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No, only one elimination.

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The second part of the translation: Luca: - Thank you Mika: - Let’s see/We see the comments? - @confusion : Luca has an beautiful voice, if you want, he’s also good-looking, well, another thing in his favor, but the singing comes first. Understand this! Yeah Luca: - Ouch! Mika: - It means that he, confusion, found that the performance was superficial Luca: - Mm Mika: - @max And it’s in the most difficult moment that Luca becomes really what/who he is and proves himself Luca Chiaravalli (the producer) : - Nice! Mika: - It mean that, when you went to the showdown/sing-off you have done all you had to do Luca: - I felt destroyed just inside Mika: - But in fact .. let’s watch again your performance on the showdown/sing-off Luca: - And I really felt (myself) get out of my body, that I was not there anymore. Just me and the song Mika: - It was a bit of bright light and pure light - you know, the most interesting thing about this performance, when you are nervous you look at me, even during lives Luca: - I often look at Mika and Mika looks at me like that, always the same Mika: - Have you looked at me during the performance on the showdown/sing-off ? Not even once? Luca: - No Mika: - No, you sang for you. You sang as a singer. I think the people are with you. Okay? Luca: - Okay. Yes! Mika: -Now, you. Ah! Leonardo: - The attack, let’s say, I didn’t, I couldn’t take it to the maximum and that yes, it was a mistake Mika: - uhhh! - My loose cannon/wild card wandering. Sometimes it's a bit like that, uncontrollable. But when he is in the right area he’s a treasure/gem. -Very nice, very cute. You haven’t sung well the first part of the song. For you, the challenge is to concentrate, to keep the focus Leonardo: - This is my goal, my mission here Mika: - You have created a beautiful energy, the only thing, because there's always something, is a bit more precise voice, a little more technique. Are you crying? Leonardo: - No, no, no, no Mika: - What are you doing? Leonardo: - I'm thinking Mika: - In this way Leonardo: - Yes, yes, in this way Mika: - One thing, guys. You must know when to be hard on yourself Leonardo: -Yes Mika: - And also when to say that things are going well - Generosity without judgment, without judging not even the other contestants – Let’s see the positive optimism and the criticism of the public about you. @alice: The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special and provoke emotion. No one is like Leonardo. @ francy: The embrace between Mika and Leonardo moved me, I admit it. @mikasounds: Leonardo, you cry too much Leonardo: - Ah, but @mikasounds it’s you! I'm doing the final part of the translation. I'll edit this as soon as I'll finish it. Edit: The final part of the translation Mika: - Okay, let's go to doing the assignments for this week Leonardo: - Come on! Mika: There are two, huh! Two assignments for every two of you this week. See you later Leonardo: - What it means two? Mika: - Ahah! Luca: - Why two? Mika: - Two songs, yes yes Luca: - Why two? Leonardo: - I don't know why two. Do you ask it to me? Luca: - What do I know, maybe you know! Leonardo: - No, I don’t know Luca: - Ahia/ouch! This is heavy Mika: - Let’s/do we start with Leonardo? LC: - Okay Mika: - Okay, I call him. Leo ?! Are you tense/anxious? Leonardo: - I think it will be difficult. .. I think it will be.. I don’t know.. it will be hard/tough Mika: - There are two rounds this week Leonardo: - Wow! Mika: - Which means, that in the beginning you have to sing a song, a piece of a song you've already sung. Before starting any other performances, one will be eliminated Leonardo: - You risks a lot, yes. You risk much Mika: - And therefore we chose a song that will put you a little in a beautiful light. It's this one Leonardo: - Ahh! Mika: - Okay? Leonardo: - As first song he assigned me “Stay with me" by Sam Smith, which I have already brought at/to the bootcamp Mika: - And after, the song you’ll sing is a song by a British artist. This artist has signed a contract when he was 18 years old with Simon Cowell. His name is Labrinth and this song it's as if he had written this piece for you. Listen well, it’s called "Jealous". This song is a huge success in England. I see a performance full of emotion, but in all simplicity Leonardo: - As the first impact I felt like crying, but then I said: stop, stop, don’t get caught by the enthusiasm, but you have to focus! Mika: - Do you like it? Leonardo: - Yes Mika: - Yes? Really? Leonardo: - I really like it. It touches/moves you. That is, the song penetrated me in the heart, yes Mika: - And this is a very powerful thing. This is a sign that the song is really strong/great. I think you're the only person in this whole season of XF that could make this song, and do it well. Now he is ready to attack it, to get into this song Leonardo: - Thank you. Ciao/Bye Mika: - Thanks to you Leonardo: - Ciao, ciao/Bye, bye Mika: - He likes the song Leonardo: - We’ll see Luca: - "I'm jealous of the rain", do you like it? I like so much that song Leonardo: - We’ll see Mika: - According to his reaction he understood the responsibility Leonardo: - It’s necessary to study it, it’s necessary to study it well Mika: - Let's/Do we go ahead now with Luca? LC: - Come on, call Luca Mika: - He is very nervous. Let’s breathe. Positivity. Luca! Luca: - Here I am Mika: - Here you are. Enter! Luca: - There is a bit of a double work this week. and it’s an important and difficult week Mika: - There are two rounds. It's a double elimination Luca: - How stressful! Mika: - It‘s a double elimination next week Luca: - Damn! Because, do you know what the problem is? It’s that I have just gone to the showdown/sing-off Mika: - We have chosen a piece that you already have sung, I hope it will put you in the right light/highlight you in the right way Luca: - It’s a song that I sang at/to the bootcamp and the title is "Take me to Church" of Hozier Mika: - I remember the moment when you've sung this song, I said to myself: okay! For the second part of the show, I want to trust you. So this week I chose a song that will put you, I hope, at ease Luca: - Wow! It’s beautiful! "All of the stars" of Ed Sheeran. It's a song that I feel inside Mika: - This week I decided to put Luca at ease and to give him the chance, finally, to sing a song that he loves/adores. - It's a song of young love, believable, by you. And therefore you have to work. Luca: - Yes - to sing it well. Let’s/Do we go on? Luca: - Let's go! Mika: - Let's go! Luca: - Let's go! Mika: - I'll be very hard on you this week Luca: - I know Mika: - You need it Luca: - Okay Mika: - Okay? Luca: - Okay LC: - Ciao/Bye, luca Luca: - Ciao/Bye Mika: - Ciao/Bye Luca: - Ciao/Bye Leonardo: - What is that? Luca: - "All of the stars" of Ed Sheeran Leonardo: - Ah! Luca: - It’s beautiful Leonardo: - I recognized it, I recognized it Mika: - So, let's go on LC: - Let's go Mika: - Let’s work

In this interview, in particular, he said it was Mika to ask him to do a duet with him, but here: Mika said that Fedez asked him if he was interested in doing a duet with him, and then Mika made him listen to the piano and vocals of this song that he and Skyler Stonestreet had begun, but that he didn't know how to put it in the context of NPIH. About his troubles, they weresn't just on his declarations about "No Expo", I had already explained them here: http://www.mikafanclub.com/topic/26273-mika-in-italian-press-2010-2015/page-56#entry4015563 " The brat Fedez. As there was/there is a “case Morgan”, there was/is also a “case Fedez”, happened just a few days before the press conference and a journalist asked Mika his opinion about it: http://milano.repubb...552/?refresh_ce Summarizing briefly: At 5.30, Fedez, while he was with his girlfriend and some friends, was approached by a group of guys in the luxurious restaurant with disco 'Just Cavalli' for a selfie. But he refused, apparently in a bad way, and it has led to a discussion that has degenerated when the rapper launched a bottle against a glass plate. A piece of glass hit in the head a girl who was accompanied in not serious conditions to the hospital Fatebenefratelli. Upon arrival of the police, then, the rapper would also railed against the agents, and this cost him a charge for insulting a public official. And he was later sued by the injured girl and another guy, who said he was insulted by him. Obviously Fedez and his lawyers have denied this official version by the police, drawn up after collecting the testimonies, all agreed on what had happened, of clients and staff of the 'Just Cavalli'. " But often he says many bulls***s in interviews, on socials, etc., and not from now. Like, for example, when in the interview on "Oggi", he said he was the only one of the judges of XF to not have an author (or authors), when he himself has admitted it in interviews of the last year, the author said it, declaring on his CV, and there are many articles that say the same thing, and just about everybody knows of this author who writes everything he says on the show, since the auditions, and also collaborates to write his songs and his political discourses in his concerts. He's just made in that way, at least in his job, when it's convenient for him. He's young, ambitious and has to manage his great success, so sometimes he exaggerates the things. Just this.

The first part of the translation: Mika called Luca to talk about what happened the night before (this daily was recorded on Friday) Mika: - This week we have a big responsibility, after yesterday. I saw something important: a great talent with a fragility. So I want to emphasize/to value this thing. You must be at ease. Let's find your key. I swear this thing, I make a promise to you with all my heart. Luca: - Okay Mika: - We/let's go on? Luca: - We/let's go on Mika: - Now you have to catch up with Leonardo to the loft. Ciao/Bye Luca: - No, wait, wait. In this way Mika: - I've never done this in my life Luca: - Mika, for his part has decided to commit to highlight a part of me that, up to now, with the pieces/songs, I haven’t had a chance to show to Leonardo: - He said he would like me to be less contrived and that he would give me something to reflect me more Leonardo: - I really hope that Luca will calm down this week, but mostly because he is capable Luca: - Let's hope for the best Mika: - We don’t cry. No tears, it’s not good/that’s not okay. We do nothing of the disappointment/ we don’t do anything with the disappointment Leonardo: - To create an energy at 100% positive, at 100% pure Mika: - Let's start with you. In the end, it was not the best choice for you, ok? So we know this and I wanted to say before we watch your performance, so we don’t stay on this thing. Let's watch your performance Luca: - With regard to the song, I was surprised, but in a positive way. All in all, from the technical point of view there weren’t big/great problems Mika: - With Luca the totality (of his performance) didn’t work, it has not worked. The aspect a bit sentimental was lost because he did something quite theatrical. - You sang well enough, a song that is not easy to sing, particularly in this version of the Pet Shop Boys. With this choreography, the performance is gone ... (down). I didn't understand this thing during the rehearsals. When I saw all this on the screen today, I saw it all crystal clear, all clear, and so wrong. You seemed a bit like Justin Bieber close to a superstar of lingerie. A fashion thing. Everything was a little wrong, in this sense Luca: - I prefer the simplicity when I’m singing Mika: - So there was not even a gram, even a thread of emotion that remained on stage during this performance. We must always put yourself and your voice in value, especially. And from this we learned so much. I have to be very, very careful because the show is important, but these guys are not some huge/very big stars. I'll post the second part tomorrow.

This year more than previous ones there is a big disparity between the contestants, I've talked about it in a previous post, and there are on the one part those with more experience both on stage, because they have done many concerts, even out of Italy, both on records making because some of them have already released albums and EPs (and especially in the case of Urban Strangers now they have an EP in the charts Italian, so big anomaly of this year's show) and on the other part we have very young boys and girls with no experience at all, so it's obvious that everything is unbalanced to/towards one side. In addition the many fans of Fedez make a big difference. Actually, I think Fedez has encouraged and he's encouraging this thing because is even more publicity for him. Mika doesn't care very much, also because he stays very little in Italy, but it's interesting to see how his joking and ironic comment, that actually had the opposite purpose, that was to make fun of these shippers, it has been manipulated on the contrary, even in the Italian press. And X Factor is encouraging it too, for obvious reasons. They like trash. I just hope they and everyone will stop when finally the show will end.

Thanks for sharing Fedez,as usual, tells some lies (about Beautiful Disaster and his troubles), when it's convenient for him, but let's hope the video is good, I'm curious to see it

I saw it only now, so I can do the translation tomorrow.

I wanted to comment before, but it didn't seem the case, due to the terrorist attacks of the past few days. Obviously "the show must be go on", but the next live show with two eliminations perhaps could have been avoided. I don't like the cynicism of making a "dramatic" episode for TV ratings after all that has happened, also because it adds tension to an atmosphere certainly not cheerful, for young guys already strained by the fear of the competition and I don't know their state of mind now, in addition to not think at all to one of their "judges", who so far has been in Paris, who will have, as usual, to face the gratuitous malice and criticism of the playing strategies of his colleagues. This is the game, a game to which Mika certainly is not suitable because he's too gentleman and honest to do strategies, to play dirty and react aggressively (as well as his concept/idea of the music and the fact that he doesn't consider the guys on his teams as pawns of a game), but, at least the double elimination could be postponed to the next week and they could lighten the mood. To pay an homage at the beginning, maybe with the contestants (and Skin?) who sing (Imagine?), and then go on with the usual trash show, isn't very nice. But this is only my opinion. The next episode there will be also as a guest Franco Battiato, but he already said he will not sing the duet with Mika, so I'm curious to see when Mika will finally have a little promotion for the repack of his album on the show and if we ever see one of his performance in which he sings alone there. And not only the trash skits, and obviously the duet, with Fedez to please Shippersland.

Translation : Mika and the OSM on record: an amazed/amazing memory(souvenir) Mika underlines it in no uncertain terms (explicitly/clearly): the three concerts which he gave with the OSM and his/its director Simon Leclerc in/to the Symphony House, in February, were one of the most beautiful experiences of his life. Caught in the vortex of another of those crazy days which he has the secret, Mika took 15 minutes of his time yesterday to talk with La Presse of his symphonic album recorded in concert with the OSM last winter. A very short break between the recordings of the programmes The X Factor, in Italy, and The Voice, in France, and some promotion in Europe for the launch of his symphonic record made in Montreal, which is in the stores this morning. Mika already told us: the three concerts which he gave with the OSM and his boss director Simon Leclerc in/to the Symphony House, in February, were one of the most beautiful experiences of his professional and personal life. After spending hours listening to the recordings of the aforementioned concerts, he keeps an even more amazed memory of this magnificent orchestra and the Symphony House, this jewel case that welcomed them. "The three concerts were recorded, but we selected songs from the first three. Not necessarily because it was the best, but because there was a particular emotion quality that night. " In his job, he adds, we record and correct in studio, but we rarely have the opportunity to burn a record like this, with all the imperfections that supposes a live recording. "In life, as well in the music as in the sex, it’s better when there are imperfections," he said laughing. Yes, he agrees, this symphonic album has in his/its orchestrations a cinematic/film quality: "When we prepared the arrangement with Simon, I had in mind very specific images that I shared with him." These Montreal concerts also represented a beautiful/great challenge for the singer whose classical training/formation shows itself/is evident in particular when he sings Over My Shoulder of his head voice. But for Mika, the most important thing is elsewhere ". In preparing these concerts, I first of all wanted to break barriers, that it is no more pop or classical music, but the music tout court/as whole" An upcoming DVD This is indeed what he had in mind when he conceived in Montreal's his third album, The Origin of Love, whose songs lend themselves maybe better than others to the symphonic treatment, he considers. Mika could have cite as an example the majestic Underwater, but he rather talk about Overrated, which, however, was not been included on the album with the OSM. "Oh! that's right, it'll be on the DVD, "he adds immediately. The DVD in question, he tells us, was shot last month by the TV of Sky at Teatro Sociale of Como, Italy, with the complicity of Simon Leclerc and an Italian orchestra. The association with Sky allowed to finance the making/shooting of this symphony concert, but Mika had to convince other investors to make the thing possible. This DVD should appear next year, once Sky will have broadcast the concert. "We first did, with Simon, a secret concert with a small orchestra in a garden in Rome, for Valentino, and then we said that we could shoot a DVD, what we were able to do in Como . In Montreal, we wanted to focus on the music and not to have 40 cameras that go around/circulate everywhere. " The symphonic adventure of Mika and Simon Leclerc will continue, confirms the singer. "Yes, we'll do other concerts that I can’t talk about. But this will not happen in Canada, or in France or in Italy ... " And if it was made in Japan or in Korea, where Mika will return to sing soon and which are the only two countries besides Canada, where the album with the OSM is sold in the same way? Because around the world, the record of Mika and the OSM is part of a package also including his last studio album, No Place in Heaven. "Symphonic albums, they aren’t made anymore, Mika explains. Yet, I deal with a record company which judged that it was better to take advantage of the holiday period to launch a digipak in which we would also find the symphonic CD. " Mika has no concert, pop or symphonic, planned/scheduled in Quebec in the near future. "Invite me!", He suggests in bursting out laughing. In any case, the spontaneous proposal made to him by André Ménard to be the invited programmer of a series at the Jazz Festival hasn't fallen on deaf ears: "I wrote to him and I wait for his answer."

Mika, esce il nuovo disco deluxe. "Io, normalissimo dandy" Intervista alla superstar, tra orchestre sinfoniche e impegni tv. Esce oggi la versione deluxe di 'No Place in Heaven': due cd, cinque inediti, un paio di duetti e il live con la Montreal Symphonic Orchestra di MARCO MANGIAROTTI Milano, 13 novembre 2015 - "Vuoi un caffè? Filtrato, perché la macchina dell’espresso fa schifo. Andiamo in cucina". Il filtro se l’è portato da Londra, l’Arabica "è delle Galapagos, la prenoto in un vecchio negozio vicino a dove mi fanno le camicie. Privilegio che divido con la Regina Elisabetta". Siamo nella bella casa milanese di Mika, centro, inizio Novecento, arredamento pastiche di stili, provocazioni, gusto e divertissement. "È arrivato Giulio Cappellini, architetto, imprenditore e guru del mobile, con un camion pieno di cose diverse. E io ho arredato così". Esce oggi la versione deluxe di “No Place in Heaven”, due cd, cinque inediti, due duetti, il live con la Montreal Symphonic Orchestra. "Ho ripreso “Beautiful Disaster”, che non era entrato in un album precedente, l’ho fatto sentire a Fedez, gli ho detto: devi entrare nel cuore della canzone. Mi ha risposto: fra una settimana hai il testo. Pensavo fossimo lontanissimi, ho scoperto una persona senza paure, con un’energia che mi piace. Con Franco Battiato abbiamo registrato la versione inglese di “Centro di gravità permanente”. Lui è l’intellettuale dandy dell’Italia post boom, colto, ironico, orgoglioso di tutto quello che ha fatto. Anche di una hit pop. Non vive la sua popolarità con finta sofferenza, ma con equilibrio e distacco. L’inedito “Feels Like Love” e la nuova versione di “Hurts” completano l’album in studio". La vera sfida è stata registrare con un’orchestra sinfonica. "Ho tormentato il direttore e arrangiatore Simon Leclerc ogni giorno con i miei appunti! Lui compone per il cinema e questo ha fatto la differenza: ogni canzone è diventata la colonna sonora di un piccolo film. Abbiamo deciso di non usare batteria o groove, le ritmiche pop, ma il violoncello e le percussioni classiche. È antologico ma dedicato soprattutto al mio terzo album “The Origin Of Love”, elettronico sinfonico: qui finalmente si capisce tutto". Mi ha colpito una canzone: “Ordinary Man”. Uno che ascolta Nina Simone e ordina i suoi dischi. "È il testo più importante. Lui è totalmente finto normale. Ma tutti noi abbiamo paura di essere normali e cerchiamo chi ci fa sentire speciali. Vogliamo un amore che ci dica: sei diverso, sei stupendo. E quando qualcuno ci lascia siamo così tristi, così profondamente messi in discussione. Non eri speciale. Anch’io avevo paura di essere banale, ma adesso me ne infischio. E Nina Simone è meravigliosamente normale". Il tuo shopping preferito? "Ok, i vestiti, gli oggetti. Ma mi diverto a comprare i prodotti per la casa. Al supermercato sono felice come un maiale nel fango. Detersivi, saponi, ogni cosa. E ho scoperto i Mercati Generali, dove vado con occhiali e barba lunga per non dover fare le foto con saponi e carne per cani insieme ai fan e finire così sulle loro cartoline di Natale. Il massimo è la spesa da qui al telefonino sull’app Ocado, che viene consegnata al mio fidanzato a Londra". La tua parola nuvola è dandy? "Il contrario di snob, l’eleganza interiore. Guardare il prezzo di un detersivo e ogni tanto comprare la cosa più costosa. Essere ossessionato da Cole Porter, ammirare Kurt Weill, imparare da Rufus Wainwright. Ammirare un grande dandy italiano come Giulio Cappellini". La tua vita com’è? "Tre giorni a Milano per “X Factor”, poi due a Parigi per “The Voice” francese. E Londra, a casa ma anche in Bbc per un progetto. Trovo sempre stimolante Milano, ci torno da due anni e mezzo, Francia e Italia sono gli unici paesi che hanno tutto". Hai vissuto a Londra e Parigi, ma sei nato a Beirut. "Ci torno a fine dicembre, per incontrare i giovani profughi siriani con le Nazioni Unite. Ebrei, cristiani, musulmani, drusi. Montagna, mare, deserto, l’acqua e la valle della Bekaa. Una convivenza rotta dall’esterno. Profumo di gelsomino e di pane al sesamo". Il doppio album di un cantautore e musicista che non ha paura di raccontare il suo mondo e mostrare il suo cuore, che canta e scrive come nessuno un songbook, anche francese anni ’70, da musical. Anche sinfonico e diverso. di MARCO MANGIAROTTI Translation Mika, comes out the new album deluxe. "I, very normal dandy" Interview with the superstar, between symphony orchestras and TV commitments. Comes out today the deluxe version of 'No Place in Heaven': two CDs, five unpublished/unreleased songs, a couple of duets and the live with the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra Milano, 13 novembre 2015 - "Do you want some coffee? Filtered, because the espresso machine sucks. Let's go in the kitchen". He has brought the filter from London, the Arabica "is of the Galapagos, I reserve it in an old shop near where they make me shirts. Privilege I share with Queen Elizabeth". We are in the beautiful Milanese home of Mika, (in) center, early twentieth century, furniture in/with pastiche of styles, provocations, taste and entertainment/amusement. " Giulio Cappellini has arrived, architect, entrepreneur and guru of furniture, with a truck full of different things. And I decorated it this way". Comes out today the deluxe version of "No Place in Heaven", two CDs, five unreleased songs, two duets, the live with the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra. "I took up "Beautiful Disaster " again, which wasn’t entered in a previous album, I made listen to Fedez, I said to him: you have to get into the heart of the song. He replied: in a week you’ll have the text/lyrics. I thought we were very different/worlds apart, I found a person without fear, with an energy that I like. With Franco Battiato we recorded the English version of "Center of gravity". He is the intellectual dandy of post boom Italy, cultured, ironic, proud of everything he's done. Even of a pop hit. He doesn’t live his popularity in fake suffering, but with balance and detachment. The new/unreleased song "Feels Like Love" and the new version of "Hurts" complete the studio album". The real challenge was to record with a symphony orchestra. "I tormented musical director and arranger Simon Leclerc every day with my notes! He composes for film and this has made a difference: each song became the soundtrack to a short film. We decided not to use drums or groove, the pop rhythms, but the cello and classical percussion. it's anthological, but especially dedicated to my third album "the Origin of Love", electronic symphony: here finally we understand everything". I was impressed by a song: "Ordinary Man". One who listens to Nina Simone and reorganize his records. "It’s the most important text. He is totally fake normal. But we all have fear of being normal and look for those who makes us feel special. We want a love that tell us: you're different, you're amazing. And when someone leaves us, we are so sad, so deeply called into question (/that so deeply reconsider ourself and our certainties). You weren’t special. I too was afraid to be banal/ordinary but now I don’t care. And Nina Simone is wonderfully normal". Your favorite shopping? "Okay, the clothes, objects. But I like to buy products for the home. At the supermarket I'm happy as a pig in mud. Detergents, soaps, everything. And I found the General Markets, where I go with glasses and long beard, for don't have to make the photos with soaps and meat for dogs together with the fans and to end so on their cards of Christmas.The best is the shopping from here to the phone on the app Ocado, which is delivered to my boyfriend/partner in London". Your "cloud" word is dandy? "The opposite of snob, the internal elegance. To look at the price of a detergent and sometimes to buy the most expensive thing.To be obsessed by Cole Porter, to admire Kurt Weill, to learn from Rufus Wainwright.To admire a great Italian dandy as Giulio Cappellini". What is your life like? "Three days in Milan for" X Factor", then two in Paris for "The Voice France". And London, at home but also in BBC for a project. I always find stimulating Milan, I return there from two years and a half, France and Italy are the only countries that have everything". You have lived in London and Paris, but you were born in Beirut. "I return there to the end of December, to meet the young Syrian refugees with the United Nations. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze. Mountains, sea, desert, water and the Bekaa Valley. A cohabitation broken by the outside. Perfume of jasmine and sesamo bread (bread to the sesamo)". The double album of a singer-songwriter and musician who is not afraid to tell his world and to show his heart, who writes and sings like no one a songbook, even French years '70, as musicals. Even/also symphonic and different.

http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/musique/musique-classique/201511/13/01-4920433-mika-et-losm-sur-disque-un-souvenir-emerveille.php Publié le 13 novembre 2015 à 08h33 | Mis à jour à 08h33 Mika et l'OSM sur disque: un souvenir émerveillé Mika le souligne sans détour: les trois concerts qu'il a donnés avec l'OSM et son chef Simon Leclerc à la Maison symphonique, en février, ont été l'une des plus belles expériences de sa vie. PHOTO ÉDOUARD PLANTE-FRÉCHETTE, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE ALAIN DE REPENTIGNY La Presse Pris dans le tourbillon d'une autre de ces journées folles dont il a le secret, Mika a pris 15 minutes de son temps, hier, pour causer avec La Presse de son album symphonique enregistré en concert avec l'OSM l'hiver dernier. Une très courte pause entre les enregistrements des émissions The X Factor, en Italie, et The Voice, en France, et un peu de promotion en Europe pour le lancement de son disque symphonique made in Montréal, qui est dans les bacs ce matin. Mika nous l'a déjà dit: les trois concerts qu'il a donnés avec l'OSM et son chef Simon Leclerc à la Maison symphonique, en février, ont été l'une des plus belles expériences de sa vie professionnelle et personnelle. Après avoir passé des heures à écouter les enregistrements desdits concerts, il garde un souvenir encore plus émerveillé de cet orchestre magnifique et de la Maison symphonique, cet écrin qui les a accueillis. «On a enregistré les trois concerts, mais on a surtout choisi des chansons du premier des trois. Pas nécessairement parce que c'était le meilleur, mais parce qu'il y avait une qualité d'émotion particulière ce soir-là.» Dans son métier, ajoute-t-il, on enregistre et on corrige en studio, mais on a rarement l'occasion de graver un disque comme celui-là, avec toutes les imperfections que suppose un enregistrement en direct. «Dans la vie, aussi bien dans la musique que dans le sexe, c'est meilleur quand il y a des imperfections», dit-il en rigolant. Oui, acquiesce-t-il, cet album symphonique a dans ses orchestrations une qualité cinématographique: «Quand on préparait les arrangements avec Simon, j'avais en tête des images très précises que je partageais avec lui.» Ces concerts montréalais représentaient également un beau défi pour le chanteur dont la formation classique se manifeste notamment quand il chante Over My Shoulder de sa voix de tête. Mais pour Mika, l'essentiel est ailleurs: «En préparant ces concerts, je voulais d'abord briser des barrières, que ce ne soit plus de la pop ou du classique, mais de la musique tout court.» Un DVD à venir C'est d'ailleurs ce qu'il avait à l'esprit quand il a conçu à Montréal son troisième album, The Origin of Love, dont les chansons se prêtent peut-être mieux que les autres au traitement symphonique, estime-t-il. Mika aurait pu citer en exemple la majestueuse Underwater, mais il parle plutôt d'Overrated, qui n'a pas pourtant été retenue sur l'album avec l'OSM. «Oh! c'est vrai, elle va être sur le DVD», ajoute-t-il aussitôt. Le DVD en question, nous apprend-il, a été tourné le mois dernier par la télé de Sky au Teatro Sociale de Côme, en Italie, avec la complicité de Simon Leclerc et d'un orchestre italien. L'association avec Sky a permis de financer le tournage de ce concert symphonique, mais Mika a dû convaincre d'autres investisseurs pour rendre la chose possible. Ce DVD devrait paraître l'an prochain, une fois que Sky aura diffusé le concert. «On a d'abord fait, avec Simon, un concert secret avec un petit orchestre dans un jardin à Rome, pour Valentino, puis on s'est dit qu'on pourrait tourner un DVD, ce qu'on a pu faire à Côme. À Montréal, on voulait se concentrer sur la musique et non pas avoir 40 caméras qui se promènent partout.» L'aventure symphonique de Mika et de Simon Leclerc va se poursuivre, confirme le chanteur. «Oui, on va faire d'autres concerts dont je ne peux pas parler. Mais ça ne se fera pas au Canada, ni en France ou en Italie...» Et si ça se faisait au Japon ou en Corée, où Mika doit retourner chanter bientôt et qui sont les deux seuls pays, outre le Canada, où l'album avec l'OSM est vendu tel quel? Parce qu'ailleurs dans le monde, le disque de Mika et l'OSM fait partie d'un coffret comprenant également son dernier album studio, No Place in Heaven. «Des albums symphoniques, il ne s'en fait plus, explique Mika. Or, je fais affaire avec une maison de disques qui a jugé que c'était mieux de profiter de la période des Fêtes pour lancer un digipak dans lequel on trouverait également le CD symphonique.» Mika n'a pas de concert, pop ou symphonique, prévu au Québec dans un avenir prochain. «Invitez-moi!», lance-t-il en pouffant de rire. En tout cas, la proposition spontanée que lui a faite André Ménard d'être le programmateur invité d'une série au Festival de jazz n'est pas tombée dans l'oreille d'un sourd: «Je lui ai écrit et j'attends sa réponse.» POP SYMPHONIQUE. Mika et l'OSM. Mika et l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Universal Music.

Can we hope in a video of the song's version with just Mika, without Fedez?

http://www.giornaledibrescia.it/sport/morosini-da-x-factor-in-attesa-del-s%C3%AC-di-mika-1.3047582 TALENTO DEL BRESCIA Morosini da X Factor in attesa del «sì» di Mika SPORT 7 nov 2015, 12:36 Tra il campo con la maglia del Brescia e la sua cameretta con il pianoforte, nella casa di Alzano Lombardo. Leonardo Morosini, trequartista-musicista, cresciuto tra campi e conservatorio. A quelli di Sky Sport non sono sfuggiti i filmati che circolano in rete con Morosini nei panni dell’interprete di grandi pezzi di musica leggera. In italiano come in inglese (di cui la madre è professoressa). E allora ecco la domanda che negli studi della tv satellitare si sono fatti: Leonardo Morosini avrà l’«X Factor»? Nei giorni scorsi il giornalista Diego Ponzé ha fatto esibire Leo (vestito con la maglia del Brescia alternata a quella della Nazionale) in pezzi di Cesare Cremonini, Luciano Ligabue e Fabrizio De André. Con l’idea di sottoporre le esibizioni a Mika, uno dei quattro giudici del talent. Il quale sarà chiamato a dire «per me è un sì» o «per me è un no». Inutile dire che Leo aspetta con ansia e fibrillazione il verdetto. http://www.bresciaoggi.it/home/sport/brescia-calcio/morosini-a-x-factor-br-ma-il-calcio-br-prima-di-tutto-1.4424728 Morosini a X Factor «Ma il calcio prima di tutto» Una certezza: non lascerà il calcio per la musica. Un sogno: arrivare a dimostrare sul palco quello che finora dimostra al chiuso della sua cameretta. Leonardo Morosini è un fantasista 2.0 anche al pianoforte. Sul campo è più un assaltatore che un assistman, come il calcio moderno esige. Nella musica utilizza il mezzo numero uno, Internet, per far arrivare un distillato della sua bravura a chiunque voglia consultare la sua pagina Facebook. E la sua esposizione mediatica ampia - calciatore professionista, musicista in rete - rende logico l’interessamento di Sky, che l’ha contattato per X Factor. DALLE PAROLE ai fatti: giovedì Morosini sarà a Milano e, dopo il «live» della quarta puntata, all’Extra vedrà il giudice degli Under Mika prendere in esame la performance registrata nei giorni scorsi. Translation TALENT OF BRESCIA Morosini to X Factor waiting for the "yes" of Mika Between the soccer/football field with the shirt of Brescia and his room with the piano, in the house of Alzano Lombardo. Leonardo Morosini, attacking midfielder -musician, grew up between soccer/football fields and conservatory. To those of Sky Sports did not escape the videos circulating online/on the net with Morosini in the role of the interpreter of great pieces of light music. In Italian as in English (of which his mother is a teacher). So here is the question that in the studies of the satellite TV have made to themselves: has Leonardo Morosini the '' X Factor ''? The past few days the journalist Diego Ponze has made Leo perform (dressed in the shirt of Brescia Calcio alternated with that of the National) songs of Cesare Cremonini, Luciano Ligabue and Fabrizio De André. With the idea of submitting the performances to Mika, one of the four judges of the talent. Who will be called to say, "For me it is a yes" or "for me it's a no". Needless to say, Leo eagerly and with fibrillation awaits the verdict. Morosini on/to X Factor "But soccer/football above all" A certainty: he will not leave soccer/football for music. A dream: get to show on stage what so far he shows inside his bedroom. Leonardo Morosini is a (soccer) offensive midfielder/striker 2.0 also at the piano. On the field he's more an attacker (striker) than a assistman, as the modern game demands. In music he uses the means number one, Internet, to get a distillation of his skill to anyone who wants to see his Facebook page. And his wide media exposure - professional soccer/football player, musician on the net - makes logical the involvement of Sky, who has contacted him for X Factor. From words to facts: on Thursday Morosini will be in Milan and, after the "live" of the fourth episode, at the Extra Factor we'll see the judge of the Under Boys, Mika, examine the performance recorded in recent days.

Yes, I totally agree with you about the education. I just think she was too disappointed to realize this and to pretend. However, the following day she apologized on her facebook page. In my opinion, she didn't expect to win, she was disappointed because they had given false hope to her, into thinking that she could face and deal with that competition and with the other contestants, because she wasn't ready, that's obvious. How such a young girl can realize in what situation she is going to get in? She and all the others live their dream, some people are more aware and some less. She was thrown to the lions (or wolves). For the TV ratings. Really all too exaggerated. She read for six weeks all the horrible insults directed at her, how is this fair?

About the third live, continues the favorite game of the season: all against Mika. For the next live I would recommend to Mika to have Valentino Maison make him an armor with a sword or a spiked club. It would be much more useful than the usual clothes! Or something like this: The scenography for Luca inspired by The Little Prince, although I think no one has explained this during the live, was beautiful Fedez is always "furbo"= cunning/sly and strategist. He will do anything to win, and he certainly will win with Urban Strangers, who have become untouchable. If someone didn't understand the polemic with Mika about the song "Rape Me", written by Kurt Cobain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_Me "Nirvana had wanted to play "Rape Me" during its performance at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. WhileMTV initially told the band they could play any song they wanted, the network later insisted that the group play "Smells Like Teen Spirit" instead. Hours before the show, Nirvana refused to play. However, due to concerns that the network could boycott other artists on the group's label if the group refused to play the show, Nirvana ultimately settled on performing its then-latest single "Lithium". At the start of the performance, Cobain started playing and singing "Rape Me" instead; he said he did so "just to give [MTV] a little heart palpitation". Panicked, MTV was moments away from switching from the live performance to a commercial when the band stopped playing "Rape Me" and started playing "Lithium". Kurt Cobain conceived "Rape Me" as a life-affirming anti-rape song. He told Spin, "It's like she's saying, 'Rape me, go ahead, rape me, beat me. You'll never kill me. I'll survive this and I'm gonna ####ing rape you one of these days and you won't even know it.'" Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad stated that "Rape Me" seemed to deal with Cobain's distaste of the media's coverage on his personal life. While Cobain said the song was written long before his troubles with drug addiction became public, he agreed that the song could be viewed in that light. Cobain also stated in a 1993 interview that "Rape Me" was a song meant to be so blunt that no one could misinterpret its meaning." So while Mika said that this song wasn't appropriate to be sung by the two boys, Fedez said Mika was a moralist and a conservative because he had been shocked "by the lyrics", making even a quote by Pasolini, who had nothing to do with it.

About Eleonora, I don't want to judge her too bad, although obviously she was wrong to react in that way in front of cameras, especially towards Skin, and hasn't been able to control herself, first of all because she's a very young girl, very genuine and definitely still immature and impulsive, but that can't pretend, as others do in those situations, on television. Also, we can't know everything that has happened and everything that they said to her, maybe even to delude her a little, during this month, and even before, behind the scenes, because we see only a small part, and many things are also manipulated to make see what they want. I had thought, in fact, even before they said the names of the finalists to the live shows, that these were too difficult and heavy for her, just because of the hostility of the majority of the public to her, since the auditions: on socials, in the fb pages and twitter account of XF there were many insults and very bad personal insults, which had nothing to do with knowing how to sing. Only after complaints from a couple of people on fb, the handlers urged to avoid insults and have deleted some comments, but on twitter they did nothing, and also Skin responded very defensively, and I think wrongly, on her fb page to those that badly, and even insulting her, polemicized for her choice.I can't think of the tension, pressure and fear of this young girl to deal with a stage and a situation so difficult. On Friday Daily, the backstage of the third live, after knowing of having to go to showdown, she was very discouraged and made it clear that she wanted to return home to her family. And the usual interviews and the performance in front of the fans the day after the live were canceled by Sky and the production because she was too upset. Not everyone can deal/cope with these shows, there is a lot of pressure, especially for young boys and girls with no experience, they don't have to worry only about singing well. And the comments on socials every year becomes more and more bad, because now the majority of the audience are teenagers who love to do these things. I don't think this thing has been handled well by the production of the program. When you think only to the TV ratings and not to people, things don't always go well. And picking on a girl of 18 years doesn't seem very fair to me.

Here the songs of the third Live Show: Under Boys Leonardo Lay me down di Sam Smith Luca Runnin' nella versione (in the version of) di Naughty Boy e Beyoncè Under Girls Margherita The yellow flicker beat di Lorde Enrica I try di Macy Gray Eleonora Ma il cielo è sempre più blu di Rino Gaetano Over Davide A change is gonna come di Sam Cook Giò Sada Love me two times dei Doors Groups Moseek The Passenger di Iggy Pop Landlord Universo di Cristina Donà Urban Strangers Rape Me dei Nirvana

I saw that in Amazon Canada there is only one disc: "No Place In Heaven (Performed Live with L'Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal)". Does anybody know if there will be all 20 songs in it?

You are welcome!

From 2:20 to 3:18 Mika: For us the competition starts, tonight. I’m much more charged-up (excited/enthusiastic) and even more worried because I want to defend these boys. (To Elio) Oh no! What have you done? Elio: Don’t you like me? It’s a tribute to the Italian style of the 70s, this Mika: A tribute? (To Skin) What do you think about it? Elio: See, that she likes it? See, that she likes it? Mika: You're an ugly/bad porn star Skin: I like an ugly/bad porn star Elio: Thank you, thanks skin, thanks skin 28:48 Mika: I think Eva was not really in style.. in the wave, and in the style of this season of X Factor and for this he went home.

Yes, I saw that they have become so insanely deluded by their fantasies that at least one of these crazy girls said that "Origin Of Love" was not written for and dedicated to the partner of Mika, Andy, and that he never said that he loves him. Their madness increases more and more. Poor things!

Yes, I agree with you, Fedez is encouraging it a lot, unfortunately. About the competition, he has also learned very well the tactics of Morgan, less blatantly but just as effectively, to belittle Mika and all his choices, and his boys even in insignificant details.This is the game and he plays it very well, with all his collaborators, of the company he owns, who help him a lot. (Edit) And obviously (this is a curiosity) his author or one of his authors, Matteo Grandi, a journalist and blogger, very active on twitter during the broadcast of XF, who collaborated on the lyrics of his latest album and the satirical and political monologues of his concerts and elsewhere, I suppose. Matteo Grandi Yes, I liked Eva too.