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    Mika commercials on Italian TV

    in Mika News and Press

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    I think the ultimate goal for him is always the music, or perhaps , more importantly, to communicate with music.

     

    I agree :thumb_yello: this is always the most important thing for Mika, it's his life and ultimately it's the only thing that interest him. Everything else is an addition that doesn't remove nothing to his Art. This is my personal point of view :wink2:

    Mika in Italian Press -- 2010-2015

    in Mika News and Press

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    I think the ultimate goal for him is always the music, or perhaps , more importantly, to communicate with music.

     

    I agree :thumb_yello: this is always the most important thing for Mika, it's his life and ultimately it's the only thing that interest him. Everything else is an addition that doesn't remove nothing to his Art. This is my personal point of view :wink2:

    MIKA as a judge at "THE VOICE" France 2014

    in Mika News and Press

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    So I took some time to translate that radio interview:

     

    Coach for The Voice with Jenifer, Garou, Florent Pagny... Do you have some pressure?

     

    Pressure? Well, I don't know. How can I have pressure for something I've never done?

     

    We often have pressure for things we haven't done, wondering if we'll measure up to the event...

     

    For me it's the contrary, I always have a lot of pressure for things I have already done, because it means it has to be better, worse...

     

    For an album for example?

     

    For an album there's always a lot of pressure.

     

    Your resolutions for 2014?

     

    Not eating salt because I'm very deaf and the more I eat salt the more deaf I become.

     

    Really?

     

    Yes it's true.

     

    Deaf? Because of salt? It's the first time I hear this.

     

    It's very strange. I didn't know what it was and then I realised. It's a disaster.

     

    Especially for a singer!

     

    Well, for everyone!

    Yes for everyone but for a singer it's a catastrophe... So, not eating salt.

     

    Take piano lessons.

     

    Ok. I would have thought Mika can play the piano? You don't?

     

    Well actually each time I've had a teacher; I used to have one and she almost got a nervous breakdown because I was so bad. And so I did everything by ear. I'm very dyslexic. But now, because I've worked a lot on dyslexia, I think I'm ready now. It's funny how the brain works. Because we can sort things out. It's like a big computer and we can adjust things. So I think I can learn reading music.

     

    It wasn't possible before because of dyslexia.

     

    Exactly. Now I'm 30 and I think my brain is ready. And it's very strange because for example I couldn't count, add up in my head, I always used my fingers, and now eventually I can do it

     

    15 + 5?

     

    20. It's funny because it almost sounds stupid but I'm so dyslexic that I do everything by ear and when I count it's with my fingers. So I think my brain is changing.

     

    So how did you resolve dyslexia?

     

    I found my own way to do things. For example, I couldn't have English lessons when I was in my English school, and each time I tried to write something like an essay it was a disaster, and then I found my own way and now I write for La Repubblica in Italy, things like that, constantly. I've found the 'brain mapping'. We found a way

     

    A map of the brain

     

    For myself.

     

    A way to find by yourself.

     

    Exactly. And when finally I manage to make a link between one thing and another and find a way to do what I wanted to do, I never forget. It becomes possible. It's crazy because I'm dyslexic and it takes me time but last year I decided to take part in a TV show in Italy and so in a month and a half, coming from nothing, I learnt Italian. And it was surprising. I started and a month and a half later I was on TV, speaking fluently.

     

    Because you found the way in your brain

     

    My own way. I haven't used one single pen in all the lessons I've had during a month and a half.

     

    You do realise that you're special, still in 2014 like in 2013, 2012, like the 29 previous years? You're a bit different

     

    The truth is I think there are so many people like me. It's a bit hard because when we can't do things in a normal way, people think we're stupid. But actually we're not stupid at all.

    Your message for 2014 is that for people we can call 'different' there is a way to succeed; the proof is Mika.

     

    No I'm not the proof at all. If I'm the proof, good luck!

     

    So, you are here for The Voice, in France where you grew up. It was complicated for you, you said it, with dyslexia, school wasn't great, you have already told your story; does it have a meaning for you to arrive as the big star on The Voice at the same place where it wasn't easy for you a few years ago?

     

    It's strange because I've always told myself when we left France in a kind of whirlwind that I would come back and it would be ok, it would go well. And so, for me it's always been a bit... People ask themselves; if he isn't French, why does he have this link? Because it's my childhood. It's always been a challenge for me : to come back. In a positive way. And when you say 'being the big star on a TV set', I don't know, I don't feel like the big star!

    It's an event, Mika in the jury of The Voice, it's an event. You have already recorded selections, and we know the principle of The Voice, when all seats are turned, the chosen candidate has to choose the coach and it seems that it's for you that all candidates go to and it's a bit more complicated for your fellow coaches, Jenifer, Garou and Florent Pagny...

     

    No!!

     

    Are you aware that you've created a kind of positive emulation for the show because they all want to go to Mika?

    I don't know if that's very positive actually! For them it was a bit of a disaster! But it's not true it wasn't like that.

     

    Well that's what I've been told! But then it stimulated the other coaches in a way.

     

    Actually what happened is that there were people for which the production told me later 'these 3 people didn't really want to go with you'. Very nice, thank you! Thanks for telling me! But apparently I convinced them because I heard things and I was thinking 'it's not possible!' and I thought of that like I was there to fight.

     

    And you fought.

     

    That's for sure! Almost physically actually.

    Almost physically! A man like you, a worldwide star who's sold 10 million albums, who takes part in TV shows as a judge, it can seem strange. How come in Mika's path, at a certain point, in Italy you go to X Factor, in France to The Voice...

     

    And in the UK we'll make TV, it will be very different but... In fact I made this decision last year. I thought, well, I take the control over my career. I don't want to wait for my record company, a record company which is now so huge, it's funny because it gets bigger and the teams are even smaller... And I'm very lucky because in France I have a very very beautiful team that hasn't changed a lot. And so I don't know I thought I'm an artist who has to work internationally. My tours last one year and a half and I have to work on each market. So I never stop. And also I need radio everywhere around the world. And I thought I'm not going to wait for someone to tell me 'go, you can promote your album', I'm going to do it myself. I'm going to go and even if I'm scared to do it, I'm telling you, actually I said I wasn't scared, that I didn't have pressure, but I was very scared. So I did things in Spain, I did things in Italy, now I do things in France, I'm going to do things in the UK and I even started doing more TV in the US. Simply because I told myself, if I want this, I'm not going to pretend I'm part of the old guard of artists during the 90s who could just say 'ok we make gigs, we make albums and that's enough', now we have to fight a bit more.

     

    It's a new generation of artists

     

    It's a bit the new guard

     

    They take control and don't wait for everything from the music industry which is not in great shape.

     

    It's not in great shape but it doesn't mean that people don't want music because frankly it's ridiculous to think that people have changed their minds about music. That's not it! It's just that for me it was independence in a very popular format like TV, we can find an artistic freedom really without changing. I said I can make TV and I can stay the same. And so it remains something positive. And that's very important.

     

    Except that during that time, you don't write, you're not in the studio

     

    No I am writing!

     

    Because Mika the artist, when is it for? The next album?

     

    This year. It's released this year.

     

    Ah ok.

     

    I've already started.

     

    And the idea to settle down at some point, do you think about it or not at all? Like building a family, something like that

     

    Yes a lot. Actually one year ago I was much more ready to do it, and then I realised, when I see that last year I was in London for 4 weeks, it's not cool, it's not fair, it's not responsible. It's completely not possible. But it's ok I've got some time! And I absolutely have this idea in my head to do it and I think it would be great.

     

    What can we wish for you in 2014, you have everything.

     

    Oh that's not true.

     

    What's missing?

     

    I'm always looking for songs. I'm always looking for ideas, for an interesting path.

     

    I think you'll find it.

     

    I'm going to look for it.

     

    Go on looking for it, that's how we find it generally.

     

    Exactly. Actually, no, it's when you look that you don't find anything and when you say you don't want to look for it you realise it's in front of you.

    So you have the future ahead of you.

    Maybe, like everybody.

     

    In the meantime your future is The Voice, it's this weekend on TF1, good luck Mika.

     

    But you can't say that! How can I start my year like this?

     

    So I say 'merde', really?

     

    There you go.

     

    It's said.

     

    It's said.

     

    Thanks for the interview, very nice! :thumb_yello:

    It's the first time that I hear this connection between salt and deafness :shocked: so, I learned a new thing thanks to Mika :wink2:

    Mikasounds, Twitter and Facebook updates - Part 12

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    Thanks a lot !!:wub2: I love the two first photos - an unshaved MIKA, with uncombed hair, so natural and relaxed, out on the street in Milan, meeting and greating people, who surely are happy to si hi to him, and have their pics :naughty: There has been so many, maybe too many, "perfect" photos lately - because of his TV jobs ...:blush-anim-cl:

     

    Love,love

    me

     

    I agree with you too! How I wish to live in Milan :naughty::wub2:

    Your Favorite Song by Mika?

    in Chat about Mika

    Posted

    Are you talking about perfection? :wub2: this is the Stardust I really love, also the CD version but this one is PERFECTION :mikalove:

     

    [YOUTUBE]KwecZayH0Bo[/YOUTUBE]

     

    Yeah :mikalove:, in fact Stardust is other of my favourite Mika's songs :wub2: :wub2: and I agree with you, I prefer this song in acoustic version and he singing alone :mf_rosetinted: I adore it :wub2:

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