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I think RedOne is from Morrocco If I'm not mistaken...His name is Nader Khayat, Morrocain Swedish

Yes he is from Morocco

Oh well, I read the lyric (not listen the music yet). I think the song is about Mika. She's talking about bullied, sex oriented, disability, even 'your colour'. But, it's great lyric.

Her lyrics (that I like) not the rest (it sounds too Madonna for me) sounds more universal for me... she talks about being "a celebrity" or a "star" in your way, trying to live with this "insecurity" feeling some people must with deal all your life with... that sometimes drives them "outcast" first because they don't feel confidente toward themselves... born this way for me does not speak about being famous, that's not her point I guess... I can relate to this, since before I saw this lyrics I was talking about it with a friend of mine who does not trust herself enough... hard to explain it in english sorry...

About the Lebanese part, she must, of course, be influent by the origin and the story of Mika, she would have find with the rythm "portuguese" sounds like "lebanese" but she writes "lebanese"...

About the "bi" part, she said in an interview that she was "bi" too... don't know if it is real, in this interview she was not really confidente, maybe because that it was an interview in the USA...

and about this version I thought about two others versions that are in my head possibilities are endless

One of the version I was thinking off:

Mika: "Oh glad she was like that with him, I took two coffees one for me and one for him, hope to find him as he left very quickly, we could take our cofffees together"

Originally Posted by Marilyn Mastin View Post

I agree. The word "Bitch" isn't the insult it used to be, and when Mika heard the exchange she might have had a snappy tone to her voice. It's not always what someone says, it's the way they say it that can be hurtful.

The only thing that I can't understand about the boy and girl in the coffe shop queue, is, I can't understand why the conversation didn't go something like this.

Yes but bitch in french sounds very rude

Boy- Hi there gorgeous, are you on facebook?

Girl- No, I prefer reali.... Oh God,is that Mika over there?

Boy- Oh God, it is...!! Oh never mind you, Bitch, I've just seen Mika in person and he's way hotter than I am! I need a new image!

Girl- I agree with you, you looser, but you'll never look like Mika. Hey Mika! Are you still on facebook!!!?

and about this version I thought about two others versions that are in my head possibilities are endless

dunno if someone said it yet, no time to read through all those pages... but apart from the fact that i really like the column and the topic he chose, i must say it makes me a bit angry that he puts this label "bitch" on the brunette, just because of that quick moment he observed. there can be a thousand reasons for her reacting like that - and mika of all people should know what it can do if you judge a person too quickly. ok, i guess this behaviour is just human, but it's one thing if you think it to yourself, maybe say it to a good friend, but it's another thing if you write it in a magazine column. even though we'll never know who that brunette is, it is not a nice thing to do. but maybe that's just me.

I am so totally agree with you on that, I already expressed myself on this subject in the first line with the Nezza traduction and resume of this article, but reading the word "bitch" for the "brunette" in the original version is something that I really don't get from him in this article

apart from that, i find his thoughts about the whole online dating thing really interesting. that experience he made with the myspace person... he definitely has a point there. i've started online dating about 12 years ago, first in chatrooms, then on friendship- and dating-sites (never dated anyone from myspace/facebook though...) - and sometimes, especially if the guy lived in another town, we wrote so many personal e-mails and chat-messages that it already felt like a relationship although we hadn't even met in person. it really accelerated things, and when we finally did meet in person, we both weren't disappointed, because we knew we had so much in common. at first. but then you get to know each other in RL, and realize it doesn't work.

 

on the other hand, i've also made this experience in RL, completely without the internet. the concept of "love at first sight". you immediately have feelings for someone, and because your feelings are so strong, you think you know this person, and if they also tell you that they have feelings for you, you think that their feelings must be as strong as yours. but i think it's very, very rare, that 2 people immediately fall for each other in the same way, and that it stays that way if they get to know each other. but i guess it's very common amongst (mainly female) teenagers to feel so strongly for someone else, especially if they do get a certain feedback from them. it doesn't have to be completely one-sided, but if your feelings are a lot stronger than the other one's, you still have a problem.

 

i've learnt from my mistakes, and want to get to know someone now before i start a relationship. personally, not online. but the internet is still a good place for the first contact, it's easier there to get in contact than it is in RL.

So true also what you said really "speak" to me, you express it very well

Lastly, where or when have I said that people not using Facebook have gotten it all wrong? All I am saying is that people should not be negative about the ones who choose to use it. Each to their own and all that. It is a fact that it can be a good tool if used the right way, but obviously I am not going to ostracise someone because they don't use Facebook

+1 I never said that you said it but I wanted to mention it in a time where if you don't have facebook you sound like a loser (I heard that around me by people that are pro-facebook)

Well, the way I took his comment (and I agree with him) is that what he thinks is that the boy was asking the girl for her Facebook as a means of contact. It would be the same to ask for her phone number, or email address, etc... Just that Facebook is a bit 'safer' a way to contact strangers, because if you don't want to ever see them or let them contact you again, you block or ignore them, and that is it. You are not giving away personal details such as address, telephone number, email, etc...

When the boy asks the girl if she's on FB he's effectively saying that he would like to have a way to be in touch, and I am guessing that the logical thing would be that he was expecting them to meet in real life, and using FB as a way to arrange dates, etc... Which is perfectly normal and happens a lot

When the girl is giving him this response, I also agree with what Mika says. She is just saying that as a way of rejecting the boy, because she doesn't like him and doesn't want to keep in contact with him. The 'I prefer reality' thing just sounds like a snobby and silly way IMO to deliver the message. It would have been bigger of her to say something polite like 'thanks but I'm not interested', etc...There is no need to imply that the boy has gotten it all wrong for using Facebook.

On facebook you have certains pictures available and your adress email also but again maybe she said "I prefer to stay in touch in real life" waiting for him to propose a date or to give his telephone number and he did not think to give it to her ? Sometimes girls make some suggestions and boys does not take a second step . Or maybe it was a nice way (I say nice not kind ) to do not say "I am not interested" as some people sometimes does not want to say truth to others thinking that they will loose them or hurt them...

and there is no need to imply that some people has gotten it all wrong for not using Facebook, I do understand them, some of my closer friends or members of my family do not have it, and so what ? It did not change the way they are and how I am happy to know them and to stay in touch with them without any social network...

well, he has just as much right to analyse and judge the situation as you thought you had when judging his comment....

Yes you are right as soon as he is judging this situation without analyse it really I am judging his comment without trying to understand why he does not think before posting such judgement it calls the boomerang theory

PS: I love that song from Alphaville

I love it too

Originally Posted by Nezza

Yus, you can haz!

 

Ok, so adding to what Robi said, this article deals with friendships and relationships in the age of Facebook. He starts off by saying how he went out with someone when he was 22, not long after having signed his first record deal, after they contacted him through his Myspace. They only went out for a couple of weeks, the other person saying that's how online dating worked, but he wasn't aware of that, and he didn't like that at all.

 

Then he goes on to say that online dating's become normal. He writes about a couple he saw who'd met in a queue in a café, the boy asked the girl if she was on Facebook, because he wanted to see her again, but she said no, that she preferred reality.

 

That's the thing about the internet, he says, it gives you the opportunity to contact people you wouldn't, or wouldn't have the courage to speak to in real life. Online you can dig through a person's past, and get to know them bit by bit, through photos for example. He admires people who shun this kind of contact, and wonders how they do it. A female friend of his, who amusingly only wants to meet rich men, says that the internet can break down social barriers such as the economic or professional background of a person. You can know a lot of things about a person before you meet them, which changes the dynamics of a relationship, something he didn't understand before.

 

He finishes by saying that the internet is part of our reality, and that the girl in the café had got it wrong, in reality she was saying that she didn't like the boy, it was a way of making him feel stupid.

Thanks Nezza for this translation as for the last one you translated I think you are not that far from his original comment in english

For me Internet is just a tool... a tool that can really give you the opportunity to meet people but in the same time you have not the same approach of a relashion than you can have in real life, so yes it can be cool to meet people on internet but you maybe will not have the opportunity to meet those people in real life for few reasons: people live far from your town and even in other countries, or they have a busy life with a busy work, study hard, or a family etc... but you can have real affinities with them and internet can be a way to stay in touch; or people you meet on internet can have in real live "permanent" friends that they meet very often and they don't have time to have new "real" relashionship with the opportunity to meet outside of internet; or they can have thousand of friends in facebook that does not care really about what's going on on your life , when you feel down, or even when something good happen to you etc, there is not a 50 pourcent of the time a real "exchange" of thoughts, passions etc... In the other hand I think the problem is not really internet but the personnality of the people you are in connection with... someone that is very kind in real life and take care to each other will be the same on internet (I believe it because I have seen this ), but some people just want to have brunch of "friends" just to say my friends page is full and there is nothing behind that, not real friendship or so... For me about the love that you can find on internet I guess it is possible too, but for the same reasons, a few people just want to find someone to go out a little time but not really want to meet someone "seriously" and it reflected also the real life I mean you see this everytime in night club, internet can be just a tool for some people to "hunting".. Maybe this woman in the coffee shop did not want to have a relashion with this guy on internet because she had already a bad experience or she thought that it can be "dangerous" to show a part of her life throught facebook to someone she does not know... it exists bad stories throught internet and bad meeting... so sorry to say that Mika has not got the right to say what he said since he doesn't know what's really going on, on the head of this woman, and on the head of this man, to finish his comment like that...

I know right?

right ? what ? Right that after that Ville Valo can go to bed (don't be angry I like Him also )

. . . OR,

on the other hand,

maybe he's just trying to

let us down easy:

Not that bad except the red eyes

this is my first camera doesn't work dream ...and I hope it's last one...

i know it was not you the other times, I checked after

I guess this is the last general cameras bugging dreams of all time... now will take place the computers bugging dreams

I was distracted by him messing up the lyrics:roftl::roftl:

The lyrics you're sure ? I think it is more the notes he were playing on piano that were not good sometimes it distracted him

I think he was really shy to play in a small room like this

Congrats to the winners again, and a little bit disappointed for the others in the top of the list (in the 20 first) who were not being able to go there...

Thanks Nanou for the relax video the only one I will see

bye bye gurls

I had a weirdest dream about Mika last night...

I remember ....

I was somewhere and I saw Mika coming out from some house..but I think it's look like barn

He just finished his little gig and he wanted to rest with friends... I couldn't resist and I ask him for autograph and to can I take a pic with him.... He was very polite .... But my stupid camera didn't work ....

Me:Oh Sorry can U wait a sec...is something wrong with my cam...

Mika:Ohhh OK!!! U tell me when U r prepare....

Me: stupid cam

I saw my friend (I don't know when she came in my dream ) and I ask her to help me...she did something and she said: Everything it's ok with ur cam..

And she sit next to Mika to take a pic with him:sneaky2:.... and I try to...everything was ok...(and Mika was beautiful on the pic like always)

and I set next to Mika to finally get my pic... and cam didn't work again..We try like 3-4 times...

And I was like :aah:

I was sitting next to Mika and I wanted to

Mika: is everything ok...

Me: yes

and I think I hug him ..he was all sweaty ..

.... :aah:

This the third dream where camera does not work is there a plot or something with cameras in Mika's fan dreams ? It was you the other times ?

I dreamed of Mika but he was actually with me in a nightmare, this was horrible so horrible that I can not tell before the nightmare started we were actually talking together about kelly Minogue and we were not agree about something concerning her... strange I hope to do not have this kind of dream with him in the futur

Oh my gosh, I had a dream about Mika last night and it was just...

Well I was at a pub or somewhere with my friends and then I heard Rain and I thought it's outside well I ran from the pub and I heard that Mika is singing Rain next door!! Oh god, he has a rehersal here! So I waited for him and he came out and I was taking a picture of him and then I came to him and just say: I LOVE YOU and he gave me a hug!! and then I wanted to take a picture with him and my friend has a problem with her camera!! DISASTER. Whatever I was walking with Mika and talking to him for a long time... It was amazing!! But then I just woke up and everything was just a dream...

 

ps: Excuse my English, please!!

Oops another camera dream bugging

I dreamed of Mika last night it was about a wedding but I don't remember the all thing

Thanks girls for the two first translations and for the original one, I understood the general meaning even in the first two translations so thanks ladies to have took your time to offer us this ...

I dreamt I saw Mika live, and he was really close to me, because he was walking into the public, and I was trying to take a picture of him (he was really beautiful, and he was looking at me!) but the photos failed every single time, so I stopped trying and just enjoyed him

he was also saying really difficult words, so I couldn't understand him..

Thanks Christine I understand a little bit more where he wants to go with this but not really sometimes I must say

2. Be courteous, do not be cute.

 

Making nice is not sexy, and honest. No one appreciates it. Who's nice to do it just because you want something or you just want to lift away. Making nice and drunk as many times in a week. You feel tired and feel a lot of repressed anger. Being courteous and sincere requires more effort. The advantage is that you should not be so often. Requires more control, however, it takes discipline. But the discipline makes you feel at ease with yourself. So to be nice you feel like sh*t, you feel good to be polite. But do not be too moral, otherwise goes to idiots full of themselves.

Oh I still want to stay like an idiot full of myself then for my first resolution of this year, especially in front of men full of themselves who convice themselves and their gender that infidelity is a natural stade of mind... and a normal human attitude (I just had a conversation with some of my males collegues this week, it made me angry, it's frightenning )... discipline exist everywhere even in love and fidelity is a part of it... so I guess my second resolution is: stay single ok sorry end of the off topic

Thank you very much for translation

It's a funny article, he writes about what he wants from 2011. He starts by saying how he started 2011 - he went to a glam rock themed party on new year's eve and woke up still in his outfit and with glitter in his hair

cool...

So for 2011 he wants to find a cannon so that when he dies his ashes can be shot out of it (like Hunter S. Thompson did), but he has no intention of dying this year!

I don't get it, but cool...

He's decided that he's going to stop being so nice, but he's still going to be polite. He says people who are nice to you only want something, whereas being polite is more honest, but more difficult to be.

moody, moody man

He wants to embrace the people around him more, such as his family who follow him on tour. He says that in the past he often got annoyed of the group of people who followed him around.

Number 4's a bit bonkers - he wants to find a footman who will follow him around like a shadow and has very specific criteria - he has to be 35 or younger, of Asian decent, dressed well, and silent

a footman ? what's the eek ? I don't understand a damm thing

And his last desire for 2011 is to be able to work all day. He says when you work more your free time is more precious, and simple things such as watching the tv in the evening are worth more.

do da da da... maybe

He ends by saying that readers are free to borrow his ideas for 2011 - except for the servant, if everyone had one it'd be a bit disorientating And he wishes us a happy new year - to be polite though, not to be nice!

ohhh the servant... so the footman ? I understand

for the birdie's fan design here is the birdie's bag

nice pictures, thank you

Yeah he is just IT for me. I did like Bono a lot back in the day though too, but Bono was going through a Puritan phase when MH was ramping the sensuality up so Bono was quickly usurped in my books.

I always love U2, when I was young I was not in INXS at all, I did not know a lot of their songs, I prefered U2 and I found the singer of INXS more inside sensuality and press scandale and it did not make me want to know more about them and their music... Now that I can understand lyrics (my english is a little bit better) and that I am older I don't even give attention of how he was sensual, I felt more sensitivity in the way he sung, and respect for their music...

Thanks for the interview

I just find a great live of INXS, the song is "don't change"

I always like their lyrics...

Yesterday, I saw on one of my friend photo that one of Mika's necklace was missing on the wax statue, it is the Melachi's whistle I learned today at the museum that two guys had steal it -not fans-

It does not surprised me at all... I saw on pictures that the Mika wax had few necklaces and I thought "how many times he will keep them ?"

I´m very excited and wait impatiently for reports. It´s the best gift for Santa Claus today.

So happy Santa Claus (I dreamed that I ate candies few days ago, it must be a mistake - where is the pere fouettard ?)