SunshineGirl

I haven't posted on here for, like, AGES! But this news has brought me out of the woodwork! In a nutshell, personally I have no problem with Mika and the band members parting ways. I am assuming that they have parted on completely amicable terms and not due to anything underhand on the part of Mika or due to a 'falling out'. Mika is a solo artist who happened to hire a group of musicians/singers as backing. He is NOT (i) an integral member of a group/band who is now deciding to ditch his band to follow his own aims/career OR (ii) a 'frontman/lead singer' of a group who the band can/could decide to sack (for whatever reason) - in both instances leaving the future of this entity called a 'group' or 'band' in jeopardy and uncertainty. My point is just that Mika is, and always will be, a free agent who as a solo artist can hire who he wants to help him do his job best as he sees fit at any given time in his developing career. If, as seems to be implied, this is a new direction, then I trust his judgement to decide to hire/surround himself with other/new personnel who will fit in with this. I'm really looking forward to this new phase! Think it's time for a change. For me it's always just been about Mika - much as I like Cherisse, Imma, Jimmy etc as individuals, I have only ever been interested in Mika at gigs etc - the band members to me are incidental tbh. I do, however, think this news announcement could've been handled better though....

Just listened to the song again and I agree totally with lollipop_monkey. I go back to what I said in my earlier post - this song sounds wrong with Ida's rather precise, cold operatic voice - it's just not right for the song. Makes it sound like a Disney/West End song rather than a "real" love song/duet. I'm not sure I like the lyrics - they're rather cliche and cheesy but given that that is the case, as the song stands, I think it needed to go the whole hog and have a female voice that kind of 'goes' with that (if it remains a duet) - ie a more raw, emotional voice (as I said in my previous post). That would make it an unashamedly melodramatic ballad (which is what the current lyrics suggest afterall) a la Jennifer Warnes/Joe Cocker style!! At the moment, with Ida's operatic voice it's a 'mish-mash', it's got an identity crisis, not knowing what it's trying to be, IYKWIM, and that makes it insincere and unbelievable. It needs more real emotion (other than just singing emotive words), a looser style, more sincerity - otherwise it's Disney - not adult at all.

Don't like Ida's voice AT ALL in this song - she has a very clean, pure but cold, emotionless voice and honestly, if you're going to sing a duet (love song) to someone, you've got to at least TRY and sound like you mean it when you sing to the other person and look into their eyes etc lol!! I didn't feel that either Mika or Ida meant the lyrics when they sang it - I know they may not actually be 'in lurve' but they have to create the illusion when singing a love song together! The song has potential, but I hope he finds another singer who 'gels' with him better vocally (etc!) - the restrained operatic voice is not what's needed here, it needs a more raw emotional style and sound. I hope he also changes the title of the song because it's really not very inspiring as it stands.... Will be interesting to see how this song pans out in the end...

Thank you all so much for these pictures and vids, which are fantastic! Glad you had a great time at the gig!

Was hoping one of his New Year's resolutions for 2011 would be to tweet more often and write blogs and record vlogs again!! (Well, no harm in hoping was there LOL?!)

I know that the chances are he's already decided upon a name for his new puppy (maybe from our list, who knows lol!), but could the name I suggested the other day be added if possible, please, which is AMBER. Thank you!!

Very last minute - I've already suggested some names to him via twitter but my faves of the ones I came up with are Bessie (Bess for short), Poppy (already on the list) and the one I thought of today, which I think I now like best, Amber. Don't know why I didn't think of that name (Amber) earlier - when I was a child we had a cross labrador/ridgeback retriever with that name and she was gorgeous. Also, his puppy is the right kind of colour being golden! Looking forward to hearing what name he's decided upon and to see some pics of him with her!!