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    MIKA Quotes.

    in Chat about Mika

    Posted

    I just saw the weirdest bit in this one interview....

     

     

    As this woman's talking, Mika's howling over her... It made me just STARE at my laptop in confusion. It's for no properly explained reason as well... He's just howling. :blink:

    REPORTS/VIDEOS/PHOTOS for MIKA in Seattle the Moore 26-10-2009

    in Concert Reviews

    Posted

    He was happy, and giddy, and bouncy. Unfortunately, the bouncing resulted in M hurting his other knee. :boxed: Boys! When will they learn that they are NOT invincible? He was quite giddy tho, probably the result of the painkillers. He talked about his "f-ed up" foot a couple of times. One of the most hilarious moments was when he started asking people in the audience about the problems they were having. One girl in front said she had a boot on her foot also. Mika says, in the cutest voice, "Oh, we're twins!" :roftl: His singing was great, and I loved the new set. I tell ya, the ol' boy keeps getting better and better.

     

     

     

    Mika did stop on the way to the bus to sign a few autographs and take pics with the people waiting outside. I was very impressed, because you could tell that the goal was to get him on the bus immediately, but he kept saying, "Just one more, one more." He was so generous and obliging, it nearly brought a tear to my eye.

     

     

    1. No, I don't think they'll EVER learn! My brother broke his leg, and decided that 'It was fine! My leg's fine! I don't wanna lay down all DAY! THAT'S BORING! I'm big now, I can walk by myself'!. He started to hop around the house, and eventually ended up breaking his other one. Jeez...

     

     

    2. I could just imagine that !:roftl:

     

     

    3. Aw~! Poor little guy! (Why did I say little? :roftl:) That's what I like about him though! He's so nice! :wub2:

     

     

    Thanks for the report! :thumb_yello:

    The Unbearable Frustration of Being Mika (at the Palladium)

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    I think the writer is trying to sound clever, but he failed, didnt he now, so opps to he or she.

     

    Mika enjoys contradicting himself, it's fun, its what he does and he does it well, I dont think its about being famous :boxed:

     

     

    and yay me two for the head dress:biggrin2:

     

     

    I REALLY WANT ONE NOW!!! :aah:

     

    (I just spilt face cream on my keyboard. TONS OF IT. Whoops. I didn't know it was open, okay?!)

    The Unbearable Frustration of Being Mika (at the Palladium)

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Are they for real comparing Mika to an expensive prostitute?:aah:

     

    Ah well, at least the pictures are nice.

     

    I laughed at that bit! I mean, seriously?

     

    I buy into the idea that Mika doesn't do anything for the fame, so I'm against this article almost completely. These reviews keep coming out where they try to be nice to him and pretend they love him, but they're just really insulting. They just need to pick a side and stick by it.

     

    I also want a balloon headdress.

     

     

    I know what you mean! It's like we hate you, love you, hate you, love you... Jeez...

     

    (I didn't want to say I wanted one, 'cos I thought I'd be the only one to say so! :roftl: Yay! I'm not alone!)

    The Unbearable Frustration of Being Mika (at the Palladium)

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Has someone posted this? I just found it, and I didn't see anyone post it so... :teehee:

     

     

     

     

    Halfway through his set last Friday at the Hollywood Palladium British would-be pop superstar Mika unveiled "Touches You," one of the shiniest tracks on his slick new album The Boy Who Knew Too Much. "I wanna be your brother, wanna be your father too," he propositioned the packed dancefloor, "never make you run for cover even if they want us too/ I wanna be your sister, wanna be your mother too/ I wanna be whatever else that touches you."

     

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    Mika in a bubble

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    That, in a nutshell, is one of Mika's biggest problems. He wants to be a huge star really, really badly. He has everything going for him: he's extremely good-looking, (AN: A-thank you! :teehee:) has a remarkably cultivated physique and good taste in the 70s and 80s oldies that he relentlessly plunders for his songs, and he unashamedly makes gay pop though he also cultivates a degree of ambiguity for the little girls' sake.

     

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    But ultimately Mika doesn't really know what he wants to sell you -- like an expensive prostitute at a five-star hotel, he can be whatever touches you. And he really, really wants to know, as he famously sang in his breakthrough small hit "Grace Kelly," why don't you like him, why don't you like him.

     

    Don't get me wrong, the large audience he drew at the Palladium -- mostly very young (high-school young), mostly girls, but also a number of gay men and boys -- was having a great time dancing, wearing balloon animal headdresses, and singing along to the catchy tunes from "The Boy Who..." and its predecessor, the Perez Hilton-endorsed "Life in Cartoon Motion." Mika thanked them for their support, though he followed the appreciation with a frustrated dig at his US record label (the revived Casablanca Records within the Universal umbrella) for failing to make his career go supernova.

     

     

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    And this is the other big problem with Mika's act: he oscillates between a persona who wants to stay in his bedroom in his underwear dancing to happy pop music on his headphones surrounded by stuffed animals and other trappings of childhood, and a raging Messiah complex where he leads fat girls, outcasts, and other people less good-looking and privileged than him into some kind of vague revolution against "them," the people who want to make his adopted siblings and children "run for cover."

     

     

    Like in a very gay vaudeville version of "Hamlet," you could actually feel the frustration and neurosis of this unhappy prince through his entire set. From the prologue, where Mika's number one fan Sir Ian McKellen (you old dog!) plays a newscaster on TV announcing a space launch gone wrong (do any of the gold-shoed girlies recognize the actual footage of the Challenger explosion used to represent Mika's tragedy?), to a wink to Ziggy Stardust, to Mika stripping to his undies, the whole show bounced between despair and exhilaration.

     

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    But Mika didn't want to be in the Hollywood Palladium. He knows and is told incessantly that he belongs in the Hollywood Bowl or the Rose Bowl, or any other massive arena with Fergie and Gaga and all the other international brand names. This ambition is not merely the usual pipe dream of everyone you meet in this town. Though sometimes derivative to the point of pointlessness, he does have solid material ("Touches You" is a better George Michael song than anything GM has come up with in years), he can do Queen-meets-the-Bee-Gees-in-the-body-of-a-Dave-LaChapelle-boytoy better than anybody in the business, and his mid-set ballads are no worse than whatever Elton John and Lloyd Webber are feeding Disney these days.

     

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    "We are not what you think we are," he mantra-like repeated to himself and the world on Friday, "we are GOLDEN, we are GOLDEN." Nobody's arguing with that. But not many are buying either. And if Mika keeps protesting too much, to use the distant mirror of the 70s he so adores, he might unravel like Jobriath instead of soaring like Elton.

     

     

    :boxed:

     

    What do you think?

     

    http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/last-night/mika-palladium-los-angeles-per/

    MIKA Quotes.

    in Chat about Mika

    Posted · Edited by Fangirl

    I like this quo-

     

    WAIT! GRACE KELLY JUST CAME ON THE TV! GIMME A MINUTE!

     

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    :wub2:

     

    I'm in a good mood. I've just seen WAG,Rain and GK. PLUS I'VE FINISHED TWO BOTTLES OF FIZZY LUCOZADE! :aah:

     

    Anyway. The quote was...:

     

    *coughs out Lucozade* WOAH! MIKA UPLOADED SOMETHING TO YOUTUBE! :shocked:

     

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    :roftl: I procrastinate too much!

     

    It's

     

    "I've got this trick where when I have a feeling I'm making the wrong decision I sit down on the floor and I put a glass of water on my stomach. I sit there and I think of the thing that I think I may be doing wrong and 90% of the time if I am doing something wrong, I get nervous and the glass of water spills all over my chest. And that's how I know that I've got to start acting on a, on a decision. That's the gut test. It works, you should try it!"

     

    And indeed it does work... But it won't work if you're like me. I get nervous VERY EASILY. :roftl:

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    No ***ing accident: MIKA SINGS HIS HEART OUT EVERY SHOW

    in Before the Show

    Posted

    No, you're right, of course it doesn't, AT ALL, and that is what I was trying to say, that the guy is a total twat for saying what he did.

    I was just throwing in something that did sort of bug me a little, because it gives morons like this man a platform from which to slate people like Mika, who leaves his skin on stage every night and gives the show all his passion. And it makes me mad.

     

     

    It's especially obvious towards the end, and in the chorus. But yes, I know what you mean about people's comments, it's infuriating. That's because there are hardly any artists out there at the moment who CAN sing like Mika.

    I often say that his voice sounds a lot better when he sings live than on the recorded studio tracks. I wonder if it's the interaction with the audience that does it, but IMO there is no doubt that his best performances are always live with an audience-And I am only talking about his voice and singing here, not about the actual show. His voice live is just something else.

     

     

    I don't know for how many he did, but for these two I can hear it very clearly. It's probably because otherwise the songs would sound very different to the album, as they are so heavily layered? I don't know. All I know is that if you listen carefully you can hear his own voice singing in the background while he is doing the lead vocal, or waiting to sing one. It's inevitable, the way the song is, I guess, but I would prefer it to be 'purer' and to sound different than to sound like the record and have all these tracks on it.

    I always say that Mika is at his best when he's pure and simple.

    But answering your last question, no, this guy meant the whole thing, so he's still a twatty a*sehole :roftl:

     

     

     

    ... I've decided I like you. You're cool. :biggrin2:

     

     

    I completely agree with you! :thumb_yello::thumb_yello:

    No ***ing accident: MIKA SINGS HIS HEART OUT EVERY SHOW

    in Before the Show

    Posted

    The point that I'm trying to make is that he has a small point there. In these two songs (at least) the pre-recorded backing tracks are there, and they are very prominent. Much more so than in any of his old songs, when he toured with LICM.

     

    And I personally would have liked it to be less 'perfect', and for him to sing the songs as they are, without the pre-recorded backing, because it would be more real, if you know what I mean.

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    You have a good point. (just went to watch One Foot Boy on YouTube):thumb_yello::thumb_yello:

     

     

    But it REALLY ANNOYS ME that people just go: "Oh, it's good. He's miming, obviously.", Y'know?

     

    It's just... Gr...

     

    I think most preformers have used a backing track, haven't they? Why's it such a big deal? They're still not miming.

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