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Has someone posted this? I just found it, and I didn't see anyone post it so... 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." Mika in a bubble ​ 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! ) 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. 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. 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. 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. "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. What do you think? http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/last-night/mika-palladium-los-angeles-per/

Why?

*munches on taco* I'm all right now.

I like this quo- WAIT! GRACE KELLY JUST CAME ON THE TV! GIMME A MINUTE! ... I'm in a good mood. I've just seen WAG,Rain and GK. PLUS I'VE FINISHED TWO BOTTLES OF FIZZY LUCOZADE! Anyway. The quote was...: *coughs out Lucozade* WOAH! MIKA UPLOADED SOMETHING TO YOUTUBE! ... 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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms-bnJhYZ24&feature=sub http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-4pucFs4E&feature=channel

I feel hungry...

... I've decided I like you. You're cool. I completely agree with you! :thumb_yello:

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

I mean, it's stuff like this that makes me want to do two things. 1. Go give Mika a hug. He doesn't deserve this! 2. OPEN A CAN OF WHOOP*** ON THESE PEOPLE!

Pfffttt... I've never seen Mika live (I am going to! Yay! ) , but I'm guessing he sounds pretty damn good live if he's been accused of miming.

If he did that around friends or something, I want to know what they thought!

I'm helping my mom clean up around the house, and I was flipping through an OLD Heat Magazine, and I came across a Mika article. You've probably heard this, but apparently he got into a fight with a guy at a bar because the dude was making fun of the whole group of them. He said: "Coming out of a bar, this stupid stoner started making fun of the whole group of us. Don't start making fun of people when you're stoned, because you're quite easy to push over." *slight pause...I mean me, not him.* You can't help but imagine that scene.

I'm watching him on TV now I thought I was the only girl who liked him! He's taught me some interesting lessons about life. #1: Don't run with scissors most of the time but sometimes run and lunge with scissors. #2: Don't play with matches unless you actually want to have fun. * *FYI It's not arson unless you did it on purpose. #3. Don't talk to strangers unless you want to meet anyone. I love him! (I'm a little late, aren't I? Oh well, I needed to get that out of my system!)

True dat.

:lmfao:

:roftl: I'm just imagining those 'new dance moves'! I read that and just full on spat out my orange juice. :roftl:

That's what I was thinking!

Hurr.... IDIOT! :sniper: But I think it's funny that so many MFCers shouted at him after a 5 letter message! Those people rule If that's not dedication, I don't know what is.

... ... ... ... ... *doesn't know what to type*

*there's a slight pause as she does so* OHHHH.... Thanks!

*realises she has NO IDEA HOW TO USE TWITTER*

*is mock-determined* IT'S WORTH A SHOT!

I'm getting Twitter JUST TO ASK MIKA ABOUT THAT NUMBER.

... Rrrrrright! I'm gonna call it. I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm not. I CAN'T!!! I'm gonna. I'm gonna do it....

I can imagine it now...