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1 hour ago, Hero said:
That moment where he's standing in front of the dancers, and looks over his shoulder (no pun intended) at the one dancer, who suddenly breaks composure and grins back at him. I don't think that was supposed to happen, but I love they left it in.
I think it's intentional because she's wearing braces - so by looking at her he asks her to be herself (love likeJane Birkin), so she smiles, despite the braces, which I think is something that many teenagers who have to wear braces are afraid of, to get judged if they show their smile.
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13 minutes ago, dcdeb said:
I'm really not sure what that term represents, and why it would be included on that jacket,
Well, as you say, it does make sense in the context of the song. We discussed this in the song thread, that blue jeans were typical for Jane Birkin ... so "love harder", probably like he thinks Jane would have (the way you describe it makes more sense to me, thanks!) would be the way to achieve feeling ok in your blue jeans, maybe?
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The text on his jacket says "Blue Jeans" on one side and "Love harder" on the other. I wonder if it'll be one of his tour outfits? Probably... and I suppose for this song, because only in this context the "Blue Jeans" makes sense. Not sure though what he means by "love harder" ... something like love (yourself) more? I saw the word "love" at first and then was surprised about the "harder" - does it make sense to English speakers in the context of the song? I suppose it's hard to express the feeling of love in this song in just 2 words, so maybe that's what comes closest and something like "love more" could be misinterpreted as "make love more often", which I'm sure he doesn't mean ... oh dear, even if I think I know English well, such details in certain expressions still confuse me. 😅🙈
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36 minutes ago, SusanT said:
Maybe a new thread for 2024 should be created or perhaps 2024 could be added in the name of this thread
Thank you! I moved it to a new thread.
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And/Or the "moi" belongs to the chorus, to emphasize the "J'suis pas l'aise dans mes blue jeans"...
Mika replied to some comments on his IG:
So that scene where he falls didn't seem to be meant as I had interpreted it, "even if you fall while trying to be yourself, keep smiling and continue", but it just happened and it really hurt the way it looked. 🙈 Although they might have kept it in the video for that reason, because it emphasizes the meaning of the song. Anyway, ouch. I will never understand how he can keep smiling when something is so hurtful - but I saw him smiling despite tearing a tendon in his foot, so it shouldn't surprise me anymore.
edit: And then the, maybe a litte philosophical, question is: When you fall and hurt yourself when trying to be yourself, but you keep smiling, is that continuing trying to be yourself, or is that trying to keep up the appearance to hide your true emotions?
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16 minutes ago, CharlotteL said:
I think it's intentional that it can mean both
Yes, I agree. It might be "Mika-French" instead of correct grammar, but double meanings aren't always obvious when you just look at the "correct" way of expressing something.
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34 minutes ago, Vero Bott said:
The company reserves the right to carry out all necessary checks concerning the identity, postal and/or electronic address of participants
If they're as good at checking as they are at creating a proper list of countries (which should either include ALL countries, or only France if they want to limit it to that), we might have a chance.
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I watched the livestream at 7 while preparing dinner, but hadn't seen the subtitles... dunno if they weren't in the livestream or if I just didn't notice them... indeed interesting to get an "official" translation - it's not "Free, I don't know how to do that", as I had thought, but "I don't know how to be me" ... and the "tant pis" in the 2nd verse also wasn't 100% clear in the beginning - although from something he had said somewhere recently (maybe it was an interview, not sure...), it had become clearer already.
Love the aesthetics in this video!
And the message - it's not really a story, as I thought it would be - but still it perfecly brings across this emotion of feeling awkward but then daring to express yourself, even if you fall. You just laugh and try again. With the dancers carrying Mika it reminds me a bit of the Good Guys video, just that it's not as confusing, it's much more clear and direct.
When watching for the first time, I wondered why in the group shot Mika is looking at that girl behind him - but when I rewatched, it became clear, I think with that look he "asks" her to smile, despite her braces.
And him dancing on the ice car in his green suit, awesome!
It reminds me a bit of the Ice Cream video. 
1 hour ago, Mubbin Sarina said:Same!! My fav of the new era I think!
Definitely agree with that.
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3 hours ago, jajinka5 said:
Hello Mikafans,
Sorry if I am asking in the wrong thread, but I am thinking about going to Clermont-Ferrand, but I have never been in the venue and tickets now are only very far from the stage. Can you please tell me if the view is good or not from there? Or don't you have one spare ticket ( seated) closer to the stage? Thank you:)
The best place for this question would be the Clermont-Ferrand gig thread, but as you also might be looking for a ticket, I'm leaving your post here.
Maybe @FannySpina14 knows more about the venue?
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On 2/14/2024 at 10:49 AM, holdingyourdrink said:
Btw, I listened to this interview as well but didn't summarize it, as I only understand half of it - it's so chaotic and they keep talking over each other's voices, with Mika's mic at a lower volume (or maybe he was just speaking more quietly than the presenters) that it was too much for my little French skills. 😅 The bits I understood were nothing really new. Something about faithfulness being important in a relationship (I think the interviewer interpreted his lyrics in a different way
), and from what I understood Mika had to recognize some celebrity by asking them questions (I think it was a former candidate of The Voice, but not sure).
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I've moved most of the posts about the Jane Birkin video to an extra thread, so we can continue discussing there.
Copying this here from my original post, as it's related to that particular story:
15 hours ago, Mikasister said:Mika IG story
This is always so satisfying to watch how the surface of the ice becomes smooth again bit by bit... brings back childhood memories of excitedly watching the "ice cars".
But also memories of impatience, having to wait for what felt like ages as a child for them to get finished and the ice to dry, so you can get back ice skating! Luckily the machines today are a lot faster than the ones 35 years ago. 😅
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13 hours ago, Mikasister said:
La première du clip de Jane Birkin demain à 19h !!!!
Jane Birkin music video premiere. Tomorrow at 7PM (French time) !!!!
#JaneBirkin #quetatêtefleurissetoujoursHe has one of those little plastic animals that children use to hold on when they're ice skating for the first time, that's so cute!
It's an ice bear I think? Much looking forward to the video.
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Tbh, it annoys me what he says about not sharing the surprises. When I read the headline / text, I thought, ok, he's insecure, especially about this first test show, and he doesn't want people to judge him or the show before they haven't seen it for themselves. I'd have understood that. But that thing about keeping surprises, I really don't like that he tries to tell people what to do. Maybe he could say, don't post it in public, don't post it on social media, but only share it with your friends, if they really want to know. As a protection for those who don't want spoilers.
I don't like surprises. I'm the kind of person who doesn't buy or read a novel before checking on the last page whether the ending is ok for me. And there is still tension and magic in a novel or in a film, even if I already know the whole story. In Mika's shows, even more. I wouldn't need to go to 6 gigs of the tour, if the magic was lost after the first time. It's rather the opposite, I can focus much better on the emotions if I know the facts.
I know there are people who are the complete opposite and who try to keep offline, to not know anything about Mika's show before they see it for themselves. We've had this discussion before and we've come to the conclusion that here on MFC we're keeping spoilers to certain places (in this case, gig reports), so those who don't want to know it can just avoid these particular threads, and those who do want to know, know where to look. Well, whatever. I do hope that someone is willing to share news about the first gig with me via DM. It's already frustrating enough to not be able to go to the first gig, and to hear Mika talking about this whole big worldwide team who are working on the show and already know everything about it - but the prospect of not even getting to hear about it from other fans after the first show makes me sad. Just my opinion... there's no right or wrong in this, just the fact that people are different.
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13 hours ago, Kumazzz said:
Audio Interview
France Bleu Pays d'Auvergne
https://www.facebook.com/francebleupaysauvergne/posts
Mika demande au public clermontois de ne pas dévoiler les secrets de son concert !Le 26 février prochain au zénith d'Auvergne, Mika lance sa grande tournée, intitulée Apocalypse Calypso Tour !A l'occasion de son entretien avec Philippe Viallon mardi 13 février, il nous dévoile les secrets de sa tournée, tout en nous demandant d'en garder le secret...Bonne écoute...Mika asks the Clermont public not to reveal the secrets of his concert!
On February 26 at the Zenith of Auvergne, Mika launches his big tour, entitled Apocalypse Calypso Tour!
During his interview with Philippe Viallon on Tuesday February 13, he reveals the secrets of his tour to us, while asking us to keep it a secret...
Good listening...On sort en AuvergneLe 13 février 2024Mika says first, that in Clermont-Ferrand it'll be the first time he's testing all the elements of the new show. Then he says that he always has this connection with the audience where him and them feel more free, less complexed, very different than in real life, and he likes that. As a preparation for the tour, he's exercising every day and he takes care of what he's eating. On the tour, it's also important to keep changing, doing different things, reacting to the audience. He talks a bit more about this and says there is no separation between him and the audience, to create a more intense energy, but I can't understand the details of what he's saying.
He says his show has very conceptual elements, it's telling a story from the beginning to the end, and it asks you to forget the world outside for 2 hours. To enter a parallel world, aesthetic, graphic, with decorations and costumes. Many people are working on it, from France, from the UK, from Brazil, Canada, the US, Italy, Holland. Mika says there'll be songs from his whole career that people expect, but also new elements and surprises. It's a different universe, his universe. And the concept of the Apocalypse, a suspended world. And, as they wrote in the text, he asks the audience who's coming to this first show in Clermont-Ferrand to not reveal the surprises. And he knows it's unusual because normally artists would ask you to share everything and post a lot, and he asks the opposite. To guard the secrets for at least a few days or a few weeks. So the surprises stay surprises and the magic of discovering them is kept. He thinks it's more powerful that way. If I understand it right, he says it's ok to share moments, but not unveil the surprises. That's what he asks of the crowd, especially for Clermont-Ferrand.
I think the interviewer asks him about his way of writing an album, and Mika says he doesn't write 500 songs to choose from them, but he writes for a certain concept, and then he has about 40-50 songs to choose from. He talks about why he wrote Jane Birkin and about inspiration for the album title (nothing new there). If I understand it correctly, the interviewer asks if there'll be a DVD of the show and Mika says he doesn't know yet. And then the interviewer says he's a dinosaur because he still bought a physical copy of the album on CD, and I think Mika says that's good and something like that the dinosaurs are more important than the streams.
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1 hour ago, Mikasister said:
I guess posting the link to the story doesn't make much sense, unless you delete your post in 24 hours when the story is gone.
Not sure what to do with these stories where he just advertises his own post, he's never really done that so far ... I suppose if he doesn't add any text / emojis except for the link, we can just ignore it.
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5 minutes ago, vanessa-love-mika said:
I've an extra standing ticket for Berlin and an extra standing ticket for Strasbourg. They are all e-tickets. Message me if interested
@Anilado still looking for a Strasbourg ticket?
In general, please edit your posts if your tickets are gone or you found what you were looking for, add "sold" or "gone" or "found", or just delete. Thank you.
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12 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:
Mika 5
Interesting example of distorted perception, because I only watch this because of Mika... I thought he had a lot more on his team already, and more than the others!
In the review now I'm thinking, this Olema, something in her voice or of her way of singing reminds me of Bjork - and that explains why Mika loves it and I don't, never been a fan of Bjork.
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4 minutes ago, Prisca said:
He still has some more places.
How many can each of them have?
I liked the woman with the red hair. Not so much her high notes, but her lower voice is very unique. It reminds me of a German singer's voice, Annett Louisan, I listened to some of her songs quite a lot at some point. And I think she (the one in The Voice) looks like Disney's Merida.
Very beautiful.
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Ah shame those 3 guys didn't get further, I loved them! Still not fond of that woman who was on before them and who chose Mika, her voice just doesn't click with me. Maybe I'll like it better with another song. Mika can't turn often anymore now, I suppose? He already has so many on his team?
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Who had asked for an Outtakes video? Happy to see that Mika listened!
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1 minute ago, Arianne921 said:
I wanted to say: "And I ...that I fell down from the steps of my house"
Recaping:
Mika ...
I...
Great summary of the downside of being a Mika fan...
Btw, you can edit your posts by clicking on the 3 little dots on the top right and choosing "edit".
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55 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:
Well, today's video from London sounds like Sweetie Banana
You're right! So that's why I suddenly had Sweetie Banana playing in my head after watching this clip!
I remember that figure where he's dragging his leg behind him (In Germany it's called "fencer" ) took me weeks to learn when I first started. He's really just such a high achiever in everything he's doing.
15 hours ago, Hero said:Yeah but if he starts now, imagine how good he'll be in 20 years time...
Make that 20 DAYS for him. 🙈😅
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He posted a few stories too. IG won't let me download his ice skating video with sound, so I hope someone else can post that.
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15 minutes ago, mellody said:
I just googled it, and this TV show (or similar ones) seems to have run in quite a few countries, including the US, Australia and Germany. But from what I can see, they've stopped. The last one in Germany was in 2019. Anyway, I doubt Mika would take part in such a show. I can imagine him doing The Masked Singer, but not a show where he has to learn choreographies. His strength is free expression, and every time he tried to do choreographies, even if he learned them well, it felt like someone had cropped his wings and put him in a cage. That's just not him.
Btw, the weather here is quite good, Mika could come to Germany for running outside.
Just as I was writing this, he posted. 😅 He's filming something in the UK. So maybe it IS that show? Or a new music video? As he had Jane Birkin playing in the other video, maybe he wants to add more to the music video?
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It reminds me a bit of the Ice Cream video. 
), and from what I understood Mika had to recognize some celebrity by asking them questions (I think it was a former candidate of The Voice, but not sure).
But also memories of impatience, having to wait for what felt like ages as a child for them to get finished and the ice to dry, so you can get back ice skating! Luckily the machines today are a lot faster than the ones 35 years ago. 
Mika Composes Soundtrack for New Film "Princes of the Desert" (formerly "TEHU")
in Mika News and Press
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As a reminder, the winners will be announced tomorrow on their youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ifmca ... fingers crossed for Mika!