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    MIKA @ Union Transfer PHILADELPHIA, PA -- 8 April 2013

    in Before the Show

    Posted

    Hearing stuff from Vancouver is getting me even more excited (as if that's even possible)

    I'm driving in from vermont with my parents and little sister on Monday, and we're staying with my Aunt and Uncle who live in Philly...

     

    I get to miss school to go to this, which makes it even better XD

    because it was a sixteenth birthday present... other wise I wouldn't have been aloud to... :/

    Am I the only one who feels mika's new sound is a little less unique?

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

    Posted

    I think this is very unfortunate because as someone pointed out in another thread when Mika came on the scene he gave off an air of inclusivity, not exclusivity. He had enough of an exotic background to add a bit of glamour and he was certainly quirky but otherwise he came across like a down to earth boy who just wanted to have fun. He came from a wealthy background but rejected designer fashions in favour of what everyone was wearing on the streets of London at that time (yet at the same time had a very distinctive style about him). He was skinny but he embraced big girls. He was young and beautiful but made older people feel young again. His music was clever enough to appeal to adults but children loved the happy melodies.

     

    A couple of years later he was wearing bespoke $10,000 shoes - a different pair for every day of the month it seems. Instead of having a record release party with people in the music industry, performers and fans as he had done with LICM, he had an exclusive release party for Songs For Sorrow with clothes and shoe designers and the EP was only available from his site or a clothes designer's shop.

     

    His music went from being fun to being quite dark. Personally I found it interesting because I was very curious about Mika and wanted to see him open up and let the world see something beyond his 2-dimensional public image. But as was also pointed out in the other thread this was a lot less relateable for most people. When you read what fans feel they have in common with Mika now so much of it is problems - bullying, learning disabilities, feeling like an outsider. I think the average person does not really relate to this because most people are fairly social and at least when I was in school relentless bullying was very rare. Not rare in the sense that it rarely happened but that it was only ever 1 or 2 kids out of hundreds who were the victims.

     

    I relate to Mika as I do to all musicians, with a mutual love of music. I want to hear their take on adult experiences since we are adults. I am not interested in angsty teen songs anymore and never related to feeling like an outsider. Since Mika was 25 years old and not Justin Bieber it wasn't really what you'd expect from him anyway. There is this rewriting of history to try to paint LICM as an album about childhood but it wasn't. It was about getting laid, a married man having a gay affair, men with big girl fetishes, Mika's struggles with the music industry, fear and struggles in the face of war.

     

    To start writing about your miserable teen years several years later seems like a bit of a regression and self-indulgent. And it's something that most adults do not relate to or find an emotional connection with. Even if my teen years were miserable it's not something I would want to dwell on by listening to angsty teen songs.

     

    I can understand why he chose love as a theme for TOOL and talks about joy now instead of darkness. Love is a universal thing and most fans of pop music want to hear joyous songs. Sadly it is mostly just the exclusive audience who is listening now.

     

    wow, thank you for the insight. I completly agree with you.

    Am I the only one who feels mika's new sound is a little less unique?

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

    Posted

    I have to disagree... I think this is his best album so far, and yes, obviously he is richer now than he was in 2006 and he has managed to get more and better producers so it maybe sounds a bit more commercial. But anyway, you just need to read the lyrics to realize it´s still him.

     

    LYWID it´s (IMO) a song that would have fitted perfectly in LICM. Overrated it´s taken from an old demo... I didn ´t see anything like this in TBWKTM, and of course, songs like Stardust or Tah Dah... are simply perfect.

     

    My opinion anyway :aah:

     

    No, yea. I completely agree with you! I have listened to and loved all the lyrics of his new album and I know that that part is still him... It's just the sound... I guess I miss the raw vocals and piano - which makes me glad that he included an acoustic version of some songs on the bonus disk. Like, I absolutely adore the acoustic version of LYWID - I get giddy every time I hear it :blush-anim-cl: I love all the songs so much!!! So don't get me wrong - the album TOOL was all I would listen to for like, two months :teehee: I just felt like, while completly amazing and perfect, the sound of the new album was not what I was used to as "uniquely Mika"

    Am I the only one who feels mika's new sound is a little less unique?

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

    Posted

    I think he had a hard time writing TOOL and was influenced by too many people around him, so that the Mika-ness of the music got lost.

     

    I'll have disagree with you about "Make You Happy" though; he uses a vocoder (not the same as autotune, it just adds an electronic tone to your voice). I was horrified too when I first heard it, but came to realise that it adds a mechanical tone to contrast with his normal voice in the rest of the song.

     

    Yea, I wasn't sure about 'Make you Happy' until I heard him explain it in the track by track thing, and he talked about how it was saying "All I wan't to do is make you happy" but it was coming from the mouth of a robot or something of the sort... I mean, once I got it I really liked it.

    Am I the only one who feels mika's new sound is a little less unique?

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

    Posted

    He has unbelievably soft and beautiful and unique voice.... I still can't understand why he had to hide and kill his most amazing weapon with autotunes..

     

    And piano - another strongest weapon - he threw it away too....

    Happy he's coming back with Piano from next month's tour..

     

    TOOL the album,, I say, with regard to the lyrics, he really shows truely himself a lot, but the sounds, pretended to be someone else..

     

    EXACTLY!!!! That's exactly what I was thinking! The lyrics are amazing and for the most part really personal to him, but the sound just isn't him.

    Am I the only one who feels mika's new sound is a little less unique?

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

    Posted

    Don't get me wrong, I love his new album - but I just found the song "

    " on YouTube and it just reminded me of what I miss about his old sound. I know he's growing up as an artist and therefore his style is naturally changing, but I feel like he really had something special that his new songs lack. I'm not sure how to describe exactly what's missing, and maybe I'm the only person who notices this, but I just thought I'd ask. It makes me a little sad but maybe I just need to learn to accept change. My only worry is that he's going with a less unique sound to try to conform to the modern pop society. As long as that's not it I guess I should just let him do what he wants to do. Thoughts?

    Doctor Who BBC

    in Other Artists

    Posted

    Wow' date=' all the way from the beginning! I've always wanted to do that :teehee:[/quote']

     

    well it sure is taking quite some time, but it's worth it! Some of the early compaions are some of my favorite! Like Ian and Jamie!:naughty:

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