Melyssa

Thank you! (Does he say something more than "writing/not ready" about the album? I think that's all but my Italian is rubbish so I may have missed something )

Oh, I didn't dream those shortlists then! And I thought the vote were already closed too. I'm a bit lost here... But, just in case, I've done my duty etc.

I'll go with Alireine, it's more offensive than shut up and it is rude (in intensity it would be closer to "shut the f**k up", maybe. Or somewhere between the two, let's say), but he didn't mean it as an insult. But then it still is a bad word and they aren't allowed to swear on the show (also if I remember he said it very loudly xD), hence Nikos interrupting him to say something like "sorry did you just say 'ta gueule'?" . The joys of Live Television He said it this week, I'd say it was near the end of the aftershow but I'm not sure. If I remember well it was when he discovered he has won the... well I don't know what he has won, he doesn't know what he has won, I don't think anybody knows what it was but he has won it Edit: just checked, it is approx 15 minutes before the end of the after

I don't think it was the case last year - well I'm sure they didn't sing a song written by their coaches but I don't think they had songs written for them anyway. I would love it tho, I liked the idea very much in the Quebec Version, but in here we may have a small problem... Mika is the only songwriter of the 4

That's one helluva car, dude (That's one helluva flower set too for sure)

Ok so now the 2d part is over and to be honest, tonight was weird. It felt like he was going on and off and on again - I'm not saying that he was necessary upset, maybe just really tired and still sick, maybe a mix of both, or maybe I'm the one who was off; but it's like at some moments he was somewhere else. I won't try to explain it because I'm not really on top form ( I've decided that it would be really cool to catch a big cold too, I'm that devoted ) so I may just have distorted everything I've seen. I'll just wait to see if I'm the only one who felt it that way- and for once I would be happy to be, actually.

As ceebs said, he was all calm and quiet for half the show - except when he was b*tching out, nothing was good enough for him, every song was badly chosen etc etc. Florent Pagny was like "wow, he's on top form tonight" xd. But we just went through his team and it has apparently switch him on again. The jumping everywhere is back, and so is the giggling and the full package. Truth is he is allowed to, his team really ruled tonight. He also sang Elle me dit with his team, from a technical point of view it was a real mess (We couln't really hear their voices, I don't know but it's like there was something wrong with the mics.. well I don't know I need to watch it again but it sounded weird) but they managed to put the set on fire no matter what so.... yeah!

I can't watch the video right now (you're not supposed to watch videos at work, apparently ) but the screencap only is gold

Thanks a lot for the vid! (and for battling that hard for us to be able to see it )

Thanks a lot for those fantastic reports, you two da best! Hell I laughed too, but I was also quite moved by some parts... And thanks for all the pics too (I'm applying for the love-the-shoes- club) (Also, I can't wait for Elwendin's future edits - me always wants moar)

No, it's not you . His french is very good but it isn't his first language, so he makes little mistakes or just can't find his words sometimes. Also he has a strong German accent. Great job with the translation!

I think I'm falling in love with this thread.

"Comme les perruques du 16e siècle" - They're talking about the rice powder they used to put on wigs at this time. Je mets de la poudre dans mes cheveux pour avoir les cheveux bien blancs, ils ne sont pas blancs du tout comme ça - he means if he doesn't powder his hair, it's not naturally white at all (grey probably, for what we care xd) Thanks again Ysa for the vid !

Thank you all again Merci! Je vais aller fureter dans ce thread Done! Thank you

Thanks a lot for the links, pics and vids. You're coloring my day! (quite litteraly) (That was two hours away from me. Nobody cares, but still ). edit: didn't see this one: From Stephane Bern's Twitter -> "Bal de la Rose rehearsals with the singer Mika who allies an incredible talent with a true kindness"

Thank you all for the welcome! (ceebs: oh, wow, thanks ) Thank you (I'm a bit staggered by the popularity of this thing but all those comments are wonderful ) @mine: ah ben vi, 're' comme on dit . Merci!

I only watched the first video, with the duet, but his face when they tell him they're gonna do a rap song is epic. But he wins it all with his "push the words out of your mouth a little more. Even if I think they're dumb"

Hello everybody, As introducing yourself is the polite thing to do, here I am, Melyssa, 28, from France (I guess we've been coming in waves from France recently ). I'm potentially a disaster for an english speaking forum as my english is far from perfect and at the same time I'm not really good at doing short sentences, and even less short messages, so sorry in advance for my mistakes. My Mika story is one of the least original you could get: it all began with Grace Kelly. It was just one or two weeks before 'the big explosion', on those days when I couldn't sleep and the videoclip used to be on tv at night only, but like 300 times between 1am and 6am. I fell so hard for the song that I began to let the tv on even when I managed to sleep, just because I knew his voice would wake me up and then I could see it once more (not even ashamed of how ridiculous it was. Or maybe I am, just a little bit ). I then had quite a hard time finding the album, ended up ordering it on the web, and literally 3 days after it showed up in my mailbox you weren't able to enter a music shop or even a supermarket without bursting into piles and piles of copies of Life in Cartoon Motion It immediatly became my all time favorite cd, my all time favorite everything, and it still is, and it always will be, and I'll probably marry this disc one day. The 2d and 3d albums will kindly be asked to be witnesses to the wedding. But then (I'm going to blaspheme, I'm sorry but I have to be honest) I haven't always been very faithfull to Mika. I had periods when he was my everything, and periods when I just... put him aside, let's say. But the current period is quite a new one for me, and for the first time I feel the need to go and jump into the virtual community (and being honest again, having him invading my living room every saturday night may have helped too). Maybe it means that that's it this time, I'm lost with all hands now A quick "about myself" line: I'm geeky enough to go to the Comic Con every year and to have a room half full of Daleks and other Cylons; I could easily spend a whole day doing nothing else than reading a good book (I'm stuck in a permanent Neil Gaiman mood but I'll read everything that comes into my hands); my friends say that being with me for too long is exhausting as I'm always jumping and running everywhere; and I don't think I could survive more than a week without chocolate .

(oh well, thank you for reminding me that I should probably go and have a little tour in your XF thread. 'Cause as the only word I know in Italian is chicken, this show for me was a succession of "oh, cute!" (but it needed more chicken)). What I meant was that - how make it clear in english... sure he can do worse (or rather better ) but what I love is that it's definitely not what the people watching the Voice France are used too. It was one of the biggest critics that was made about the show for the last 2 years, actually: "it's too clean, they're too nice". So him bursting out like a volcano was really noticed and talked about in here. I liked it . (And even then people know that he was cleaned up in the editing process ) (and again, thank you everyone for the vid )

I definitely agree for l'Epreuve Ultime: it really was boring. First, using two coaches as decoration elements only is just weird, and 2d I don't really like the idea of letting the talents living their lives alone. Not only because some of their choices were... , but also because... truth is at the heart of The Voice there's the fight between the 4 judges. The game is between them and a lot of people are waching for them only (I know what I'm saying is a bit cruel for the candidates but... they know it). So putting them out of the game doesn't really make sense to me. But I have to admit that I really liked the Battles, far more than last year. That's true, it wasn't as funny as the weeks before (and probably a bit boring to translate, I can understand that xD) - but of course they're destroying the dream of half their teams, poor things . And being as objective as I can be (and I have friends and family agreeing with me and they couldn't be more objective ), Mika's battles were the most fascinating to watch. He created the most unexpected duets and very often when you first heard his song choice you were like "hum... how about no? Not for those two, definitely, nope." And then... it was fantastic. He just knew, for each one of them. Spot-on. I liked Garou's work too. His team scares me a bit for the live shows . I don't understand Jenifer's choices at all, but, well, that's her game, she can play it the way she wants. The other thing everybody noticed is that... after 2 years of marshmallow, for the first time we have a coach who can say "I don't like it" and "it wasn't good" and "that was such a baaad choice" (He even said it to Garou about one of his song choices for the battles, I don't remember for which battle it was but I definitely remember the "I don't think it was the good song for them" in the aftershow. Bam! ) And I also can't wait for the live shows - some people in backstage must begin to feel a bit worried knowing that they won't be able to cut him anymore xD. Anyway, I tried to half catch-up with this thread and you did some fantastic job translating . And I am so happy you translated Vieille Canaille for everyone, as it was hilarious

I know, forgive me for I have sinned! I cut talking parts, partly because I was crying over the subtitles (by the way, I'm putting an ad, I may or may not subtitle bits of the show but if someone has some time to spare to check and correct them, feel free to pm me eventually ) In fact... I don't know. 2 weeks ago I would have give you a massive NO because I was exhausted by the first one , but I'm beginning to think of it... Truth is I don't know if I could, I feel like there's less material for me in the battles (well, one could re-do the cute song at least 3 times per show, obviously ). I'll try to re-watch bits of them and see if I could have something out of it; but for now I really don't know. I'll let you know And truth is... I didn't put all of them

(Sorry, I didn't introduce myself - I will but I ended up on this thread by traking down the statistics of my video so I registered just to say thanks for the comments, I'm really happy to see that it makes people smile ) It did indeed. Took me about a month at one or 2 hours/day (and Studio Vegas with a slow computer is a nightmare), but it was also a LOT of fun to do (I think the first draft was about 30 minutes long though - it was so hard to cut xD) Well, the Animaniacs didn't really care about his opinion apparently . This song was the origin of everything actually, I heard it and my brain went mad Thank you, it took some time too so a comment like this is always warmful. I hope I didn't make too many mistakes but as long as it's understandable, I consider my mission accomplished (Yeah, sorry for the Top Gun thing. I kinda died doing it too).