Poisonyoulove

Musically, parts of it remind me very much of something else, I think Hurts?  It's pretty.

It's conventional and repetitive enough to be a huge mainstream hit.

All I can think is ... background music at a party I don't want to be at.  

I haven't been around much the past year ("real life" has been  torturing me so hard) but I was having a look around and found a thread saying the fandom should be more child-friendly...

and it reminded me how much I loved these sexy threads!  I'm so glad they're still going strong. I love you all! 

Here's mine this year, lots of butterflies, birds, and crocheted flowers. (the place with the yellow flowers? my livingroom)

Youth and Love is featured at the beginning of today's episode of Hollyoaks.

About 1:05 into this video 

38 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

 

He uploaded and deleted some stuff several times this afternoon... at some point I saw a pic of him lying on the stage floor, with red light, and he wrote something about red and warmth. Dunno why he deleted that. I only saw it quickly, before RL caught my attention again.

Tweetdeck only deletes a tweet if you reload, so I can still see it...

"Red, how warm you make me feel... David Vacher / DV Photo"

25 minutes ago, Dominika said:

In parts of Europe.... but the rest of the world has to wait until NEXT WEEK? WTF is this nonsense?  The world is so connected, why do this? 

Yeah, he better never try to convince us he gives a damn about anywhere other than Italy and France ever again.  

20 hours ago, ellie said:

 

I could probably warm up to this song if I knew its about drag queens

That's the only thing that would make the lyrics make any sense! A girl dancing around in her best dress is about the girly-est thing possible, so the whiplash of turning around and saying it doesn't make her less of a girl? It hurts!

7 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

MIKA The new album by the Anglo-Lebanese artist

 

"The obsession saved me"

 

The obsession that becomes passion, or the passion that turns into obsession, is his salvation; the strength comes from dominating that same mix, from relativizing the presumed and real weaknesses, from overcoming a form of dyslexia, marginalization from school through the fault of a careless teacher, bullying, an absent father of whom she also refuses the surname, a tough mother who is now very ill; discovering homosexuality at 13 ("and I said to myself: either I can become a huge success or I died"), and a whole series of other prejudices, follies, stumbling.

 

THE INTERVIEW

MIKA Returns with an album, "My Name Is Michael Holbrook", and a tour "to face the past"

 

"Sadness is a drug and obsession has saved me"

 

»ALESSANDRO FERRUCCI

The obsession that becomes passion, or the passion that turns into obsession, is his salvation; the strength comes from dominating that same mix, from relativizing the presumed and real weak points, from overcoming a form of dyslexia, the marginalization from school due to the carelessness of a teacher, bullying, an absent father whose father refuses his surname , a tough mother who is now very ill; discovering homosexuality at 13 ("and I said to myself: either I can become a huge success or I died"), and a whole series of other prejudices, follies, stumbling. Today he is Mika, 36 years old, a true international star of music and television, he speaks countless languages, reflects on every syllable, deepens every sigh of life, does not intend to cry, and between him and the world does not make excuses for not succeed in goals. ("This is why my last album is called My Name Is Michael Holbrook: I had to face my past, starting from the name").

 

Is obsession the key to success?

First we decline what success is, because today it is measured only with money, and I find it wrong.

 

Let's change: is obsession the key to achieving the goal?

It is so, and it is important: it can also be born as a reaction to a hardship, so much so as to make your existence more livable.

 

Are you?

When you feel yourself ousted from the daily narration or from the general context, to find your habitat you can become obsessive, and at that point the problem passes to your family and how it manages to approach you.

 

Does it tip to perfection?

I try to be excellent at least in my language, and despite my limitations.

 

What limits?

I play the piano badly and I have a particular voice that doesn't allow me excessive variations: I can't touch the blues strings, also because I come from a lyric background.

 

His voice characterizes her.

It is not so: I am aware of the limits and I have to work to overcome them, to become excellent, not exceptional. (It is lunch time and the dishes that arrive at the table do not fully convince him).

 

Everything good?

In France there is a solid action "against decorative vegetables". And it's not stupid, because food is wasted.

 

She is of Lebanese descent, as one of the most celebrated cuisines in the world.

Perhaps the best: full of color, savory, refined but at home, it has the echo of the Phoenicians, the Syrian and Mediterranean culture; some of today's dishes were cooked in ancient Rome.

 

She cooks?

Very much: in life I dedicate myself to cooking, to music and to drawing; since I was sixteen, if I go into a restaurant, the first thing I ask is to visit the kitchens: if a chef refuses he means he has something to hide.

 

What's up with Italian cuisine?

I have Fabio Picchi (Del Cibreo from Florence) who sends me the instructions via text message, and sometimes they take challenges: we cook in parallel, and in the end we check who was the best.

 

It's his outlet valve.

Anyone who knows me escapes as soon as I stand at the stove: in the kitchen I become horrible, a despot, a real asshole.

 

Luca Barbarossa, at the restaurant, sends back dishes that do not convince him.

Even my grandmother, but before protesting with the waiter ate almost everything, left just a couple of bites, then raised her hand and pretended not to pay; I was ashamed, but she always won.

 

Let's go back to music: what did you think when you witnessed the performances of the XFactor boys?

There you often find yourself in front of singers who are not aware of their technical knowledge, they do not even know what is the necessary effort to improve: for years you have to study at least four hours a day, every day. For many years, I repeat.

 

Like at the university.

Yes, but in those kids, I too often see the desire to become a celebrity rather than the pleasure of discovering the "provocation of beautiful beauty". Only with the latter does one feel full of life and emotions, not with fame, which is often intoxicating.

 

Riccardo Cocciante says: "Popularity can alter the authenticity of a composition".

Absolutely, and this problem occurs in my intimate life, when I sit at the piano to compose: there celebrity contamination can alter, while it must never be created to please the public; It is essential to enter a trance condition, just like in the best moments of the concerts.

 

In trance...

Yes, and there every gesture has a sense and a rhythm, one dances with its own soul and reaches its maximum impact.

 

It is a pleasure?

Yes and no: it's such a different reality to be estranged, it's as if it didn't really happen; one only realizes it at the end, and with writing it happens the same, something transcendental happens.

 

When is he back on earth?

You feel like a superhero, a dopamine addict, more tolerant and free.

 

Do you combine talent with your profession?

For me it's a job, and since I was eight. What did it sound? Strauss, Mozart, Benjamin Britten and Schubert. They paid me. And it was a salvation because I stopped going to school.

 

How come no school?

For problems with a teacher: he had not understood my dyslexia and I had become his daily outlet, until my mother said enough, and he took me to piano lessons. Four months later I already had my first engagement.

 

Did he weigh them?

I was proud to make money, even if the money all ended up for my mother.

 

With the other children?

I lived a double reality: when I started attending school again, in the morning I was treated like a fool, while in the afternoon, while the others played soccer, I worked with

the adults.

 

Sbalestrante?

No, great, it was just music, no popularity restrictions.

 

Have you ever played a football?

Only once and with my father: a disaster, he was poisoned by my incapacity, and the game turned into a week-long quarrel; still today they do not lose it due to its aggressiveness.

 

The past generations of artists were also famous for the use of drugs.

The new ones seem less ...

In reality they just hide it: there are drugs, only they no longer represent a banner of freedom, and thank god.

 

Do you have tattoos?

Not even one. In everyday life I almost always wear a white shirt, or very simple clothes, I need it; the stage is another situation.

 

Double track.

The advantage of this work is that we have found a key to growing well, but each of us needs a counterpoint, and mine was the negativity associated with my father.

 

So ...

In some cases I have bound my choices to the idea of distancing myself from the image I had of him; for this I hated his last name, I wanted to dig in it.

 

He didn't even take his mother's.

With her, the relationship has always been very hard and tender, so I'm happy to call me Mika.

 

His happy thought?

I also have an obsession with theaters: I collect their models; my dream is to own one, maybe with a restaurant inside. (Reflects a few seconds) Next is Greece.

 

In which way?

There is an island that I often frequent now, a place celebrated as a reserve of communists: the first time I happened by chance, aboard a yacht flying the Turkish flag; for them the maximum of provocation, almost a perversion.

 

Communists, how?

To react to the crisis the port, the hospital and the services are managed by the community.

 

I mean, get there, and ...

They didn't even want us to moor, they started insulting us, I heard a chorus of al m ak a (asshole), and I found it wonderful, so much to stay there a week, with the suffering Turks.

 

The name of the only one?

I prefer not to say it, because I rented a house there; every morning when I got up I found one from the village sitting in the kitchen waiting for me for coffee; their stories, their secrets, have inspired me so much to go back to writing.

 

Did they participate in their daily lives?

Also to pagan rites (laughs and laughs) then one wanted to kill me.

 

Are you?

He chased me for a long time with a knife in his hand; luckily a lady hid me in the living room.

 

Why?

This madman, a bit oblivious, was convinced I wanted him to steal his girlfriend; but it was not true, this option never existed, it was she who misunderstood.

 

Didn't they know he's gay?

But they don't even know who they are; ah, one evening, for a ritual, they dressed me like a goat, and I had to dance wearing 42 pounds of clothes: at a certain point I ran away because I felt like throwing up, and some found me on the ground.

 

What did he say to the disputed girl?

Maybe just "thanks, but at most I offer you a beer".

 

Do you often meet seductive women?

Fortunately, no, I'm embarrassed.

 

Some time ago he declared: "Social media is shit".

And my record company got sick; (sor - laughs) Perhaps today I have understood its importance: they are important for communicating with the public and the media.

 

Do you feel an adult?

Now yes, otherwise at 36 I should end up in a psychiatric hospital.

 

What is the passage?

When you realize you can be alone.

 

Translated

If you are able to survive all the people you love, to all the certainties of your social status, and remain the same person, then you are an adult.

 

His current period is not simple.

I would say sad, but sadness is like a drug: it has an intoxicating effect.

 

It runs away from reality.

The challenge in becoming an adult is not to lose the previous spirit and not to harden. Strong yes, not hard.

 

Cries?

Little, but when it happens "they are cabbages".

 

Ride?

A lot.

 

Really?

Often.

 

Between hatred and indifference?

Whoever hates also knows how to love, but in this capitalist reality they want us to be sedated, afraid, polarized, so we are more manageable and manipulable. This is also the culture of television series.

 

What do they have to do with it?

We remain alone for hours watching TV, we seem to be lobotomized: at the end, they place fascinating and realized protagonists who drink alcohol; there you see the real strength of the lobbies.

 

They often compared her to Freddie Mercury.

Today it is less, but there are points in common: we both come from lyric music, and both of us on stage unite virility and femininity.

 

Have you ever analyzed your IQ?

In all tests I have always been a disaster.

 

What tests?

For dyslexia, so much so that as a boy I got state support.

 

Is there a book or a movie in which you see yourself?

I found part of my adolescence in Chiamami col tuo nome de Guadagnino; then for years I have been obsessed with the writing of Hunter Stockton Thompson, as for Fear and delirium in Las Vegas, and I love Bertolt Brecht so much.

 

With respect to his career, Fedez revealed: "I am afraid of disappearing suddenly, so I prepare myself".

Not me: even if the commercial success decreases, my ideas, my emotions, the beauty that I try to provoke and also the bad moments that I lived and to which I survived have not disappeared. The art remains.

 

 

With the Chrome browser, I will have translated it ... I'll try quoting it, hopefully it quotes the translated version!

Edit: I noticed when it quoted it left some bits out, so I just copy / pasted the translated text myself

Edit again, I think I've got it all now!

Edit 3 I GIVE UP!!!! it keeps changing sentences after I hit post! 

I believe the story about the Greek island, 

You can't see his face at all in these videos, I can't connect to them.

1 hour ago, Starlight said:

I honestly also don't understand why some don't like this song or his voice in the song. I actually quite like it. It's so beautiful and touching. It gives me a lot of feelings at the same time.

I tend to not really like the really slow songs, but also, most of the lyrics don't really make sense to me... blue is a feminine color, don't trust rainbows... wtf are you on about?

5 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

Rai1 :

Domenica in St 2019/20 - Puntata del 13/10/2019

https://www.raiplay.it/raiplay/video/2019/10/domenica-in-a556b038-b8c7-4b4e-b35b-9cef29279b08.html

 

 

 

That looks like it could be Westminster Abbey behind them,and it looks like he's holding a diploma in his hand, so I'd guess this is 2002?  I've heard schools in the UK don't really have graduation ceremonies like we do (in the USA) so I may be reading too much into this photo. 

7 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

 

 

Et de la sensualité ?

Pour moi, un adulte qui n’a pas de sensualité dans sa vie manque d’âme. Et une chanson sans sensualité manque aussi d’âme.

 

 

 

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And sensuality?

For me, an adult who has no sensuality in his life lacks soul. And a song without sensuality also lacks soul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"an adult who has no sensuality in his life lacks soul. "

WT actual F?  I guess I'm not a human being to him?     But at least I know who I am.

A list:  Tomorrow, Tiny Love

B list: San Remo, Stay High (chorus), Ice Cream, Dear Jealousy, Cry, I Went to Hell Last Night, Paloma (it's beautiful, and I appreciate it, but it's too emotional for me to listen to)

C list: Stay High (non-chorus), Platform Ballerinas, Tiny Love Reprise, Ready to Call This Love, Blue

I find Cry kind of calming and chill. Someone in the youtube comments compared it to vaporwave, which made me think about it in a different way, and appreciate it a little more.  The issue with vaporwave, though, is I appreciate the creativity, but only listen to it as chill out background music, not as songs I specifically want to listen to. So I'm not sure that's a compliment? 

29 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

I also stumbled across this sentence... but I guess what he means is that we all change throughout our lives, so if you know yourself for the moment, it does not mean you still will after a, well, life-changing event like the death of someone you love. Of course, some adjust quicker to such things than others - but there's always challenges in life that make you learn new things, also about yourself. Do you really know how exactly you would react to any given situation, especially extreme situations that you didn't ask for but that just happen? I certainly don't, although I'm pretty sure I'm strong enough it wouldn't break me, but I'm sure it would change me in some way.

Maybe I just over-analyze my thoughts too much, I'm very seldom surprised by my reactions or feelings. And I have lost close family members and had traumatic health issues in recent years... maybe I'm surprised by how much I've been able to endure, but I wouldn't classify that as not knowing myself. 

Hmm, an instance where it would have been better (for me) of he hadn't explained it, because I was liking it a bit thinking it could be about a suicide attempt.  Although the "god" stuff rubs me the wrong way, even if he just means it metaphorically as light or hope, because it's just not true. Also, I wish it didn't sound exactly like A Day in the Life by the Beatles... I keep hearing in my head... "the saddest thing I've ever seen... he blew his mind out in a car, he didn't notice ..."

1 hour ago, Martyna said:

We don’t really know who we are, and anyone who says, “I know who I am” … you’re never gonna ####ing know really who you are. 

 

WTF?? I know who I am. I've never ever had any question. He needs to stop assuming different people share his experiences. 😒

29 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

 He didn't do this album to please.

 

 

Does that mean I don't have to feel sick with guilt over how much I hate it?

I don't understand this song... are there people who say a real girl doesn't dance and mess up her hair? This makes no sense to me.

17 minutes ago, BiaIchihara said:

Can someone transcript what's said on the intro and ending of the video???

Tonight we're putting homosexuality under a microscope, and the danger they represent to society. Our experts include a psychiatrist and a police official. But first, let's hear a homosexual, your name please.

Fredrico Aldorandi.

Your occupation?

Architect.

Are you a homosexual?

Yes.

Does your family know this?

It's been secret.

Are they likely to discover your homosexuality?

It's unavoidable, I'm certain my career will suffer.

Well, why speak now?

I can no longer hide it, and I hope I can give courage to others.

I'm told that outside is a demonstration by a group of homosexuals. The policy of this administration is that we do not knowingly hire homosexuals, and if we find homosexuals in our administration we terminate their employment without delay.

On 9/28/2019 at 5:47 PM, MatanBenYosef224 said:

Wait, What?

Someone wrote on the youtube music video that Mika wrote "Tiny Love" for his cat:

 

"Love that he wrote this for his cat. ❤️ He is clearly playing a cat in this video. Hence his size, being on her lap when she’s trying to play piano, getting pets behind his ears, etc. As a cat lover, it jumped out to me instantly." 

 

Does Mika has a cat? (I Know he has two dogs but a cat? I'm not sure about that) I Mean, that's, you know, maybe a kind of interpretation of the song/video clip, I Just asking myself how much can it be (I Mean if Mika has dogs it can be about his dogs...) But I Guess everyone has it's on interpretation of the video, I Prefer the one that says this song is about Michael / Mika.

 

BTW, Everyday I'm falling in love with the song & video clip more. It's pure art.

 

I still don't believe he actually has a cat (the image in that video is a stock image of a cat)... but this is my new favorite interpretation! 

On 9/14/2019 at 5:03 PM, Poisonyoulove said:

 

Lying here together
stretching and ?
i played your game to have this
but this is a mess worth fighting for

 

Hearing more recordings, and listening hard, I now think this line is "I know you're getting nervous"