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    ITALIAN THREAD - XVII parte

    in MFC International

    Posted

    Gli esempi erano interessanti in ogni caso. Devo imprimermi l'uovo / le uova nella menta. Confusamente :insane:

     

    Ma l'italiano effettivamente è difficile quando si parla di singolare / plurale!

    Ad esempio in questa tua frase, la parola "menta" significa "mint" in inglese :naughty: mentre se la tua intenzione è quella di dire "mind" allora la parola è "mente" :thumb_yello:

    Però l'uovo nella menta è bellissimo!!! :wink2:

    ITALIAN THREAD - XVII parte

    in MFC International

    Posted · Edited by flavia110

    Ciao Raya :original: Anch'io sto imparando l'italiano. Sono contenta vedere un'altra persona che sta imparando questa lingua qui :D

     

    Grazie mille per le correzioni, Paola! Anche per me le erano molto utili.

     

    Però non capisco il termine "io mi gaso" che Flavia ha usato. Qualcuno può spiegarmi per favore? :blush-anim-cl:

     

    "io mi gaso" = "I'm excited" ma è un termine molto informale, un pò come uno slang nella lingua inglese, invece in italiano avrei dovuto scrivere qualcosa come: "sono elettrizzata" :wub2:

     

    Che bello raga, tutta questa gente che vuole imparare l'italiano! :aah:

    Ciao DerMoment! "Mi gaso" è una espressione informale che vuol dire "Mi entustiasmo molto", "I'm excited"

     

    :thumb_yello:

    ITALIAN THREAD - XVII parte

    in MFC International

    Posted

    Che bello io mi gaso sempre quando qualcuno vuole imparare l'italiano, siamo comunque indubbiamente i più fighi :mikalove:

    Raya che bello averti qui, sei bravissima! L'italiano è una lingua a volte molto insidiosa anche per gli italiani, quindi è bello il fatto che tu abbia deciso di studiarla :wub2:

    MIKA as a judge at "THE VOICE" France 2014

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    His freshness, his creativity and his enthousiasm have revolutionized pop music but have also brought a wind of madness in this 3rd season of The Voice. Mika has known how to charme his audience but also his friends coaches.

    Portrait of a gifted man with a crazy (over the top) charisma.

     

    Garou : I remember when Mika got here the first time, he had a little schoolbag. He seemed very nervous and looked like someone who was there for coming back to school.

    Mika: Ah, do you picture that? It must be scary.

    Garou: (…...) we realized that he wasn't scared at all

    Jenifer: he really brought a new air.

    Pagny:he's more flowery, more spirited, more colourful. We also see that in his costumes, in his attitude.

    Jenifer: if he wanted to turn his seat in a bit of a theatrical way, well, he does it.

    He has a childlike side but we are eventually eternal children, when you do this job you don't accept to grow old.

    Pagny: he doesn't stop. With his attitude of teacher's pet, he's the worst. Look, look! He's terrible.

    Jenifer: Mika is almost a gifted person. He speaks fluenty I think more than 5 languages.

    (snippet from Swatch signing session: people from Vietnam, Latvia, and so on.

    Mika: I spoke 50 languages.

    Someone: he doesn't hear, he's deaf.

    Mika: But you talk with your hands. And this is fine. I'm lebanese (really? never heard about that :teehee:) and we talk with our hands as well.

    Jenifer: all his origins make him to understand much more things, this is why also I love Mika, cause he gets interested in people

    Pagny: he quickly got inside a person's soul and personality with a real sensitiveness and intelligence

    Jenifer: he just simply gets interested, osmetimes in a very childish way, but it's to learn to undersand the other person.

    Garou: behind Mika's childishness, technically, we hear that he's young but he already knows the music well.

    Pagny: he's in the music since the age of 10, he did all his classical musica studies in one of the major schoolmusic in london.

    Garou: Mika is a showman

    Pagny: since he started very early he's a way more mature, more old, and has a lot more experience and knowledge than others of the same age.

    Jenifer: Mika is an artist I like very much, for whom I have a lot of respect, and he does the show.

    Pagny: he loves that, he loves the show, with this physique, I mean, he's a big guy but how he breaks , how he jumps everywere, dances everywhere, I envy him.

    Jenifer: Mika is a bit of a confluence of the three of us, he's a guy like this, hyper endearing, stuffed with honesty.

     

    The three of them eventually say they love him.

     

    Thank you, I was wondering what they said but I could feel it was positive because I understood some words :-) well, they said really nice things :mikacool:

    'SONGBOOK VOL. 1'' out Nov 12 + Signing Session @ FNAC Milan 13 Nov 2013

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    :thumb_yello: Grazie mille!!:huglove: I love every word he says here!! This little speach is something I've been waiting for - for a long time!! I'm sooo pleased that he now takes controll of his own career - something we've known for quite some time now !! :fisch::wub2:

     

    Love,love

    me

     

    You welcome :thumb_yello: Here is the translation of the article above.

     

     

    The "Italian" period of Mika is making many fruits. Not only the Italian public is starting to know him in X Factor, thanks to his accurate judgments and his speech seasoned with some neologism (eg choosato, calque of English word choose, instead of scelto), but he has also realized the album "songbook vol 1", published on Nov. 12 with 15 international success, of which he took care of every aspect, from the choice of songs, the arrangements revised up to the choice of the cover.

    "I wanted to call it songbook because it is a concept that I like the most. I do not like "Best of", because it suggests that you close a chapter. But I do not want to close anything, it's just a collection of the pieces of the first three albums. Among a number of years I want to make a songbook volume 2 and at 85 years, I'd like to do the volume 3. This record is as if I was looking in the mirror, remembering who I was and who I am now. I started to sing classical music as a child, in this case into a Strauss's work. My primary interest has always was to do pop, but as I say. "

    The English artist of Lebanese origin has very clear ideas about what he wants to do and it shows into this album also in the choice of collaborations. "Stardust is undoubtedly the most important duet. Since I saw Chiara Galiazzo taking part in X Factor 6, we stayed in touch and we wanted to make it happen straight. But to ensure that this project took shape we had to wait, because the policy of the two record companies did not make it possible. Now, finally, we succeeded. To record it we went in my studio in London and I have to admit that I like the result a lot. Stardust was born as a dance song, now become a traditional classy piece. "

    On the contrary genesis of Popular Song, duet with Ariana Grande was more complicated: "at the beginning I was not very convinced. Ariana Grande comes from a teen scenery and it was not what I was looking for. Then I decided to hear her, we are contacted via Skype and I was surprised by her voice. In addition, Ariana also has a R & B album at the top of the American charts, which helped her to move from the teen scene. We recorded her in Canada and I in Los Angeles. Our video has totaled more than 37 million views on youtube and the song is going on the radio in the U.S.. It's really strange, every time I think that one thing may not appeal, the facts always belie me and does achieve success. "

    Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr, this is the name of the singer in the anagrafe, has already in the pipeline the new album: "I have experimented in the past and did my own thing. Now I want to sit down at the piano and composing catchy tunes. It's what comes most naturally to me right now. Definitely the touch with the Italian music gave me interesting ideas. I started working on the next album with a young author and I made hear to him a song by Paolo Conte at speeds increased, to let him know what kind of production and sound I want. I am working with Morgan on a track with my parts in English and he has the Italian one. The result could be very particular ... if we'll finish! (laughs) Seriously, despite the fame of controversial figure I admire a lot Morgan as an artist. When he sit down at the piano is like a crazy kid who lives of music. "

    As regards his adventure as X Factor judge, Mika is conscious to have on his hands the strongest category. However, he makes no bones about the strengths and weaknesses of his contestants. "Roberta has the most beautiful voice in the whole competition but she flaws in style, while Gaia is the argument opposite: she has a very original style but she needs to to reinforce the vocal part. Valentina has to fortify her stage presence while Violetta has to make her genre contemporary. But mostly, I want to prepare them for post X Factor. They must be conscious of their musical identity and say no, if they are not convinced of a song! I'm glad of the X-Factor Italia's experience and in France they called me to do The Voice! "

    Finally, how is Mika in Milan? "It's a wonderful city, but it's closed. To discover it you have to turn a lot. For example, this villa (Villa Necchi, which hosts the press conference) is beautiful but it is hidden, I would not have ever discovered it! In the evening I like to go to the Navigli to get me a beer. Or I take refuge in a restaurant, whose owner is kind enough to reserve me a table. And there I can work and write. "

    'SONGBOOK VOL. 1'' out Nov 12 + Signing Session @ FNAC Milan 13 Nov 2013

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted · Edited by flavia110

    OK, here is the translation, ihihih now I go to bed :thumb_yello:

    In taking things in hand, I realized that there is a great freedom that comes after, but also a lot of work to have the freedom to do all the records I want to do. This is for all the artists and not just for me. All of us, all artists in the world, we have to find our way. As I did when I started. When I started I presented my record, my demo, as if it was an album already terminated by a record company. All finished, the visual, photography, everything. I did this to give the concept to the record company. After a while the situation changed because they are really…

    [here video is cut and the discourse change, he begins talking about Popular Song's videoclip!]

    I said **** I will not stand here waiting that a so big record company tell me, ok this thing goes well in this record, so do it. I said, no, I want to do this on my own and so I called all the people I know, for instance, I worked with Diadora (I think he said Diadora, I'm not totally sure :-D) to do this thing and I said it's not important if I have to do all these things to pay this video because Universal does not help me.

    I made this video on my own with my manager and now this video has 37 million views, large part from USA. 37 million for one song we did on our behalf. This made me realize the power of doing the things on my own. Now I can make the album I want to. With Universal's support but without asking permission and this is the most important thing I've done in this period of my career.

    Which song is better? .. VS ..

    in Chat about Mika

    Posted · Edited by flavia110

    Elle Me Dit VS Emily

    Popular Song (ft. Ariana Grande) VS Popular Song (ft. Priscilla Renea)

    Origin Of Love VS Origin Of Love (New Version)

    Stardust VS Stardust (ft. Chiara)

    Make You Happy (LA edit) VS Make You Happy (Miami edit)

    L'Amour Dans Le Mauvais Temps VS Blame It On The Weather

     

    In general: CD-vesion VS Acoustic

    This is the million-dollar question... Naked or dressed song... I don't know, sometimes I need really to listen the naked acoustic song... sometimes I need the dressed one. Every song can be dressed up in 1000 ways, so no. I can't really say which one I prefer. Maybe if I were to give an answer with a gun or someting like that, well I'd say I prefer acoustic version, but only because it's Mika and he's a songwriter and I really can feel, when he plays is piano, his real true sensible nature, and his fragility, and a lot of other stuff I really really really like.:mikacool:

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