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yeah i know, i mentioned that too somewhere in this thread... maybe the interviewer just doesn't understand english good enough, or the phone connection was bad.

hm, well, do we know for sure whether his parents are still together? maybe his dad got married again? or maybe they made a mistake and in fact meant cousin or something like that.

yup! *goes learning the tbwktm lyrics*

obviously still didn't work, so he had to ask for another pic on twitter. or he just wanted more pix, lol! haha, this made me lol! so do you see any of it on the mask then? so the show was on tv now? can anyone put it on youtube, please?

see my last post, one page back. you can download the vid there.

for those who can't watch it as youtube is down:

looks like it's a marmite video, lol! i love it, it feels like in a 50s movie, the colours, the style, the accessoires... and imo he DOES look hot!

as i said before, it's not that bad in the real video. on youtube the sides are cut off.

oh, and i love what he says about the internet. so true. wish i had had that during my school years!

thanx for posting, very interesting... they got a few things wrong though... that article wasn't in a german, but in a dutch mag. and he didn't apply for X-Factor, but it was only the guy who later did X-Factor, wasn't it? and what's that about a stepson? didn't get that. and I like erase!!

http://www.frankenpost.de/teleschau/stars/starsderwoche/art2166,1086114 Graciosa posted this on the german forum, thought i'd give you a translation here, quite like the article! especially the last sentence, he loves it when we sing along to his songs! sorry for any weird sounding english, it's quite difficult to translate this sort of flowery journalist language. Stars of the Week The colours are mixed anew Mika releases "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" Jochen Overbeck (teleschau - der mediendienst) "Of course it's not always easy when everyone recognizes you, when people always look at you and speak to you on the street. But in all honesty: If a popstar complains about people liking him, he deserves to be kicked in the face." If you can say one thing about Mika, it is, that since the release of his debut "Life in Cartoon Motion" and the success of the Single "Grace Kelly" he has gained a lot of self confidence. But the routine that goes hand in hand with it is something that the 26-year-old Brit wants to break. that's why he tries to break a few rules of the industry with his second album "The boy who knew too much". What stays is the absolute love for popsongs. "All the little coincidences that mark the start of a musical career get lost over time. You're standing on stage every evening, doing the same. Ocassionally you shoot a video, sometime you release the next album. Rules like this are so depressing that I just can't bear them." Mika already broke them this summer with the release of his "Songs For Sorrow"-EP. Four new songs, recorded acoustic. Available as a nice art edition with artwork by Paul Smith and others. Strictly limited and totally uninteresting for the record company in terms of yield. A crossing of frontiers that Mika as one of the most important british Solo Artists can afford - and wants to afford, in spite of all the pressure by the record company. For example, he didn't care at all that they thought the lyrics of "Blame it on the Girls" were too negative and asked him for an alternative version without the word "dead". "I told them to f*** off", he says and laughs. That Mika won't allow any interference, you can hear on the new album. Whereas "Life in Cartoon Motion" was a quite simplified and euphorical thing that in the main part would have also worked on children's birthday parties, "The Boy who knew too much" isn't more cumbersome (not sure if that's the right word, difficult to translate...), but more varied and less linear when it comes to the lyrics. Mika explains it by relating to the artwork: "My first record was like its cover. Black outlines, coloured with bright colours. This comic feeling is gone now. The colours are still bright, but mixed. They don't come directly out of the paint box anymore, but made a detour via the palette, got mixed and blurred." It was difficult for Mika to change the narrating perspective. "It wasn't easy to suddenly sing the word "I"." Incidentally, Mika can exactly position the record time-wise. Whereas his debut was a chronology of his childhood, "The Boy who knew too much" deals with growing up. With puberty and all its emotional distress, with unanswered love and an insecurity that also for Mika belonged to this time period. One of the central (most important?) songs on the album probably is the first single release "We are golden": What sounds like a claim, like a hymn about a feeling of togetherness and friendship, is in fact the opposite. "I never belonged to any gangs. I would've given so much for having friends. But i was the typical outsider. For the geeks I wasn't smart enough. For the cool guys I wasn't cool enough. And for the rich ones I wasn't rich enough." Thus, Mika created an alternative world for himself, by writing songs. And by hallucinating of a life in which many others existed that ticked like him. He didn't find them - not even when at the start of his adult life he changed to a music school, to study classical singing: "I never was satisfied with my skills. I wanted to be able to sing better, play piano better. At the same time I realized that the others had more skills than me in terms of technical aspects, that their voices were better and more suitable for opera. But on the other hand all of that was so unoriginal. Singing or playing something that thousands of other people also sing - where's the challenge in that?" Mika left the school right after signing the record contract. Today he cares about nuances. About songs that can be interpreted in different ways. He explicitly leaves room for interpretations. "Someone who relates a song like 'We are Golden' to himself and his circle of friends, who understands it in a positive way, has every right to do so," he explains. "Take 'Blackbird' by the Beatles. On the one hand you can read it in a very direct way, where it seems almost cheerful. On the other hand it's a song that clearly takes a stand regarding discrimination and racism." Pop shouldn't be about interpretive dominance, other things would be more important - especially, what the term 'Pop' already includes, success. "One thing I understood early: A pop song is a really good pop song only if people know it. When they can sing along, when they love it. To see how other people know your songs by heart is the best feeling in the world."

as some of you mentioned that the camera missed some of mika's moves: watch the downloadable version of the video, on the youtube one the sides are cut off. i love how it all fits together so well, you feel like you're thrown into a 50s movie. ok if you were expecting a storyline, there isn't one... but then, there wasn't in most of mika's videos.

huh? what's wrong for you about it?

strange then, maybe that part didn't upload? anyway, there were several seconds more at the beginning of the video. but you'll see, when scg has uploaded hers. (thanx scg, can't wait to watch it again! )

that's because the intro is missing.

i wish i had seen it in a quality good enough so i'd be able to notice! nothing wrong to me about that though, i mean, the video that includes smells hasn't been invented yet, so where's the problem? apart from that, it depends on the shoes whether it gets smelly. i think his are expensive enough so they won't.

oh wow, i love it! the outfits, colours, dance moves, all totally awesome! now, did someone record it in good quality and will put it on youtube? that video player kept adding pixels.

yup! wow i love this video player, i can watch british tv! not the best quality, but better than nothing.

nope. 2nd time i ever met him, i asked that question, and he didn't just say yes but also where he remembered me from (florence). he can't fake that, lol! but if you ask him in what city he'll be in 2 days, he has no idea, so the things he keeps in his brain are quite selective - but i like it the way it is, much more important that he remembers us instead of his tourdates! :lmao: cool, thanx, will watch it now!

seems like it's mika's new hobby to make a bunch of MFCers speechless every day. now start reporting!!!

lol, yeah, mika our little stalker again, collecting pix...

i'm staying at a hostel in walking distance from the venue. don't know bout the others. but as i'm staying in LA for over a week, i had to find something cheap.

wow, you all look fab! so that was the guy mika tweeted about? will you tweet the pic to him then?

love the pic, aww, he looks so cute on it! mika asked on twitter for a pic of a guy with stones on his face from this afternoon, what was that about? and think he didn't get a pic yet, do you have one for him?

i know. will see if i can stay awake long enough. but if i miss it, hope it'll be on YT tomorrow.