Elwendin

Unofficial MFC reunion is on its way! I love that!!!!!
I have such good memories of the previous Fazio aftershow. 

As for the things we'd rather be doing than our money-earning jobs, well... he earns money just the same. Wouldn't you rather go to gigs instead of going to the office if they paid you to do so?

I wouldn't say just the same tho.... different way, different amount.

It should be obvious to all by now what Mika's real job is. It doesn't matter what he said in Brooklyn. I'm sure we all have things we'd rather be doing than our money-earning jobs but I still have to go to the office most days even if I'd rather be going to gigs. 

I think you mean that: 

I agree. He said the same thing in Naples one year ago. One year during which he's made two weekly tv shows and only a bunch of -private- gigs.

I used to be a dog trainer back in the day and I quit for several reasons. Now I happen to help somebody with their dogs here and there, and when it all goes smoothly it's very rewarding, so I might occasionally say "it's good to be back to this". But I never say "it's good to be back to my job", cause I am full aware that I'm an employee now, even if I'm still into dogs and stuff. This doesn't imply that I'm not good at it, nor that he's not good at it. We even might put more effort in it since we aren't jaded. But our job is a different deal. 

Skin has married her producer, an Italian woman. So I guess she can speak Italian :-)

That makes a lot of sense now 

I enjoyed the Voice last year, I enjoyed XF the previous ones, I enjoyed being front row at the auditions

I didn't watch the Voice this year and I'm pretty sure I won't bother to attend XF shows. I don't regret having gone, I had quite some fun, but once is enough. 

I'd probably be watching it because my husband and I enjoy chatting about it, and that's it. 

I'm glad Morgan won't be there, although I'll miss my favourite tweet target. He was so skilled in making a fool of himself. 

I wonder how they will deal with Skin speaking English (I guess?). Please don't get a translator, subtitles would be fine. 

Him tweeting so much about XF and with so much enthusiasm right between the two NY gigs was a bit confusing. Like a tremor in The Force I felt. 

It's happened to me too!  My friend bought the ticket for me with her card 

Yeah, that's how I dealt with it as well

I finally got my imaginary friend on board.

Go me.

some things are going to be a little different, and there are some new functions and tools that are very different -- but also very useful!

I love that!!!! :cheer:

He looks like a psycho whacko serial killer in the first pic

Mika as Ben Stiller's barber

I need to see this movie.

Well, that snippet. I don't usually like those movies.

It's what I've always classed as a music video.

I agree

I didn´t like the short films for TOOL

Me neither.

The words and the music ARE the story... Nothing else is needed!

 

My bad, I should have said movie, but I was trying to avoid to repeat it for the zillion time

So, it would be:

But the thing is, if you tell people you just released a short movie, people guess what? Expect a short movie.

Then they get a kind of selfie, which is good and intense, but they still get disappointed cause they went for a film.

Words and music are not a film.

I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying that this is not a movie. Hence to claim it's a short movie it's kind of weird.

peter lindbergh had an easy job there!

He didn't step away from his comfort zone, I guess

But he had Mika dump suits and fashion and make up for a while, which is good enough for me to support this guy's choices. He went like"ok, I'm doing this video for you, but you need to drop that ****. Do we have a deal?"

I like the outcome they got.

But the thing is, if you tell people you just released a short movie, people guess what? Expect a short movie.

Then they get a kind of selfie, which is good and intense, but they still get disappointed cause they went for a story.

When I watched Hozier's video of Take me to church, I expected him singing but I got a quite emotional, involving and upsetting story, so I was like woah.

When I watched Mika's video I held my breath but I ended up with almost nothing. Luckly there were some intense emotions as well, so they kind of saved the day, but still....

It took me forever to get to see it (thank you bad internet connection) and I was like: ok, here we go....

Half way through it I went oooo-kay... here we go?

Then I realized that THAT was the short movie.....

It's probably my fault, when I read "short movie" I expected a movie which happens to be short, not a singing pic.

Which was good, I like his performance there, but I wouldn't call it a short movie.....

There's something off with me.

I didn't like his performance, which is weird cause I usually love how he acts on stage, but I was looking at him and thinking "where's the feeling I used to get watching him singing...."

At the end of the performance Nikos was talking about something and I was not really paying attention to it, so at first I heard "it's the mouse on top of our cake" and I was like EEEWWW

(ofc he said "it's the cherry on top of our cake")

would someone be able to trancript only this part??? I want to share in my FB along the video :blush-anim-cl:

We already got the whole interview transcribed, we are working on the english translation right now. It should be available quite soon.

Kumazzz said:

 

Plagiat : Mika s’explique sur la polémique

Subtitles available

Here's Mika's reply about the plagiarism argument

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Ooookk, this is it.

Plan your autumn, guys, and try to have some fun in the process. To book flights and hotel rooms isn't that thrilling, but I'm sure that making plans with friends is.

Enjoy!

I understand that people who don't have English as a first language, might not get the nuances of what an English person might be saying.

Yeah, must be that

I think Marylin means people who have commun sense won't stop at that "scandal" and listen to the song and like it,

The thing is, I don't see that there's necessarily a connection between having common sense and liking Mika's work.

These days it would be almost impossible to write a song that doesn't resemble some other song from recently, or way-back-when.

Is that so?

It's getting his name out there again.All publicity is good. Let them go for it. Sensible people will just pity them, because they have nothing better to do with their lives, than slag off Mika.

Sensible people will just say...

"Hey, Mika's back! Let's have a listen.

Then later...

"When can I download the new Mika song?"

I think I have some language issue here. I don't get how being sensible is related to liking Mika.

Let's face it, Mika fans and not fans will mock him FOREVAH here.

In Italy Sarà perché ti amo is considered trash music.

I'm still thinking about that.

Yeah, I forecast many tv shows will mock him, and radio stations as well, along with my husband and my friends.

Every random italian gets immediately aware that the two songs are related since the very first listening. I'll try to have my mom listen to it and see if she can relate Talk about you with sarà perchè ti amo. That will be the ultimate test, if she spots the ressemblance, then that's it, there's no way out.

But I'm not sure that will be a total failure.

Everybody, deep inside, secretly loves sarà perchè ti amo. But no one would ever admit it (but me), cause it's kind of lame. But it's cute and lighthearted and funny and catchy. And it strikes a chord like all those old items do (say floppy disks, telephone boxes, Glo Wormes, Belle and Sebastian, Popples, and omg Care Bears )

Talk about you might give them a great excuse to feel that vibe with no shame. No one really cares whether the two songs sound alike, except us, who like to talk and argue about Mika's work.

Of course, that wouldn't help him to get a great song writer status, but I don't think he really ever got that halo. People don't think about him as a Freddy Mercury or Bocelli, they think about him as a cute and lighthearted and funny singer.

So, I'm not sure that this song wouldn't work in Italy.

Apparently it sold out in like 3 minutes.

mhhhh I might be wrong, there were issues with the website

Apparently it sold out in like 3 minutes.