Marilyn Mastin

I've been here since 2007.

Marilyn Mastin UK

Can I also mention how upset I get when some people don't spell my name right. It's not hard to spell it right. It's my username beside all of my posts and, of course, on my profile.

Some people just keep on spelling my name as

Marylin

There is no such name. It's not Mary, and Lin

It's Mari and Lyn

In other words, it's Marilyn

In my life away from MFC, I ask people to called me Mari, because I was always having to answer to Marlene or Marion. despite the fact that Marilyn is one of the world's most famous names. Everyone can guess who I was named after, so if people can spell, and say, Marilyn Monroe, why can't they spell and say, Marilyn Mastin?

Anyway I would love to be added to the list. Thank you.

Happy New Year

What a wonderful 2 hours! Mika was brilliant and I just can't get enough of him!

I loved everything he said and especially the story behind the Thriller song and about his kind-of meetings with Annie Lennox when they had singing lessons.

I loved all the covers he performed on the Elton John Piano.

It was an incredible show.

The video is great. I love how Mika's reactions are spliced in with the MFCers singing. I could never have made the video so well done to those who have.

I'll be just happy if my peom and letter gets to Mika

Bigger than the first one. (from the programme website)

It's 12.00 not 14.00 as far as I know.

Amye,

 

Of course, it wasn't personal. 

I do understand this.

I'm calm and happy.

 

What I don't understand - why do you need me.

 

Put your videos one after the other and use background for singing. 

Helen, when I said about, not too much other stuff, it was only because I felt that the times the song suddenly stops, kind-of takes away from the song. I felt it was the song that was important for Mika to see and hear. For him to hear all the lyrics and see all the MFC faces. I wasn't trying to be mean about it. I hope you don't think I was.

I'm very proud of what everyone has done. 

TODAY IS A CHRISTMAS-DAY ! 

 

 

I'VE GOT 2 MORE DRAWINGS.

 

SO I REDONE OUR "DRAWING-VIDEO".  

 

 

NOW IT'S LIKE THIS:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By0Bka-eXqSzOWQwTDZSWlV0Rzg/view?usp=sharing

 

 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE !!!

Helen I've pmd you with my letter. Our email has an error on it and I can't send it. I'd done a lovely letter and didn't want to loose it, so I've sent it to yo on this site. I'll post it here as well. You can copy and paste it from wherever you want. Here, or you message box.

Dear Mika.

I have been a fan of yours since 2007, when you burst onto the pop scene. But as you will see from the poem I wrote for you, I wasn't aware of you until you released Love Today.

From the moment I heard your voice, I felt that I'd been waiting my whole life to hear you sing, and it had been a long life. I was in my fifties. But your voice affected me like no other singer's voice ever has, and it still does.

Please don't give up on the UK. I understand why you do your TV shows in Italy and France, but people in the UK need you, even if they don't know it. So please take any opportunity that you feel is right for you, to do radio or TV in this United Kingdom.

I'm thrilled about your radio show on R2. You are so wise and knowledgeable about music and songwriters, I just know that you will be awesome. 

I'm so proud of you, for your goodwill trip to Lebanon. I'm sure you have made everyone you met, very happy, and have given them hope. You are a good man, and, as I said in my poem, you are going to Heaven. Please don't ever doubt that.

Have a wonderful 2016 Mika, and please give my love to Andy and all of the Penniman family.

Love from Marilyn Mastin

They played the first ten seconds or so of Oh Girl You're the Devil at the start of a Peter Kay documentary on ITV1 tonight in the UK.

Fantastic! Especially with it being anew song. Not one from LICM

Thanks everyone for what you say about my poem. I'm very touched.

Could I also suggest that, in the video, there isn't too much other stuff. It will take Mika's attention, off the important part, which is the words of the song. 

Twitter Hashtag Alert!

 

On the day of the radio show, we are going to be doing a #MikaArtOfSong hashtag, on Twitter.

This will be on the morning of the show, and during of the show,  not before that, so we can get the maximum effect on Twitter.

 

Would love everyone to join in on this, but the more UK fans we can get to tweet it, the better, to make it trend on the UK Twitter Trend list.

 

Thanks in advance     

Good idea. I'll join in. Our twitter is okay now.

Here's the poem I wrote for Mika. 

The video is brilliant, but I think it would be better to have LYL as one block, and maybe other things before and after.

Also, it's 2016 next year, not 2017.

A Poem For Mika.

I first heard your voice on a day when it was raining

All around me, people were complaining

Then, on the radio, I heard you singing

You sang 'Love Today' and my heart began winging

It flew to a better place

It landed in a brighter space

When you sang your words and your beautiful tune

You brought the sun on that wet afternoon

The sky was no longer grey

And I began to love today

From that moment I sailed on a musical ocean

Which sent my life spinning in cartoon motion

Then I met the boy who knew too much

Your music gives the whole world, that golden touch

And as sure as the sun still shines high above

Mika, you are the origin of this love

A love that comes to you from near and far

To say, how wonderful you are

You are our good guy who was fated to be born

In the land of Lebanon, which war had torn

You left that land, as a refugee, to roam

Through Europe, to England, which you now call home

But your past is something you never forget

And your heritage is something you never regret

You heard the cries in the land where your life had begun

And returned, to bring goodwill to refugees in Lebanon

So Mika, I'm convinced, that when your life is through

There IS a place in Heaven, which God has saved for you

I love you Mika.

Poem by Marilyn Mastin

My email is - intuition.by@gmail.com

 

Do you have some picture ? - I need it for the video.

 

Do you give me your permission to use your picture in the video?

I don't know how to send a picture, and I don't want to hurt Mika's beautiful eyes by him having to look at my ugly mush. I'll let all of  you attractive young ones send pics and I'll just email the poem, which I'm working on. You can copy & paste it into a document as I don't have Word on my computer. I'll send the letter in a seperate email, to avoid confusion. I hope that is okay.

Happy Christmas and New Year to all on the brilliant MFC website

Marilyn, I will never forget how this all came from you and that your wonderdul brain spawned thus phenomenal idea. I love ya for giving me this oppertunity. I'm sorry if I have left you out. I thought that just you had just kind of handed it over to us to deal with the technical stuff. Speak up sooner sweetie <3 Also, your lyrical talent is OFD THE CHARTS!!! Don't know why Mika hasn't hired you yet !!!

I just felt that everyone was congratulating everyone else and I didn't seem to be mentioned. It wasn't that I wanted a fuss, and it has been a team effort, but I just felt a bit sidelined. Since that has happened a lot in my life, I just sort-of expect it now. But the following post I've quoted makes me realise I haven't been sidelined.

Marilyn,

 

I don't send the Video.

I leave it at the reception in person.

 

That's why now everyone can add

Personal Gift for Mika to the common box from MFC.

 

I know - You write poems for Mika.

Do you want to send them to my emal + your personal letter for Mika?

I will put it all in our common Gift-Box.

Yes I'd love to do that. Thank you so much. 

Happy Christmas and New Year everyone

Happy Christmas everyone!

Yuko,

 

really Marilyn Mastin started all this.

It was her idea.

 

I'm so happy you want to partecipate. 

 

We miss "spoken" part.

There's a "spanish-spoken part" in LYL.

Do you feel to do it? 

 

We don't have a lyrics for it.

But let's write it together!

 

What do you think about this?

Thank you for what you've written about me. I was starting to get a bit upset that I was being left out, after having the idea and trying to get the song in some sort of order when everyone submitted the lyrics. I did try my best.

I saw it on the other thread. It's really amazing and explains so much about the crisis and everything to do with it.

Mika and James have done something really good with this report.

This all means so much more to me than Mika having a Christmas #1 single. I'm so thrilled he's now a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN, as it's always been a dream of mine that he would be. With his multi cultural and multi national background, teamed with his phenomenal skills in languages, this has to be something he was born to do.

He's so much more than just a popstar. What he's doing is so worthwhile. I'm so proud of our own Good Guy. 

I don't have facebook. Did anyone record the live stream?

I agree But I hope his role in Zoolander,  and all the latest fab. vids. will make him change his mind about filming    Because,  like Salma Hayek also said lately, I think that MIKA is a really good actor!   And this charity work with UN will def. give him a lot of positiv attention - it fits like "hands in gloves" ( I don't know if you know this saying ) with his upcoming  BBC radioshow...

I'm extremely happy and proud of our MIKA these days...

 

Love,love

me

I suppose that he could change his mind about acting. But I think if he did, it would be for a bigger and better part than the cameo in Zoolander. We'll have to see what happens. I'm also really proud of our Good Guy these days.

This is all so moving. I like the young reporter, James. He is very eloquent and thoughtful.

I'm thrilled that he's doing this!

My suggestion is that MIKA gets  more involved in the film industry - and making musicals...

 

Love, love

me 

That's my suggestion too. I know he doesn't want to act and it's no use him doing something he's not comfortable with. But he could write film scores and musicals. That would be awesome!

In the meantime, his charity work in Beirut will get lots of people tuning in to R2 on NYD for his show.

Interesting to follow his trip and get the news! So proud of him as well, such important work. And this is why it's useful for him to have 1M followers on twitter, the audience is there also for serious issues like this 

Looking forward to see / hear more about it! It's a great cause, and i'm happy that this time it's not just a local charity, but a global thing, and in english.

 

He has posted a video message on fb (apparently he first planned to put it on periscope, but that doesn't work in lebanon): https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153403321063040&id=6006248039&ref=m_notif&notif_t=notify_me_page&actorid=6006248039

What have I always said...

He's MORE THAN JUST A POPSTAR!!

I'm so proud I could burst. More proud than if he had the UK Christmas #1 single!!

THIS is Mika at his best. Our international star using his fame to help and support the refugees at Christmas!

And, maybe I shouldn't say it, but this will get him some fantastic publicity.