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Yesterday Mika was on the phone with Jo Whiley just right before going on stage at 'Heaven' in London

thak u for posting the interview !! aww i loved it ! i couldn't understand all of what they said but aww he's so cute !

loved this interview the interviewer was awesome ! she knew it all haha she didn't asked typical questions,i mean, we've seen thousand of interviews were he has to explain all the "gang bang" story .. this time he mentioned gang bang without even been asked for

.. all the iThings are too big for my hands or too expensive. ... i have a smartphone, the smallest one and i didn't buy it, my boyfriend gave it to me when he brought a bigger one

Well... It's pretty random but.. I was just lookin at one Estonia's Radio station's homepage.. =) to check new songs etc.. ANd there is top40.. so.. this is what I found.. He was 10th Last week.. This week he was 8th.. So he's movin up !! =)

 

and Mika is defeating Pitbull again! hehe

See?? You better start taking swimming lessons!

:floor: ahahahhah I will !

He said he would LIKE to do a proper tour and that people should bombard his agent with letters, etc. if they want him to come. And that it would only happen in 2013 (i.e. it's definitely not going to happen in 2012).

 

There could be on-off or festival dates though, he was just talking about a proper tour I believe.

i don't think there are festival dates in southamerica, specially not in my country x.x indeed, there are just a really few festivals. Anyways, it's better for me if there's no tour this year cuz I need to save money for the tickets and for traveling wherever the show is going to be in my coutry

Yay! Finally I bought it at iTunes! It is only because I´m in Spain, being in Ukraine I wouldn´t be able to buy it!

And that´s why it is my first purchase ever at iTunes!

 

I´m Celebrating

I still must figure out how to buy on iTunes .... well, I must activate my bank account first and i'm still not shure if it's available at my coutry gosh this iTunes of my country is so confusing

The video of the studio version is no longer available. Does anyone has a version for downloading ? I wanted to download it from youtube today but , well, i couldn't

Didn't he say in that webchat that he would be touring S. America next year?

yes ... as he said that TOOL would be out like 23423532 ago and that Celebrate video will be out on July

i just hope to have a southamerican tour someday

I hope you won't have to wait too long or you could start swimming right away to Europe

:floor: ahahhaha I would! but I'm awful at swiming ! aha i'd take me years ! and when I finally get to europe, probably Mika'd be in southamerica

From Mika facebook:

 

Mika has just announced a host of new European Autumn tour dates! Throughout Oct/Nov 2012 he will be bringing his dynamic live show to Holland, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain & Portugal! Plus a special show at London's Roundhouse in December! Click here for all the dates & ticket info: http://bit.ly/MikaEvents Let us know which shows you're going to by hitting join on the events page!

well, it's a bit far from where a live ... just a whole ocean apart

i'll keep waiting for southamerican tour and then i'll say "oh, you won't go? it's too far from your city? oh, what a pity

I think that one could also say that the biblical Adam and Eve story is ultimately about totalitarian control and power. God wanted the total control, and told them to stay away from the apple (without providing an explanation of why this was necessary).

When Adam and Eve 'disobeyed', he unleashed the massive punishment and showed no mercy or love. I think it's very OTT, personally, and shows a huge need to control and manipulate.

Anyway, this is not really the topic so I will STFU

yep, I agree with you, that's what Adam and Eve was about. .. on the whole "old" part of the bible God is like that ..... in the "second" part of the bible, God's different ... this makes me remember something i saw on tumblr

"Bible fandom is so small" - "it must be cause there are so many things in season one that are contradicted in season two"

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The video is no longer available ! does anyone has a version for download it ! I didn't download it before

no, the deadline must be correct: they need have everything ready for September issue now, as nobody will be there in August

LOL then everything stops for a entire month! haha cool !

excelente! ya sabemos que Cristian Jimenez, director de Bonsai, esta dirigiendo The Origin of Love

segun comento por Twitter, ya terminaron de grabar y el video saldria en algunas semanas no creo que lo saquen antes que Celebrate

quiero saber donde hicieron estas tomas del video

 

voy a ir psicopatamente a sacarle fotos

esa es la actitud ahahahah

EDIT: es buena onda él :3 ha respondido todas las preguntas por twitter. yo le pregunte ... pucha, no recuerdo kmo le pregunte xD pero me respondió q ellos [staff de Mika] lo habían contactado a él para hacer el video ^^

Is that a dog bowl just in front of the mirror?

ahahah didn't see it before

No,it's the golden pot for peeing

Cristián Jiménez

 

He's the director of TOOL video.

 

Twitter : https://twitter.com/tardesdecine

 

Wiki : http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristi%C3%A1n_Jim%C3%A9nez

 

A clip from his movie

 

[YOUTUBE]VFE94KTP_d4[/YOUTUBE]

that's my country! that's Santiago ^^ hope the video is good or I'll travel to santiago and kill Cristián with my own hands for doing a bad video for such an important song as TOOL

I have not studied the bible but I don't see any "love" in the story of Adam and Eve. It's about punishment, judgement, sin, shame, banishment, etc. I don't think it's the interpretation of "old people". It's very clear IMO.

Adam and Eve [bible story] is about disobedience, they were punished and banished for being disobedient. the love was before they were disobedient .... but Mika´s Adam and Eve is a different story.

It's not Christine's interpretation, it is Mika's LYRICS. Have you read them?

 

"Used to be Adam and Eve they found their love in a tree

God didn't think they deserved it

He taught them hate taught them pride

Gave them a leaf made them hide

Let’s put their stories aside

You know the origin is you"

yes, i've read them [btw, i thought it was "like stupid Adam and Eve" ]

and, well, this is not like the Adam and Eve on the bible.

Sorry Christine, i thought you were talking about the bible version, not Mika's version [i'm used to the bible version sorry, i always forgot that in the song, the story is not the same]

anyways, the part that i like the most of those verses is "let's put their stories aside" cuz makes me think that this and other stories really doesn't matter cuz "you know the origin is you"

Yes that was a really hard way to ask that question, but maybe he wanted tell Mika how he felt.

that's what I think . I mean, I understand him! it was the big one and only chance that he had to talk to Mika, as a southamerican fan.

I don't really know where to start with my review ... I can never find words right enough for what I want to say - but anyone who knows me knows I'd lost the Mika love in the last 18 months ... I deleted all his pictures off my computer ... don't have a single one ... haven't listened to his music really since Edinburgh two years ago ... and apart from what pops up on random if I happen to be listening to music on my laptap not a thing Mika related - and to be honest ... if he has come up on random ... there's a skip button ... next ... I bought a ticket to Lovebox ... impulse buy ... I gave it away for nothing ... didn't know why I'd bought it ... couldn't be bothered to go ... blamed it on not liking Festivals anymore ... kind of true ... I don't ... but also just didn't want to see him ... not ready yet ... Then the Heaven gig was announced ... I bought a ticket two days later after they went on sale after wondering whether I'd actually bother going to it again ... I'm not made of money ... I can't afford to waste money like that ... I've spent the time inbetween talking myself into going .... even up to Thursday morning ... bad nights sleep ... too hot ... can I bother jumping on a train and going all the way to London ... nope ... not motivated at all ... off work with Depression yet again ... on medication ... he's not gonna fix that ... I caught the 12.05pm train in the end ... I wanted to see my friends ... my fellow Oldlings ... it was the only reason I went ... not for Mika ... not bothered .... for them ... not seen them since January ... last minute decision to stay over in London too ... would have been travelling back on the train the same night otherwise (this was a good decision in hindsight as well)

 

So I queued from about 4.00pm ... didn't want to queue longer than that ... got a good place once I was in ... about 3 rows from the front ... by the stairs - got a bit of jip from some girls by the side of me who arrived later ... decided to ignore them .. I won't mention the god awful music we had to stand through ... but then Mika was on ... and it started from that first song ... the opening bars to Big Girls ... the smile came ... I was dancing ... as song after song came and went ... I remembered ... I remembered why in 2008 I went to a show in Hammersmith and came out a complete devotee - he does something when I see him ... he makes me forget everything else ... the new songs ... I hated them all bar Celebrate ... and that I only liked ... not loved ... but in a Live context - I got them ... I loved them ... he won me back ... and I don't even know why ... I can't even explain why ... I went with no intention of enjoying it ... I was expecting too ... be underwhelmed ... it was just what I needed ... it's been a difficult time for me since Amsterdam ... and I almost made myself dislike him cos' I felt guilty ... that me loving him was somehow responsible for my Mum's death ... if I hadn't spent most of 2010 and 2009, to a degree, following him around the country I'd have been at home and maybe have noticed she was ill ... it wasn't his fault ... it wasn't my fault ... I have to deal with that ... I have to leave that behind me ... I can't keep going what if ... I didn't bother trying to speak to him outside the venue ... there was too much of a mob - so I just stood on the sidewalk and watched him ... and watched everyone else around him ... The playback competition in London the next day ... That was an added bonus I wasn't expecting ... to be able to listen to those songs ... I was worried about this album before ... that I wouldn't like it ... I hadn't liked any of the new songs on YT ... that had changed the night before ... everything's changed again now ... I'm beyond excited ... you sit and listen to those tracks and your smiling ... I'm smiling and you glance at others ... and they're smiling ... he gives me that vibe ... those feelings ... so for a gig I nearly couldn't be bothered to go too ... to an album I had no interest in buying two days ago ... it's gone full circle ... I love him again ... and I'm not gonna shut up about it ... for awhile

Mika always makes me smile. makes me feel free. that's why i love him

Yes I think it points out that the biblical god has twisted and tried to make all love sinful, forcing even a man and woman to feel shameful of who they are and shameful of their perfectly natural behaviour. So people should not be looking to the bible and outdated religious doctrine for moral guidance and reasons to cast judgement on homosexual relationships either.

wow, i think that you may be going too far. according to the bible, God is love, and all kinds of love. It's just that not every person who follows God is able to see it in that way [specially the oldest ones ] and, well, old people guides the church

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i don't know what random thing say

I should go to the doctor, this is not good D=

:shocked: me too

 

I'm an old women who sits at the computer in the 2 AM.

Mika, do you want to get rid of all your fans this way?

 

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hahah from 2 to 4, that was exactly my reaccion, i couldn't have "said" it better

he's everyday more gorgeous Mika! you'll kill us!!

Thank u so much for the video!!! I loved it!!1 I agree with everything he said and i also noticed that those dogs were too fat xD

I always watch the opening ceremony of the olympic games :3 i like to see them and I really loved this one cuz I never thought that it would be funny ^^ and I'm so happy cuz Mika thought the same tht I did haha i don't know if that makes sense xD

Agree

he looks sooo handsome ! it was really hard to get focused on what he was saying

The lesbian kiss, even gay kiss, could have been very well in Holland! Not only in Britain Mika!

.... I never saw that kiss is there any video of that specific part?

I think back to how he said life changed after Paloma's accident. Everyone in his family and close friends would have been so profoundly affected by the sheer horror of that trauma, and the pain that she suffered and probably still suffers. Reassessing what is important in life, what makes you happy, relationship issues .... maybe all this led to him to a point of freedom, to this song becoming his "freedom statement" and maybe the man he loves was an integral part of him reaching that point.

I agree . Mika grew up aawwee i even feel proud of him

Yup!!! OHHHH I haven't noticed that Mika rises his shoulders when he sings!!! My god, I didn't see it:doh:

Moving into another topic, I saw on twitter that Mika is going to be one of the multiple guests to discuss the Olympic ceremony!! Here the tweet:

 

We'll be live during the Olympic Ceremony to discuss what it says about Britain. With guests including @gracedent @mikasounds and @PennyRed

Tweet from the BBC

=D when and where!?!? [and by where I ment a link where i can see it ]

What bothers me in this discussion is that some of you are implying that people who still think that he is bisexual are silly fangirls or in denial. To think that he is bisexual doesn't mean that you can't see what a big step it was for him or not to be absolutely happy for him. And it doesn't mean that you want him rather with a woman than with a man.

 

We don't know anything about his relationships in the past or whom he founds attractive. So as long as he doesn't tell us otherwise I won't put him in the "gay box" because he is in a relationship with a man. Same as I wouldn't have put him in the "straight box" if the special person would have been a women. Because both are characteristics for being bisexual and about that we have a statement from him.

 

May I'm a little bit sensible here, because I'm bisexual myself and every time I come out I had to clarify that by saying that I mean it. It kind of annoys me that you get the "she truly is a lesbian, she just doesn't want to say it" all the time or you must assume that the person is silently thinking that.

 

I'm really happy that Mika took the step yesterday and opened himself up. To tell people that you are in love with a person of the same gender is a big step, regardless of whether you are gay or bisexual. And it ends the vague "could"-statements from the past. Now we know for sure that he falls for men. I just wanted to point out that we shouldn't label him as gay as long as he doesn't do it himself.

and totally agree with the bolded part.

I loved the gig, I really really did, but I must agree with you on a couple of points. I totally agree with what you said re the band. I don't care if he has one band or another, but I really don't see why he needed these people instead of the old ones I can't see the advantage , other than the fact that now he has a piano player who plays the sax and other bits

In any case, I don't understand the need for change. Ah , and I know that people totally rave about the new singer Joy, and no offence to her, but she does nothing to me at all. I much prefered Imma in every way, and this chick is not cutting it.

The piano dancing and killing the band is also an annoyance, as are the balloons and all that jazz......

 

Other than that, I totally disagree with you on the songs and performance, it rocked!

... I loved the killer scene ! and I really was hoping he did it again cuz I never had the chance of seeing it live

Re. the band, I disagree with some earlier posts. I think the sound is better now. Mika needed at least one really great, creative and playful musician to accompany him on stage who would be able to do some improvisation as well if needed, etc. He also needed a good piano player, which David clearly wasn't. I'm sorry to break the news but Mika's skills on the piano are rather limited so it does make sense to have someone like Curtis on stage, who plays many instruments and is pretty relaxed, too. I love how they are changing songs. They do sound effortless.

Concerning 'personality' , I never got much of that from the band on stage and I don't think they are supposed to show it off there, although I really liked iMMa interacting with Mika and of course she has a great voice, too. In a way, the focus is more on the music and less on the puppet show (I never liked Mika dressing up his band).

So, for the moment I am pleased with the band but he may actually need more backing vocalists to have a fuller choir sound on some of the tracks.

well, I've never seen them live u.u but acording to what I've heard from the last gigs [with the best audio i could find], the new band definitively sounds different, and sounds better. .. I've been wonderig how many of the people who has talked about the band has actually been part of a band. I was the vocalist of a rock band, we were a band with 5 members. And I say "I was" cause we stop playing together after the guitar player decided to leave us. We couldn't find anyone who played like him, cuz everyone plays instruments in a different way, with different emotions cuz everyone experiences the music in different ways; then also everyone writes different music, according to different influences. And i think that this was the reason why Mika changed his band, he needed to work with different people cuz now he's different. And I'm really glad that he could find these so good musicians, cuz for me was impossible to find another guitar player x.x oh, and if some people doesn't hear any difference, it may be cause the difference goes beyond what they can sense in music [not ofending anyone ]

sorry if i talk too much about my experiences, I do it cuz it gives me a solid background sometimes hehe

Thank you so much

Still don't get the question

He can so many language, I'm jealous.

hahaha the question was if he, at his begginings, was aware that he would become and idol for so many people ...... i don't see why he asked it in a sooo hard way! ahaha

now, can someone translate the italian parts?!?! plleeaseeee:mikalove:

EDIT: and you're welcome ^^

espera estas hablando de celebrate? porque ese sabemos que lo grabo con Pharrell en Nueva york hace como 2 semanas , lo que no sabemos nada de nada es el video que se podria grabar o haber grabado en chile, si mika menciono chile quiza quiere llamar la atencion de los fans de aca

¿querra que hagamos algo?

o.o quizás

bueno, Mika no es muy famoso aki, pero todo el mundo ha escuchado al menos una canción de él. Nosotros podríams hacer que se haga más conocido ... no sé si tu veías el reality Mundos Opuestos, pero ahí ponían canciones de Mika, y fue porque yo lo pedí en twitter. O cuando salió en la revista Tú, fue pork la Jaaz y otras fans lo pedimos ... el otro día, con una amiga en twitter, intentamos que pusieran celebrate o algo de Mika en la rock and pop, nos mandaron un saludo pero no la pusieron >.< ; en las radios argentinas, Celebrate está en el puesto n°1 del ranking >.<

como que siento que tenemos que hacer cosas, pero no sé bien qué >.<

What he said in spanish

[6:20]

Mika:Where are you from?

Girl: from Paraguay

M: from Paraguay! wow, great ....

[8:41]

Boy: can I speak in Spanish? cause my english is not so good

Mika: ok, then you can speak in spanish but...

Interviewer: wow.

M:...slow.

B: ok

M: but I can't hear you, speak a bit lauder

B: Hi, can you hear me?

I: [this is not spanish, i don't understand, and then english]

M: where are you from?

B: I'm from southamerica, from Venezuela

M: from Venezuela, nice to meet you

B: nice to meet you too

M: I have a lot of fans from Venezuela, Colombia, Paraguay, San Salvador on twitter, and all the time, there are a lot of messages on twitter and I see them, you know, I see them all the time

I: You have any question?

M: What do you want to ask?

B: ok, I'll ask you, do I ask you in spanish? [sais something in italian, and the question starts] The boy who knew too much, as you albunm's title, was aware that, with his particular way of conceiving music, will become an importat figure for a lot of people and specially an idol that, as you said, icon voice for golden people who have felt inspired and encouraged and had felt every word itself, each word of your lyrics

I: ok now [..]

M: ok

B: [i think he sais] did you understand? yes or no?

M: Is there a way of asking this question more easily?, like more simple? cause I have this.., it's a little difficult to understand it all. Then, can tou ask me again but a bit more simple, please?

I: or in italian maybe

M: or in italian

B: ..[talks but audio is off]

M: we can't hear you, ok, try to start again

I: No, we need to go on

and that's it

it was a very good question indeed, but he asked it in the hardest way!

oh and Mika's spanish is so perfect