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  1. mellody
    Mikainstagram stories about The Voice: https://www.mikafanclub.com/topic/36612-mika-rejoins-the-voice-france-in-2024-for-season-13/?do=findComment&comment=4294187
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    As the discussion about this particular interview has become very long, I've moved it to a separate thread, so this one stays a bit more organized and focused on the different interviews. Please feel free to keep on discussing the franceinfo interview (and the apocalypse and Mika's shows and all the other things that this interview brought to our minds) here:
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    Yes, the one time I was there for the auditions I remember particularly one candidate whom I really liked personally, but no one turned (I think they had already enough people on their teams and were looking for something more spectacular than that), and he finished his song and there was just silence and then he left. That felt so awkward. I haven't followed The Voice on TV much, but indeed I think not all auditions make it onto TV. Not because they're too bad ... I think for The Voice they sort out the bad ones in advance. On some German casting shows I used to watch when I was in my 20s (and actually took part once or twice, but never made it in front of the actual jury) they kept the really bad ones to make fun of them on TV. What they sorted out for TV (and what I think they sort out for The Voice France as well) were the mediocre ones (like me), that's just not interesting enough. It's not enough to just be a good singer, you have to make the jury feel something special when they listen to you. I think that's very individual ... that candidate I mentioned above made me feel something, but apparently not the jury. That first candidate they posted about of this year's The Voice didn't make me feel anything, but she convinced the jury. So it's good that the jury are very different people.so one might like something that another one might not.
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    I love this little detail. That was indeed a very awkward situation when I watched the recording of the auditions for The Voice a few years ago, when none of the coaches turned around it was just silence and I felt really really bad for that candidate. Very good to hear that they changed this now, and that Mika didn't like this either. it's a little program or browser plugin that basically pretends that you're in a different place than you actually are - in this case, it would pretend you're in France when in fact you're in Italy.
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    I think you just need to use a French proxy. Moved your post here, maybe someone has more tips on how to watch The Voice.
  6. mellody
    I've moved these here from the French press thread, as it's only about The Voice and not an actual Mika interview.
  7. mellody
    Are you looking for any specific tickets? Because these are not sold out yet, you can still buy tickets on ticketmaster.fr
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    Mikainstagram story
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    Oops, I mixed German and English there. 😅
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    Yes, that's what I meant. Btw, talking about engagement to improve the situation in the world also brings me to what Mika said about being a dreamer, that this is a way to be engaged and avoid zombification. He is absolutely right that being a dreamer is important, it can save you from desperation, it can give you hope, and it's the basis for engagement. But dreaming itself is not necessarily engagement. Take his song Karen - she's dreaming of a better life, but she's never doing anything to change her situation. And I think that is the kind of dreaming that gets criticized, as Mika says, that adults get mocked for. However, it's still better than blaming others, or blindly following irresponsible leaders who promise easy solutions for complex problems. As long as you still can dream, you haven't resignated. But to really make a difference, the dreams have to be followed by actions - whether it's writing & releasing a song or going to a demonstration or inventing a process that helps the environment and starting a business with that ... just as a few examples. I'm a dreamer too, but I'm not good at making (big) decisions, so my engagement is a lot smaller and has a lot less impact than for example Mika's.
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    I know, it's the same here in Germany, and people are standing up now, tens of thousands demonstrating against right wing politics and against the political party that wants to throw us back 100 years. That gives me hope and that's where I see the difference to what you say about the US, people here haven't resignated. "Apocalypse" to me, on the other hand, means something that is inevitable, where demonstrations and engagement won't help. That's why I see it as two different things, Mika's approach of making love in the face of the apocalypse, when it's too late and you can do nothing but deal with the inevitable. And what you say, about the need for engagement to avoid that we have to face an inevitable situation. That's the big problem politics (and the world in general) has with global warming. People need to see it as immediate enough to do something against it, but not as so inevitable that it's too late to do anything. But as everyone is different, people will interpret the same information in different ways. So maybe we're talking about the same thing - the sadness that I don't want to feel when leaving a Mika gig (and what bothers me in AC) is feeling that we're in a hopeless and inevitable situation. Apparently that's kind of how the movie ends that he refers to. What I do want to feel is that standing together and connecting with others to engage for something does make a difference. I know that's how Mika sees it, he is never shallow. And the carefreeness at his gigs is a way to unite people. What he used to do during Love Today and now does during Elle me Dit, that him and the audience are jumping and dancing like crazy, feels very empowering and makes you feel like you and the rest of the audience and Mika and all his tour team are connected as one, that together you are able to face any difficulty. I gotta say that the way he did this at his more recent gigs last summer didn't do that much for me, because he told people to look at each other instead of looking at him - that way he takes away a lot of the carefreeness of the situation, imo, by controlling and limiting what people should or shouldn't do. Probably because it's easier for him to let himself go if he doesn't feel like everyone's watching him. But as he is the one who connects everyone with his music & his performance, that doesn't work for me. Then I just dance for myself or with a friend next to me, and not with the whole venue. Anyway, I'm digressing. Long story short, I don't doubt that Mika cares about the situation in the world, but I don't need him to stress the seriousness of it at his gigs - but there I do want to feel this connection that can easily get lost in everyday life and in the controversies about little details (like, for example, which political party to vote for instead - because resignating and not voting isn't an option).
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    Mika fans (and Mika himself) are the opposite of Trump supporters. I'd like to believe at least 95% of Mika's fans. Then again, maybe I only think so because of the fans I know personally or meet at gigs, while Mika's audience at a gig is a lot more divers than just his hardcore fans. Probably also in their political views. However, it'd surprise me to see a lot of people at a Mika gig who support the homophobic / transphobic / racist and generally inhuman views of certain politicians (or political parties).
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    Well, I see it differently, as I experience this sadness about the state of the world nearly every day - isn't it pretty impossible to escape and ignore this? Unless you actually deny the problems, but I'm sure Mika as well as most of his fans don't fall in this category. And what Mika's music and concerts do is give me strength to deal with this, to not capitulate in the face of all this sadness and bad news. So I need to feel empowered at the end of the gig, not sad. That doesn't mean that the sadness can't be part of the gig, that's ok. But I need to keep up the hope for a happy ending - not by escaping, but by feeling that I can make a difference.
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    Seems to be in the RER area of Paris, right? I certainly prefer Mika-only gigs/festivals to these big festivals with many artists, but I'll consider this - of the August dates so far it's the most doable for me. Need my dose of Mika once a month, lol! 😅 Does anyone know this festival? Are tickets likely to sell out quickly?
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    on their website it says PDF or mobile tickets (pkpass) are possible. thanks. I didn't know this platform. Gotta say I'm always a bit sceptical about such websites, and they charge fees as well... I'm not in a hurry to get rid of the ticket, but I'll keep this in mind if I still have it in March.
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    Passionskirche. Is it called Kulturkirche now? If you happened to see some weirdly dressed overexcited people walking around in Berlin on that day, now you know why.
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    At least that finally gives me a reason to NOT regret missing the 2013 tour. Well. We'll see how it is on this tour. I remember now that sometimes he did play a slow song as an "extra" after the usual show, like the acoustic version of Rain in 2008, and that worked as well. No worries, it's not causing me sleepless nights.
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    I remember for sure that Cologne in 2012 was sold out. And also definitely the acoustic gig in Berlin in 2009, it was the first date of the acoustic tour. There might have been more sold out gigs in 2007 and 2010, his gigs here definitely never were half-empty, but I don't remember any details.
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    Yes, I think that was what I remembered. Thanks. lol, well, it's both about love and making love - but to me the difference is that the fire in FLF is warm and nourishing, while in AC it's dangerous and destroying. FLF feels loving and caring, not only the bodies unite but also the hearts. It's the beginning of a love which could last forever. There is hope, there is the possibility of a future together. AC is "on baise", it's about physical love in the face of the apocalypse, there's no future but only the here and now. And yes, that's a similarity between both songs, they are very much in the moment, in the here and now, in the emotions you feel. Just that they make me feel very different emotions, for the reasons I just mentioned. So well... I guess we just have to agree to disagree on that.
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    That depends... if we meet up for dinner, I wouldn't like it to be too late. But for a party of course we can meet later.
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    So it looks like he'll fly from Barcelona to Italy and back to Spain within just a few days. Well... nothing unusual to him. 😅
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    I wanted to ask anyway, who would be up for a meetup the evening before the gig? Depending on how many would be interested, we could meet for dinner, or have an actual MFC party. @Statue_of_Liberty lives in Berlin, so I'm sure she could help us to find a suitable place.
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    Feels like fire doesn't have an apocalyptic vibe to me, it's very soft and tender. But indeed he could refer to these 2 songs when he talks about Africa and Middle East. Surely not all the songs in the show will have an apocalyptic vibe. 😅 I definitely could imagine him singing Last Party, that would fit. But please NOT Beautiful Disaster! 🙈 Not very likely tho that he'll sing that.
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    yes, I thought of that too when he said this. And well, it does entail teaching them discipline, like his Mum taught him. It's important for success and for them to go their own way after the TV show. I don't follow what the other coaches do - are they always nice and sweet to their contestants? On the casting shows I used to watch 20 years ago, it wasn't like that at all, it was part of the concept to make the contestants cry, to teach them how hard showbusiness is and to sort out those who are too soft for it. One reason why I don't watch casting shows anymore, I never liked public shaming, like they did it back then. Surely Mika does it in a different way, not to make them feel bad but to help them. I guess if I was on that casting show and in Mika's team, it would be much more important to me to have a good (work) relationship with him than being successful (and that's why I don't take part in a show like that 😅), so his approach and mine would be very different. Actually these different approaches are also known from parenting styles, maybe you could say authoritarian vs relationship-based. In the latter the focus is on building a stable and trusting relationship, and on that basis you can teach. I guess on a TV show there isn't time for that. The former is more about teaching discipline. I don't know if you could say that Mika is authoritarian to his contestants, I guess he's just honest - maybe sometimes expressing his honest opinion a bit too directly without taking the contestants feelings into consideration. And I remember from Xfactor that he's not good at dealing with crying people. Although, didn't he console that one girl? I thought there was something... I'm not sure yet if I will follow The Voice, there's too many other things... but I'm curious to hear from those who do follow it whether that has changed too, as he said he has changed a lot - maybe now he can also deal better with crying contestants?
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    I fear this. Mika's gigs always ended on a high, with the big Lollipop party or Stay High or another energetic song like Love Today or We Are Golden. The only Mika gig I saw live that ended on a sad note was Salle Pleyel, with Tiny Love Reprise, and I understand why he did it at that time, it reflected his sadness about his Mum's passing. I'm glad he has changed it again since then, because as much as I love this song, as an ending to the show it really pulled me down. I live for the happy endings. Mika talks about being a dreamer in the other interview, and obviously a sad ending is nothing that makes me dream. However, I assume he'll be able to make it work in some way. He won't let his crowd leave the venue feeling sad (except sad that the gig is over). I'm glad tho that my first gigs will only be 2 weeks into the tour, so if his first approach doesn't work, I'm sure he'll change and adjust it until it does. I just looked that up on Wikipedia. Certainly NOT a movie I would watch. But I like the message behind it, the criticism of the people who put money and power over everything, the ones who deny global warming and scientific facts. Mika doesn't get political, so I guess there won't be too much of this left in his show - but maybe he'll keep a little bit of it, I'm curious. It's a very interesting concept, and yes, ambitious, as he says... I know a lot of people enjoy watching apocalyptic movies, so I'm sure they will love the concept. As for me, I can't imagine yet how that can work for me... but well, a Mika show is a Mika show, so I'm sure he'll manage somehow. Or at least I HOPE it'll work better for me than the song Apocalypse Calypso. 🙈😅 I don't have to like every song, but his concerts have always been my happy place, since day one.
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