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I'm listening to this song for the first time- it's great and I can't help but think that it would have been a great album-promoting summer single!

I've pre-ordered the album now anyway along with a half-price MIKA t-shirt! :) Exciting times!

WOOOOOH! He will tour the UK, and dates will be released really soon! YAAAAAY!

He's officially here, and TAY is playing!  

Apparently he hasn't arrived yet- by accident or design I don't know at the moment! :/

t4p! Exciting times- I'll tune in to listen!  

Really nice to see that everyone had a great time! Love the 'vibe' of Good Wife  , but see what everyone means about that suit  . I really want him to tour the UK now!

It took me forever to get to see it (thank you bad internet connection) and I was like: ok, here we go....

Half way through it I went oooo-kay... here we go?

Then I realized that THAT was the short movie.....

It's probably my fault, when I read "short movie" I expected a movie which happens to be short, not a singing pic.

Which was good, I like his performance there, but I wouldn't call it a short movie.....

Haha! I agree, although I like it, as it probably reinforces the song's message and emotions more than something more complicated visually would. It certainly beats the TOOL 'short (porn-ish) films'!

He said it here,during the interview,around 21:10 : http://www.europe1.fr/mediacenter/emissions/sortez-du-cadre/sons/sortez-du-cadre-mika-leila-bekhti-selah-sue-charlize-theron-2419211 .

He said that Freddie is one of his heroes,and that the songs is talking about all the people who died from AIDS,especially back in '80s and '90s.

A revelation indeed! He's backtracked on the earlier 'I don't model myself on Freddie and barely listened to Queen anyway'. Maybe he's more comfortable in himself now to acknowledge the influence, or possibly just the awesomeness of Freddie Mercury!

Just heard the song (probably illegally, cos I want to wait to order the hard copy of the album), and although it's so sad, it made me so happy- especially with the 'happy ending'-style ending! Finally another MIKA song that I actually like!

Yes, the song sounds like it could be about Freddie when he discovered the gay scene with unfortunate mistiming given the HIV/AIDS epidemic. But then again, MIKA has said in the past that he's actually not a particular fan of Mercury or Queen (unlike me!) .

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Looking forward to some of the other songs now!

I'm actually cautiously excited about this album. :mikalove:More than can be said about the last one!

'Talk about you' is cheap and cheerful. It is quite 'Mika' in part, but lacks the originality of his previous work. As for crediting the Italian song, the main similarity is the cheesy and very well-used chord progression.

It's difficult to understand the motive behind releasing a song clearly written to be catchy and sellable, yet doing virtually nothing to promote the single. I have no problem with him being less popular (in England at least), and it should be giving him more artistic freedom, without the pressure to produce something manufactured and simplistic. I don't hear this at all, and in part think this is because Mika is trying to become more mainstream again; but why release a song that will not appeal to fans that nobody else will actually hear?

Oh Mika!

Just listening to it now. So different from his old style, but great nonetheless. Really fresh and summery.

Yes, but it says via Universal not via Barclay -- so perhaps in France in November, but not in US until 2015. That would be ashame, but it would mean that Universal is still planning on releasing it, which we were wondering about elsewhere.

If Mika predicted it'd be released in November 2014, we should be delighted if it really will be released early 2015.

As for the single, it's not actually as awful as I thought it would be, even if the lyrics are about as tasteful as the wrecking ball video! Oh well, it's a catchy and almost reasonable tune.

I've got to admit there's something very mika about the melody in the 1.30 snippet, but that's about the only good thing about it.

But, it's not just about it being released in the UK. The fact is that no one in the UK knows about the song's existence, unless they are clued up with what Mika is doing. Mika isn't appearing on TV here, to promote the song. There is no advertising of the song. I've seen ads where So-and-So's new single will be out whenever, but nothing about Mika.

Also, if the song will be available in English speaking countries, surely they should announce it in English, as well as French. UK will take absolutely no notice of something written in French.

The song could be the best song ever written, but without anyone knowing about it, and no radio play on the big UK Radio stations, it will not be a hit, and Mika really needs a UK hit song.

So I hope it will be advertised, or something. Not only in UK, but other countries too, if its going to be released worldwide.

It's sad really, people still remember Mika in the UK for LICM (everybody found his style so fun and refreshing) , but have no clue that he even released anything after that. I appreciate this isn't entirely Mika's fault, but releasing a French single 5 years after any major hit isn't exactly going to be the best way for him to come back to the British charts . Not that I care about popularity at all, but I think his recent music has been more commercial as a way of appealing to more people, and selling more records. His music no longer seems true to his unique style . The whole X-factor/The Voice saga also back this idea up. He once spoke about his dislike of the talent-show culture, but it seems he wants money and fame more than to be a unique songwriter nowadays.

Becoming an 'overnight success' can't have been easy, and he suffered with 'writing block' after TBWKTM failed to impact on the charts, but surely he didn't think that being a singer was going to be easy or that judging talent shows was the way to solve the problem? Being famous probably changed his initial views on the music industry, and he appears to be slowly becoming like other 'celebrities', but hopefully (optimistically) he'll change his ways before it becomes too late.

It would be amazing to see Mika in concert in the UK again, to hear his songs being played on the radio again, for him to be well-known enough to be in the charts again. But what would be better than anything would be to have some decent new songs released regularly and more frequently (this might help him to become better-known again too), which I'm sure would everybody on here happy

Not that I actually believe any of this will happen, but it'd be nice!

i can't tell if this song is catchy, mikaish & i can't tell if it's intelligent text from that one sentence "toi et moi on fait boum boum boum"

 

to tell you the truth, Doriand's work scares me

I don't think singles tend to be about intelligent text anyway. Then again, I didn't think they were about nude cartoons of the singer either. Lol! You never know with Mika.

For me this penis doesn't look awkward

Then, I can understand that you find it surprising to find it on the cover, I was also a bit surprised, but listening to the snippet, I think it makes sense.

I personnaly like the fact that, the song talking about sex, he chooses not to hide the sexual part of this nacked man.

For me it's not chocking, only surprising, and I love surprises, especially from Mika

 

I'm afraid that if I enter too much into details of what French people like to see, I will get into troubles so I can only say that I am personaly not afraid of such a view are English people closing their eyes when they happen to meet one?

Haha! Oh dear!

Agree about it being mainstream, but not rubbish But for me, mainstream is ok for a summer single, intended to bring new fans from The Voice to his music.

And about obscene, don't you know that Mika, as well as us French people, is obscene?

But maybe for us English people, it's a little surprising to see a naked cartoon man revealing all on the cover for a single. They could have just had him turning away slightly more to avoid the awkward penis (for lack of a better way to phrase it!). Unless that's what you French people like to see...

It's awful! I don't mind French songs, but this is mainstream rubbish, not the Mika we knew. The single looks and maybe sounds a little on the obscene side too...

Normally, this is a hard choice as I like layers as well as simple arrangements. But for TOOL, the normal versions are too electronic and not layered enough to make me prefer the CD versions.

Interesting thread but why are there so many different versions of the TOOL songs? I would prefer him to write new ones than rearrange old ones!

I wouldn't expect the new album to be like the first two... when he presented TOOL he said he was happy to be kind of free of LICM and BWKTM in a creative way, but I'm sure it will be awesome!

I think the first two albums were much more original and provoked stronger love/hate response in people. TOOL was a bit wishy-washy in comparison, maybe more in the arrangements than the songs themselves. In that respect at least, I think quite a few of us want the 4th album to be more like the first two.

Haha! I took exactly the same picture when I saw these in the supermarket!

My thoughts at the moment, in no particular order:

1. Rain

2. Love Today

3. Overrated (demo)

4. Karen

5....need something from the English TOOL... let's go for Stardust

6. We are Golden

7.Stuck in the Middle

8. Happy Ending

9. Blue Eyes

10. Any Other World

Thought this would be easier than the 'favourite song' but it's really not!

Bonjour Philippe! Welcome to the MFC!

What are they all wearing?! His house is really awesome though (aside from the creepy cat and stuffed owl)-it makes me excited about getting my own place (but that could never be in London!).