harlequeen

 

What the hell is that on Mikas head?

I start to believe Mika does not like to be smaller than others... in one of the german radio interviews he stood on tiptoes when the pic was taken with the DJs because the guy was some cm higher than Mika - and now he helps his hight with is hair

don't know if it's worth to start another thread for it, but WAG video will be up in the 'Neu'-Show on the german TV station VIVA this evening from 22:00 (9pm UK time)

the show will be rebroadcasted a couple of times and WAG will probably be on the playlist from tomorrow

http://www.viva.tv/TV/ShowDetail/id/5474/0/

Also, WAG is highlighted as one of the six video-tips on the video-section of their webpage

http://www.viva.tv/Videos/Index/

Edith says: I'm a bit worried about the VJs comment on it :rotfl:

I am not blaming anything on anyone because I don't think there is any blame that needs to be assigned here. Humans categorize and label because it is useful in terms of processing information and making judgements based on limited (or in some cases excessive) information. It is not a crime.

 

You can call it cliché and closed minded if you want but if most people are abiding by the same rules then these judgements are going to be accurate more often than random guesses. This is why people still make such assessments in the face of politically correct pressure not to. Because it works for them.

 

I was just on a message board today where some non-Mika fans who'd never heard of Luke Juby before stumbled across his picture. One of them joked that he must be straight because no self-respecting gay man would be wearing his watch and sporting his haircut. And you know what? They're right!

 

Maybe people have got Mika all wrong because he doesn't play by everyone else's rules...but so what? If Mika was so bothered by being wrongly labelled he would tell everyone the truth.

 

The harm here is not perpetrated by people who call his video gay or assume that he is not straight because of it. It's perpetrated by people who think there is something horribly wrong with being gay.

 

And saying that a straight man would not not be caught dead in a pink teapot scarf does not imply that there is something horribly wrong with being gay.

 

I dated someone who did not view homosexuality as anything negative. He wore a simple black shirt with a joke on it (that he'd invented himself) that lead people to believe he was gay. He would get strangers congratulating him on gay marriage being recognized in Canada, etc. He didn't correct them because he had no problems with anyone assuming he was gay and in fact liked the attention and being able to retell the stories.

 

But the day I met him he was having a light-hearted argument with his mother about the "gay scarf" she had given him for Christmas and how could she imagine he'd ever wear such a thing in a million years. His mother was arguing that the scarf was not gay and they brought it out for me to decide whether it was in fact gay or not.

 

His issue with the scarf was not that anyone would make horrible accusations of him being homosexual if he wore it. It was that clothes that people would stick the gay label on did not appeal to him in an aesthetic sense or as a way of expressing himself to the world, just as (in my experience) they do not appeal to most straight men.

 

That's how clothes get the label - because straight men won't wear them and everyone but my boyfriend's mother knows it.

 

Maybe things are different in your town but this is the reality in my world.

 

 

 

Just like it is not incumbent upon Mika to be a role model for teens it's not my job either. I'm not here to sort out the self-esteem of the world's teens, just to trade opinions about Mika's work.

 

I can toe a politically correct line and pretend that I and just about everyone I know do not make use of what you consider invalid clichés or we can have a frank discussion.

 

 

 

I agree!

maybe it's just my problem. Do you know why pink is the 'gay' colour?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle

For gay people the color is a important statement, at least for the ones in the know. The famous Rosa von Praunheim chose his name from that symbol and the pink lists associated with it (rosa is german for pink).

For me it has a wrong feeling when people say 'no straight would wear pink' (I know you did not say that, exactly, but still...). It sort of comes in from the wrong side for me, because it's not about a simple color that labels girlish/gay, as many think, but a symbol very consciously chosen by gay people. It gives me the creeps when it's banalized in a way (not that I am accusing you of being banal or careless, mind you. Not at all! It's rather being german and sometimes overconscious about it). I don't want people to get the impression that if someone fancies pink clothes he is gay as if this is inborn. This is the wrong way around! Maybe I should take it more lightly, but that is of course not your problem but mine.

Thanks:wub2:

Well I'll say it...

Here it is:

Ok I need to let this out...As ridiculous as it is.

The description of I See You makes me so sad. I know how it's like. And I hate to know that someone else feels that way too.

When I see someone and find them attractive or just see the way they act and think they're nice... I don't have the courage to talk. I just stare. I can't go up to a random guy and say "Hi, my name is Carlota. What's your name?" I'm just too shy. And I always get cold feet when I try to do it. I only had the courage once and well...It wasn't exactly done on my own. It was like a bet with someone. I met that guy, and just because I was so shy he thought I fancied him:blink: So that didn't go well. I'm not shy because I have a crush on that person, sometimes I just feel curiosity. But yeah I found myself "loving" someone I don't even know a couple times. And I had made up stories of us together in my head too. Naive stories that wouldn't ever be true if I didn't say hi or met that person or if that person decided to approach me.

I don't have the courage to approach people like that.. So I'm always waiting for someone to approach me. The times I approached someone, it didn't go out well. It's not like if I talk to someone they'll like me or remember my face, that's what I said myself and that's what I still do. And will that person like me how I am? Will that person decide what she/he thinks about me by the first impression they had of me when I approached them?

And I'm the only shy person in my "group of friends".. So if someone meets that person I want to meet that I don't have the courage to, they'll suceed much more then I will ever... And that's why mostly people like my bestfriend better than me. Or why they talk more to her. It's frustrating because it's like I have no interest... I get why they like her better, she talks more, she's more talkative etc.. But I wish I didn't have to say anything to get someone's "attention".

So maybe that's why I'll never have anyone that loves me as much as I do:dunno:

So yeah... When I start to fancy someone, they don't know me well, or they don't know me at all. And I don't have the courage to make them to know me better.. I just watch and daydream and hope they'll talk to me(Pretty naive...)

 

And that's it?...

believe me, you are not alone with this by far, and Mika is not too . I could say that for young people their self-esteem is a rather fragile thing and that the shyness will go over eventually, but often it does not. Insecurity gets planted in almost everyone of us, often already as kid, by bullying or because family members or teachers make careless comments about us that get stuck in our heads. We don't want to be hurt like that again and again and rather avoid situations where we could be rejected by someone, especially someone we fancy or love.

The trouble is, that we ourselves are the only ones who can make it different. Nothing will change if we just wait for others to help us, and it's not fair to them too. It's not easy, but luckily we most often have loved ones who support us and whom we can fall back to, should it go wrong.

So next time: go for it! You are shy? So what? Still go for it! I'll cheer for you

It was blooming fantastic to see those guys in Berlin. Just now in that context I wonder why Sophie B put the gf between quote signs in her comment there. Label?

maybe she was just referring to the girl dressed as boy since mellody linked this pic for her?

http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/awqc-w.jpg

(the pic is a bit big for the forum )

It is a cliche because most people abide by it in their everyday lives. In countries like the UK it's a fact that most straight men will not wear pink teapot scarves because it will be labelled gay. It's just reality.

 

 

 

We can pretend we live in a world without labels or we can discuss the reality of how the majority of people perceive things. Those perceptions are something Mika fans are confronted with constantly, whether they agree with them or not. I don't see how pretending they don't exist and shutting down threads (as was suggested earlier) is going to advance the cause of open mindedness either.

I would bet with you that in the UK most openly gay men do not wear pink teapot scarves too. It's a question of context to wear something like that, to straight and gay alike.

maybe you recall that guy?

http://sophieblackall.blogspot.com/2009/06/from-yesterdays-observer.html

just read the guys comment to it. I think we can safely assume he's not gay, having a girlfriend?

Blaming it on the world we live in is a lazy argument . The world we live in is not a third party, it's us. You and I on this forum do the labeling or refrain from it, not 'the world' or 'reality'. When Mika can spare us the labels, we can do too, if we chose to. We don't need to tell that pointing fingers and labeling happens everywhere. People know that, they are not stupid. The question is, do we shrug and give a damn and tell young people to just eat it or die?

It feels utterly wrong to me to discuss whether Mika should come out for the sake of gay teenagers when we help to it that they feel uncomfortable about themselves in the first place. I know that this is not anyones intention on here, but telling someone that nothing is wrong with being gay and at the same time kick everyone back in their boxes with 'no straight would ever wear/do this' does not do the trick.

Just for the record: I don't want this thread to be shut down, not for the sake of the board, and sure not for the sake of Mika, he is a grown up and has a clear view on things. It's a worthwhile discussion IMHO.

That's not what people were saying - AT ALL. First of all Mika can't dance particularly well so he will never be labelled gay by anyone for his dancing skills (sorry Mika, not that I'm any better, just stating the facts )

 

Mika wasn't just wearing "fancy" clothes in the video, he was wearing things that no straight man would be caught dead in. Likes scarves with pink teapots knit into them.

 

I found it amusing that one of the people in the thread who were so vehemently protesting the gayness of the video had an avatar of Mika with a naked male doll in his mouth.

 

Many of the things that apparently appeal to Mika come across as very gay. Whether this is an accurate reflection of his sexual orientation is another matter altogether, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a reasonable expectation that people will label these things (and consequently him) gay.

 

Mika is as aware of this as anyone since he has been labelled gay since he was a child. He knew he was making a video that was going to come across as camp I'm quite sure. He is not a naive little lamb and no matter how much he or any of us would like to dispense with labels they are just part of our reality, at least at this moment in history. It's not the Regency period, it is 2009 and things that contravene the straight culture of 2009 are going to be labelled gay, by both straight and gay people.

 

 

 

No because it is obvious. I was saying to zoots the other day that Paolo Nutini reminds you that he's straight every 10 minutes. It comes up in his interviews, it permeates his songs. It's just part of his personality and anyone who has paid as much attention to him as we pay to Mika KNOWS he is straight. There is no question, no mystery.

 

When someone refuses to discuss their sexuality because they deem it irrelevant most people are going to take that as a cue that the sexuality orientation in question is something other than straight. Because straight people are not judged harshly for being straight it rarely occurs to anyone to attempt to mask it or avoid the subject.

 

Now Mika is not just some guy next door and because he is asked these questions in a very public way he could have other reasons for not providing answers.

 

Which brings us back to the topic...I felt in early 2007 that I would have liked Mika to dispense with the coyness and be up front. But over the following months I watched the press interest in him die off. By keeping his private life private he has managed to avoid the kind of attention and harassment that Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen have to deal with on a daily basis.

 

It is not incumbent upon Mika to be a role model for the gay community (as a gay man or as a straight man who is fearless about appearing gay). If this is what he needs to do to protect his life from turning into a circus then I fully support his stance.

I highlighted the sentence that I take offense in, seriously. Because it's just a cliche.

I don't know what Mika had in mind with the accessories used in the vid. He's the only one who can tell. But there is one thing he does not do: he does not put labels, because he does not deliver the other half of the equation by telling us whether he is gay or not. I have a immense respect for his approach to this.

So there is my question: why do we feel the urge to do this for him? Label things, manifesting cliches, instead of open-mindedness? Why do we need to point at the vid and say: no straight man would ever do that? It's not true, and it does sure not help teenagers to accept themselves, gay or straight.

Maybe it's because of the region I come from. Every year 1.5 million people in my home town are out in the streets dressed out in the most ridiculous outfits, just for fun, from age 1 to 100, all sexes, all sexualities, all classes. It's a community thing, not targeting any group. And I assure you, no straight man seriously fears wearing a tutu, angel wings or a soother as necklace. The weirder the better! LOL I even saw my grandfather in a minnie mouse outfit. Even if only for a short time every year, it's liberating and creates an air of open-mindedness that crosses over to everyday life. Also, it helped creating the environment to a active and open gay community. That's the spirit I would hope everyone could adopt, instead of putting gay-labels everywhere. With labels we enforce limits, instead of tearing them down.

Heck, even the ticket fairy on this forum was a man in a fairy outfit. Shall we discuss whether the avatar was chosen to transport gay vibes?

Thanks for posting

Strange reading IMO. I wonder what he really said, before the whole thing was translated into German

I was wondering about that too . The german translation of his answers feels sort of awkward in many places, and my translation back to English sure did not make things any better, not my field of competence I must admit!

very nice interview

thanks mellody and harlequeen:flowers2:

 

btw harlequeen your signature is amazing:wub2:

thank you

the figurine in the pic is the mascot of the Cologne carnival museum, it's a 'rag-clown', a traditional cologne carnival outfit. When I saw the picture of Mika I was like: where have I seen this pose before? When it struck me it was that clown I just had to photoshop them in one pic facing each other

this as a short summary, maybe someone else on here has time to translate word by word?

I'll give it a try, if my english is strange, feel free to laugh

"I'm not a mummy boy!"

Text: steffen-Ruether Photo: Julian Broad

The British singer Mika still lives with his parents. A visit to his room.

The meeting place for an interview with Mica Penniman is unusual: Mika's room. The 25-year-old son of a Lebanese and an American occupies the basement of his parents house in London's upmarket/noble/posh? district Kensington (?don’t know what works best). Unusual enough. But that Mama Penniman – still sweating after her gymnastic exercises - makes coffee, the little brother checks whether Mika is finally done showering, and a painter is bustling around painting the skirting on the ground floor in pink, gives sort of a cinematic feel to the scene.

Meanwhile, one floor below, Mika has made himself comfortable on the sofa with his fish and broccoli breakfast. The bed is made, he has lots of cartoon characters/figures?, a colorful bike and a piano. "I'm not a mummy boy," he says, "even if people laugh, because I live in my parents basement/cellar." He had simply not had time to look for a home of his own. After the huge success of his debut album "Life in Cartoon Motion" with hits like "Grace Kelly" and "Relax, Take It Easy" Mika toured around the world for one and a half years, then he recorded his new CD "We Are Golden" in Los Angeles (which will be released in September). "I'm now saving for a home of my own," says Mika, "but unfortunately, prices in London are still far too high."

Two years ago you became one of the biggest pop stars in the world. How much did it get to your head? (durchdrehen usually would be ‚lose it‘ or something like that, but I’m not sure if it would fit here)

The success went to my head, yes. But in other ways than I had expected.

Namely?

I became even more solitary, more reserved, more cautious than before. I've been even more closed. The fact that I was touring all the time kept me sane. I just always thought of the next show and the next town. This was what I would concentrate on. It reminded me of the time when I was a child. With 11 years I was out of school for half a year, because I was on tour with theater and operas and song shows. I had to be very disciplined when I sang opera back then. But this discipline has benefited me now. It saved me. (lol this feels like badly translated in the first run and now it becomes even more bad translating it back).

The more famous you become, the more reclusive you are?

Yes, it is. I had to do that, to be able to write songs. The more you reveal about yourself, the less will remain as subjects for your songs. Because you want them to be a bit mysterious. Communicating freely and honestly I can best in my songs. That‘s why I protect myself and my energy and my life. If this is taken from me, it would be the end of my creativity.

Is the new song "I see you" about you falling in love?

Yes, but in someone, whom I've never met. It's about how I sit there liking someone at the other end of the room, but do not dare to walk over and say "Hello". This is typical for me. If I‘d tell you now that I fancy you, you would laugh at me or punch me. Thus I protect myself by just staring. That’s how I am.

You don’t say?

Erm, yes, that’s how it goes. But I start imagining what could be. In my head I shoot really hot movies. When I meet this person again, it's almost like a second date. But I just stare.

So you're really shy?

Oh yes, terrible, ich bin ein ganz übler Aufreißer??? (out of context it would be I'm a badass player but I guess he said he was bad at hitting on someone) Completely useless. And you?

Me too. I need to be approached in the first place, otherwise nothing happens.

See! Then you know how it is.

Does your shyness bug you?

Depends on my mood and time of day.

You always seem to be cagey about your love life. Because you have none?

Oh, there is a love life. But not of a sort I‘m proud of. I just don’t manage to build a steady, lasting relationship. Maybe I‘m not made for it, I don‘t know. I just know that I would protect my relationship. There would be no photos in magazines, or Home Stories.

Most think you are gay. But you don’t talk about your sexual preferences. Why not?

Because for me there is no difference whether I'm gay or not. May be it’s strange to protect ones life like that. And I don‘t claim that my way is the right one. But it is my way.

In "Blame it on the Girls' you complain about a guy who has everything but is still dissatisfied. Who is it? You yourself? Someone in the music business?

Oh, the other musicians and pop stars are all stupid. You never see who these people really are, they pretend. Also, these people very quickly become your friends, but just as quickly you lose sight of them again. I don’t want to find friends in music business.

in germany the uncensored version would be rated for the 'hurt myself' = 'shoot-myself' gesture, nothing else. The reasoning behind it are fears for inducing suicides among teenagers.

Finally up on Amazon in the states. It lists a dvd for the deluxe

 

http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B002KVSJ7S/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1249788669&sr=1-2

and german amazon imports it from US

http://www.amazon.de/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B002KVSJ7S/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1249911658&sr=1-2

this is the Mika playlist on my favorite radio station in germany, WDR2

31.07.2009 05:26:52 Mika Big girl (You are beautiful)

31.07.2009 12:41:40 Mika Grace Kelly

31.07.2009 20:32:29 Mika We are golden

01.08.2009 16:29:47 Mika We are golden

02.08.2009 09:45:16 Mika We are golden

02.08.2009 19:20:42 Mika Relax, take it easy

03.08.2009 04:15:17 Mika We are golden

03.08.2009 17:12:10 Mika We are golden

04.08.2009 12:13:02 Mika We are golden

05.08.2009 02:20:02 Mika We are golden

05.08.2009 14:33:54 Mika We are golden

06.08.2009 10:25:07 Mika Big girl (You are beautiful)

not as much as you get in Netherlands or UK, but pretty nice for germany

Thx for posting

 

soz but isnt it posted in the Germany interview thread too???

yes, all there

http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2407807&postcount=392

Just picking up on a few points...I think the lighting will have reduced the look of his body hair as it's not just his chest that looks smooth....I can't see him shaving it mid way through the shoot or that it would be so fully grown lastnight.

 

The dance rehearsal at his flat was truely a thing of beauty!!! :wub2:

 

Also, I loved his pointed use of the "Jazz hands" when he found the red bowler hat!!

It's a mix of lighting and editing me thinks. When he talks about the tent-scene from 5:18 to 5:45 you see that someone walking between him and the light-source casts a shadow, and how the editing kicks in blurring the chest in these moments.

And because I am all about logic I am having a really hard time understanding how people can watch a video of Mika dancing around with lasers shooting out of his crotch and a huge inflatable penis on his head and say with a straight face that they think it's not camp.

 

I mean come on!!!

 

What on earth could he be doing in a room alone by himself (that is not XXX-rated) that could come across as more camp than what is portrayed in the video? Not only is the label "gay" warranted IMO, but I'd be amazed if it wasn't the exact intention of everyone involved in producing it.

 

I know we're all entitled to our own opinions but sometimes I think I'm living in a completely alternate reality to some other fans. That's why I'm trying to clarify here whether this is a terminology thing or people are just seeing something that I'm not.

I lived my teenage years in the 70s and early 80s in middle europe, and this hilarious joking around in the vid was what we did then too. We had no laser beams, no. But a flashlight brought it across just as well. The difference to your view on it is: it never crossed our minds then that this could be perceived as gay. One of my male friends is gay, the rest is straight. And it was not the gay who was the weirdest of them . Do you really think only gay man would play around with a dickhead like that? No! Not my experience . Maybe nowadays to many boys and men are afraid of being labeled gay to do that anymore. So sad for them!

Of course, I suppose this is your opinion.

Because I still don't find it sexy at all. I think he's starved himself to acquire the typical teenage look: a too skinny boy, clumsy, who's probably grown too fast and who feels ugly, underestimated. I work with teenagers: with few exceptions, boys are normally ugly and not sexy at all, because they're changing fast. This is normal in Italy, maybe less normal in northern Europe, where teenagers are often beautiful. There can't be anything sexy for me in a teenager dancing freely in his bedroom.

And I still don't find it camp. (Oh why on earth did you use that word in the Observer interview, Sire? ) You say it's self affirming. Do you mean that Mika is himself in the video? I think MIKA is a persona, a character. I think MIKA is a very intelligent artist, who would never use a video to give a message only concerning Mika. Because this is what he's always stated he's been doing. His music is art and I think he doesn't want to use it to say something about himself in such an easy way. There are artists who see art as autobiography, but so far Mika has been denying doing that.

Art is creating something that will always tell people something interesting, because they can relate to that, because they can make it their own experience, because they can read it in a thousand different ways.

 

 

 

 

 

Really? I would never ever expect that from Mika.

I'm with you in this. For me there is not just self-irony and self-affirmation in this, but he is mirroring back all the things that were and are said about him back to us, asking: how can you be so sure? How dare you judge? Many seem to believe that he is coming out with this, but I don't buy it. He sure has mannerisms we point our fingers at and say !GAY! But can I be sure that he doesn't use exactly this against me in the vid when telling me: I'm not what you thing I am! And there are just as many mannerisms shown that are 'straight' like boob-grabbing and some of the posing, and again it screams in my face: I'm not what you think I am!

So the overall message of this vid for me is not about Mika, but about me, my prejudices. It's asking for open-mindedness and meeting other people unbiased, out of respect. And actually, that's the message of the song for me too.

Rant coming- read at your own peril. Nothing offensive, but just a few truths that I think need to be said.

That truly sucks. You LIVE here, are ready to go, and yet you can't o because a few people were impulsive in applying and did so without having the absolute certainty that they could go to the gig. I find that terrible.

I know that this is probably stating the obvious, and I realise that nobody did it with a malicious intention, but it was very clearly stated that for people to apply for the MFC tickets people had to be certain of the fact that they could attend.

Now I may be a bit of a perfectionist, maybe, but in my book that would sort of automatically imply that I had already checked the work and/or travel arrangements (if I was a foreigner) and knew for sure that I either had a travel ticket, or could get one, should I win the tickets.

I do find it terrible that, having been told that we needed to be sure of the fact that we could come as this was such a restricted giveaway, so many people are now "discovering" last minute that they can't come after all, and other people (including some like you, who don't even need to travel for this gig!) are being left out when there is no reason for it.

Of course I realise that people may have sudden problems that are totally out of their control, like a death in the family, etc, but travel arrangements not going to plan do NOT constitute this IMO. That was just a basic part of it, and everyone knew that a last minute ticket to London in the middle of the summer and accommodation would be expensive.

I would imagine that this poses the question that, if we have similar situations in the future, maybe competitions should be limited to those who are already in the country where the gig happens or at the very least have already purchased (and can prove so) travel. It just seems deeply unfair and silly to waste these chances.

As I said, I'm not pointing individual fingers here, or being rude, or being aggressive or offensive, but I am actually quite shocked by the fact that people didn't consider others when they applied for these tickets, knowing that it would be a problem to change names around if there was a need.

I'm not going to say that I disagree with you

but to be fair, many that applied early checked and canceled within the 24 hours the contest was open. That should be ok imho

and then there were some who had to ask parents first, and eagerly hoped that the already won (and free) ticket would make their parents change mind and let them go. Not a brilliant idea, for sure, but well... haven't we all done something similar in our youth, hoping to the last minute that we'd get the clearance? Sure there's a lesson to be learned, but I find it a bit difficult to really blame them, keeping in mind my own sins

I think your idea is very nice:wub2: And a very good reason to buy two...

But if I bought two, I'd buy them from those websites as I won't be in my country anymore by then, and maybe I'll buy and offer that CD as an extra christmas gift to my friends:teehee:

And my mom just wouldn't let me buy two copies from myself even for that reason.. So:dunno:

But I'm not against anyone buying two copies, it's their business and their money... I was just curious:aah:

well if some friend or family member of mine thinks it's weird to have two copies, I can just blame it on senility , or just reply with one often used saying around here: 'fool, let fool pass by'

Am I the only one who won't buy both versions?

What's the point?

I'll buy both versions for a pretty simple reason. The SE I have to preorder from UK, but that won't count for the charts in my country. So I'll buy the normal version at a local shop to have it count. The higher up it goes in the charts, the more it gets played on radio (I'm a dedicated radio listener ), the more likely is he'll show up on TV, the more chances for gigs.

Call me selfish but I'll buy two! (no worries, if I would have to decide wether to save the money for gigs I'd do it your way too )

I have no idea how many times I personally have watched the vid, and the slow-mo vid... but I can tell y'all that the slow-mo vid has received over 700 views in less than 24 hours. You're all a naughty bunch!

 

I can't help but wonder what it would be like to be a regular, non-biased music lover, not a real Mika fan - maybe even someone who'd never really heard of Mika - and see that video. I wonder what I would have thought if my very first Mika exposure would have been the WAG vid instead of Grace Kelly?

 

Back in like 1997, I had this standing Friday afternoon date with a group of friends. We'd all meet at someone's house, without fail, and watch the MuchMusic video countdown. I'm sitting here wondering what my 12 or 13 year-old self would have thought of this vid. I think she'd have loved it just as much as my 24 year-old self does... although I'm about as biased as they come, so it's hard to say.

 

Is anyone else noticing that We Are Golden sounds shockingly familiar already, as familiar now as any of the LICM tracks? There have been a few moments where I've had to stop and remind myself that this is a brand new song I only heard just over a week ago. Now it feels like I've known it forever.

I let some people watch the video today who are no fans, some have never seen any Mika video before, and they were pretty cool with it. When I said that it was undecided wether this was the censored or uncensored version everyone was like 'why in high heaven would someone censor something harmless like this??? It's just hilarious and fun to watch.' . Guess we are worrying way to much about it's impact on the general public

Sounds to me like you're missing a video codec... I could get all technical here ... But if you just wanna watch it , here's a link http://www.mika-sounds.de/videos/videopopup/video/214956/0/we-are-golden/

I really wonder why they put the video on the official german mikasounds-webpage, but not on mikasounds.com and myspace?

Well that was the gayest video I've ever seen

Just certain movements he does, and certain clothes he wears in it...

on a serious note though: I sincerely hope that there will come a day when noone anywhere in this world feels the need to put any such tags anymore, but we just can watch it and enjoy it in all it's glorious fun

I just remembered that that's not his actual room. Remember, it was filmed at Elstree Studios

yes, and it looks like they raided the storerooms with fan gifts to decorate it

This man is surely in love with the detail!

OMG!! HE USED THE JACKET WE GAVE HIM IN NYC!!!!!!!!I'M CRYING OMG~

amazing!

 

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who would have guessed that the video would actually feature the gerbils? Or what is in this little terrarium to the right side?

I forgot that Mika had said that this week.

What is there to censor????

I don't get it!

maybe it's already the censored version?