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Guess who's treating us this evening? Mika. What ? Yes, Mika. And the singer knows how to receive. Despite two years of madness which he has just lived, the star had the delicate idea, the day before yesterday, to invite to table seven journalists in la Fidélité, a restaurant near the east station ( Xth Bets). Those who believed from the outset in his "Life in Cartoon Motion", in early 2007, which sold over a million copies in France.
"I wanted to spend some time with the people who have supported me from the very beginning," he announces in a french which is almost always perfect. "It's really my first language, I lived here until the age of 7."
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Blue jacket, emerging beard, little curls and generous smiles, he even arrived unnoticed arriving. An embrace here, and Mika arrives, already giving us news. In the bar, for the apéritif, champagne and a glass of wine.
" I finished my disk three days ago. I recorded fourteen songs in Los Angeles.
There will be eleven on the album. It will be a bit like the disk of my adolescence, my first emotions, while the first spoke about my childhood. "
"On my website I'm going to sell a CD with four songs"
This CD is due to come out in mid-September, preceded by a single in July. Mika will be on tour in March 2010 with a Bercy in Paris. But he'll sing before then.
" I am going to do some acoustic concerts with strings on June 11th and 12th in the Cirque d'Hiver, he explains, ordering a cucumber gazpacho. A return on stage which will follow the release of new songs. " I wanted to start with the musical side of things without thinking of the commercial side. On my website, at the end of the month, I'm going to sell a CD with four songs called "Songs for Sorrow", but only 10 000 copies.
It will be available for 15 € in a book of 68 pages illustrated by about twenty artists, of whom Peter Blake who made the cover of Sergeant Pepper by the Beatles, the french of Kerascoët or the dressmaker Paul Smith. I was very inspired by fairy tale atmospheres." Mika has already said a lot about it when an impressive beef rib is brought to his table. " That's too much isn't it ?" Mika tucks in and now's the time for more secrets.
"I'm trying to find a house about an hour away from Paris, in the countryside. I want to spend six months in Paris and six months in London. I'd like to find something around Fontainebleau." Dessert now and the artist remembers his last concerts in France: the Parc des Princes, the Francofolies de La Rochelle, "one of the best of the tour ". He hadn't returned to Paris since, despite of appeals from the foot of the Elysee.
"Madonna told me bizarre things about her sex life"
" When the Lebanese president came to France in March, I received an invitation to have dinner with Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. I didn't want to play along with this. Carla Bruni, all the same, it is incredible! When I think of Taratata that I did with her for my debuts … " Mika enjoys himself, answers, denies things in a friendly way: no duet with Lady Gaga, no songs for Madonna. " I wasn't ever going to. I then met Madonna in Los Angeles at a party after the Oscars. She told me bizarre things about her sex life and she was drinking a lot of alcohol."
It's after midnight. The meal is finished. The musician wants to make us listen to some tracks off his next album. Through them, we discover an incredibely relaxed Mika, daring things in technicolor. A special mention to "We Are Golden", an impressive pop symphony which would make one ruffling single, "Touches", a ballad which is as tender as it is brilliant, or "Rain", a more ambitious younger sister of " Relax, Take it Easy ". Delicious treats to finish off a dinner which is really, like no other.