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  1. I need to put an addendum to my report, because I forgot the very essential. I am sure you are all keeping your breath in the wait to know what were his first words when he sit for the first time last night, his official first words of season 4, obviously it had to be something spiritual and all, as we are all going serious now, it is beginning, etc.

     

     

     

    So it couldn't be anything else than "arf, I ate too much!!"

    HAHAHAHAH it wouldn't be Mika without a sentence like this one! :fisch:

  2. I made it! :italia::uk:

     

    Daily9

     

    MI: I've just decided to start right now, on the piano, with the new songs. Ok. Are you ready?

    MA: more or less

    MI: are you ready?! This is the first time with me playing the piano

    MA: yes

    MI: aha!

    MA: not every day I have the chance to sing together with Mika playing the piano, so... Let's hope it goes well

    MI: We've started a quite hard work, learning a song together having fine in the process

    MI: got it?

    MA: yes, more or less

    MI: more or less is ok, very hard -laughs- can you read English?

    MA: more or less

    MI: can you sing?

    MA: more or less

    MI: one two three four, -sings-

    MA- here the problem is the pronunciation, the thing I want the most is to spell the words right

    MI: yes

    MA: my hert is full of love

    MI: no, it's not my hert, it's my heArt

    EM: my heart

    MA: my heart

    MI: yes my heart

    MA: is full of love

    MI: full of LOVe

    MA:full of love

    MI: full of Love

    MA: full of love

    MI: you have to put your tongue in this way

    MA: full of love

    MI: ok better

    MA: and desire for you

    MI: and desire for you

    MA: and desire for you

    MI: desire for you

    MA: desire for you

    MI: desire for you

    MA: desire for you

    MI: yeah, hmm, ok, it's a bit.... Emma please, you have to help...

    EM: the pronunciation

    MI: this week the pronunciation

    EM: this week I will help him improving his English pronunciation, the problem is I'm Scottish, so....

    MI: once more, alone, 1,2,3,4

    We sang together, we developed ideas about harmonies and arrangements

    MA: it's not that easy, easy, easy, it has many weird passages, high and low tones. I like it. It's good

    MI: it's funny

    EM: super funny!

    MI: f****ng great, really fun.

    MA: I like it, I want to dazzle with this song if we do to much...

    MI: Hmm we loose the energy we've found together

    With Emma I decided to begin in an awkward way

    EM: it's too high

    MI: is it ok in this way?

    EM: no, I'd like to it it lower

    MI: lower? Do you want my answer?

    EM: no, please, let me try it at least, it's too... I can't sing at 100% this high

    MI: I don't give a damn about it

    EM: well, ok, I'll sing it fully in head-voice though

    MI: try, high

    EM: when we firstly played it on the piano, I heard it as if it was too high

    MI: I didn't know if I could force her, her head was always like this (down) with her eyes... But, she screamed. Then she suddenly, her eyes went wide and she started singing with her face opened, looking above, I don't know, a transformation, and the voice changed as well.

    Yesssss!

    EM: step by step I'm putting everything in the right place so I can sing well and be moving at the same time.

    Too high

    MI: no it's great!

    EM: is it?

    MI: it's.... Singing is hard, it's normal if it's hard, for you too, I want to personally work on this song

    EM: ok,

    MI: I wanna try to do something amazing. See you tomorrow!

    EM: see you tomorrow!

    MI: bye

    MA: bye, see you!

  3. Here's the transcript of Daily9 :

     

    Daily 9 :italia:

     

    Mika: ho deciso di iniziare totalmente al volo, così, sul piano, con le canzoni.

    Okay.sei pronto?

    Mario: più o meno

    Mika: sei pronto? Questa è la prima volta con me al piano

    Mario: sì

    Mika: aha!

    Mario: non tutti quanti i giorni si ha la possibilità di poter cantare con Mika al piano, quindi..

    Speriamo bene!

    Mika: abbiamo iniziato un lavoro abbastanza difficile: imparare una canzone insieme divertendoci

    Mario: eheeh.Okay

    Mika: hai capito?

    Mario: mmm

    Mika: okay, dai

    Mario: più o meno

    Mika: più o meno va bene.molto difficile – ridono – sai leggere l’inglese?

    Mario: più o meno

    Mika: più o meno.sai cantare (in inglese)?

    Mario: più o meno

    - ridono -

    Mika: 1, 2, 3, 4..

    Ancora.. oh baby, don’t leave me this waaaay..

    Mario: leave me..mmm

    Qui è la pronuncia, perchè la cosa che mi interessa molto è far capire bene le parole

    Mika: sì

    Mario: my he(a)rt is full of love

    Mika: non my hert, my heart

    Emma: my heart

    Mario: my heart

    Mika: sì, my heart..

    Mario: is full of love

    Mika: full of love, full of love

    Mario: full of love

    Mika: full of love

    Mario: full of love

    Mika: fa così con la lingua…

    Mario: full of love

    Mika: okay, meglio!

    Mario: and desire you

    Mika: and desire for you

    Mario: and desire for you

    Mika: desire for you

    Mario: desire for you

    Mika: desire for you

    Mario: desire for you

    Mika: sì.mmm-okay, è un po’ … Emma, per favore, tu devi aiutare

    Emma: la pronuncia

    Mika:...questa settimana la pronuncia

    Emma: questa settimana mi impegnerò a insegnarlo (insegnargli) meglio la pronuncia inglese.è solo che sono scozzese, quindi..

    Mika: ancora una volta.da solo. 1, 2, 3, 4..

    Abbiamo cantato insieme, abbiamo sviluppo (sviluppato) delle idee per le armonie, per gli arrangiamenti

    Mario: non è proprio semplice, semplice, semplice.ha molti passaggi particolari, degli alti e bassi.

    Mi piace!è bello

    Mika: è divertente!

    Emma: è super divertente

    Mika: ****ing great, really fun. – Mario: mi piace - io voglio sorprendere con questa canzone, perché: se facciamo troppo… - Mario: mmm - così, perdiamo l’energia che insieme noi tre abbiamo avuto.

    Con Emma ho deciso di iniziare in un modo scomodo

    Emma: troppo alto

    Mika: va bene così?

    Emma: no, vorrei fare più basso se

    Mika: più basso?vuoi la mia risposta?

    Emma: no, dai, fammela almeno provare.è troppo..non lo posso cantare in pieno lassù

    Mika: me ne frega per niente

    Emma: ma vabbè, la canterò tutta in testa, però

    Mika: try.high

    Emma: quando l’abbiamo suonato al pianoforte ora lo sentivo molto alto

    Mika: non sapevo se potevo forzarla e la testa era sempre così, con gli occhi..

    Ma, urlato

    Ad un certo punto si è svegliata, così con gli occhi grandi.ha iniziato a cantare con la faccia aperta.. guardando sopra… non lo so,una trasformazione e la voce si è trasformata anche.

    Yeess!

    Emma: piano piano sto mettendo a posto tutte queste cose per poter cantare bene ed emozionare allo stesso tempo.

    Troppo alto

    Mika: no, it’s great!

    Emma: no?

    Mika: it’s.., singing is hard, è normale di essere un po’ difficile.anche per te io voglio veramente, personalmente preparare questa – Emma: okay - canzone, cercare un modo di fare qualcosa di bellissimo.A domani!

    Emma: a domani

    Mika: ciao

    Mario: a domani.ciao

    Mika suona.

     

    Great! I'll finish my translation in a while. Gonna post it this afternoon! :wink2:

  4. Here's the English translation of Daily8 :italia::uk: . Thanks to Charlie20 for the transcription!

    Daily 9 is in progress

     

    A.CATT: now it is the moment of Mika's team, he's a bit worried because of the next show theme which is apparently very far from Emma's style but most of all from the "cute" Mario's style.

    MI: let's start from Mario, will we?

    AR: yes

    MI: I'm nervous

    AR: don't! The dance will help us to unbend

    MI: for Mario this "club theme" is gonna be tough

     

    AC: Emma and Mario are waiting for their judge to find out "the way they're gonna die" in next Thursday show, but before that there's the dirty work to be done. They must analyze every single mistake or uncertainty of last Thursday show and then take a look at the social comments.

    MA: I'm afraid of...

    EM: no no

    EM: Mika will surely bust our ass!

    MA: yes but I can't wait to find out what we're gonna work on

    EM: I wanna see how he is dressed

    I hope they'll give me an Italian song this week

    MI: about Emma I haven't a doubt

    MA: today is the day we're given the new songs

    MI: this show will be very hard for him, let's go to the loft

    AR: let's go

    MI: poor Mario !

    EM: I hope the'll give me an Italian song

    MI: hi

    MA: hi

    EM: ehya!

    MI: how're you doing?

    EM: today's better

    MA: me too

    EM: tired

    MI: it's very hard for them, they're isolated in this fishbowl they can't talk with their friends, they have no computers, no e-mails, no mobile phones, nothing!

    Let's take a look at everything, let's start from Emma. I wanna see your performance.

    The performance wasn't perfect, there were moments in which you lost the rhythm, but there were also moments in which you were absolutely brilliant!

    EM: I didn't sing at 100%, but I'm happy I could sing this song

    MI: we saw the true emotion yesterday on stage, thanks to Emma

    EM: with the last three words I completely broke!

    MI: really really beautiful. Not perfect and amazing. Because the things that are the best in the world are the not perfect ones, the ones coming from the heart.

    She's got all the talents, she can do this work but she has never had the chance to really focus on it.

    You didn't sing perfectly

    EM: no

    MI: the technique was not perfect, but you were moving, we know the kind of work we have to do to free yourself completely, I think this contest is a sort of liberation for you, your talent and your story.

    EM: I broke free from everything on stage

    MI: you've got to do this with a perfect technique

    EM: yes

    MI: this week for you, is a technique challenge

    EM: Mika wants us to aim at perfection, I feel for the first time...

    MI: don't exaggerate though

    EM: like a singer

    MI: for the first time like a singer?

    EM: yes

    MI: do you?

    EM: they're working really hard on my self-esteem

    MI: in French we say the "justesse", referring to the precision of notes, the two of you have to work on the precision of the notes of every single song

    EM: he's right, because singing does not only mean knowing notes

    MI: let's see the comments, will we?

    EM: hmm

    MI: eh! lallualice: Emma you're full of style and charisma, I like you soo much that I cut my hair like yours

    EM: Woow!

    MI: that's very good because there's something very interesting in Emma. From "brightbluesky": I adore Emma because not only is she very into the song but she can also transmit this feeling to the ones who're listening to it

    EM: I'm so happy, because whenever I sing I want it to be something personal between me and the people who're listening to me

    MI: please, trust me, I wanna work with you, I wanna take risks I have you singing very tough songs, like this one, because we can, is it ok?

    EM: ok

    MI: you did well

    She understood that she's here to work.

    Mario, let's see your performance. Oop!

    When he started I thought "he's doing the original version not the tonality he worked on"

    MA: I did a few mistakes, I must say the truth, I lost the concentration at the beginning of the song.

    MI: now you reached it a bit...

    MA: I'm sorry because the work I did for this song was very hard

    MI: hard!

    I tried to make heavy demands on him.

    We out you in a very uncomfortable zone, it didn't go perfectly, but you're safe, a bit it's your fault, much in my fault, but we're doing this together and I think we've learnt a lot from that situation, so let's go on.

    This week I wanna put him at ease, I want to see Mario'joy, he's him, he's Mario!

    Ok, let's hope the audience has our same feeling: Ibaghin: I didn't like Mario's performance.

    He or she didn't say: I didn't like Mario, he said "I didn't like Mario's performance

    Elenamarx: Mario is amazing, but he's as modern as the "Commodore 64"

    AR: it's a computer

    MA: the Commodore 64 is one of the classics video games though

    MI: is it important for you? Being modern?

    MA: it surely is but it's more important to be myself than to be modern

    MI: when a person in really himself, that's classic, he's neither modern nor vintage, he's not cliché either. He's just himself.

    He's a bit out of contest but it's cool to be out of contest!

    Let's work! I'm ready to work, I'm ready to do something good this week ok! Let's go get ready, I have to play the piano (he actually says "to touch de piano" translating it literally from Spanish that would be "tocar el piano")

    AR: yes

    MI: yes, because we don't have our pianist

    AR: the piano will be really happy to be touched by you (he jokes on Mika's previous mistake)

    MI: damn it!

    MA: I made a fool of myself

    EM: hey did you hear when I got it out of tune?

    MA: I wasn't even acknowledging that I was singing out of tune, while on stage, me too, even worst. What a bad performance!

    EM: it's not true!

    MI: let's start from Mario, will we?

    AR: yes

    MI: I'm nervous

    AR: don't! The dance will help us to unbend

    MI: for Mario this "club theme" is gonna be tough

    AR: for Mario it's gonna be harder to feel this dance mood. He's better with a slow rhythm than with the disco ones

    MI: this next show, I'm sorry Mario, is a club-themed show.

    AR: a bit disco

    MI: club, tunz tunz, dance, where people go dancing, do you go dancing?

    MA: no, I don't go dancing...

    AR: me neither

    MI: don't you go to the disco with your girlfriend?

    MA: no, we don't go to...

    AR: for her too...

    MA: no, we don't go to the disco, we go to... nicer places, a bit softer, with live music playing, in a pub near the sea....

    AR: you're such a romantic...

    MA: yes I am

    MI: I tried to have a song with a nice melody, but that makes you dance also, that gives you something energetic, this is the first verse of the song

    The song's from Jimmy Sommerville, from Thelma Houston, "Don't leave this way", a huge song, it was successful three times.

    AR: was it?

    MA: I think it's nice, I like it very much, I think it's a bit soul

    MI: I know that every time we think about the dance show, club dance, we don't think about Mario, but I think he will stun

    Are you happy with it?

    MA: of course!

    MI: ooooh!

    AR: so, would you go to the disco tonight?

    MA: eh, no!

    MI: bye, MA: bye

    AR: bye Mario

    MI: bye Mario, thanks

    MA: thanks to you

    EM: you've been given Jimmy Sommerville, haven't you?

    MI: Emma, Emma, is singing the song, she's very happy

    AR: oh yes!

    EM: it's one of my favorite songs, ever! One of this songs you play... I have the EP of jimmy Sommerville.

    MA: it's gonna be tough to sing though

    EM: yeah, right! I wouldn't want it!

    AR: we're already in the mood!

    MI: what mood?

    AR: the disco mood!

    MI: let's talk with Emma

    AR: yeah

    MI: oh yeah, Emma?

    EM: you gave one of my Favourite songs to Mario!

    MI: really? Me too!

    EM: I love him

    MI: yeah, Jimmy Sommerville,

    EM: yes, exactly, he's Scottish

    MI: yeah, right, he's Scottish

    EM: the song they gave Mario is amazing!

    MI: for you we have a dance song, alternative dance

    The dance music gives the opportunity to not very commercial songs to become very popular.

    She is a friend of mine, she Irish, not Scottish

    EM: well always people living....

    MI: she has this madness, when she's on stage she turns into somebody else, let's listen to her song in silence.

    Emma song is from Roisin Murphy from the band Moloko, it's called "bring it back"

    EM: the song I was given is amazing! I would listen to it when I was a teenager

    MI: how do you say snaky?

    AR: "serpeggiante"

    MI: "serpentente"

    EM: it's melodic, it's important because you have to go with the rhythm, you can't go forward or or stay back.

    MI: very clean, the voice can be the star.

    This song, and Moloko too, may become a very important landmark for Emma in this competition and in her career too.

    It's very snaky (he goes on changing the way he says it in Italian, creating new words). I can also imagine the choreography. Roisin has a way if being on stage that... It's very womanly but also very sexy. That could be a landmark for you

    EM: I'm really happy!

    MI: good, me too!

    EM: well it's hard

    AR: I can't wait to do it too

    MI: also the choreography is very important to make you dance a bit more. Are you happy with it ?

    EM: yes

    MI: I think that with this club theme show we've got two very important songs that will preserve our identity as well. Let's go dancing

    EM: let's go!

    MI: snaky

    EM: did you hear it?

  5. VIDEO

     

    05-11-2014

    Daily 9: Mika insegna canto e inglese agli Over

     

    http://xfactor.sky.it/showvideo/219930/daily-9-mika-insegna-canto-e-inglese-agli-over/05-11-2014/ (cannot watch it outside Italy :no:)

     

     

    [sky]219930[/sky]

     

     

     

     

    http://video.fc2.com/en/content/20141106m7gpp1RF/ (FC2)

     

     

     

    :bow:

    Could anyone translate / explain this video clip ?

     

    Charlie20 and I are currently working on transcriptions (Charlie) and on translations. They'll be ready in the afternoon. ?

  6. Here is the transcript in Italian

     

    Thank you very much. Here's the translation. :wink2:

     

    Alessandro Cattelan

    Welcome back at Xfactor daily, the preparations for the second live show are fervent and in the loft our talents are meeting their judges and producers who're helping them to face the second live show in the best way. The talents of overs and under men will now discover the musical choices that their judges Mika and Fedez made for them. We're starting from Mika'team, let's know his talents a little bit more.

     

    Mario: I'm Mario, I'm 34 years old, I come from Tempio Pausania (Sardinia) and I'm a songwriter. There's a particular place where I wrote many of my songs, it is near the beach. Writing in that very place is utterly important to me because I feel like I'm completely outside the world. I'm sure the Xfactor stage is gonna be very hard, very complicated, but I'll do as if it was that beach, I'll make it through!

     

    Emma: yes! I'm Emma Morton, I'm 28 years old and I'm from Scotland. Singing has always be a part of me, but I have always been ashamed of singing in front of people. I felt I was wrong but I had this thing inside of me that wished to stay in front of an audience. Now I feel in peace with myself, with less trouble, now I know where this voice comes from and I'm proud of it.

     

    1:57

     

    A. Cattelan

    After Diluvio's exit, there are only two talents left in Mika's team: Emma and Mario. The guys are now at work watching their exhibitions and discovering the judgments of the web, after that Mika will tell them the choices that he made for them.

     

    2:20

     

    Mi: hi!

    AR: hi!

    Mi: are you tired?

    Ma: so and so

    Mi: are you? How're you?

    E: fine, well a bit tired but ready, we're waiting for the new song

    Mi: I must say that the energy in this loft is very different this year. Yesterday it went ok for the two of you, I must say... Quite good for you, very good for you, ok for you, a little break is ok but the next week you really have to roar!

    E: Mika is a very serious judge, he's very professional but he's very sensitive as well

    Mi: this is you house now, you have to feel totally protected (he wrongly says "proteggiata" instead of "Protetta") in this atmosphere.

    That's an opportunity, we can't waste time or throw this opportunity away. This situation can change her life. (To Mario) for you as well, you have to go on working as you've been doing since now.

    Ma: he's tough, really tough!

    Mi: let's start with Emma: let's see her performance. Yes, you have to look at it

    E: watching oneself and listening to oneself is always hard because it's in that moment that you see all the things that went wrong

    Mi: under, under the notes, always. Ah ah, it didn't show 100% of your potential but it was ok.

    Now you're Mika and I'm Emma, I'm over, what do I think about it?

    E: I think you noticed that I wasn't completely at ease and so I didn't express myself completely

    Mi: let's talks technically...

    E: yes, there were moments in which I didn't breath when I had to

    Mi: music is the most important thing, the interpretation as well.

    I was upset

    E: I know

    Mi: you saw my face...

    E: yes

    Mi: who cares about the song? You can sing "Baa baa black sheep" or a Ricky Martin song, who cares. Discipline, preparation, that's what you have to fix during this week to sing with the right technique.

    E: when Mika's so harsh with me I really have to switch on my adult part of brain who makes me understand why

    Mi: you did well because you're good but you can do much better than this, you don't have to think to much

    E: ok.

    Mi: you have to do more. You have to be an artist, I'm saying "an artist", I'm not saying "a contestant", a true artist

    I think with the work that we've started with Emma, I felt that she had to start trusting me.

    In this performance there was too much sauce and too less meat

    E: ok. I'll pull out the meat

    Mi: (laughing) yes, I want the meat!

    E: the next week, I swear!

    Mi: this week I want a beef fillet without any sauce.

    I wanna see the comments, I haven't seen them yet:

    Francescagavard: @mikasounds Emma is a finalist, that's for sure, she's amazing, she's got a stunning voice and she can use it in a

    AR: excellent

    Mi: excellent, amazing irony, that's true

    E: thank you Francesca, you've understood my irony!

    Mi: from Goldrake71: guys, Emma is a step forward!

    E: I won't tell it to the others but thanks!

    Mi: but there aren't any... E: stop?

    I'm the only bad one here!

    The tweets were completely positive, and that's a huge compliment.

    Mario let's talk about you, about your performance

    Ma: of course, the stage is a big emotion, you Mohave to live very moment of it, as if it was one of the best moments of your life, it's a moment.

    Mi: I wanted to show that Mario is like a book who hadn't been opened since now, that's it, this xfactor , this experience will be the very first time this book opens up to the world. Oh yeah

    E: wonderful! Listen to the audience clapping their hands! Mario did a classy performance

    Mi: you evolved! You're not the same person, but this, this is ok, I liked this performance a lot, you didn't think too much, you worked hard!

    Ma: Mika is trying to pull out the best from us, the emotive potential, the technique...

    Mi: he did a big technic work, without thinking, this is emotional, I don't feel like doing it, I don't wanna do it. You separated yourself from the song. There is a link between the person, the face, the heart and the voice. We're at the first live show, every live show has to be different from the previous one. I must think about the future of this contestant, I must think that they'll arrive to the final.

    You have a strong identity and we're here to be rigorous. You did well.

    Ma: thank you,

    Mi: let's take a look at the comments

    From comeprincipe: if Lucio Dalla could listen to Mario I'm sure he would be proud of him.

    Ma: when he read the comments I felt so excited because I was happy to hear that I had been able to reach those people hearts once again.

    Mi: from Mabeganet: one of the best lovely songs of lucio Dalla. Very brave choice. Congratulations, Mario is the moral winner of this live show.

    E: wow!

    Ma: an artist is this, someone who's able to amaze and stun.

    Mi: from the beginning we said that you can't sing like a singer of a piano bar.

    We left out this idea completely, the idea of an artist for drunk people sitting in a piano bar, he's become something more.

    We've got much work to do this week, I'm very happy to go on with you, okay? See you later

    Mi: Are you ready?

    AR: ready!

    Mi: ok let's begin with Mario

    AR: yes

    Mi: Marioooooo

    Ma: I'm coming

    Mi: right into the wolf mouth aargh

    Ma: you're scaring me!

    AR: nom music isn't scary

    Mi: I want you to sing in Italian once again this week, but I don't want to do anything we already did last week. This is a song of 2010 that is already, according to, me and to many others, to Alessandro too

    AR: of course

    Mi: a classical song, I hope you know it

    Ma: honestly I was ready for everything but a song of Malika Ayane...

    Mi: he can turn into, he's really a raconteur, he can turn himself into other people. What I really like about thins song is that we have tho very highs peaks, this ranges (sings)

    Ma: it's a song that must be performed.. is very difficult

    Mi: what do you think about it?

    Ma: I like it, good, the song is amazing, I didn't expect anything like this , I'm honest

    Mi: I want you to use a big open voice, this week you don't have a words challenge but a musical challenge melody challenge

    Ma: a technical challenge

    Mi: a technical challenge of the melody

    AR: this is the first artist I've ever written a song to, so it's family....

    Ma: ah ok!

    AR: yes

    Ma: so you're basically saying :watch out what you do...

    AR: yes! I'll put in a god word but you,,,,

    Mi: ok?

    Ma: yeah amazing

    Mi: ok, bye Mario

    Ma: see you later

    AR: our working class hero

    E: so? Do you like it?

    Ma: it's weird

    E: is it Malika Ayane's song?

    Ma: yes

    AR: he told me that it's been 15 days since he last had physical contacts, he's starting to...

    Mi: who?

    AR: Mario, that he has physical intimates contacts

    Mi: ahh!

    AR: yes, he says he can't take it anymore

    Mi: but, does he have a girlfriend now?

    AR:yes

    Mi: does he?

    AR: yes, she's in Spain, studying, yes

    AR+Mi: ooooh!

    Ma: it's the moment!

    Mi: Emma?

    E: ahahaha aargh, good morning

    Mi: good morning, so, I wanted to find an important song, for me.

    For Emma I've chosen a song, this week, that to me is one of the greatest songs of the American pop music.

    I wanna stay pop with you this week

    E: ok.

    Mi: it has a little bit of pop, a bit of jazz, a bit of blues, a bit of everything. Do you know Bonnie Raitt?

    E: no

    Mi: no? Ok, listen to this song, it's called "I can't make you love me". Do you know who's playing the piano? Bruce Hornsby

    E: is he?

    While I I was listening to it, I was absorbing the lyrics, but I was also living them, like if it was a flash of my life

    Mi: the words are very easy, but they say it all. After this experience her life won't be the same anymore

    E: I already connected to this song, it's beautiful!

    Mi: in this song there's everything, even melodically it's lovely, with all these frames... It's never cheesy. Ok?

    E: when do we start?

    Mi: absolutely now

    E: yes!

    Mi: technically, musically, there's a lot of work to be done, but that's the work I love the most, the one in which you have to get you hands dirty (take risks)

    E: well

    AR: so we won't say "in bocca al lupo" (into the wolf mouth: wish of good luck) but: "in bocca a Mika" (into Mika's mouth)

    Mi: "in bocca a Mika" laughs, "crepi Mika?!" ("Let Mika die?!" Italian say, used after the "in bocca al lupo" wish)

    AR: no!

     

    A Cattelan.

    Here it is! Mika chose songs that surprised our talents. Emma will sing a song she's never heard before, for Mario he even chose a song from a feminine singer. Let's see what they'll be able to do.

  7. As I promised, here's the translation of the Vogue article.

    Enjoy it!

     

    Mika dresses Valentino haute couture in the Xfactor live shows

     

     

    The judge of the Sky talent show collaborated creating a one of a kind collection.

     

    It will begin on Thursday on Sky one XFactor: the musical talent show followed by many people (and the most twitted Italian show ever).

    The day before the start we had a chat with one of the most appreciated judges according to the Italian public: Mika, prodigious 31 years old, English-Lebanese singer who leads the over 25 team, who told us, in perfect Italian, his passion:

     

    "concerning the search of Style. I love well-dressing, I think it's a kind of Art". For this reason he fully collaborated with Valentino: "during Xfactor I'm going to dress only with taylor-made suits made by Valentino Haute Couture. Amazing. Man suits specifically handmade by people working in women atelier. Each suit requires a lot of craft work, first thing to be done is the taylor-made pattern which is then pulled apart. Each suit requires more than 200 pieces that are then combined together."

     

    It's a project made to measure for Mika, it takes inspiration from new dandy with much bright embroidering who says: "looks like a Fortunato Depero painting with a hint of Jean Cocteau and ballets russes. I think that today it's more punk dressing with a suit than wearing rip up jeans.

    We don't have to be afraid of putting to much poetry in suits, looking male at the same time: shirt, suit, tie."

     

    The singer tells to have worked very close with Maria Grazia Chiuri e Pierpaolo Piccioli, the maison creative directors. This collaboration was born in Paris one year ago when Mika was working for The Voice France,"great, I can learn a lot from them, they have an incredible culture. To them suits tell different stories and worlds but are still fashion dresses without turning into theatrical costumes.

     

    Stories to tell are also his three talents of his Xfactor team: "this year will be really brave and we'll risk a lot. My singers will be three reconteurs. We'll choose songs that are very close to their life. Emma reminds me of Nina Simone. Diluvio is my personal hazard, rap in Italian. Mario is a raconteurs as well, but he's closer to George Moustaki".

  8. I'd like to translate this TV Sorrisi e Canzoni full interview tomorrow.

     

    http://www.sorrisi.com/2014/10/22/x-factor-intervista-mika/

     

    Of course, we can share, if anyone wants to do it as well.

     

    And there's also this one: http://m.vogue.it/uomo-vogue/news/2014/10/mika-veste-valentino-haute-couture-a-x-factor-8

     

    I'm willing to help but tomorrow I'll be in university the whole day so I won't be able untill tomorrow night... Let me know!:wink2:

  9. I don't think I'm committing to it then.

    I've been told that he said he had a 41° C fever and that Morgan was constantly winding him up. That's pretty much all. Right?

     

    I don't think it needs subtitles, they talk about Xfactor and some of the guests that are meant to be in the live shows, in particularly the ones of tonight. Morgan talks a lot about being very elegant and the importance of well-dressing, Fedez is not there, he gets interviewed by phone as he's sick as well, they ask him about politics and about being very young and having to judge people who're often younger or the same age as him.

    Vicky says she's very happy, they ask her how she'll get dressed tonight, but she doesn't answers, she wants it to be a surprise.

    Mika says he's been sick for a few days with a fever that reached 41C and they joke about catching what he has, he talks about Lyly Wood and the Pricks and the story behind the success of their song, they ask him how he is doing in Italy, he says that he's enjoying it because in Italy he doesn't feel the negativity caused by the crisis, which can be perceived a lot in many other European cities.

    That's what they say, in a nutshell....

  10. Sorry for the bad quality, I don't have all the stuff to record properly from my TV. I just used my mobile :biggrin2:

     

     

    [YOUTUBE]kyEM6G0Oz44[/YOUTUBE]

     

    Recap: Mika said that during the week-end he did 32 kms running and canyoning to cope with the stress of XF and of the album recording.

    He said that, whenever Chelsea plays, he needs to hang their flag on his door to prevent people from damaging it.

    And that his cardboard cutout must have been photoshopped cause he looks like 22 y.o.

     

    I may do some subtitles later.

     

    Trekking and canyoning! What a man!!

  11.  

    And as a direct person I don't mind him being direct and harsh at times, but I just simply can't deal with the fact that people try to sugarcoat it just because it is Mika. I hate to break it to you, but he is not the innocent angel he's made out to be. Yes he does swear and yes he is insulting at times and no, that is not a big deal but some people here have double standards when it comes to what is harsh criticism and what isn't.

     

    It's exactly the same way I see it!

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