krjsantos

Wow! Great

Congrats guys

They are talking about Mika on Radio 1 but not for the reasons we'd hoped. A show called Diasterpieces.

 

Anyway offers some opinions why Mika has struggled in the UK since TBWKTM. Starts at 18:45.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p1vys

seems no good to me any news about it I don't heard the program.

Have you seen all these comments below the video? There's an argue about gangnam guy, and a lot of bad words about Mika. I'm really disappointed. This song didn't deserve such bad words.

crazy world, no respect actually unfortunately

@krjsantos I was also thinking of Lady Gaga when I was referring to recent examples of using pop art in music videos..

Recently I saw a beautiful video of the Regina Spektor (song How) music & poetry visually linked

I think that music and pop art can be perfectly transported to images, in my concept one of the best videos ever made that expresses the "marriage" of art video and pop music, in my oppinion

[YOUTUBE]GQ95z6ywcBY[/YOUTUBE]

When I translated the interview I was sure there would be some reactions about this bit about the French audience (totally understandable)

 

I think when he says 'they were the only ones to...', he can't really be talking about the audience but more about reviews and articles.. How can he know what the audience understood? Of course he can talk to a few people after the show but how many would have told him 'I loved this reference to Arte Povera'

 

So yes maybe from the media it looks like France understood something more. But probably just because it wasn't covered as much in other countries...

Yes, you're right! How knowing what the audience immediately understands, this is not possible because even your entire audience go crazy anywhere

But do you understand how absurd it is for him to expect that even the press in NYC would get this reference under the circumstances? It's not the same show! People are not psychic. They don't know what is in his head nor can they be expected to know what his show in Paris looked like.

 

If Mika wants to pander to one audience to the point where he completely drives the rest of the world away that is his choice. But if he wants to blame that on the rest of the world not "getting" him I am going to call BS.

 

It's like he's wooing two dates. One gets champagne and roses and chocolate. And the next day date #2 gets a half a glass of flat champagne at the bottom of the bottle, dead petals and the half eaten chocolates no one wants. Then he decides that date #1 is the love of his life because they appreciate his gestures more!

 

LOL

Yes,but he loved the first one only because he was drunk

Well I think I need a little drink right now

No just France.

 

 

But he is not giving people outside a comparable experience in order to judge. The audience in NYC was not at Cirque D'Hiver. They weren't thousands of people sitting around a huge circus floor. It was a few hundred people crammed into a tiny club whose normal purpose is to showcase solo pianists and the like.

 

It's a different show. It's a different setting. How can he expect the same appreciation around the world when he constructs everything for France only?

 

It was the same with the massive PDP show. The last time I saw that clown themed set was in Osaka, Japan. When something is designed specifically for a massive audience in France and you take it completely out of that context how can you expect it will work the same way?

 

The same goes for the Louis XVI set. Of course that works for a palace in Compiègne. But it is absurd to expect people to appreciate it in the same way at a private party for a human rights campaign organization in Washington.

 

It is not only the audience's job to interpret art. It is up to the artist to communicate it. If it fails I don't think the audience is to blame.

What you say makes sense, I agree.

What he says about the French only understanding what he does with his stage show. That is not true at all, I get where he is coming from. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.

This makes me feel like he is cutting himself off from the UK audience, and this makes me very sad indeed.

I don't come to the defense of what Mika tells about French audience, but I was not resentful of it, I think he meant that France, the broad understanding, has a huge opening to all expressions of art and specifically in the music scene I think that's all for understanding "world music" and all scene around.

In other countries an here in my country, at least the largest base of Brazilian fans, understand this scenery.

I don't know if I expressed my thoughts clearly I hope so.

I'm glad I couldn't understand his chatting, I would have looked like this Poor boy, he must have been well medicated by that doctor Any way, he looked very tired in the end but I think his voice was actually good, thinking he had a bad cold or something. And you know, he did a huge jump (and not a small tired jump). He did a quick signing before leaving so Axie had a possibility to have a short Mika moment I was just watching behind the people and he couldn't talk, he just signed some albums etc.

Awn happy for Axie

Thanks a lot, Nina you rocks

oups Elephant??

thanks for the reports I'm glad he seems get better and better, just another gig and rest until the next in London, if it does not appear radios, interviews anyway it's a good time to take rest and recover fully

Amazing interview

smart interviewer and .... interviewee, of course

Thanks a lot, saskia and mellody

WOW

Amazing photos Sweetieval thnks a lot

This gig was amazing! The setlist was basically the one we know. Queueing was cold and very rainy but luckily we had more or less dry places to sit. The choir was full of surprises. Actually, I'm sharing my room with about half of it But I'll let them tell you details!

Mika was full of energy, quite chatty and singing so well! He changed the ending of Happy Ending and wowed the whole audience with it. Our special guest from far away got a well-deserved special moment and the audience was on fire.

After the gig he came out and signed stuff and stayed a little longer afterwards to ask us if we could organise the little things we did during the gig for Brussels as well

 

To sum it up: It was a brilliant but very cold day with perfect company, an amazing gig and now I have confetti everywhere

 

I planned to upload pictures but wi-fi doesn't work . I'll see when I get to do this.

Awnn I think Francine soon

Thanks Saskia

I made a few screencaps (ofcourse I have cut out Paul de Leeuw

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ohhh so adorable tv show, Mika seems a big kid as usual

ok now Mika makes me want to be born man, gay and 10 years less

thanks Mika

Great caps Annie, thanks a lot

Hey everyone! I've never posted anything on here before so I'm not entirely sure how this all works, but I really wanted to share my review of the new album with you. I worked hard on it and I'm pretty satisfied with the final product considering how much of a perfectionist I am. I've been getting a ton of positive feedback and really sweet comments on it so far (if you are one of those kind people, thank you VERY much, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it); it's a wonderful feeling knowing people enjoy my writing and liked what I had to say! So if you enjoy reading about good music and are interested in hearing my thoughts on The Origin Of Love, give it a read!

 

Side note: As nervous as the thought of it makes me, I'd love for Mika to read it (if that's even possible) so if you like it, spread the word! If you're on Twitter go ahead and tweet it to him! While you're at it, tell your friends, family, coworkers...I think everyone and their cat needs to know about this album. Anyway, hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

 

Link to the review on my blog:

 

http://maryelizabethhb.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/the-origin-of-love-by-mika-the-definition-of-pop-perfection/

Hi Mary, again

I write will be redundant here, you said it all, I wrote on your blog I'll retweet again.

Pleasure to read

Thanks a lot Laura, Eriko, Mari to throughout brilliant effort about news here

I just wanted to record our song here for posterity... maybe MFCers at future rainy gigs will want to use it or adapt it to their situation

 

Sung to the tune of Stardust...

 

We have been standing

In this bloody queue

It's only because

We're addicted to you

 

You are the thunder

We're in the rain

Will it be worth it

To see you again

 

We really love you

When we're nice and dry

But everything changes

In the blink of an eye

 

It's been a while now

And we're pretty cold

Waiting in line

Is getting so old

 

Getting so old

Getting so old

 

We want you to know

What we really mean

We wouldn't do this

For Gaga or Biebs

 

We don't really need the stardust in our eyes

What we need is sunshine in our lives

Or maybe a rain poncho or two

Or even a big umbrella will do

 

When will we be dry again

When will we be dry again...

 

And that's as far as we got before we got sidetracked with other

things...

:lmfao:

Sounds really good

Thanks a lot Deb

I hope so

Thanks Eriko

"That's when he changed his sexual orientation...she dumped him and he got trauma...

He tried to be like grace keelly

but all her looks were so sad,

so he tried a little freddy

and they ended up all in bed bed bed bed ..."

:lmao:

Derment Very many thanks for your translation very interesting. They have a broad knowledge of music, I loved it

http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2012_mika_theoriginoflove.htm

 

negative one in Italian

this review hurt me

Thanks a lot Mari for video

Just filmon no work for me

i can think of a lot of reasons why he might think we're dangerous. first and foremost, because he really has to be careful what he says or tweets cause he knows that a) he couldn't write a tweet without some mfcer noticing,no matter how fast he'd delete it (i remember those drunk tweets from dubai or where that was? ) and b) we know too much about him already and put his new interviews in this context. he can't really fool us. ( tho he keeps trying )

I have to agree with you