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    2015 - Mika in an advertising for the TGV

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    Permission denied, the Vimeo link doesn't work. But I already uploaded it to VK.  :naughty:

    Here's the link: https://vk.com/video335293585_171615426

     

    I also made an edited one. Cropped the vid so it wouldn't look like an ad.  :das:

    https://vk.com/video335293585_171615447

     

    thank you so much!!!  :flowers2:

    I really like this video, it made me like the song even though I didn' care that much when I first heard it  :naughty:

    and I find Mika is as charming as ever, he's on his way to be a musical actor imho  :fangurl:

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    Center of Gravity - Lyrics & Discussion

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    I want to write some words about the original lyric of Franco Battiato's song, that can result absolutely absurd to many of you. :teehee:

    Sorry for my imperfect english, I try. :)

     

    Among the many intellectual interests of Franco Battiato (a real genius, for me...an intellectual of our times), there is the passionate study of oriental philosophies and esoteric mystic. In a constant search for spirituality.

     

    Many of the lyrics of Battiato's songs are actually hermetic texts: at fisrt, they can appear as  'nonsense' songs, meaningless, but at a deeper level of analysis between the notes of a song apparently "pop" or "dance", in spite of a catchy refrain, you can discover hidden symbolism and complex references (for example in this song: the novel "Captains Courageous" by Kipling, or the figure of Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit, mathematician and at the same time missionary in China in the late 1500s ).

     

    Here, the "center of permanent gravity" is a state of consciousness, a centering of our being that can observes the outside world and at the same time our deep personality.

    It is the deep research of a "true point of center", a point that is only part of our true nature, and not the result of thousand of influences, tastes and cultural conditionings which do not belong to ourselves.

    From that point it is possible to start and try to build a true soul.

    Once you reach the "real centering", which is an elevation of consciousness, you are able to break away from suffering, from the complaint, fear, stress....

     

    This idea, developed by Battiato in this song, could be a recall to one of the fundamental teachings of the philosophical school of an armenian mystic philosopher studied in deep by Battiato, "Georges Ivanovič Gurdjieff", who developed the "system of awakening" called "Fourth Way" in which the center of gravity is a sort of midway between being mechanical and asleep and the research of the construction of one's soul.

    A great way to "see" beyond appearances and not to change your mind about things and people ..

     

    In short, Mika has not chosen to sing a "silly song". :wink2:

     

    Hope you can see this video, a live performance of this song...

    thank you so much Marta, you render justice to Battiato's great work  :thumb_yello:

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    2015 - Mediolanum Forum, Assago, Milan - 27 September - Reports/Pics/Vids

    in Concert Reviews

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    YouTube videos by tiibet

     

    Mika - No Place In Heaven @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

    Mika - Promiseland @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

     

    Mika - Boum Boum Boum @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

     

    Mika - Stardust with Chiara @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

     

    Mika - Underwater @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

     

    Mika - Good Wife @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

     

    Mika - Big Girl @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

     

    Mika - EMD @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

     

    Mika - Grace Kelly @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

     

    Mika - Happy Ending @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

     

    Mika - L'amour @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4JqbpCRG38

     

    Mika - Origin @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_plvIBJDEK0

     

    Mika - intro + Relax @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblF243RJzI

     

    Mika - Talk About You @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nKjAjyiO0

     

    Mika - Staring At The Sun @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=927HNO7wyzQ

     

    Mika - Lollipop with Chiara @ Mediolanum Forum, Assago Milan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqCi7-_G-KQ

     

    a HUGE thank you to Nina for her beautiful videos, they take me back to that magical night  :fangurl:  he was amazing, I was most  of the time like  :jawdrop:

    and thank you Eriko for posting them  :)

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    MIKA in French Press - 2015

    in Mika News and Press

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    Translation into English: 

    Mika
     His love 
    His projects
     The Voice
     Mika The 32 years old most sparkling judge in The Voice is releasing a fourth album that energizes September. His commitments as a citizen , his life with his companion, his passion for singing , Mika tells us everything. In a smile.
     At home, I live mostly in one room: the kitchen! 
    Mika Holbrook Penniman aka Mika, Lebanese and British and fluent French speaker , has been giving colors to pop music since ten years. But behind his contagious enthousiam and his making the show all the time, Mika asserts himself as an artist and a citizen who has a deep reflection about society around him. His fourth album, No Place in Heaven, is similar to him, sparkling!
     Nous Deux: Isn't this album , No Place in Heaven the one of a more mature man? 
    Mika: Yes, but in my own way...with this fourth album, I find again a lightness, a transparency. A more responsible maturity , meanwhile keeping the ability to marvel at life to keep being inspired. One has to have at the same time a light heart and a serious head. Both can and must live together!
     Nous Deux: The sound of this album is clearly a reference to the pop of the seventies, isn't it?
     Mika: Yes, we are in intimate pop, a very human pop! I don't want to be smooth. Which is not common nowadays...It's in the spirit of the singers-composers pop of the sixties and the seventees. I was influenced by that spirit which for me represents the best time period for singers-composers, the most credible, the most sincere, the less dirty.
     Nous Deux: What do you mean by "less dirty"? 
    Mika: I mean that after the seventees, it was so easy to become a commercial item, to get lost within a team of fiffty people in which the artist doesn't write his own songs anymore. 
    Nous Deux: The single Last Party evokes Freddie Mercury. Do you feel you are an heir of this flamboyant pop that Elton John made popular as well?
     Mika: Not really...I don't look back. I always dared to make a record my own way, without thinking too much about the consequences. One can get involved with a touch of softness, talk about important things in a light manner which doesn't betray credibility. But as far as inheritance goes, something else does unite the three of us together: the influence of classical music and the sense of the show!
     Nous Deux: In Good Guys, you mention James Dean, David Bowie and Jean Cocteau? Why did you pay a tribute to those gay icons?
     Mika: I pay a tribute to them with a lot of respect,and I think it's rather unusual for non conformist heroes. This song touches the heart of many people , and the heart of American press for example. It's more a tribute to difference less specifically to sģexuality. Sexuality by itself , without the circumstances, that's not very interesting.
     Nous Deux: Is it becoming tiresome or are you proud to be presented as a gay icon?
     Mika: It doesn't bother me, but I don't identify myself as such. And when I see who my fans are, it really isn't that important....If someone is interested in that theme, they can pick what they want in my universe, so it is positive. But today we are far from sexuality being a scoop; many people suffered for us and before us. 
    Nous Deux: Paparazzis are after your couple. Is it a drawback of celebrity that is hard to accept?
     Mika: When I'm alone people don't care. When we are outside as a couple, of course it is different. But I live with someone who is so normal, who walks around in shorts and Converses all year long. There's nothing extraordinary to shoot. In Italy we got followed by three boats. They waste so much time and money on photos that are not really interesting. ... 
    Nous Deux: So your life is not continually a show?
     Mika: There isn't any show whatsoever. All this circus can be irritating, but there are many advantages. celebrity opens doors which is a huge proviledge. The biggest is that people come and talk to me easily, whoever they are. Such human contacts are rewards that erase all the little constraints.
     Nous Deux: How does Mika live when he's not on a stage? Do you take a long time to dress up to be elegant?
     Mika:He cooks too much and badly, but he's always cooking. He doesn't talk about himself using "he" [laughs] I take my dogs out. I love driving but I'm a very bad driver. I live in the center of London, in a rather big house where I'm alone most of the time. I live in the kitchen! And I wear white t-shirts, jeans and Converses. That's how I live.
     Nous Deux: Is your success a way to take your revenge on those who humiliated you when you were young?
     Mika: No, not a revenge. Because I don't have an ounce of respect for those people who hurt me in difficult periods, as during adolescence. To take a revenge on them would be giving them value, which I don't want. When you are 14 or 18 you can truly get out of it, but you never forget. You can forget the precise words those people said, but you will never forget what they did. It's not a weight on my shoulders but I don't want to erase what I have had to cope with. 
    Nous Deux: Aren't you afraid that your artist status cuts you from the rest of the world? 
    Mika: No, emotional ignorance is a delicious thing, but it is not excusable to ignore society nor politics....you have to surround yourself with people who are more intelligent so you learn from them, it allows one to understand the world better. I write for the daily newspaper Corriere Della Serra about issues such as aids or migrants...Reactions can sometimes be strong as about the Vatican for exemple.
     Nous Deux: Are you a commited artist?
     Mika: I'm only a normal person who looks at the world, who has his opinion, and who expresses it, as anyone who would be queing at their butcher's. This idea of debating is something I'm totally enthousiastic about, it's fun and it fills up life without much cost.
    Interview by Louis Preiss.
     Judge and coach in The Voice since 2014, when he replaced Louis Bertignac, Mika managed to find his place. His pop elegance brought a lot to the third season, which was in fact won by Kendji Girac. If this fourth season was he admits leaves him :"A bit disapointed, however he could sing for the first time during those shows his latest singles, Talk About You and Good Guys. He doesn't exclude to do the next season, he "likes this exercice". The only problem being, his program is already very full for the next month: a world tour, XFactor TV show in Italy, a staging project in England and dub voicing for a long cartoon. In 2016 he will also play a small part in a movie by Ben Stiller with Justin Bieber among others , Zoolander 2.

     

     

    Thank you for your great job!!  :thumb_yello:  :flowers2:  :clap:

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    J'ai pas envie - Song and lyrics discussion

    in Mika's Music and Artwork

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    Not that you needed a song to be bitchy   :fisch:  I like it too, by the way

     

     

    I think the lyrics on the album are a bit different and I'm not a native French speaker (corrections are welcome) but I'll try to translate it anyway, so you can get an idea. Let's see...

     

     

    You gave me roses, I sent you upstairs
    You wanted to take a break, I said "let's go on"
    You wanted the countryside, we live in Paris
    You say no, I say yes
     
    You wanted Gaisbourg, I put on Booba
    You wanted to make love, we made Zumba
    You wanted a boy, we called him Susie
    You say no, I say yes
     
    Saying "I love you", that's not the problem
    Hear me when I tell you, I don't want to
    I don't want to (no I don't want to)
    As husbands who say yes
    I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to please you
    I don't want to, I don't want to, if you love me, just tell me
    Singing, you say "this isn't love", but you see
    I'm not the moron you think I am, this song's for you
     
    You wanted Peru, you only got the hat
    You wanted the Ferris wheel, you got the roundabout
    You want a lover, I said "we'll see"
    You say white, I say black
     
    Saying "I love you", that's not the problem
    Hear me when I tell you, I don't want to
    I don't want to (no I don't want to)
    Do like this, like husbands who say yes
    I don't want to, I don't want to please you
    I don't want to, I don't want to, if you love me, just tell me
    Singing, You say "this isn't love", but you see 
    I'm not the moron you think I am, this song's for you
     
    You wanted passion, you got Mon Chérie
    You wanted to escape, I bought some kiwis
    You've wanted to see mum, we saw mine  [i'm not sure if he says 'mum 'or 'sea' here. I'm going for 'mum', since he then says 'mine'. Or maybe it's a pun and I have no idea how to translate that in English]
    You say Rome, I say Vienna
     
    Because I don't want to.

     

     

    Thank you Alyara  :flowers2:

    Mika @ Italian Radios -- 2015

    in Mika News and Press

    Posted

    15 June:

    11.00 am: MIKA on air @ 105 Friends and live on video on 105.net and on 105 mobile App from 11am local time.

    http://www.105.net/sezioni/1299/mika-in-diretta-video

    VIDEO PODCAST:   http://www.105.net/video/181897/MIKA-A-105-FRIENDS--.html

    I don't know, if they'll upload the whole video, meanwhile I have an audio recording with the off air parts to D/L Mika @ Radio 105 15.6..2015 .mp3   (it freezes every now and then)

    one more video from Radio 105 https://www.facebook.com/Radio105/videos/vb.7356945956/10152800561345957/?type=2&theater

     

    H. 12.15 pm @R101 

    https://twitter.com/RadioR101/status/610145007761260544

    http://www.r101.it/homepage

    http://www.r101.it/news/news_dettaglio/mika-si-racconta-a-r101

     

    AUDIO PODCAST:  

    http://www.r101.it/r...tervista-a-mika

    http://www.r101.it/contents/r101/podcast/audio/15062015/20122pcast_INTERVISTA MIKA LENTINI AGOSTI 15-06-15 .mp3

     

    VIDEO PODCAST: http://www.r101.it/v...a-ospite-a-r101

     

    H. 2:00 pm @ Radio Kiss Kiss 

    http://www.kisskiss.it/ospiti/2086-mika-lunedi-15-giugno-ospite-in-kiss-kiss-my-ass.html

    LISTEN + D/L: http://www.mikafanclub.com/topic/31944-mika-italian-radios-from-15th-to-20th-june-2015/?p=4006307

    PODCAST of the whole episode (Mika on from about 26 min):  http://www.kisskiss.it/dmdocuments/kiss_kiss_my_ass_-_puntata_di_lunedi_15.06.2015.mp3

     

    H. 20.00 @RDS 

    http://www.rds.it/diretta/

    Very interesting VIDEO RDS (Not the radio interview), where Mika talks about the new album and songwriting in general: http://www.rds.it/rd...nterviste/mika/

     

     

    16 June:

    Mika @ Radio Deejay Catteland 16 June

    https://twitter.com/DeejayCatteland/status/606381294558322688

    https://twitter.com/DeejayCatteland/status/610025327297961984

    PERISCOPE:  http://www.mikafanclub.com/topic/31944-mika-italian-radios-from-15th-to-20th-june-2015/?p=4006589

    VIDEO PODCAST:  http://www.deejay.it...el-2007/437453/

    WEBCAM VIDEO: VK https://vk.com/video232312753_171283801

    AUDIO:

     

    17 June:

    10.35-12.00 @RAI Radio2 http://www.ufficiostampa.rai.it/dl/UfficioStampa/Articoli/RAI-RADIO2-SUPERMAX-a3f42789-69df-4f56-be40-1a164b535b2e.html

     

    21 June:

    15.00 h. @ Radio Kiss Kiss again!

     

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU MARINA!!!  :flowers2:  :thumb_yello:

    I'm in awe of his mind, and he's so entertaining (it's an old story, I know  :wink2:)

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