Alireine

Nice pic Wicky

Thank you for the links!

She is hoping to have an M & G where she can get Mika's autograph

yes, "dédicace" is what we use in French

Mika kept his promise yesterday (so quickly )

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Vous avez l'air d'avoir passé une très bonne journée et le soleil était au rendez-vous Bravo à Virginie! A Mika de jouer maintenant en honorant sa promesse.

Il l'a fait hier

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Welcome Maria!

Have fun on MFC

I think this I a good thread in which to announce that I'm not continuing to hang around waiting for Mika to do something in the UK.

It's the UK I'm more interested in, as I used to love him being on TV here and listening to his songs on the radio

I've been patient while he did his things in Italy and France, but the announcement that he was doing The Voice France again, was just one step too far.

I can't see him having time to come back to promote his album here. I can't even see him having time to do a tour of any kind.

It seems that Mika has chosen to just concentrate on parts of Europe, not the rest of the world, and not the UK, so I'm moving on.

Thank you all for your kindness and friendship over the years. I hope you all have great lives.

I'll always love Mika and remember the good times with Mika, and here on the fan site.

God bless you all.

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(Like mamiam, I will keep hoping seeing you again for album number 4)

Hello and welcome on MFC

I agree with you, Mika is wonderful

I do not want you spoiling my happy experience of using this forum by poisoning this thread I chose to click on myself, with your negative thoughts about Mika's artistic masterpiece. It was his decision to have a robotic voice repeat the phrase MAKE YOU HAPPY so many times and we should respect his decision to put 600 different versions on the album. I'm getting sick and tired of people like you Elwendin. Expressing your own opinion like that in a nice way which I cannot handle hence why I'm calling you out on your negativity, which in fact is not necessarily negativity but just a different opinion than my own. So leave, you peasant!

 

Needless to say I am in Deb's Make You Happy Lover club:mf_rosetinted:

I see what you are doing here.

You are subtle and you use fancy words but don't you think you had me. You are impying that that Make you happy thingy is way better than Underwater or Origin of Love. I tell you what, if Swatch picked Underwater over Make you happy, there must be a reason. And last time I checked, the album was called The Origin of Love, not Make you Happy. So you are the one who's dragging negativity in here, as you basically are saying that Mika did a poor choice with the album name. So stop complaining about him, please, you are making me sad. He knows better than you.

 

Here, join my sarcasm secret society as a honorary member. We need people like you.

I really don't like Make You Happy

But I was also not liking Happy Ending until I watched the Paleo Festival version.

So now, dear MYH lovers, you know what you have to do find THE version that will make me love it

And yes, some people have already tried the Greg-on-piano-version on me, it didn't really worked

Deb, Guy, I don't think you should feel addressed at all when someone is talking about tweets in the wrong tone

 

 

 

No At least for me it has different layers. But I won't go further as I feel we could end up in a pointless and repetitive discussion as everybody has made up his mind and we know that we differ in our views

Agreeing with you on both of your points.

(And Deb, forgot to answer before, but I perfectly understand your explanation about how you can deeply love someone but being sad about his decisions )

I love that he tweeted about the chair and glad that it's back

thank you Eriko

Très heureuse de la journée d'hier, ça valait la peine de faire tout ce chemin

Ninie a assuré! Elle a super bien couru, maintenant Mika doit tenir sa parole

La journée organisée par Imagine for Margo était très bien, très émouvante, des témoignages, de très nombreux coureurs...

Nous étions une petite vingtaine, et comme il faisait beau nous avons pu pique-niquer et nous détendre dans le parc après la course.

J'ai posté quelques photos sur le topic des rencontres fans en France:

(les photos sont piquées de je ne sais plus qui, qui me pardonnera j'espère )

http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4042470&postcount=58

So we spent a lovely day yesterday

Ninie ran very well and finished the race, so now Mika has to keep his promise and give 1000 euros to Imagine for Margo charity

It was very moving to see so many people running for this charity, fighting against children's cancer. They were giving explanations about the goals of the charity, some people came to give testimonies, very interesting and moving.

They said that Mika spent the weekend with some children this summer

As the weather was lovely we then had a picnic at the parc and could also relax in the afternoon.

I loved to see new faces

Here are a few pictures:

But this isn't Twitter. If people want to moan about people moaning on Twitter I understand. Some of the whining at him I see also annoys me even though I feel the same way about what he is doing. But this is not Twitter and whatever is going on there shouldn't be projected onto the discussions on MFC. I don't see any drama on MFC. I don't see any harsh criticisms. No one is even talking to Mika here.

 

 

 

Yes in a way I do think he deserves it even though I would feel uncomfortable being aggressively critical directly to him myself. Because on the topic of respect I don't think he has respected his fans. I think when you mislead people and break their faith and trust you are not going to receive respect back.

 

Many were going to be upset when the first X Factor was announced, there was no avoiding that. But in the following months (now years!) a lot of these hard feelings could have been mitigated by Mika just being upfront about what he was doing.

 

When TOOL wasn't as successful as anticipated all he had to do was say that he was taking a couple of years to make the next album and in the interim he would be working on some projects that weren't related to his music but he would still be highly visible in Europe so please stay tuned. Then the people who weren't interested in all this other nonsense could just move on and come back if/when there was new music and a tour.

 

Even though I didn't particularly like it I always respected Mika's avoidance of being clear about the sexuality question. When the bisexual statement came out and confused things I understood why he didn't want to clarify. It was personal and it was a difficult subject and ultimately it was no one's business but his.

 

But I don't respect all this BS when it comes to his professional life and encouraging fans to support him. He keeps stringing them along and allowing them to believe things that are not true. Over and over I am seeing people who have supported him unfailingly for 6 or 7 years coming to the end of their tolerance for basically being mislead. It's not about a TV show anymore.

Yes, you are right, MFC and Twitter are 2 different things. I was only talking about Twitter here

I think that on MFC it's good to share our different opinions. And I like very much that this thread here was created about his career's choices, as it avoids that we talk about it everywhere. Like this, those who don't really like to talk about it simply don't visit the thread

About your second point, I'm obviously not an old fan enough to be able to feel the way you feel, or the way you say other fans feel, like betrayed (maybe the word is too strong there).

And I also can't understand it with my brain, not only because of my lack of experience I think. I just don't get how we can hold an artist responsible for us not liking the choices he is making, and for us being disappointed by him. I am the only one responsible for trusting him and deciding to follow him. As I said many times, if I don't like what he is doing, I simply stop following him, but I wouldn't held him responsible for my change of feelings.

You seem to say that he asked the fans to trust him and to follow him, so he "betrayed" by doing something different, maybe not artistic enough (if I'm not interpreting well, sorry). I really don't have this feeling that he is "begging" the fans to follow him, anyway not since I follow him, that is early 2013.

It seems to me that he is doing what he likes, hoping of course that fans will follow him, doing his best to be kind with them when meeting them and on Twitter. But that he is not "needing" them in the meaning that they are not his priority when making choices.

I said on Twitter something that seemed to be very surprising for some people, but that I still believe deeply:

I like that Mika is an artist that doesn't follow the wishes of his fans, I mean that he seems not to take them into consideration for making his choices. No offense to anybody here, and I'm not saying that he is not interested in the opinion of his fans, he obviously is. It's just that if he was doing what his fans are asking for, simply because they are asking for it, he wouldn't be an artist anymore in my opinion.

I'm sorry for my even worst English tonight, quite tired and not sure that what I wrote makes sense. I hope I'm not hurting anybody with what I think and say

What bothers me is when corporation gives me something free for a month & if i don't remember to call and cancel, they charge me for upcoming months.

Oh, I hate that too

(Do I dare enter into this discussion or not? )

It's pretty clear for me that we all here care deeply for Mika and love him, or we wouldn't be on MFC, and the mods especially wouldn't be mods

Then I just think that we have different ways of loving, and that these different ways have no impact on the intensity of the love we have for him (even if we regularly see the distinction on Twitter between "good / bad fans", that I really don't like).

Of course, sometimes I don't understand other fans' reaction, as they sometimes don't understand mine.

For me for example it would be very strange to criticize Mika in front of everybody on Twitter, just because I believe that it's better to tell someone that what he is doing is not good in private, and not in public. I think that when we put someone "down" (it's maybe too harsh to say it like that, sorry) in front of everybody, it can't be good: 1st it can bring other people to think bad about that person, and when I love someone I don't want others see his weakness, I want that everybody find him great 2nd, I think that he would maybe feel more hurted if the critic is in front of everybody. Because, yes of course, negativ critics hurt.

But of course it's only my opinion, and the reason why I don't tweet things with bad opinion to Mika on Twitter (coz, yes, it happens that I don't really like what he does ). When I don't like something he says or he is talking about, then I simply don't answer. Or put the point in my answer to someting else (not sure I'm clear).

I'm telling you that simply so that you know how I deal with it, not for judging anyone. We all react differently and have different ways of thinking about such subjects

AND, we actually can't say Mika in private what we think about what he is doing, so I can understand that people think that in that case it's better to tell him publicly, than not telling him at all

I actually reacted on Twitter about the The Voice fans' reaction, but it was to say that we can still be respectfull and not being agressiv to him when we criticize him. Because some tweets that I saw on my TL (not from people who took part into this discussion here) sounded really agressiv and, yes, I felt bad for him.

I actually felt bad for him that whole day when I saw that he received so many critics. You will say that he deserves them, and that's it's his own fault but, you know, that's my way of loving: I feel bad when the person I love is criticized so much from almost everywhere

That doesn't give me the right to tell people to stop of course (except saying when I think it's too agressiv, as I explained), but yes, this was a hard day for me, was kinda suffering from these tweets (maybe more than him, I'm sure about it )

je serai avec vous par la pensée:thumb_yello:

Je serai là dimanche matin avec un peu de retard (car il n'y a pas de train assez tôt le dimanche entre Lille et Paris ) J'espère quand même assister à l'arrivée de Virginie!!! et bien sur au pique nique!

J'ai hâte de retrouver celles que je connais et de faire la connaissance des autres

Je vais essayer de venir vous rejoindre dimanche.

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Yes, a DVD would be awesome!!

So happy to read one of his column again especially knowing that there will be more

Thanks for your reports and pics everybody!

Lena, I can totally understand that you forgot the lyrics too

I love that selfie too

Bonjour ! Hi!

 

Quelques informations concernant le RV de dimanche :

 

C'est officiel - il fera beau dimanche à St. Cloud !

 

http://www.meteofrance.com/previsions-meteo-france/saint-cloud/92210

 

Cela veut dire que nous ferons un pique-nique dans le parc. Il sera possible d'acheter des sandwichs et des boissons sur place mais si vous préférez, vous pouvez apporter les vôtres.

Prévoyez quand même un k-way et/ou un pull (c'est mon réflexe de randonneuse qui parle). Le matin, il ne fera pas très chaud et de toute façon, ils seront utiles pour s'assoir.

On se donne RV à 9h00 à l'arrêt Musée de Sèvres du tramway nr 2. Si quelqu'un le souhaite, je peux lui donner mon nr de portable. Contactez-moi plutôt via twitter ou FB parce que ma boîte pm ici est pleine à craquer et je suis trop sentimentale pour supprimer des messages.

Il y a quelques personnes qui viennent de province samedi. Nous irons sûrement dîner ensemble. Si quelqu'un souhaite se joindre à nous, il est le bienvenu.

N'hésitez pas, si vous avez des questions.

http://www.onstageweb.com/x-factor-2014/giudici-mika-scheda/

 

I love the embroideries on this suit

Thanks Eriko!

I would have prefered him to release the album, then theater gigs, then tour early 2015 as he said.

But well, now that he said that the album will only be in 2015, he seems to want / need to take it more slowly. In that case it seems clever in a marketting way to do The Voice than nothing.

Of course, living most of the time in Paris it's much easier for me to think so and not be sad by this news than for others.

I'm really sorry for those who feel bad because of The Voice :huglove:

Thank you for the video with subtitles, and thanks Eriko!