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I remember so well how he woke us up in the audience (literally ), it was amazing... At the end of the performance, Florent brags a bit "you haven't seen him, you don't know what you've missed, you'll have to watch it on tv!" Zazie "so David, obviously, and I love it because in the end it's them who will have to decide, the audience chose you". Pagny: "It' extraordinary this moment of absence from them. What a black hole for the three of you! You missed something that will become so much more, because now it is season 4 and everybody sings well, but him, what he did, what he sent, what he is, already you just go wooo!!!" Mika: "can I ask a question Florent, don't you think he looks a bit like a young Johnny Hallyday?" (to which David says he has already been told that). I'm telling you something: if you have this young-johhny-face, and if really you can give the same energy, and I imagine the same dance even if I haven't seen it, but with other songs and in another repertoire, then really we are in a hole. And now the pressure is on you Florent Pagny!" Pagny: "I just want to explain why I pressed so quickly: there's a lot of singers who'd like to sing like Elvis, but it's really really hard, and the one who is able right from the first 4 notes to give you exactly the same thing, you press, and you say "what a jewel!" and then you three don't turn! And I just think this story is too beautiful" (in a "so easy for me" way).

I remember so well how he woke us up in the audience (literally ), it was amazing... At the end of the performance, Florent brags a bit "you haven't seen him, you don't know what you've missed, you'll have to watch it on tv!" Zazie "so David, obviously, and I love it because in the end it's them who will have to decide, the audience chose you". Pagny: "It' extraordinary this moment of absence from them. What a black hole for the three of you! You missed something that will become so much more, because now it is season 4 and everybody sings well, but him, what he did, what he sent, what he is, already you just go wooo!!!" Mika: "can I ask a question Florent, don't you think he looks a bit like a young Johnny Hallyday?" (to which David says he has already been told that). I'm telling you something: if you have this young-johhny-face, and if really you can give the same energy, and I imagine the same dance even if I haven't seen it, but with other songs and in another repertoire, then really we are in a hole. And now the pressure is on you Florent Pagny!" Pagny: "I just want to explain why I pressed so quickly: there's a lot of singers who'd like to sing like Elvis, but it's really really hard, and the one who is able right from the first 4 notes to give you exactly the same thing, you press, and you say "what a jewel!" and then you three don't turn! And I just think this story is too beautiful" (in a "so easy for me" way).

Same than last week with The Voice La Suite from last night (so still fastsub, sorry): http://vk.com/video286133104_170940230

Same than last week with The Voice La Suite from last night (so still fastsub, sorry): http://vk.com/video286133104_170940230

Mika's talking parts in The Voice, la Suite with fast subtitles: https://vk.com/videos286133104?z=video286133104_170933095%2Falbum286133104

Mika's talking parts in The Voice, la Suite with fast subtitles: https://vk.com/videos286133104?z=video286133104_170933095%2Falbum286133104

Thanks skiwi . Nothing new under the sun but here is a quick translation (Too clean for Closer, champion of cutting skipping interpreting etc. Let's wait for the follow up. He may marry Nikos before the end of season four ) "As he is promoting the Voice and preparing his next album, Mika accepted to answer some questions from Puremédias. We learn that the singer is okay to do a duo with Jenifer but with ne condition! When he joined the Voice's jury last year, Mika immediatly get along well with Jenifer. For the launching of season 4, he answers some questions from Puremédias. As he is asked about a possible duo with his co-worker Jenifer, the young man answers positively, but with one contidion. "Yes, but she hasn't made an album", he admits. Indeed Mika doesn't wish to include a duo with Jenifer or anyone else in his own album. He explains "it's a very different album that I am making, there won't be any collaboration!" If Mika hasn't planned a duo with the beautiful woman now in her thirties, he has a very busy schedule for the year. He explains "there is The Voice, X Factor and now a worldwide tour starting at the end of spring..." Nevertheless it is out of question for the singer to refuse propositions... " I made a promess to myself, from now on I would take every possibility I have to express myself. It's the most important thing. And I speak french, I've learned italian, so I jumped in. When you isolate yourself, you think too much, you wonder what people are saying about what you say, about your music... you must not think too much! It's not in 2015 that Mika is gonna take some holidays..."

I can't review the recording anymore so let's talk about the show - with a little help from the replay as I fell asleep pretty early We start with a little thing made yesterday, just a little vid to say basically what Mika said on twitter "we hope you'll have fun with us tonight, even if. This was recorded weeks ago when things wer different. And tonight our thoughts are with the victims." This was expected and necessary, as varieties and movies and all those had completely disappeared from our TVs from the last 3 days, and even if going "back to normal" even just for 3 hours is one of the things we have to re-learn to do, for a lot of people it is a really hard thing to do. And then here we go, and I laugh about myself, because I have seen every single one of those contestant singing and being picked up and for at least a third of them I could have sworn I never saw them in my life I wouldn't bet I'll remember them much better next time, appart for the 2 or 3 that I really like - I can be quick now that they are available for all of you to hear, and so for me the one singing Ces gens-là de Jacques Brel was a winner either live and on my television, I ended up with goosebumbs. The cheese-making guy singing Cabrel also stays in mind. Funny that I remember mostly guys when you know it's vastly girls that have been picked up in the end. I think the way it was assembled showed the lovely complicity that was here for real between Zazie and Mika. It also shows how cute and fun and smart Zazie is, so yay! Zazie. They really have their winning combination of 2015 with those two. In real life this happened a few minutes before Zazie destroyed Mika's suit but they won't put it all in the same show obviously Also this duo gave me my quote of the night : "Zazie, you're as useful as air-conditioning" I just have the same problem I had last year: seriously what is it with the light for them to look like they have been mixed up with carots? Why do that to them? This is not nice and I swear they are not orange for real!! And so apparently next week the seat riding is happening. Finally!! I've waited to see it again since the day it happenned "But I don't understand what we just did" I haven't watched The Voice La suite yet, apart from the massage scene and I already am in love with "Zazie you sing great but you're a bad liar"

I can't review the recording anymore so let's talk about the show - with a little help from the replay as I fell asleep pretty early We start with a little thing made yesterday, just a little vid to say basically what Mika said on twitter "we hope you'll have fun with us tonight, even if. This was recorded weeks ago when things wer different. And tonight our thoughts are with the victims." This was expected and necessary, as varieties and movies and all those had completely disappeared from our TVs from the last 3 days, and even if going "back to normal" even just for 3 hours is one of the things we have to re-learn to do, for a lot of people it is a really hard thing to do. And then here we go, and I laugh about myself, because I have seen every single one of those contestant singing and being picked up and for at least a third of them I could have sworn I never saw them in my life I wouldn't bet I'll remember them much better next time, appart for the 2 or 3 that I really like - I can be quick now that they are available for all of you to hear, and so for me the one singing Ces gens-là de Jacques Brel was a winner either live and on my television, I ended up with goosebumbs. The cheese-making guy singing Cabrel also stays in mind. Funny that I remember mostly guys when you know it's vastly girls that have been picked up in the end. I think the way it was assembled showed the lovely complicity that was here for real between Zazie and Mika. It also shows how cute and fun and smart Zazie is, so yay! Zazie. They really have their winning combination of 2015 with those two. In real life this happened a few minutes before Zazie destroyed Mika's suit but they won't put it all in the same show obviously Also this duo gave me my quote of the night : "Zazie, you're as useful as air-conditioning" I just have the same problem I had last year: seriously what is it with the light for them to look like they have been mixed up with carots? Why do that to them? This is not nice and I swear they are not orange for real!! And so apparently next week the seat riding is happening. Finally!! I've waited to see it again since the day it happenned "But I don't understand what we just did" I haven't watched The Voice La suite yet, apart from the massage scene and I already am in love with "Zazie you sing great but you're a bad liar"

I don't know where to put that - to be honest i don't really have the strengh to find a better place; as you can imagine those last 2 days have been a bit draining in here . It's just for them to say that they're here anyway. Mika is at 13 secs Je suis Charlie - hommage Le Grand Journal http://www.canalplus.fr/c-divertissement/c-le-grand-journal/pid5411-le-grand-journal.html?vid=1194569 I don't know if it's geolocked, in case -> https://vk.com/video286133104_170930121

"Happy new year 2015. I wish you love and may all your wishes come true this year. Besides, 2015 sounds a lot better than 2014, don't you think Mel? Yes Mel *laughs* " (to be precise he says "vachement" for "a lot", which isn't a bad word but is a very familiar one) Thanks for the vid

"Happy new year 2015. I wish you love and may all your wishes come true this year. Besides, 2015 sounds a lot better than 2014, don't you think Mel? Yes Mel *laughs* " (to be precise he says "vachement" for "a lot", which isn't a bad word but is a very familiar one) Thanks for the vid

Again, thank you all Here comes my very last The Voice report of 2014, and probably of the whole season 4, and even maybe of my life: sounds a bit more dramatic all of a sudden . Battles, last round, 20/12/2014 This last recording was on the day of the fan meeting, of which I already talked about in the appropriate thread, so we were all still on a cloud when we entered the set. We went in our usual little corner, but what's funny when you always have the same people in the same little corner is that you end up being noticed and the warm up guy talked a lot about us to the rest of the audience, telling them to do like us as “they know how to bring the fun, my little summer camp. They are well organized, they have candies and everything. I think they have tried to poison me with an expired candy last night though (nope, it was just a sugar free one XD) . Also they sleep here. And actually that's almost true, for real they almost do” . He was right though, we know how to party and we really danced a lot that night. Like we had choregraphies and all. I should say we were really good (or completely bonkers, as told us Pagny's fans afterwards: they were sitting on the other side of the set and saw us dancing all night ). Last recording also meant last chance to do the opening song correctly... meh. It definitely won't be the cover of the year. But they had to stay on the ring for a while because of some technical issues, and this is when Mika lost it all and went mad . He kept on pointing Pagny and Zazie, shouting “PAPA! NICOLE!! PAPA NICOLE!! Like in the add, you are Nicole and you are papa!! PAPA NICOLE!!!!” (also somewhere in the middle of it someone ended up being called Gertrude) . Seriously he was half hysterical about it and nobody knew what he was talking about. Zazie ended up telling him “it's okay Mika, you go and take your pills and everything will be fine!” Those of you who were in the UK in the 90s will probably remember this series of Clio adds . But in the here and now he was just going mad, period . And then they went back in backstage but as Mika stayed in the coridor we could still see his shadow and he was all alone in there and... again, he began to loose it. He began to cross the place in a sort-of goose step parade, and the most impressive wasn't how far he could throw his leg but how much noise he was doing – I swear an elephant would have been more discreet, it is quite amazing the amount of noise he can do all by himself and only by walking (and I bet the floor was trembling for those on this side of the set!). Cutting to random: One of Pagny's battle was interrupted by some technical issues, and the two contestants were italian, so they wouldn't really understand what was happening, and so Nikos asked “the italian-speaking lebanese” to translate. So technician guy explained what the problem was and said “Mika dis-leur qu'il y a un problème" tell them there is a probem, meaning tell them what the problem is. Mika: “c'è un problema”. Technician: “.... Thank you, Mika. It's helping a lot” (he then explained to them for real obviously. But this beginning was still very funny). Other technical issue and we end up with Nikos talking from backstage, so we can only hear is voice without seing him. To which Mika comments “Hey, it suits you to be God”. A bit later, I don't remember why, Nikos would end up saying “ you coaches are mad, really” and Mika to answer “oh yes because you are perfectly normal, maybe”. And still with that Nikos/Mika pairing (quite a double act those two that night) during a break Nikos made a musician play Santana and pretended it was he who was playing, and Mika gave his best (and quite accurate) imitation of a groupie, high pitch scream and arms chasing the air and all , and that definitely was hilarious For those who had read and remember the guts story during Blind auditions, guts came back that night as the contestant involved was back and Mika had to comment “let's remember that guts smell bad”, yes, he's right let's not forget that. And also those who have read me might remember Mika seems to have made a speciality of spilling his glass. He did it again this night . Some weird sentences made their way out of him that night, like “Between the two I choose the hair” or “she is confident on the inside of her” (believe me it sounds weirder in french). He invented a new word again (racontage), but it was cute how he said it very slowly because he knew it didn't exist as he was saying it and was already waiting for the correction. And the best one might have been “Hey! Hey... hey Macarena!” because I will always love its way of coming from nowhere And as we actually ended the night dancing the macarena (between two feng-shui seances) in the middle of the street, it is as good as anything for a conclusion, right?

Again, thank you all Here comes my very last The Voice report of 2014, and probably of the whole season 4, and even maybe of my life: sounds a bit more dramatic all of a sudden . Battles, last round, 20/12/2014 This last recording was on the day of the fan meeting, of which I already talked about in the appropriate thread, so we were all still on a cloud when we entered the set. We went in our usual little corner, but what's funny when you always have the same people in the same little corner is that you end up being noticed and the warm up guy talked a lot about us to the rest of the audience, telling them to do like us as “they know how to bring the fun, my little summer camp. They are well organized, they have candies and everything. I think they have tried to poison me with an expired candy last night though (nope, it was just a sugar free one XD) . Also they sleep here. And actually that's almost true, for real they almost do” . He was right though, we know how to party and we really danced a lot that night. Like we had choregraphies and all. I should say we were really good (or completely bonkers, as told us Pagny's fans afterwards: they were sitting on the other side of the set and saw us dancing all night ). Last recording also meant last chance to do the opening song correctly... meh. It definitely won't be the cover of the year. But they had to stay on the ring for a while because of some technical issues, and this is when Mika lost it all and went mad . He kept on pointing Pagny and Zazie, shouting “PAPA! NICOLE!! PAPA NICOLE!! Like in the add, you are Nicole and you are papa!! PAPA NICOLE!!!!” (also somewhere in the middle of it someone ended up being called Gertrude) . Seriously he was half hysterical about it and nobody knew what he was talking about. Zazie ended up telling him “it's okay Mika, you go and take your pills and everything will be fine!” Those of you who were in the UK in the 90s will probably remember this series of Clio adds . But in the here and now he was just going mad, period . And then they went back in backstage but as Mika stayed in the coridor we could still see his shadow and he was all alone in there and... again, he began to loose it. He began to cross the place in a sort-of goose step parade, and the most impressive wasn't how far he could throw his leg but how much noise he was doing – I swear an elephant would have been more discreet, it is quite amazing the amount of noise he can do all by himself and only by walking (and I bet the floor was trembling for those on this side of the set!). Cutting to random: One of Pagny's battle was interrupted by some technical issues, and the two contestants were italian, so they wouldn't really understand what was happening, and so Nikos asked “the italian-speaking lebanese” to translate. So technician guy explained what the problem was and said “Mika dis-leur qu'il y a un problème" tell them there is a probem, meaning tell them what the problem is. Mika: “c'è un problema”. Technician: “.... Thank you, Mika. It's helping a lot” (he then explained to them for real obviously. But this beginning was still very funny). Other technical issue and we end up with Nikos talking from backstage, so we can only hear is voice without seing him. To which Mika comments “Hey, it suits you to be God”. A bit later, I don't remember why, Nikos would end up saying “ you coaches are mad, really” and Mika to answer “oh yes because you are perfectly normal, maybe”. And still with that Nikos/Mika pairing (quite a double act those two that night) during a break Nikos made a musician play Santana and pretended it was he who was playing, and Mika gave his best (and quite accurate) imitation of a groupie, high pitch scream and arms chasing the air and all , and that definitely was hilarious For those who had read and remember the guts story during Blind auditions, guts came back that night as the contestant involved was back and Mika had to comment “let's remember that guts smell bad”, yes, he's right let's not forget that. And also those who have read me might remember Mika seems to have made a speciality of spilling his glass. He did it again this night . Some weird sentences made their way out of him that night, like “Between the two I choose the hair” or “she is confident on the inside of her” (believe me it sounds weirder in french). He invented a new word again (racontage), but it was cute how he said it very slowly because he knew it didn't exist as he was saying it and was already waiting for the correction. And the best one might have been “Hey! Hey... hey Macarena!” because I will always love its way of coming from nowhere And as we actually ended the night dancing the macarena (between two feng-shui seances) in the middle of the street, it is as good as anything for a conclusion, right?

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I am laaate for my reports!!! This is not good. Too many things has happened outside of recordings that I have automatically deleted half of it from my brain!! Before starting, thanks to all those who took time to read me and made nice comments about my writing, I am happy to have shared all of this with you and have made some of you you feel a bit like if you were there. It may be "only" the voice but it was a good laugh to see (even if quite exhausting) and I'm glad if you have shared some of those laugh via our words. (Also, as it seems a very real possibility now that he'll sing Something New in one of the last two recordings, I give the mission to all those who are going to stick out your tongue at him on my behalf, as I went through 9 out of 11 recordings and he's gonna sing in one of the only 2 I am not going so I am now officially sulking ) So, now, let's not panic and take a deep breath... Battles, round 2, 18/12/2014. 300 years ago. I have tried to count the number of time he would say “premièrement” and “parce que” (with his very special way of detatching letters, he is the only person in the whole world to say par-ce-que that way”. Anyway I lost count pretty quickly but be warned that if you intend to do a drink game on it during TV diffusion, you'll gonna need an awful lot of bottles. Luckily for them they re-did the opening song, twice this time, and it still wasn't glorious (I really do think those who took the decision have made a mistake choosing this song - not that I don't love it but it doesn't work in here) but it was still better than the first time. He turned to us at the end of the song, making a weird “it was meh wasn't it?” face... I hope he didn't expect any of us to answer a nice “no don't worry it was fine” because it's not really what he get XD. And they now have to leave the stage and go back to backstage to record another entrance for another day (TV is magic), but Jenifer is having real troubles walking with her heels so Mika has to carry her in his arms on the stairs, poor girl :rolls_eyes: I now have blurry memories of his battles (and not a single one left about the other coaches' battles), even if one was very funny to see in fact: first one of the two contestant arrived with a very “Valentino Mika” like suit, so we went oh God he has stolen it from Mika.. and then Mika began to make little happy jumps on his seat “oh I love the suit” . And second both of the singers were so full of a very unique sort of energy, they looked like rubber men dancing and jumping everywhere and of course the very very first comment after the song came from Florent Pagny and was “well at least when you see those two you know immediately they are from Mika's team!” (and he was soooo right). Comments kept on going that way, “obviously you are all coming from the same planet” (to which Mika said “we're from Earth” and someone went “yes but not the same than ours” or something). So it was quite a funny sequence indeed (and quite a good battle). He tried to convince the others to save the one he didn't choose by making big compliments and adding “and I am not saying that just to be nice...” while glancing at the others... It didn't work this time I think, but he did something pretty smart on next battle when one of the contestants was clearly dominating and Pagny was very elogious about her... so Mika choose the other one, because he knew Pagny would then save the girl. Not only it did work but also I found it nice to see because he cares about them staying much more than about him wining the competition and so he gave a very good element to Pagny just to keep both of the contestants in. In exchange (well, I am not sure he really did that only in exchange but it happened that way) he saved one of Pagny's contestants some time later. It was funny the way it happened because he waited a very long time before buzzing but right from the begining he had glanced at Pagny and we just knew he would. All of you here would have seen that and knew. But not-fan people in the audience didn't recognise this glance and just assumed we were crazy going all "Mika is gonna buzz" for 2 minutes without him making a single movement or showing the slightest interest to what was happening (and even more as the contestant in question wasn't that good...). And then out of the blue as the contestant was leaving the ring... BAM!! He also had to go though another “let's nicely mock his french”, poor thing . As when he does only a little mistake or even two they are not cutting him and let it reach television in that state, but when he is doing too many in a row they have to cut and do it all again. So as he began to talk he made one, and then another, and then a festival so Zazie began to comment about it (“oh oui 'vous disez' c'est pas mal aussi”, I can't even translate that) and then she corrected him so he could do it again. But it was funny though because he kept doing the same mistake, saying “à les conséquences” instead of “aux conséquences” and so Zazie was correcting him again, so he was saying it correctly once... just to do the same mistake again in the next sentence (let's not point out right now that he did it again on the next recording). This "conséquences" story went for a very long time, he just was unable to remember it long enough to say it correctly in two sentences in a row . At the end they had to make him say the same sentences so many time that Zazie was menacing of hitting the audience if we dared laugh even if he was STILL saying it wrong, because otherwise it would never end. And so after 3 minutes for just one sentence Nikos said to him “it's ok, go on”.. and Mika to answer “no but you don't understand I just don't remember what I wanted to say at all.” (also . When reading it might seem like they are moking him and being not nice but they are really sweet with him and are actually admiring his way of switching from one language to another (as with all the foreigner contestants) so it really is gentle moking, let's say) And that's all I can still give sense to while watching through my notes. Still one report to go and I am officially done with The Voice's recordings

I am laaate for my reports!!! This is not good. Too many things has happened outside of recordings that I have automatically deleted half of it from my brain!! Before starting, thanks to all those who took time to read me and made nice comments about my writing, I am happy to have shared all of this with you and have made some of you you feel a bit like if you were there. It may be "only" the voice but it was a good laugh to see (even if quite exhausting) and I'm glad if you have shared some of those laugh via our words. (Also, as it seems a very real possibility now that he'll sing Something New in one of the last two recordings, I give the mission to all those who are going to stick out your tongue at him on my behalf, as I went through 9 out of 11 recordings and he's gonna sing in one of the only 2 I am not going so I am now officially sulking ) So, now, let's not panic and take a deep breath... Battles, round 2, 18/12/2014. 300 years ago. I have tried to count the number of time he would say “premièrement” and “parce que” (with his very special way of detatching letters, he is the only person in the whole world to say par-ce-que that way”. Anyway I lost count pretty quickly but be warned that if you intend to do a drink game on it during TV diffusion, you'll gonna need an awful lot of bottles. Luckily for them they re-did the opening song, twice this time, and it still wasn't glorious (I really do think those who took the decision have made a mistake choosing this song - not that I don't love it but it doesn't work in here) but it was still better than the first time. He turned to us at the end of the song, making a weird “it was meh wasn't it?” face... I hope he didn't expect any of us to answer a nice “no don't worry it was fine” because it's not really what he get XD. And they now have to leave the stage and go back to backstage to record another entrance for another day (TV is magic), but Jenifer is having real troubles walking with her heels so Mika has to carry her in his arms on the stairs, poor girl :rolls_eyes: I now have blurry memories of his battles (and not a single one left about the other coaches' battles), even if one was very funny to see in fact: first one of the two contestant arrived with a very “Valentino Mika” like suit, so we went oh God he has stolen it from Mika.. and then Mika began to make little happy jumps on his seat “oh I love the suit” . And second both of the singers were so full of a very unique sort of energy, they looked like rubber men dancing and jumping everywhere and of course the very very first comment after the song came from Florent Pagny and was “well at least when you see those two you know immediately they are from Mika's team!” (and he was soooo right). Comments kept on going that way, “obviously you are all coming from the same planet” (to which Mika said “we're from Earth” and someone went “yes but not the same than ours” or something). So it was quite a funny sequence indeed (and quite a good battle). He tried to convince the others to save the one he didn't choose by making big compliments and adding “and I am not saying that just to be nice...” while glancing at the others... It didn't work this time I think, but he did something pretty smart on next battle when one of the contestants was clearly dominating and Pagny was very elogious about her... so Mika choose the other one, because he knew Pagny would then save the girl. Not only it did work but also I found it nice to see because he cares about them staying much more than about him wining the competition and so he gave a very good element to Pagny just to keep both of the contestants in. In exchange (well, I am not sure he really did that only in exchange but it happened that way) he saved one of Pagny's contestants some time later. It was funny the way it happened because he waited a very long time before buzzing but right from the begining he had glanced at Pagny and we just knew he would. All of you here would have seen that and knew. But not-fan people in the audience didn't recognise this glance and just assumed we were crazy going all "Mika is gonna buzz" for 2 minutes without him making a single movement or showing the slightest interest to what was happening (and even more as the contestant in question wasn't that good...). And then out of the blue as the contestant was leaving the ring... BAM!! He also had to go though another “let's nicely mock his french”, poor thing . As when he does only a little mistake or even two they are not cutting him and let it reach television in that state, but when he is doing too many in a row they have to cut and do it all again. So as he began to talk he made one, and then another, and then a festival so Zazie began to comment about it (“oh oui 'vous disez' c'est pas mal aussi”, I can't even translate that) and then she corrected him so he could do it again. But it was funny though because he kept doing the same mistake, saying “à les conséquences” instead of “aux conséquences” and so Zazie was correcting him again, so he was saying it correctly once... just to do the same mistake again in the next sentence (let's not point out right now that he did it again on the next recording). This "conséquences" story went for a very long time, he just was unable to remember it long enough to say it correctly in two sentences in a row . At the end they had to make him say the same sentences so many time that Zazie was menacing of hitting the audience if we dared laugh even if he was STILL saying it wrong, because otherwise it would never end. And so after 3 minutes for just one sentence Nikos said to him “it's ok, go on”.. and Mika to answer “no but you don't understand I just don't remember what I wanted to say at all.” (also . When reading it might seem like they are moking him and being not nice but they are really sweet with him and are actually admiring his way of switching from one language to another (as with all the foreigner contestants) so it really is gentle moking, let's say) And that's all I can still give sense to while watching through my notes. Still one report to go and I am officially done with The Voice's recordings

Open the spoiler only if you really want to know...

Open the spoiler only if you really want to know...

Thanks a lot for the pictures, especially as mine are all so blurred (I am such a catastrophe with a camera!) Ok, my turn: I was really looking forward this meeting. I already had the honor to know quite a few of the people who would be there and the idea of sharing a drink and a meal with them made me really happy. And I was eager to meet those I didn't know yet. So I already had high expectations... and it still managed to be even better than I had imagined We could say I went though a few pre-meeting before the official one as we kept finding people on our way from the train station to the restaurant and let's say we started at 3 we arrived a dozen . Some were already here, others arrived quite quickly, and soon enough started the greetings and presentations waltz (and believe me, at around 35, it is quite a waltz ) We reach our seats, put our hats on (thanks Justine for the idea <3), this is so good to be all together in a warm place for a change . The atmosphere is really good, Mélanie fights with the TV for 10 minutes to put the Parc des Princes on (and a bit later, her voice raising "now shush everyone the Boss is singing Happy Ending!" ). We laugh, we sing, we're happy. I keep going from table to table, trying to enjoy everyone's compagny. I am not the only one doing that, the place looks like a happy circus . Meals and drinks arrive and I have to say that considering how many we were and how big a mess we were making by moving all the time, service was notably quick and smooth . So in a few words, it was already perfect. And then all of a sudden it became more-than-perfect. This moment... the phone has rung in our complete indifference until the voice of one of our organizing fairies rises to cover all conversation and deliver the news. Mika is offering us everything. "I'm gonna send you something", he had said... oh Mika We all applause, we are under shock, we even cry. We can't really realise what is happening on the moment. Just the fact that he is thinking of us and wants to offer this as a gift to his fans, how sweet and moving of him. It won't ever stop to be amazing and I guess you can never get used to those acts of kindness of him, can you? You can imagine how euphoric the rest of the meeting was... Those who then went to the recording kept their hats on their heads, we all looked a bit crazy with our hats on heads and stars shining in our eyes but we didn't care Thanks a lot to all those who were there and made this event so great, and to all those who coudn't be there but were with us by thought. Thanks to Mika for being Mika... And most of all, even if I know they don't like it... thanks to all the little angels who did so much to make this event a reality. All those things you did for us, with all your heart, and always from the shadow... This gift, it comes from you first. Thank you. [YOUTUBE]K6nerZiSxzI[/YOUTUBE] La même chose en français

The advantage of waking up at 6 whatever the time you go to bed: you can write while everybody's sleeping Battles. More impressive to say than Blind Auditions. Let's go to the Batttttlles. (ok, I'll stop now) But only the word is better though. For the rest, same thing than on television: Battles is when we become serious (well, they at least) so we have less funny moments to laugh at. Combined with the fact that from where I was I couldn't hear anything of the 'off' conversation (when most of the fun happens) I feel very poor of anecdotes. (In fact I couln't even really hear the voices of he contestants as the orchestra was covering everything up for me). We went through a mini hell before the show started, as the agency which is in charge of tickets and placement and all made a little video to put on their website for christmas... and it took them I don't know it felt like an hour it was soooo long. And then another eternity of Nikos recording launchings... And finally the coaches arrived on set... but only to record the performance of a guest whom I absolutely didn't know but is apparently from Season 2 of the voice (Anthony Touma, he was called. Still is, probably). Mika arrived in his velvet suit that looked black but turned out to be more like very deep green(as I realised at the very last minute (about time xD) when he was walking in front of us under a very crude light as we were already up leaving). The Anthony guy sang his song and oh Lord, it is seriously such a bad song that it becomes a good one XD. The lyrics are ridiculous and everything was so wrong... well at least his voice wasn't bad but... The funniest thing was Mika's face though, staring at him blankly and then looking the more and more “What the f**k is that?!!?” At last things began for real and the four of them went in the middle of the ring stage to sing their opening song... except something wasn't working so they stayed in here waiting for like 5 minutes, passing the time by doing stupid things : Mika went dancing a little walz with a technician, and then Florent and him began to pretend they were in a circus presenting acts (“And Jenifer, what does she do?” “Jenifer does nothing” ). They then began to imitate cicadas because why not, and to conclude this lovely schoolyard moment Mika decided to play golf with his mic as a club. Kids They finally were able to sing. They sang Come Together, which could have been nice except it was a total non sense so I hope for them they're gonna do it again tomorrow (he was really invested in the “shhhoup” parts ) Finally they reach their seats, and 3 of them begin to focus (or to sleep I don't know). The fourth one begins to test the elasticity of his tongue . Battles began and I didn't really follow what was happening in the other teams (I just won't forget Mika's hallucinated face when one of Jenifer's contestant began to shake her butt in front of him) but Mika's team had 3 battles. A classic but not bad one, a very very good one, and a weird one (but not bad. But weird xD). I'll put the rest under spoiler as I'm gonna give the names of the songs. For the rest, out of order: he managed to spill his glass again so he had to ask for something to clean it up in the middle of the recording (while Pagny was commenting “can we have something because Mika just peed himself”) And, as usual, invented a couple of words. First, a classic as he has done it quite a few times already but his “choreography” is always a good challenger, but the winner was – oh wait how I am gonna explain that in english – he was saying to two contestants that they had flirted together and flirted with the audience, so it was all flirting. Except that instead of flirting (drague in french) he went for a whole new word, “draguage” which is in fact logical except it doesn't exist it would be like “to flirtate” maybe? (well in fact the word dragage exists but it means dredging so I guess saying that it's not what he meant is a safe bet). Anyway it led to a funny moment when Nikos went “but in fact we should all talk like you it's easier” and they all began to talk with a lot of words invented with the same pattern (adding -age at the end of every word). I think this one is definitely funnier in french Nothing more to say really - wel nothing else comes to my mind anyway. Does "there was probably enough chocolate on the parking to fill a little country" applies as useful comment?

The advantage of waking up at 6 whatever the time you go to bed: you can write while everybody's sleeping Battles. More impressive to say than Blind Auditions. Let's go to the Batttttlles. (ok, I'll stop now) But only the word is better though. For the rest, same thing than on television: Battles is when we become serious (well, they at least) so we have less funny moments to laugh at. Combined with the fact that from where I was I couldn't hear anything of the 'off' conversation (when most of the fun happens) I feel very poor of anecdotes. (In fact I couln't even really hear the voices of he contestants as the orchestra was covering everything up for me). We went through a mini hell before the show started, as the agency which is in charge of tickets and placement and all made a little video to put on their website for christmas... and it took them I don't know it felt like an hour it was soooo long. And then another eternity of Nikos recording launchings... And finally the coaches arrived on set... but only to record the performance of a guest whom I absolutely didn't know but is apparently from Season 2 of the voice (Anthony Touma, he was called. Still is, probably). Mika arrived in his velvet suit that looked black but turned out to be more like very deep green(as I realised at the very last minute (about time xD) when he was walking in front of us under a very crude light as we were already up leaving). The Anthony guy sang his song and oh Lord, it is seriously such a bad song that it becomes a good one XD. The lyrics are ridiculous and everything was so wrong... well at least his voice wasn't bad but... The funniest thing was Mika's face though, staring at him blankly and then looking the more and more “What the f**k is that?!!?” At last things began for real and the four of them went in the middle of the ring stage to sing their opening song... except something wasn't working so they stayed in here waiting for like 5 minutes, passing the time by doing stupid things : Mika went dancing a little walz with a technician, and then Florent and him began to pretend they were in a circus presenting acts (“And Jenifer, what does she do?” “Jenifer does nothing” ). They then began to imitate cicadas because why not, and to conclude this lovely schoolyard moment Mika decided to play golf with his mic as a club. Kids They finally were able to sing. They sang Come Together, which could have been nice except it was a total non sense so I hope for them they're gonna do it again tomorrow (he was really invested in the “shhhoup” parts ) Finally they reach their seats, and 3 of them begin to focus (or to sleep I don't know). The fourth one begins to test the elasticity of his tongue . Battles began and I didn't really follow what was happening in the other teams (I just won't forget Mika's hallucinated face when one of Jenifer's contestant began to shake her butt in front of him) but Mika's team had 3 battles. A classic but not bad one, a very very good one, and a weird one (but not bad. But weird xD). I'll put the rest under spoiler as I'm gonna give the names of the songs. For the rest, out of order: he managed to spill his glass again so he had to ask for something to clean it up in the middle of the recording (while Pagny was commenting “can we have something because Mika just peed himself”) And, as usual, invented a couple of words. First, a classic as he has done it quite a few times already but his “choreography” is always a good challenger, but the winner was – oh wait how I am gonna explain that in english – he was saying to two contestants that they had flirted together and flirted with the audience, so it was all flirting. Except that instead of flirting (drague in french) he went for a whole new word, “draguage” which is in fact logical except it doesn't exist it would be like “to flirtate” maybe? (well in fact the word dragage exists but it means dredging so I guess saying that it's not what he meant is a safe bet). Anyway it led to a funny moment when Nikos went “but in fact we should all talk like you it's easier” and they all began to talk with a lot of words invented with the same pattern (adding -age at the end of every word). I think this one is definitely funnier in french Nothing more to say really - wel nothing else comes to my mind anyway. Does "there was probably enough chocolate on the parking to fill a little country" applies as useful comment?

TF1 put a behind the scenes of the trailer -> http://videos.tf1.fr/the-voice/bonus/entrez-dans-les-coulisses-du-tournage-de-la-ba-de-the-voice-4-8533263.html And for those who are geolocked -> What he says: " We're filming the trailer of this season, and it's "The Good the Bad the Ugly and Zazie". " "Today I am not a cowboy, I am the pianist. No gun, I am sort-of-playing the innocent victim. A bit like those people always standing in the corner. " And at the end with Zazie: - Mika: Have you seen the ponies? One of the ponies is mad. - Zazie: It's Florent's horse... please cut that.

TF1 put a behind the scenes of the trailer -> http://videos.tf1.fr/the-voice/bonus/entrez-dans-les-coulisses-du-tournage-de-la-ba-de-the-voice-4-8533263.html And for those who are geolocked -> What he says: " We're filming the trailer of this season, and it's "The Good the Bad the Ugly and Zazie". " "Today I am not a cowboy, I am the pianist. No gun, I am sort-of-playing the innocent victim. A bit like those people always standing in the corner. " And at the end with Zazie: - Mika: Have you seen the ponies? One of the ponies is mad. - Zazie: It's Florent's horse... please cut that.

Oui c'est top, j'avais bien peur d'une vague de refus mais apparemment à peu près tout le monde a ce qu'il faut (on n'a pas assez souvent l'occasion d'utiliser ce smiley) J'en ai encore une pour le jeudi et une pour le samedi, si besoin