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    The Fonda, Los Angeles, USA - 22 October 2012 - REPORTS / PICTURES / VIDEOS

    in Concert Reviews

    Posted

    Not exactly about the concert, but I found this http://lamodedesfemmes.com/high-heels/2012/10/23/me-and-mika-chillin-at-the-after-partay-awesome-concert-cool-guy-people-thought-we-were-brothers-we-didnt-correct-them-mika-louboutin/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=highheelssophie

     

    Me and Mika chillin at the after partay! Awesome concert, cool guy, people thought we were brothers.. we didn’t correct them! #Mika #louboutin

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    Mika looks like a Wall Street guy :naughty:

    Is MIKA Coming to Anywhere Else in CA after LA?

    in Chat about Mika

    Posted

    He also said they are doing a wax statue of him in Montreal so maybe he will be there for a ceremony. :naughty:

     

    Really? I haven't heard anything about that, must have missed somehow. Is this for real or was it one of Mika's stories? If it's true, I hope it's gonna look better than the one in France, that thing is ugly and nothing like Mika :aah:

    Mikasounds and Twitter updates - Part 11

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    But he used to be a dyslexic, and, according to him, learned to write very late.

    So, I think it took him a lot of will to learn to write even like this :wub2:

    I don't know much about dyslexia, but I thought it is hard to spell if you are dyslexic. Does it have something to do with handwriting too?

    You can at least read what Mika's written here. :naughty:

    Actually I can't :roftl: The only thing I can understand properly is "The Origin Of Love" at the top of the page :aah:

    I'm good at drawing, but most of the time I can't read my own handwriting it's so bad! They're very different things!

    Thanks to Mika, now I know that :naughty:

    Mika meets Dita Von Teese: 'I've had to work hard to stay like this', 11.10.2012

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/oct/11/mika-dita-von-teese?newsfeed=true

     

    The flamboyant singer and the burlesque performer share their thoughts on fetishism, sexuality and pop as the ultimate masquerade

     

    They're the perfect couple: the internationally famous pop star and the globally notorious burlesque bombshell. Both do flamboyant, but in their own ways. Following a photo shoot at Guardian HQ, Mika is wearing a blue pin-striped suit, sans jacket, with a yellow knitted tie, while Dita Von Teese is, as befits the former Mrs Marilyn Manson, dressed head to toe in black satin and crepe, some of it courtesy of Messrs Galliano and Vuitton, some of it from her wardrobe.

     

    They have just flown in, her from Vienna, where she performed her celebrated martini-glass routine at the opening of the Ritz Carlton, him from Frankfurt, where he has been promoting his new album, The Origin of Love.

     

    "I've been bounced around like a bizarre ping pong [ball]," he says – the night before he was in Berlin; tomorrow, he heads to LA for 24 hours. Now all he has got to do is make sure Moo, the golden retriever that he takes everywhere with him, behaves.

     

    "He can be very controversial in interviews," he warns. "He's a bit of a Morrissey: he loves to be hated."

     

    The pair, who have been friends for a while, look as if they are about to go clubbing, even if Mika will not get into Torture Garden dressed like that.

     

    "What do you normally wear on a Saturday – black leather pants?" jokes Von Teese. And before we know it, talk has turned to fetishism, sexual preference and pop as the ultimate masquerade. "Fetishism is not about exposure," she says. "It's about the exaggeration of the feminine form."

     

    Have you ever damaged yourself in the pursuit of perfection?

     

    DVT: "Well, corsetry is a form of body modification."

     

    Is it painful?

     

    DVT: "I'm not in it for the pain, I'm in it for the perfect hour-glass shape."

     

    Mika, are you into fashion?

     

    Mika: "Not at all. It doesn't suit me. I look at Dita and totally appreciate how far she goes to create her version of perfect beauty. But I don't stomp around wearing a corset like the guy from the Rocky Horror Show."

     

    Is what you do performance art?

     

    DVT: "I don't like that term, it's pretentious. I want to be seen as an entertainer."

     

    You refer to yourself as a stripper, don't you?

     

    DVT: "I do, and I love to. It's sensual, titillating, risque entertainment."

     

    Mika, are you part of that tradition of showmanship more than you are any rock'n'roll trajectory?

     

    Mika: "No, my trajectory is Harry Nilsson and records like Pandemonium Shadow Show. Opera is where I started."

     

    So you weren't born out of Broadway and showtunes?

     

    Mika: "One hundred per cent no. I was born out of classical music. I was kicked out of school when I was 11 and was dyslexic so my mother decided to get me music lessons. She said: 'My son is so ****ed up. He's not functioning well.' She knew school wasn't going to fix it. A friend of hers taught me to sing and I got really good really quickly. My first gig was at the Royal Opera House, a Strauss opera."

     

    How did you meet?

     

    DVT: "I was a fan, and I felt like every time I met you, you were warm and fun and sweet, not intimidating. I felt like I could be myself around you and not have to be cool. Sometimes I can't be myself, because I'm just from a small town in Michigan, my hair's naturally blond – this is all something I made up!"

     

    Mika, there's a line on your new album that goes: "You're only ever who you were, as hard as you hit your head against the wall." Is that you both?

     

    DVT: "Yeah. When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don't know why."

     

    Do men hit on you all the time? Or are they too scared?

     

    DVT: "People say: 'Oh, you're too intimidating, everyone's afraid to ask you out on a date.' Which is unfortunate because I'm pretty shy."

     

    Do people assume you're having incredible sex all the time?

     

    DVT: "That's part of the problem, people assuming that. Just because I'm wearing this, it doesn't mean I'm about to ...

     

    ... have a wild encounter with a stranger?

     

    DVT: "Right. [Laughs]. After this I'm going back to my hotel room to work on my show."

     

    Mika: "I was such a big fan of your act. I first heard about you through Marilyn Manson – another good example of theatricality."

     

    DVT: "We [Manson and Von Teese] were cut from the same cloth. We both changed our entire identity, coloured our hair black, did our own makeup and came up with our own outfits – that's why it worked so well. We could relate to each other in a very profound way."

     

    Our fascination with your married life propelled you into the super-league. Was that a bonus or a hindrance?

     

    DVT: "It was both. We were very much in love, which people seem to forget. I didn't really think much about what it could do for my career. I was just so happy being 'his girl'. It wasn't always easy, though. I got death threats! It was intense."

     

    Did you ever sit at home with Manson and laugh at what we must have imagined you doing, all those epic feats of satanic bacchanal?

     

    DVT: "I can't say we ever sat around pondering what people thought of us, no. We were pretty outrageous [laughs]. If you opened up the doors it would have been exactly what you'd imagine. It was never mundane."

     

    Are you, Dita – nee Heather Renee Sweet – and Mika – born Mika Michael Holbrook Penniman, similar in that you've both created alter egos?

     

    DVT: "I don't feel I have an alter ego."

     

    Mika: "I've always been this way. I've just had to work quite hard to stay like this."

     

    On your new album, you've said that you wanted to reveal yourself more ...

     

    Mika: "I wanted to strip away my complexes. Musically, though, it's not stripped away at all. I tried to make something quite ambitious, that comes from that golden pop tradition of Fleetwood Mac and the Bee Gees, where melody was at the forefront. Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!"

     

    Are you both subversive presences in the culture?

     

    Mika: "Do you think I am? I never try to analyse **** like that, otherwise I wouldn't be able to write another song. I know I'm still argued over – the verdict's still out on me and I hope that it will be till the day I die."

     

    Are you amazed that in 2012 people are still fascinated by someone's sexuality?

     

    Mika: "It's funny. You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life."

     

    You recently came out, didn't you?

     

    Mika: "I did, because I was happy."

     

    Has it made a difference?

     

    Mika: "No, because the question still comes up in every ****ing interview! Only now it's like: 'What are gay stereotypes?' 'Are you a gay stereotype?' It has not ended."

     

    Did you feel bullied into coming out?

     

    Mika: "No, because I have been bullied and I know what it feels like. You're being kicked in the stomach, you want to vomit – that's bullying."

     

    Are you both taboo-busters?

     

    Mika: "I don't really know what 'taboo' is so that probably means yes."

     

    DVT: "We're both sharp dressers."

     

    Mika: "We have quite a lot of fun getting drunk together."

     

    Would you be the perfect couple, if things were different?

     

    DVT: "He's, like, my ideal man."

     

    Mika: "Oh my god, really? That's awesome."

     

    DVT: "I like your haircut, the way you dress – you're my fantasy man."

     

    Is Dita your ideal woman?

     

    Mika: "I don't know how to answer that because I can't – she's, like, my ideal sister."

    Mika Talks Why He Came Out, Looking 'Ridiculous' In His Underwear & Being a Big Kid

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    After years of speculation, Mika has finally confirmed it: He's gay. Totally queer. One-hundred percent into men.

     

    Now, moving on: The British performer's third album, "The Origin of Love" (out Oct. 16), is Mika's most self-reflective work, from opening up about his sexuality to the ebb and flow of love and even the bullies that he fended off as a kid. He even looks more GQ than Toys R Us kid these days.

     

    Mika caught up with us to chat about whether he's over talking about being gay (he's not), his female alter egos and how tight jeans help with the high notes.

     

    So, you're gay. Are you sick of talking about that yet?

     

    (Laughs) The question before was, "Are you gay?" Now the question everywhere I go is, "What's it like being a 29-year-old who's gay?" It never irritated me, and it's never something that has bothered me, so I'm not sick of it. It's not essential to understanding my music, but I guess if you want to understand me as a real person - as a person with facets and different angles - then it is important. So no, I'm all right with it, and I'm still answering those questions. It certainly didn't make them go away. If anything it's becoming even more a theme for conversation in interviews.

     

    How do you respond to people when they ask you what it's like to be gay?

     

    I'm like, "What do you want me to say to that?" There are so many inappropriate things I could answer back. (Laughs) I'm like, "It's not a color of a jacket that I chose that day." It's how I've always been programmed. It's my brain. It's part of who I am. I don't really know how to answer that. I'm like, "Well, what's it like for you to have brown hair?"

     

    Do you think the public is too concerned about celebrities' personal lives?

     

    I don't know if the public is too concerned. I think that at the end of the day, let's face it, it's a choice; anyone who says that every celebrity or public person doesn't have a choice is insane. For many years I always said I'm not hiding my sexuality; it's innately a part of what I do and what I've always done in my music, but whether I label myself or not, that is my personal choice and I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I did frustrate people and have to deal with the consequences of those choices, just like I have to deal with the consequences of labeling myself at this point in time. But the reason I was comfortable to label myself is because it was a decision I made on my own. I did it from a position of joy and confidence, and I felt like it was the right time. There was nothing negative, or no pressure, associated with the process or act of labeling myself as gay.

    For years, you were considered bisexual after you were misquoted, as you've said, in a Netherlands magazine. Why didn't you ever come forward and clear that up?

     

    What am I supposed to say: "No, I'm not bisexual"? If I'm gonna talk about, I'll leave it until I talk about my sexuality in an open, confident and unpressured way. Again, I made that decision, that right to take time and do things at my own pace. And I was like, "When I deal with this, I'll deal with this properly. There's no point dealing with something in a small way; when I do it, I have to do it in a positive way."

     

    It's not a negative thing. Whatever it is, it's not negative. If you zoom out and look at it with perspective, there's no part of this that's negative, because it's a developing story. I'm 29 and I'm probably going to be a different person when I'm 33, so maybe we'll be having a conversation then about sexuality or the politics of sexuality, and I may have completely different things to say about it. But all I know is that I'm happy and totally comfortable with my sexuality, and I can talk about it and say I'm not the 13-year-old who was looking at himself in the mirror and thinking, "How the hell am I gonna shake this sense of fear or pressure that I feel? Is there a way out?"

     

    So when I did the interview with Instinct recently, quite honestly I was a little nervous - but I wasn't fearful. That's why I knew it was the right thing to do. I said to myself, "Talk as if you're talking to this 13-year-old who doesn't know how to get out of how he's feeling right now."

     

    You're 29? You seem so much younger.

     

    There is a naive childishness to my music. Even with this new record, which is definitely an evolution, it is more mature, but it's still got this sense of mischief. There is that sense of youth. It's essential to always be able to look at stuff in life in awe; if you know you can be in awe, or be awed by something, you know that you're alive. I guess people can sometimes misunderstand that for childishness, because often it's children who stand there with their mouth open, but I guess I'm very comfortable standing there looking at things with my mouth open ... being in awe. (Laughs) If an extremely beautiful person is walking down the street, I'll just stand there and stare and they'll think I'm the biggest psycho in the world.

     

    I also can't say I know many adults who dance around their bedroom in just underwear.

     

    (Laughs) And on the one hand, I'm fully aware that in that video (for "We Are Golden"), there are moments of it where I look ridiculous, like in a bad way, and there are moments where I look great. It's the combination of those two things that I'm fine with. I quite like it.

     

    You don't mind looking a little ridiculous?

     

    Sometimes. As long as you can look hot a minute later. (Laughs)

     

    You sampled a "Wicked" tune for your song "Popular" off the new album - a song that's directed toward bullies. Can you explain the process of writing that?

     

    I wrote it with a friend of mine called Priscilla Renea; she's becoming really well-known for writing a lot of urban and hip-hop stuff. She's actually the one singing on it with me. We were sitting there and I was like, "Do you know that melody from the "Wicked" song 'Popular'?" And she completely geeked out and I burst out laughing. I was like, "Listen to you. You walk around in your three-inch-long fake nails and you write raps and hooks on hardcore rap songs. Does anyone know you like "Wicked"?" And we laughed about it.

     

    She was tortured in school. She was made to feel like **** every day. And we were laughing how the people who write pop songs are often the least popular growing up. It's that bizarre thing: You end up writing something that is innately popular or designed to be popular. So it started off like that. We wrote it as a conversation. I would say some things and she would answer back. I guess we were both thinking of that horrible feeling you get when you walk across the schoolyard. Bizarrely, I still feel that sometimes when I'm put in certain situations - that schoolyard mentality comes right back.

     

    Isn't it weird? I can feel threatened sometimes, but when I'm onstage - no matter who I'm singing in front of - I feel like that's my boxing ring and I have nothing to fear, and everything to say. I guess that's where I found my outlet.

     

    So, Elphaba or Glinda?

     

    Elphaba is too soppy. I don't feel sorry for her and her greenness. Like, she's green - tough ****, get over it. (Laughs) I actually do find her really irritating. Gotta be honest. And when she sings "Defying Gravity" I'm like, "OK, big deal."

     

    What's the highest note you can sing?

     

    It depends on the day and other various factors: altitude and whether I drank the night before. And it depends on the tightness of my jeans.

     

    The tighter the better, right?

     

    The tighter the better. Always.

     

    Is the namesake on the song "Emily" an alter ego of yours?

     

    It actually kind of is. I have various pen names, because I write for other people and sometimes it's easier when no one knows who's written or co-written the song. So I have this little fleet of girls' first names that I write under. One of them got discovered and it's out, but I've got a few others that are still nice and safe.

    How does your boyfriend play into "The Origin of Love"?

     

    On the record you can hear a horrific breakup, you can hear me questioning myself and going on dates with other people, and then you can hear me finally finding love in the person who I was originally with - you see this transition through the record. I think for him, it's a record with a happy ending - well, for both of us - but it's definitely something that I think he sees a lot of truth in. As funny as it may seem, and as flippant and ironic as it may come across, "Love You When I'm Drunk" was written completely from truth.

     

    There's no question that a lot of your songs have radio potential, but they're often overlooked by American radio. Do you think that has anything to do with you being gay or your songs being flamboyant?

     

    I was accidentally copied on an email a couple of years ago, and it was from a person at radio saying that they wouldn't play "Love Today" because it sounded like a guy who was singing in the range of a girl. I immediately assumed this had to do with sexuality or identity and I got really angry, and then I just was like, "You know what, it's not; that's just an excuse. It cannot be a reason." I may just be naive, but I don't know - it cannot be the reason. Maybe I'm jut being a dick and I should take a reality pill, but if I took that reality pill then maybe I wouldn't have made this last record, and I think that would've been a shame.

     

    With that said, I wanted to tour America again and (the label) was like, "Let's do three shows and see how it goes." So we put the three shows on sale and they sold out in 52 seconds - all three shows sold out in 52 seconds! I can sell shows in America when I haven't been there in four years and I haven't had a single played on radio. I can keep on building my niche and my fans are faithful and I don't have to compromise any part of myself or my writing. If that's the case, then I'll keep going.

     

    http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=56048

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    So many Mika news these days and I miss a lot of them, but I don't think this was posted. If I'm wrong, please close this thread :blush-anim-cl:

    Your rating of the new songs on OOL

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

    Posted

    Oh, this is for me.. I like numbers! :teehee:

     

    Songs of the standard edition

     

    Origin Of Love: 7

    Lola: 9

    Stardust: 10

    Make You Happy (Miami Edit / with strings): 8

    Underwater: 9

    Overrated: 7

    Kids: 7

    Love You When I’m Drunk: 9

    Step With Me: 10

    Popular Song: 10

    Emily: 6

    Heroes: 8

    Celebrate: 5

     

    Bonus tracks

     

    Elle Me Dit: 6

    Karen: 7

    L’Amour Dans Le Mauvais Temps: 5

    Un Soleil Mal Luné: 6

    Celebrate (acoustic): 8

    Origin of Love (acoustic): 9

    Kids (acoustic): 8

    Love You When I'm Drunk (acoustic): 9

    Overrated (acoustic): 9

    Make You Happy (LA Edit / shortfilm-version): 8

    Tah Dah: 10

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