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hey, even without them talking over his voice! munich is special to him!

hehe, love it, the news speaker who is on right now is my friend... she just started working for bayern3 a few weeks ago.

"eddy" was an interesting translation mistake, he talked about swirls and the online translator translated "eddy", which obvioulsy means a part of your spine, as this is the same word in german! didn't understand that well either why his mum cried, maybe because he ruined the wall with the sponge?

part 2. part 3 will take a while, as i now have to record the bayern3 interview. Let's talk about your new album. What is so special about it for you? There is nobody else who makes the kind of music like I do. Really no one. My music does not come out of a fashion or a trend. It arises because it makes me happy. If you listen to it, what echoes out of your speakers reminds you of a mix of the wacky Tim Burton movies and the Disney stuff. From each song to the next, all these crazy colors and shapes and swirls and emotions develop, and I love it. I wanted the bedroom walls of my youth to explode and fly up into space. That's why the cover looks like this. Why did you decide on the album title "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"? Because it sounded like a movie. The one by Alfred Hitchcock? Yes, exactly that one. I love this movie and I love Hitchcock. That's why I wanted my album to feel like a movie. If you watch Hitchcock, you always have the feeling to be with the best stalker in the world. And I was a stalker when I was younger (laughs). I've certainly felt that way. What do you mean by that? I was a stalker, because I was not brave enough to act. My song "I See You" is exactly about this. You're often compared to the Scissor Sisters and seen as the next Robbie Williams. Does that bother you? Nope, I don't mind. With whom would you not like to be compared? Oh, that's interesting now (thinks for a long time). I don't know. Maybe ... (thinks again). Oh no, I won't say anything about that now. Otherwise I would have to say something bad about another artist. No, no, I will not do that! (Laughs) The 80s sound is currently pretty en vogue in pop music. There's La Roux, there's Little Boots, MGMT, and many others. You're music is like that too. Are you afraid of the other artists? Oh, I like their music. I think they are good. So you're not scared that they might take your pole position and you sell less records? No. I do not think that I sound like them. All right, they get their inspiration from the '80s. And some people say about me that my music sounds like 80s. But I do not think that our sound is similar. I think it is slowly going back towards not being bad anymore to be a pop musician. Previously, I sometimes had to listen to things like: "Oh, you're making pop music. That's disgusting." At that time, indie bands were en vogue. Then I came, and before me a few like the Scissor Sisters, and now look at that. There's Gaga, La Roux, Florence and the Machine, and all those. Nowadays, pop music is brought forward more and more by more and more artists. That's great. Your first album "Life in Cartoon Motion" was a huge success, with six million sold copies. Has that put you under pressure for the follow-up? Let's put it this way: If my first album had sold half a million times, it also would've been a huge success. From zero to half a million. Right? So back then it didn't matter how many records I'd sell. I was a nobody before that. But no matter what once used to be, I will always force myself to do something which I am personally proud of. I have nothing else. This is no joke for me. I do not do this because I want to be famous. When I think of having to be a star to promote my album, I feel like I want to harm myself (it might even be translated with "kill myself" ). But I release CDs, which I think are good and which therefor should do well. They have to. I'm a pop musician, not an indie artist. That's just the vice of pop music. My records must be well received. How well, that lies in God's hands, but well.

phew, this is long. part 1, black & italic comments are by me: "Rather silly than just pretty" His first album sold millions of copies. Therefore for the second album "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", Mika just pretends he has nothing to lose. By Deborah Katona "Uberall Konfettiiiiiii!" (confetti everywhere!) Mika giggles at his concert in the evening into the microphone. He bounces across the stage, throwing golden glitter paper on the audience, shaking his long, thin body and his head of brown curly hair. Again and again he tries his hand in German. Jokes with the audience. Fidgets. When we meet him only two hours earlier in the Munich Hotel Cortina, we can't feel much at first of the hyperactive Mika. (don't know how to express that better, they mean he's not as hyperactive there as at the gig) He sits in a big chair, a plate of pasta on his knees. The pop star is polite. Stands up to say hello, asks us to sit down, immediately puts away his food. Mika is in a standby position, a bit reserved. The brown doe eyes look shyly at first. But as soon as he hears the first question, he starts to laugh. Throughout the entire interview it sounds, this inviting laugh. (they mean he has a nice laugh and laughs often during the interview) Like a little boy he sometimes babbles and babbles without drawing a breath. Starts new sentences before he has finished the previous one. He IS "The Boy Who Knows Too Much". And he shares it with everyone. Mika, in the video for your new single "We Are Golden," you dance around pretty lightly dressed, only in underwear and with golden sneakers. Honestly, does anything still embarass you after doing such a video? (Laughs) Nothing (laughs again). Absolutely nothing. And that's why I wanted it. I looked at the second albums by other artists, especially those that are crap. The biggest difference between the first and the second record is if you feel that this person is hiding, trying to protect themselves and taking fewer risks. Then I thought to myself: I have to deal with this horrible thought that I have to produce a second album and that I am competing with myself. That's why I'm now just acting like I had nothing to lose. That's just what it looks like in reality. I have to deal with that. This video reflects my attitude towards the second album. How many people were standing around you while you were dancing there half-naked? Oh, not that many. Perhaps 16. 16? Well, I think I'd have a problem with being almost naked in front of 16 people. Believe me, you're getting used to it. They're not bothered by it at all. That's all very relaxed. But I'm surprised now that someone from Germany says something like this (laughs). What was the strangest thing you've ever done as a teenager? I was 14. One morning, my mother started to cry when she walked into my bedroom. I was just scrubbing my wall with a sponge. There was a stain, but I wanted my walls white. White. White. White. (laughs) Why didn't you just paint your walls? Oh, I've done that too. When I was about 11, I decided that everything should be white. That's why I painted our complete living room white, every single little piece of furniture. Are you still doing this? In my house pretty everything is white. Why? No idea. I guess anything else would constrain my thinking. (it might mean that he'd be too distracted, no idea what he actually said) And I love the idea of filling a room with ideas. With perversions. With fantasies, and all such things. And that's why I don't want anything distracting on the walls. That's a big difference to your videos, they're always very colourful. Maybe that's the same as with fashion designers who create these amazing garments. They always wear only black. Black T-shirt. Black jeans. It's somehow the same. Do you sometimes want to be 15 again? Do I? I don't know, you tell me. No. I run away from it as fast as I can. But if you were 15 again, what would you do differently? (Thinks for a long time) I would like to say that I would take a lot of drugs, party every night and not apologize for anything. But the truth is: If I were 15 again ... oh whatever. That's ok. I'll just do all those things when I'm 58. Then I'll sit on the balcony, with a bathtub full of ecstasy and scream at people (really screams) "I will die anyway, so I don't give a damn!" (laughs) Why not now? It's not the right time for it yet. No, I was only kidding. If I were 15 again, then ... then ... I would no longer be scared. Be scared of what? Of just everything. I was scared of other people. Scared of what they might say about my weight. Scared of being beaten up. Scared of approaching anyone. Scared of what others might think of my music. I was simply scared of everything. I was really a coward. In an interview you once said that you used to be an oddball. Today you seem pretty confident. What happened? I'm just confident now because I know what I'm doing. And quite honestly, I'm still having problems with my insecurity. Put me into a room full of strangers and tell me to enjoy myself. Then I don't know how to act. So I hide in the corner, drink too much and go home. After that, I'm annoyed because no one has talked to me. When in fact this is my own fault. But you know, when I'm on stage, it is completely different. There, I know how to act. There, I don't have to be afraid of what anybody thinks about me. On stage I have nothing to lose. Well, your fans, perhaps? No. It's not like that. When I'm on stage, I do not think about my fans - I think of myself and make the music for me. I think that's why my fans are standing behind me so much. They know that I'm performing for the right reasons. In any case, not because I want them to join a fan club or something.

ok will try to make something better out of that online translator version. might take a while though. anyway, thanx for posting!

for me, that's I’m Falling (whereas i see you ) Loverboy previous version of Rain (but meanwhile like the new version just as much. )

yup, agreed! but at least we both like fluffy stuff.

same for me with "by the time"! ok so my faves list in order (really hard except for the first 2 and last 2 places! rest probably will change daily... ): Pick Up Off The Floor Touches You Dr John I See You Good Gone Girl Blame It On The Girls We Are Golden Rain Toy Boy One Foot Boy Blue Eyes By The Time haven't heard the full new version of loverboy yet, that's why it's not on the list.

andy? wow, i missed the fact that we already know his last name! interesting... *goes googling* but btt, "i see you" is the new "hello" for me. that lionel richie song was one of my faves as a teenager, for a good part because of the lyrics, which express quite the same as "i see you". it's so great to now have a new wonderful song that expresses these feelings with such beautiful words. it makes me sigh reading the lyrics.

pick up off the floor! and touches you, i see you, one foot boy, biotg, ggg, and basically all except for by the time, i don't like that one. might get used to it later, maybe when i heard it live... but so far i don't like it. how about a poll for this thread?

yup, will do. (except if the bayern3 site crashes because all mika fans go there at once. )

have a pic of the atomic cafe here, so you can see what the club itself looked like... and indeed not many people, i read somewhere that it was only about 200. though that pic was taken a while before the gig started, guess it was a bit fuller later on. and some posts that i hadn't answered yet: got your text, thanx! you didn't ask me anything in there though, otherwise of course i'd have answered. lol, i love it how mika and me had similar glitter make up ideas that evening - his was silver instead of gold and was a lot more detailled than mine, but basically we both had a glittering line on our right cheek. here: he changed the order a bit though, did wag after love today i think... not sure anymore what the actual order was. and he didn't leave the stage before GK, but only before lollipop. yup, this one... was just bought though, not made by us.

love it, t4p! lol, fried chicken! i like his answer to the last question. wonder if he turned up in high heels to shock his mum...

i first was shocked when i started my single, it was skipping a LOT! but then found out that it was only an almost invisible piece of the plastic cover stuck on the surface - pff, hope this didn't do any harm to my record player! received the single on monday from HMV, it's number 3493. hmm, so they have them on sandbag too? they didn't when i ordered... do you get magic numbers for it there? and btw, i hate the b-side. but well, the single is nice to look at, will stay in my shelf for this purpose from now on.

nah, that was back in june when he was here for radio+press interviews. waited for him at the radio station but he was already gone, and on my way back to the underground station, i saw him sitting in the cafe in front of that hotel... my full report about it is in the mika at german radio stations thread in the concert board.

love it! your shivering is a lot less disturbing than my dancing and waving on my videos! it looks so much closer than my vids, though you were less than 1m away from me. probably because i didn't want to hold the camera in front of my face, but shouldve done, mika flirted with the cameras there and you can even see it very well as it was so close! he looked into mine a few times too, but either i was shaking (dancing) or one time it was for a photo and i didn't want to use a flash when he was so close, so i wouldn't blind him, so that pic turned out completely blurry, pfft...

maybe he tried to wash out the sauce, that's why the shirt looked wrinkled, lol!

ok, added a list of the possible participants in the first post. please let me know if i forgot someone or added someone accidentially. if, after the decision what it'll be, someone doesn't want to take part, just let me know then. suzie, i like your idea too, but think this only makes sense if we have at least one person for every gig, someone who has been there and can say something about it - if we don't have that, it wouldn't be complete... and then, what about those who haven't been to any gigs in the last 6 months, what can they do in this? hmm... *scratches head* but what i really like about this is to refer to the "john part" of the gigs... for example for berlin and milan how he helped us with the queue organization, idk, it could involve for example pictures of our hands with queuing numbers on it, and making something creative and john-related out of that... *trying to do some brainstorming here*, lol!

thanks... i must admit, i wasn't surprised that mika liked it, it was in fact a great idea by leator, great pix by everyone, and i spent almost 2 days on the layout and preparation for printing - but i'd never have thought he'd like it THAT much and even order a 2nd copy from us for his sister, this really swept me off my feet.

ok, for everyone who in fact wants a copy of our booklet, i opened a thread about it: http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19758

ok, as we got so much response also from MFCers about this, i thought i'd open a new thread for it. for those who don't know yet, the german mika fan club made a booklet for mika, designed like his songs for sorrow booklet, with our own art about the SfS songs. and he loved it so much that he ordered a 2nd copy from us for his sister. here are some pix of the finished book: http://www.mikafanclub.de/misc/sfs02.jpg http://www.mikafanclub.de/misc/sfs03.jpg http://www.mikafanclub.de/misc/sfs04.jpg http://www.mikafanclub.de/misc/sfs05.jpg http://www.mikafanclub.de/misc/sfs06.jpg http://www.mikafanclub.de/misc/sfs07.jpg http://www.mikafanclub.de/misc/sfs08.jpg a pic of mika with it: http://i25.tinypic.com/2csdrbl.jpg and the video of his reaction: plus, here's a PDF of the complete thing (on these pix there are printing borders that will be cut off for the printed product): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=38F2VFTH so, as some ppl on here and on youtube were asking for a copy of the book, and we have to order it for mika anyway, we're taking orders now. we already have 7-8 orders from the german fanclub, plus the copy for mika, so it looks like the hardcover booklet, 46 pages, in size din a5 and top quality paper (like the copy that mika got) will be somewhat around 30 euro per copy, getting cheaper if we order more copies. plus cost for shipping from germany to wherever you live (europe 3 euro, world 6 euro). so, if anyone's interested, let me know. (payment via normal money transfer (bank) or paypal).

and the second (and for now last) part of my pix:

ok, here are my photos (without video screenshots, didn't have time for that yet...)

nah, you'd get used to it and find it boring within a month or so. but yes, i've also already thought that i'd love to have groundhog day (murmeltier-tag) from the movie with exactly this day! then i wouldn't have to worry about my contact lens, as i'd know i'd get it at central station, and i could make a perfect wag video in the morning! (though i wouldn't get far enough to win the meet+greet, but what does that matter, thinking of the evening! )