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He didn't even turn around but obviously heard people singing and gave a little taste of the song Very short but made us happy.

So, how was the melody? Did you hear/understand any words? (I am not impatient at all )

I think that he wants to bring out a new Frech song for the French market to take advantage of his exposure during the Voice. But in the other hand, if the album doesn't follow quite soon, it would be like with EMD: a big hit but it didn't help to sell TOOL.

Popular is climbing up: it is #129 on iTunes USA at the moment.

Popular is now #143 on iTunes USA and #21 for the video!

Sorry, did I read you right...? It looks like you wrote UK!

Yes,you did! See Alice's list!

Popular is now in the top 200 on iTunes USA and UK!

A request for the Spanish fans: do you have any idea about the LYL's sales?

Thank you!

On the website of Charts in France: "Mika returns to the top", an article about Underwater in the Swatch ad.

http://www.chartsinfrance.net/MIKA/news-86577.html

I saw the advertisement on tv today, and now I want to watch all the ads to see it again

Underwater is number 65 on French iTunes at the moment (it had already disappeared from charts)!

Thank you for the download and link. It was a very good performance and the public was really in to it. It should be number 1 next week

You can still not buy LYL from French iTunes, only from Amazon. I wonder if they really want to promote it outside of Spain. Anyway, Mika should do an other video without a beer bottle in his hand

No, sorry, I don't have any vids.

 

Yes, I think it must have been the biggest crowd for a Mika gig, ie not a festival.

Ok, thank you Kath, I'll keep on searching... People always want to film Relax and Grace Kelly a million times

Thank you for the reports, it must have been the biggest crowd there has ever been for Mika. Nobody seems to have filmed OOL? It's still one of my favorits live and I always search for the new versions of it on YouTube.

I just realized! The guitar at the and of the song is like one at the beginning of George Michael s "Faith"!

Yes, I also thought about Faith when I first heard LYL, but I really like it any way. But it isn't the first time Mika loans something from George Michael: Touches you has some similarities with Father figure.

Thank you for the link! I like it a lot. Can you also hear some George Michael's Faith in it?

Thank you Mikasister. What an amazing rythm!

Thank you very much! A very intresting interview, especially: "

He'll be performing with support from two other multi-instrumentalists with whom he's also started recording a new album.

''It sounds like a new interpretation of '70s songwriter pop, like Billy Joel, for example," he says. ''It's a complete contrast to the saturated, produced stuff that I've been making for the last two years.''

A dream come true!

Yeah, but at least their roots are in Libanon and Syria.

It seems that we can have it on replay here a little bit later: http://www.france3.fr/videos

Well, yes it did, but after a little pause...

I was sitting in our living room helping my son with his homework and suddenly I hear Grace Kelly on TV. It was an amazing surprise! It was a tv program about Marseille and they showed couple of minutes of his gig in Silo and then a little interview with him and an architect (how had designed the Silo concert hall , I guess). Mika told that he had a special relation with Marseille because when his grand father, at age of 16 (!), emigrated from Syria, he first came to Marseille before leaving to New York.

I am not sure if they put the program on their web site: http://www.france3.fr/emissions/des-racines-et-des-ailes/diffusions/27-03-2013_38204

Me too! It is so beautiful. Now where is Hey Leah or Century Man...

Thank you for the reports! I can't believe that we don't even have a 10 seconds snippet of the new songs and not so many news of the gigs. I just have to be patient... zzz...

Is it the first time he is talking about working with Eliza Doolittle? I checked her songs on iTunes, she has a beatiful voice and she's very pretty.

Ok, thank you Krysady. It might be easier to perform a new song in these intimate gigs with so many fans in the audience.

I also forgot to say that during the rehearsal I've heard a new song,a beautiful one And he did the entirely song All I can remember it's that it was something like Underwater mixed with Heroes and his voice sounded like heaven Oh,and did I mentioned it was a really beautiful song??

Thank you for telling about this song. Did you hear any lyrics? I am so looking forward to hearing it!