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    How do you feel right now? part 4

    in General Chin Wagging

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    I feel a bit drunk right now.  

    I've been dealing with so much lately. My mom, (who is elderly and disabled, I'm her caretaker) has been in and out of the hospital and I'm worried about her health.  And I'm having vision problems, I have retinopathy and the treatment is medicine injected in the eye, which is pretty much my worst nightmare come to life. I have to do it again next week. One of my cats died last autumn and I'm still not over it.  I've lost touch with most of my friends, and those who are left are so busy so I don't even really have anybody I can moan to... hence this post. Sorry to dump this on you all, who don't really know me... I just needed to talk I guess

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    Ice Cream

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

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    I wonder if there will be more than one version. Specifically, I mean, I can't see a song referencing 39 degrees as hot achieving any kind of success in the US. :wink2:  Or maybe he's given up on us.

    Regardless, I love what I've heard so far. I also thought of Prince, whom I'm a huge fan of.

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    Mikas music on TV/film.

    in Chat about Mika

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    I'm not sure if this counts, because they didn't actually play any of his music, but today on Eastenders they mentioned Mika... in fact, it appears that one of the characters has named their baby after him!  :shocked: :biggrin2:

    Kim was discussing baby names, and because her other kid is named Pearl, she wanted a rock name. She said she considered Mica, but that it sounded like Mika, so she said she played Big Girl and it made the baby smile for the first time. So the baby is named Mika. 

     

    Here's a youtube upload of the episode, the conversation is from 20:35 to 21:42

     

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    2007 - Mika On 'What Perez Sez On vh1!!!!

    in Mika News and Press

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    21 hours ago, tessi said:

    Hello fellow fans! I'm sorry for digging this up but does anyone happen to still have this episode (I like other artists featured too) .. cant find it anywhere! also scanned the forum but didn't see it reposted or talked about any later

     

    much love

     

    Here is Mika's segment, but I can't help with the rest.

     

     

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    Mika in US Press - 2017 / 2018

    in Mika News and Press

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    4 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

    Billboard

     

    Pop Shop Podcast:

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    'Greatest Showman' Producer Greg Wells Talks Mega-Hit Soundtrack, Plus Working With Adele, Katy Perry & More

     

    7/10/2018

    https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/podcasts/8464884/pop-shop-podcast-greatest-showman-soundtrack-greg-wells-interview?

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    On our latest episode, we’ve got a special in-depth interview with songwriter-producer Greg Wells!

    Wells is a two-time Grammy Award nominee and one of the producers of the runaway smash soundtrack to The Greatest Showman. Wells has also worked with an array of A-listers and Billboard chart-toppers, including Adele, Katy Perry, Keith Urban, Dua Lipa, Twenty One Pilots and many more.

     

    In the chat, Wells says he got involved with The Greatest Showman when the film’s director, Michael Gracey, called him up and said, “Greg, I feel like what you do musically has one foot rooted in the classics, but also contemporary without being gimmicky.” Ultimately, Wells ended up producing six of the tracks on the soundtrack album, including the surprise hit “This Is Me,” performed by Keala Settle. That fruitful collaboration led to Wells and Settle working together on Settle’s debut EP, Chapter One, and they are currently at work on Settle’s next album project.

    “Once I got over the initial intimidation,” Wells says of the Showman project, “…and my insecure voice saying, 'You've never worked on a movie before and you don't know what you're doing,' I just realized that it's kind of no different from what I do every day. It's just storytelling, but there's a visual component. And it was great, because Michael's visuals were so good."

     

     

    at 14:30, Greg talks about Tommy Mottola ( the co-owner  of Casablanca Records ) phone call and Mika.

     

     

     

    I've transcribed the bit where he's talking about Mika, in case anyone can't listen to it...

     

    Greg Wells: So he called and he said, "I heard what you did on Lindsay's record, and you know, sorry it didn't go, " we didn't sell very many copies. "I heard what you did on it, and you know, I've signed this kid named Mika, out of London, I think you'd be the right fit for him." Like, ok, I just got this buzzy feeling, well that's interesting. Anyway I wound up becoming Mika's record producer. And he had a song on his debut album called Grace Kelly that just sort of took over most of the world. 

     

    PopShop: I mean it was a huge hit in Europe and the UK, and it was a moderate hit in America, as well.

     

    Greg Wells: He was too gay for American radio. In fact, the  head of Clear Channel at the time told Mika's mother "we love this song, we can't play a song with a man singing in falsetto saying he wants to be like a woman. We just can't get behind it." Today might be different, I would like to think it would be. But she was literally told that. I mean, I didn't see that guy say it to her, but she told me that story.

     

    PopShop: This is what you've heard second hand.

     

    Greg Wells: From her! From his mom.

     

    PopShop: Just saying, in case anyone's listening and they're going to suddenly blow that out, and like this is what you were told.

     

    Greg Wells: It's what I was told, yeah. And uh, you know, that came out in the UK and it shot to number one and it sat there for seven weeks at number one. We couldn't believe it was happening. We sold almost six million records, wound up selling, I don't know, eight or ten million records, I think. It changed my life, it changed my, that was the record that changed my life. 

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