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  1. Okay, here is just the mika talking part: The question was if he particularly liked cartoons… “ I think it is just because I had a lot of problems at school, and I was spending a great deal of my youth just looking around and observing silently what happened there... Yes I think I felt a little like being part of a cartoon.” Then the interviewer mentions Mika’s origin, the hostage story of his father…and asks him about the impact of all that on Mika’s further life and how he keeps all those influences in balance… Im not sure if I got that right but I think he said that what he got from the Lebanese side in his music is the way people react on difficult, dark and depressing situations; so he said when life gets too hard, they just jump on the table and have a party. About Freddie Mercury: “I think he was unbelievable. Particularly his voice, the way he wrote his songs with such a powerful melodic intensity. I like the thought of creating pop and rock songs with a strong melodic tune.” The last question is what he wished to happen now and he sais he would like to be on tour for a whole year. I really hope I got it right
  2. I know it is a little off-topic... er actually it might be totally random but i have to ask: does anybody else also have the impression that our cute mika looks so different in the Grace Kelly video? I mean not at all less attractive (beware!) but ...yes, just so different from his appearance in all those interviews... ...or do I suffer from a certain form of err... perception disorder ?
  3. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!! This is awesome! Did he say he liked the aristocats???
  4. *waiting anxiously for youtube getting ready*..... ..... .... ....
  5. Actually it is a GREAT idea. Why don't we do something like that Terra Naomi did in her video "say it's possible"? We would not have to come all to London (for some of us can't) but take a shot of ourselves hopping around or so.... Similar to the scrapbook thing: we could send him a video message with our wishes for him... , wouldn't that be a birthday present??
  6. ...journalists.... I guess the author thought about Mika Hakkinen who is from Finland.... and just had the idea that the origin of that name must be there....
  7. how cute is that??? he sang in french, awwwwwww
  8. I imagine Katy Perry and Mika reading this and: :roftl: :roftl: then they will give each other a high five and wonder what to do next
  9. aargh...and again they say his real name was Michael....grrrr. German journalists - a little behind as always also thought that the story with freddie mercury's piano was not true. It would have been sooo not Mika.
  10. although i have the same problem as violetsky (the other one ) I'd say that the idea is not THAT strange; he has his family in his videos, why not start a bigger party?
  11. Yes, thought so,too - but then I remembered that he does perform Over my shoulder live and (at least to me) this is the saddest song ever... I'm overwhelmed by emotions evey single time I hear it...
  12. er, maybe next time we should ask mika himself to translate, his french is awesome aaand, while translating he could correct the errors in the articles concerning content (birth date, number of singles released...)
  13. oh, okay big girl and caz should have read it by myself before posting rightaway *apologetically*
  14. *confused* Just recently i read/heard (dont know anymore) that he said in another interview that he would not want to lay his personal life out in front of the whole world (which will be hard enough, being asked all the time over and over again....), and now he tells the SUN? I don't know... Guess he just gave them a little hint and they made a big yellow press story out of it. I also read in a german tv magazine that he said he was gay..... and we all know that he would never have done that... So be careful about the yellow press
  15. part two: something like that: The singer was supposed to start an opera career but while flirting outrageously with pop music his life took a lucky turn. He confesses: “In Beirut we were listening to Feyrouz and Oum Kalsoun as well as to Serge Gainsbourg and Nina Simone… » Is that the key of his success, to meddle the genres in such a clever way? Mixing lines, choirs, gospel and piano chords ? As far as the piano is concerned, Mika is one of those artists knowing all the secrets of the ivory keys ; at the latest we become aware of the fact that Bach and Fauré were part of his leisure time as soon as his fingers tap the keyboard… Coming from a well-off social class, Mika leaves Beirut with his parents to move to Paris and later to London. Studying there at College of Music should prepare him for a singing career at the Opera House. But fate made another decision. His first three ( ?) singles (Relax, Take it Easy et Grace Kelly), were influenced by an impulsive inspiration, dynamic humour and poetry. All of that held together by an impressive sense of rhythm, imagination and a certain, “very british” sophistication. And it is a frantic success. Critics and the press get hold of that phenomenon and compare it to the Scissor Sisters, Prince and Michael Jackson, to mention only some. And the train on the way to glory is launching with his first album succeeding everywhere: Life in Cartoon Motion. And it is still a very young career, very promising… Highly colored music, just like the person embodying it… With Mika ruling over the tunes, it is just superdynamic. A real bubble bath. It makes us feel like moving, clicking our fingers, tapping our feet, dancing and singing… A beautiful mix of rock and pop, all accusing the classical background of the young man who obviously knows very well that music is his life…
  16. tried a quick translation (though ist wasn't that easy for neither french nor english is my mothertongue - so it is a little like french-grammar-lousy-english-trial) ... it is only the first part.... SUCCESS STORY – London’s new lebano-american heartthrob Mika, or the ode to life At the age of 23 years he disports himself in the international charts. With him a real musical phenomenon blows over the blond Albion. His records have been on top of sales for more than three weeks in the UK and his concerts are sold out. Without any doubt you have spotted him for his smart clips touched by a certain infantile grace have already conquered the TV screens. We are talking about Mika, the Lebano-american star who is literally breaking through all barricades at the moment (hope I got the sense ;o); his tune Grace Kelly is flooding the radio stations. It is a tune of light notes like a myriad of soap bubbles, a tune hummed by everybody in regained joy and contagiously good mood – an ode to life. Brown tousled haired like Caravage’s archangels with voluminous lips and hazel eyes, skinny like a string, always tending to give the clown or the juggler in braces, today Mika represents the symbol of youth and at the same time the voice of a new generation. A couraged, talented generation not caring about conventions or taboos… A voice leaving beaten paths, full of coloratura and astonishing modulations. A voice without fear of climbing heights, imperturbably leaving behind head voice as well as falsetto all in tune! Without any doubt there is a very talented compositian, singer and entertainer behind those unconventional and extraordinary vocal Tricks due to the Bee Gees or Freddy Mercury. Born in Beirut in 1984, Mika has a lebanese mother and an americain father. And his first name is nothing but the Finnish version of Michael…
  17. so you mean a kind of Mika - Loveparade. Without any techno, just psychobubble...pop. I like that thought. Let's have it in Berlin
  18. "la bouche pulpeuse, le regard noisette", yep, no confusion possible, that's Mika
  19. Hey, I just noticed my translation on youtube. That is so very cool. I feel honoured
  20. Sou is MikaObsessed ??! Funny for just last night in bed I thought about starting a new thread saying "THANK YOU youtube's MikaObsession, whoever you might be..." for all those nice videos. And especially for my all time fav vid "Mika's Confessions" So just in case it is you, Sou: THANK YOU!!!!
  21. Well, in Mikas very own words I would say: WHY NOT?
  22. if you don't receive it you can go on the tvtotal page afterwards, usually all performances of musicians are uploaded there....
  23. I am pretty sure Stefan Raab will come up with some Modern Talking stuff in comparison to Mikas Falsetto singing style... although I really hope he won't do that!
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