there were technical problems at the start of the concert . But my performances with "the Origin of Love" was almost six minutes long, and I really enjoyed it. long intro, it starts, it gets so big and even bigger before it becomes small again. The song is a bold musical statement. there is much music and singing in it. and you must remember that it is a very compact case to soak in for the first time. But the audience took it to their heart. it was also the first time I performed with it.

     

    Yes you mention that on the stage!

     

    Mika: "(laughs) I do not know if it was due to stress or whether it was an excuse. If everything went to completely wrong, then you knew why."

     

    People also liked “celebrate”

     

    Mika: "Yes, definitely, but I didnt think much about it, because I’ve played once before. But it's a big change. I make big changes. And I know I’ve to make the changes perfect. I’m on my third album and make alternative pop. it is my responsibility as a musician to make bold statements, to make things that are contradictory in a way. that is what I do. "

     

    What was the best about making your third album?

     

    Mika: That I had fun

     

    What was so fun?

     

    Mika: "It was fun not to be alone. I had Nick Little More to have fun with. I had Pharrell Williams, and some guys that I found on the web. A 22-year-old who never had made a major release before. I heard him (FrYars) online, visited him at his mother. A week after I took him to the States. 'Come with me. We make music and have fun. "the whole concept of the album was to make happy and alternative pop music . to make alternative pop music is a Contradiction. But it can be done. When I think of artists that I love ... for example, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, and Beck. I see Beck do 'Odelay' and watch him go into a shop to buy his own album, because he makes music for himself. All of us in the studio are doing music for ourselves. We are grown men who make happy pop music for ourselves. And it is never a bad thing

     

    Can you feel the joy of the album?

     

    Mika: Yes, you can. There’s much joy at the album. It's very inspired by the Bee Gees, Fleetwod Mac and french house from the 90s. And you can sense the sincerity of the album. And it was nice not being alone.

    2012 - MIKA @ Nibe - Denmark - July 4: REPORTS/PICS/VIDEOS

    in Concert Reviews

    Posted

    i'll translate it:thumb_yello: give me some time! and it will be up! x)

     

    Thank you!! Seems like an interesting interview! :flowers2:

     

    Again dont expect too much.. cause the drums mess up with the sound of my camera, as it's no good camera for videos.. btu for pics.. but i am sure someone will post a better one soon!:thumb_yello:

     

    [YOUTUBE]qNCsi5FFS_Y&feature=youtube_gdata[/YOUTUBE]

     

    *watches*

    "The Origin of Love" - the pieces of a puzzle

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    What's wrong with Tah Dah? :lmfao:

     

    Maybe it will make the 12 cut if Celebrate is a success. :teehee:

     

    I have to see the "word" in the song context before I can pass judgement, so I can't say anything now :mf_rosetinted: I mean, you could have the noise that babies make, you can have the "bye bye" tah dah, or the "wow look, here I am" tah dah. :mikacool:

    Maybe there's another meaning that I don't know about yet :)

    Mika to perform at White Nights Festival 2012, Russia

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    i met David Hasselhoff when I was 11 years old because he was a doctor on a soap opera and made an appearance at a mall in Toronto. 30 years later he is performing at the same event as Mika? :roftl: His singing career is considered a joke here. No one can believe people listen to him in Europe.

     

    I dunno, I only know him from baywatch :lmfao: Never heard him on the radio as far as I know :aah:

    Mika to perform at White Nights Festival 2012, Russia

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Saw on the official site of the "White Nights Festival" that there will be a webcast so maybe we could see mika's performance online :crossed:

     

    That would be great, even though we don't know (yet) when he'll be on :teehee:

     

    Ice Palace is great. There must be many spectators.

    * Here, a description of the festival. This is a something " bourgeois" ...

    http://peterburg2.ru/events/83588.html#/attachment/b624a6d4fcd2/600x3508/01.jpg

    There is a button "to order tickets." Yellow. But this festival is not on the site when I clicked on the link to order tickets.

     

    "The program of the Festival: Competition for Young Performers, performances of world-class foreign stars, charitable programs and social projects. Among the guests of honor - Michael BOLTON, Paula ABDUL, ANASTACIA, Natalie IMBRUGLIA, MIKA, Simple Minds, David HASSELHOFF, Spandau Ballet, Joss STONE, and many others."

    "Every year in the number of honorary members of the jury and the distinguished guests of the festival there are members of the royal families of Holland, Monaco, England, the Ministers of Culture of the European states, mayors of sister cities of St. Petersburg, as well as representatives from the world-famous media Billboard, Hollywood Reporter, Music & Media."

    If I am not mistaken, this is an event for fat cats. Well, I'll be glad if Mika will perform there. This is useful for Him. A good advertising.

     

    Wow, sounds like a posh event! It's such a strange line-up, I'd never expect these people to perform at the same event. (read: david hasselhoff??!)

    Mika to perform at White Nights Festival 2012, Russia

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted · Edited by Droopsy

    I don´t know why but I can´t believe this. Are we sure they mean our Mika? No one of the Russian fans heard of that before? Really? Very weird!

     

    Well, it is his picture on the site, so that's quite a blamage if it's not him.

     

    does it say anywhere at which of the 3 days he'll perform? i didn't see it anywhere on the site... :blink: is it even for the public? :dunno:

     

    I don't think it is for the public, the article clearly states that the performances etc. are for "guests and participants". I don't think it's something you can buy tickets for :dunno: The name is just misleading I think.

    Interview for Kaltblut Magazine

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    I'm confused about what Mika meant when he said that William and Martin aren't on the album; So they didn't produce any of the songs that have ended up it? What about Stardust? That's the song Martin produced, isn't it? Hmm...

     

    I'm a bit confused too with this article... Oh well, we'll only know for sure when the album's out I guess. I have to say I'd be a bit disappointed now if Solveig wasn't involved at all after all the previous mentions :aah:

    Oh well, we'll see. *still in waiting mode*

    Mika to perform at White Nights Festival 2012, Russia

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted · Edited by Droopsy

    :Update:

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    Here's the download link to the full performance:

    http://www.mediafire.com/?sdphx10yefjp2k2

     

    Sorry it's not HQ but I had to convert the file cause it was too large to upload.

     

    Thank you very much again !!

     

     

     

    uploaded your file on VIMEO.

     

    https://vimeo.com/45400858

     

     

    I did a quick search but didn't see it posted yet? Mika is mentioned on the official site as well :thumb_yello:

    http://wnfestival.com/pochetnye_gosti

     

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    Anastacia to perform at White Nights Festival

    Anastacia will be one of the star performers at this year's White Nights of St. Petersburg festival, which takes place from Friday July 6 to Sunday July 8 at the Russian city's Ice Palace.

     

    The 'Left Outside Alone' singer is one of the star acts at the International Music Festival in the Russian city, which takes place from Friday July 6 to Sunday July 8.

     

    Other big names to take part in the festival include Michael Bolton, Simple Minds, Joss Stone, Natalie Imbruglia, David Hasselhoff, Mika and Spandau Ballet.

     

    All the singers will help introduce the international song competition which sees entrants from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the United States compete for the coveted prize, while the jury includes former 'American Idol' star Paula Abdul.

     

    One of the favourites for the prize is England's Rick Guard, who has been hailed as the British Michael Buble and has performed in front of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and several soccer stars.

     

    The festival will take place at St. Petersburg's Ice Palace and as well as great music, participants and guests of the festival will also enjoy excursions to the city's museums, palaces and a country night cruise on the Neva river and the Finnish Gulf.

     

    For more information about the festival and its history go to http://wnfestival.com/.

     

    http://entertainment.stv.tv/showbiz/309562-anastacia-to-perform-at-white-nights-festival/

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