"It feels disapponting and meagre. As if someone hasn't had the time to think every thought completely. Or at least as if a few lorries filled with decorations, apparatus and accessories got lost on the way. Because when Mika, the curly-haired singer that during more formal occasions goes under the name Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr comes to town it should - no matter what you think about his often nerve-racking songs - be like being locked in in a candy shop where the 27-year old singer is running around as the (sockerchockade?) salesman.
Instead we're being served a semi-finished show without a red thread. Why would you bring along a giant inflatable womans' leg - much like the one that Elton John unfolded the last time he visited Globen - when it only shows for a minute during Big girl (you are beautiful)?
And why doesn't the glittery umbrella Mika carries around turn into a Mary Poppins-object that brings him up in the air? Mika has always nourished the theatrical part of his persona, so why does he settle for so little? He should transform the evening into an Andrew Lloyd-Webber-performance in his own honour.
Now it is instead as if they only managed to unpack half of the escapades. It's time to go on after the concert any way.
The Beirut-born Londoner has the shape of a jumping jack that either moves across the stage with giant steps or sits at the piano with trembling jazzhands. It is best when Mika puts on the party pants, pulls up his voice to falsetto and puts on a feather coat that looks like the looted Easter decorations of grade 6.
Everything is finished with a Flaming Lips-party with confetti, serpentines and kingsize balloons but the impression is still that this is a night on part-time (?) for Mika. The crowd is energetic, jumping and dancing. They are in on every chord, all it takes is for the mainman to be bothered to put them out."
Feel free to correct! I couldn't find any english word for "sockerchock", but it's when you have eaten too much sugar.
I thought this review was very interesting; It's the very first time I heard anyone say that Mika's show was too simple