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Mika's choices: Mario: Ricomincio da qui - Malika Ayane Emma: I can't make you love me - Bonnie Raitt The first italian song, Ricomincio da qui (I start over again from here) is a song of a very talented and sofisticated artist, Malika Ayane (Moroccan father and Italian mother). She has a beautiful voice, a particular and original tone, and her performances are always very elegant. She sang the song at the Sanremo Festival in 2010 with great success. It is a complicated and tecnical song...Mario was surprised for the choice...he will have to work hard... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcedhb_malika-ayane-ricomincio-da-qui-sanr_music

On social networks you can read an immediate dislike for the Komminuet (the blonde girl is hated almost from everyone...too much bad comments about other competitors behind the scenes), for the Spritz for Five (they are good singers but they know it and they seem snobbish), and for Diluvio, the rapper of Mika's team, openly accused to sing and rap very bad and to have some strong sponsor (record company/producer...i don't know...) that is helping him in the show. Instead ... you can read large consensus around Mario, Emma (Mika's team) and Lorenzo (Fedez's team)... curiosity around Madh (Fedez's team) ... interest about Vivian's skill and tenderness towards the young Ilaria (Victoria's team)... not many reactions about others competitors

Thank you wonder-girls!

Morgan also said that he will take revenge during the live show against those who were trying to destroy his team with negative comments. The reference to Mika was clear.

I really liked Mika last night. He led the show with intelligence and elegance. Fedez and Victoria were a bit in trouble, you could see their little experience compared to Mika. Morgan... is Morgan. He is a very intelligent man, a real artist but he lives his life in its extremes: up and down and up and down...last night was down and Mika was just on his way. Here we say: "he is out like a balcony." :aah:

From the facebook page of Universal Music Italia Universal Music Italia Straordinario! A più di dieci mesi dalla sua pubblicazione, "Songbook Vol.1" di MIKA rientra nella top ten degli album più venduti su iTunes! [Extraordinary! More than ten months after its publication, "Songbook Vol.1" by MIKA enters again in the top ten best-selling albums on iTunes!]

Beautiful article!

We have so different opinions and feelings about Mika's career choices...but at the end of the year, with the new album, we will finally know. New music, new sound, new gigs. And for us, the possibility to understand how Mika wants (and can) relate himself with music world after this period of different experiences...and the possibility to understand how we want relate ourselves with him. I understand the disappointment of those who expected so much more from Mika...but now...for me it is worth waiting a few more months. If the new album will be good and the tour that will follow will be special, many things will come back into place. Otherwise...well, that will be the right time for someone to wish "good luck".

You can't do nothing...none of us can do. This is the reality. He makes things, he shows us things... and we can only say yes or no, i like or not. This is our only substance. Well, i have to say that I like him on TV, he is professional and credible, he's becoming an excellent communicator. He could also have a show on his own. I like watching him, listening to him, he gives me joy, he amuses me, he gives me all positive feelings. As long as he wants to make tv in this way, it's fine for me. I also like to follow him in internet, media or in the fun club ... it's funny and he is an interesting man. About his music, it's very very clear, at this point, that I have to wait....:aah:well, I've decided to wait. I'm too curious. But from what I've seen in old videos, I think it's worth it. Discussing about all the rest of his choices, ends me up always in the same dead spot. I can not know what he thinks and what he wants, and why he's doing what he's doing...instead of doing something else... But he's doing something, and i like. For now.

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you A beautiful gig... I'm shocked...perfect!

In these days in Italy, Mika is really everywhere. On billboards, on television, on radio, in newspapers...talking about the new edition of XF or advertising Sky. A big exposure.

It is a sort of proverb, a way of saying...i think it is used mostly in Tuscany... We say: "si lamenta, miagola come un gatto stretto all'uscio" --> he complains, he meows like a cat caught (or stuck) in the door. Mika is learning also our ways of saying, he is fantastic!

I like the duet... a good mix of different voices... and BBB has a different taste in this way... sweeter and more elegant :thumb_yello:

Anche io odio guidare e oramai non lo faccio quasi più... Mi dispiace perché non guidare è limitante ma non posso farci niente...È più forte di me, per me è una vera sofferenza... Mi arrangio con chi mi può scarrozzare o con mezzi pubblici, treni, taxi....

Benvenuta!

"The artistic work that my sister Yasmine and I did on the watches has influenced the cover of my latest single and I believe that it will also influence the one [cover] of the next album." So, he's working on the cover of the new album...can we think that he's at a good point with all the other aspects of the album??

But Mika is not one of those musicians. He does not want "to earn a living making music and tour". He wants different things, it is evident. The point is making music and tour and...??? in the way that Mika wants. He's searching for new roads and opportunities to continue to work in the way he wants.

well...i have some doubts...in theory, the man in black can not see the bond girl in the telescope...so...

:teehee: In any case, so many good movies are a bit confused...

If you pay attention, in every scenery, there is a woman who says to Mika the phrase "boum boum boum", but during the arabic scene, while Mika is looking through the telescope, is a man who to tells him that phrase "boum boum boum". It is not completely clear, because the phrase could be referred to the bond girl that Mika sees in the telescope .. or maybe not. Did you noticed this particular? Am I dreaming?

I think that Mika and Dario were just talking about this. On the one hand there is the Christian message, the true essence, the true roots of the message of Christ: tolerance, compassion, joy of life, humility, learning how to be together. On the other hand, there's the superstructure: power, corruption, ignorance, fear, centuries and centuries of human history, which led the Church far away from the original and powerful message, a message that is becoming more and more difficult to maintain alive. And this is a huge problem. They were just saying this: that it is a huge problem, because the "essence" of Christianity, the true message of Christ continues to attract them and other people into the Church... but at the same time, all these rules and contradictions, reject them out. :aah: I think it was also the thought of Saint Francis and it has been over the years also the message of Dario Fo. Both in their time, they were two "dangerous" men ...always looking for the essence of things...and no fear to scream it. They screamed it for their entire life

Question: What will happen to (/what will become of) the articles of your column "Pop Up"?Will you bring them all together? Mika: I want to collect them in a book, but I would like to rewrite them, as if the volume is a map of my body.... I would like to put every my article ended up on "XL", in relation to a part of my body and thus (in this way) tell my own story.It’s some crazy (odd/bizarre) idea I'm working on. We'll see if it works. These words make me think to the "Journal D'un Corps", by Daniel Pennac (in italian "Diario di un corpo", in english "Diary of a body"), a book based on the life of the writer seen only through his body perceptions, since when he was 12 years old till his death. Who knows...

In my opinion, this "conversation" has been beautiful, a real gem, I liked it almost more thant the Fo's show that came after. Two men talking of the life, of the history, of the culture of a nation, of a group of people, but in reality talking about themselves and humanity in general. One man is older, he lived more, and he knows many things. The other one is younger, but he has lived so much and knows many things, you can see it in every word and every gesture . They live different lives, they know different things ... but maybe not, while they were talking, they have found to have shared a lot more than they thought. They were doing "culture". I do not think Mika will ever forget that evening.

inviati due MP

Io ho finito la prima parte di traduzione. Praticamente bisogna tradurre dal volgare all'italiano, passando per il mikaliano, lingua in continua evoluzione :aah:, quindi per il latino e in fine all'inglese. Dove la posto, qui??