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I just had to add my (useless) post, just to say how much I love this movie... Well, pretty much all of the spaghetti western (and their genius soundtracks by Morricone of course)! I remember when I was a kid I even asked my granma to sew me Clint Eastwood's poncho in 'a few dollars more' and I dressed up as him for carnival XD

What I find bizarre and somehow uncomfortable for me as a fan is not the fact that the official page wants to 'promote' his looks, but the way they decide to do it: sometimes I have the feeling that the people who run the page are 14 years old fans, or, what it worse, they are adults trying to think like a 14 yo girl, in order to give people what they think they want. And since a lot of Mika fans like many of us have no time and have no interest at all in participating in such a page, where every critical sense is left on a side, it happens that in my eyes it has become a sterile and kinda self indulgent mechanism in which the page posts pics of a Mika that is completely separated from the musician or even Mika as a person, he is just exposed as something to be 'liked' or commented as 'hot': these are posts that don't require any application of critical sense, therefore it is normal that they only get those responses. Mika is a witty person, he is objectively good looking, and I am not saying it is wrong to point that out, esp for younger fans that have a crush on him, that is pretty normal: but from his official page I expected a way of running it that is coherent with Mika's personality, not such a childish and (for me) embarrassing way; I mean, there are thousands of witty, funny ways even to point out someone's good looks. As Christine said in other ways it looks to me like a 'panem et circenses' politics, which I personally find rather sad. I hope something changes with the new album

As far as I am concerned (but this is a personal perspective and I think it is different for everyone) I enjoyed seeing him working for once somehow in the 'musical backstage', if you know what I mean. I didn't watch the voice because my French is very poor and because I am not so keen on the format, so I am basing myself on the last season of XF. I enjoyed watching his human approach to the contestants, but more that that I enjoyed listening to his opinions, not because they were his of because his face was pretty, but because I found them intelligent and appropriate (even if I didn't always agree with him). I also enjoyed discovering what songs he had chosen and why he had chosen them, and I enjoyed how he really made an effort to develop his girls' musical personalities: sometimes I agreed with him sometimes I didn't, yet I was entertained by it. I would never call him a genius after a season of XF (I wouldn't call ANYBODY a genius for a tv programme btw XD) and I get your point, but I have to admit that he really emerged as a smart man and artist with a well defined personality. That's why I got interested in him in the first place

I think we share the same experience, Marta. For me the 'turning point' was Mika being a guest judge at XF Italy two years ago, when he was promoting tool and sang underwater, and they asked him to be a guest judge for a manche. I was really impressed because each of his 'judgements' was very straight-to-the-point and extremely appropriate, and I also loved the fact that he said what he thought, also negative stuff about the performances, despite him being only a guest judge and being the semifinal of the show. That is when my perspective changed, I only knew Mika as the 'curly and colored guy who used to sing in falsetto about lollipops', and in that moment I really got curious and started searching for what he had been doing in those years that I had missed. That's how I fell in love with his music (strangely I never had a 'crush moment', I've always been very rational about it), but for me what really intrigued me was how his personality showed through his music, and I have to say that hadn't been for his appearance at XF I never would have had the interest in checking what he was doing, I would have stuck to the image of the curly boy singing in falsetto. And I would have missed a LOT

Yes, this is 100% also my perspective on the subject.

Lovely report I am glad this Italian experience has been a positive one for everyone

Agree with Marta. As I wrote elsewhere, Fedez's music is-euphemistically speaking- indeed very far from my tastes. But somehow I have a positive vibe about him, because I like the fact that he is aware that he is a part of a musical-discographical and -why not- televisive system, and unlike many of his colleagues, especially rappers, who have built their whole carrier on going against a system they are 100% a part of, he 'doesn't spit in the plate where he eats' (an Italian expression, but you get what I mean.) In other words, I like that he does not have prejudice about musical genres and that he seems to be quite open-minded. My only worry is about the musical quality of his presence, if he can be a proper judge with linguistic and musical skills, but we have to wait to see. In the meantime I feel like trusting him, time will say if I am wrong

When I joined MFC I never thought I would find myself laughing in front of my PC screen that shows a giant pic of Dante XD let's not forget that for Mika Dante was a woman with a terrible nose nice thread though!!

I totally share (as usual ) DerMoment's point of view, Marta's Italian quote included, that's exactly the way I see it.

Girls, thanks for your accurate and funny reports!

Thanks so much for the translation Camille! I've loved the interview

I completely share your perspective Ps: and kudos to Marta, that translation is HUGE, I know how much time it takes, so thanks for doing it, so everyone can understand!

As I was saying on twitter, what really was special about his meeting with Dario Fo to me was the fact that there is absolutely no need to know anything about both Mika and Dario Fo, one can ignore who their are, the value of Fo's work, can even think he's just a funny old man, but one can't ignore the fact that these two people have something in their eyes- call it intelligence, art, youth, whatever- it's a spark that very few people have, and for me that spark is what truly establishes a link between these two, both as persons and as artists.

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If this time last year someone had told me 'look at this pic, there's Mika and Dario Fo having a laugh', I would have said that someone was out of his head. really looking forward for tonight!