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  1. Even though I don't like Eurovision as much as I did when I was a child (as I think it's so cheesy), I still hope that this is true. I understand why some may think it will ruin his career- but just look at Jade Ewen who represented us before. She became a member of the Sugababes sortly after, and she was a nobody before. I feel that this will be perfect promotion, and with Mika the UK has a good chance of winning- because of the success with Elle Me Dit and around Europe. It would be amazing promotion for his album and singles too.

  2. Well...

     

    We both.. have brown hair

    We both.. have big greenish brown eyes

    We both.. had long-ish hair and then cut it all off MWAHAHAHA, and now trying to grow it back :aah:

    We both.. speak french

    We both.. love to draw

    We both.. play piano

    We both.. got bullied at school

    We both.. have a dog of the same breed

    We both.. HATE MARMITE!!!!

    We both.. TRY to dance (sorry Mika but it's true :naughty:)

    We both.. have OCD

  3. In the November Isssue of Q Magazine, they have reviewed TOOL, but I have not seen it on their online website yet.

     

    Jazz-Hands Free!

    Meet the new- less irritating- Mika.

     

    Poor Mika, pilloried for the worst sin you can commit in the British Isles: having too much fun in public. The primary colours, soft shoe Bojangles-on-poppers singalongs and guileless emotionalism of his debut, 2007's Life In Cartoon Motion, helped shift 5.6 million copies and made him that year's chief dispenser of good times. They also got him tagged as the most irritating man in pop. If the album had been released 30 years before it would probably have been waved through on the Guilty Pleasures exemption. Album number three arrives with Michael Penniman freshly out as gay (who knew?) and somewhat flintier of heart. Love is overrated in this goddamn world, apparently, and popularity isn't all it's cracked up to be either. The bustling, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink arrangements are still in place- think a school orchestra plus Fairlights going nuts on a parade float- but Mika's falsetto has gone the way of innocence too. Tweenees is not entirely absent ("Save me from your theories/At the very least let me cry on you", he sings wetly on Make You Happy) but there's a few good gags too, not least one about being dunked in the school toilets for being a weed. Feisty electronics from Nick "Pnau" Littlemore and bump'n'grind DJ Benny Benassi now augment much sleeker, more economical songs whose astringency sharpens their sweetness. The result is persuasive, likeable grown-up pop without the off-putting jazz-hands factor. Mika could well have earned his next 15 minutes.

     

    Andrew Harrison

     

    4/5 stars

     

    Downloads: Love You When I'm Drunk, Origin Of Love and Make You Happy

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