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Another episode of The Art of Song. I'm so excited! 

So, there will be more episodes to come, right? *fingers crossed*   I was enjoying the first one, and can't wait for next Monday. 

Hope soon there will be a good news for the English edition.   

use microsofttranslator.com, WAYYYY better than google! At least your head wont spin 

Will try it, thanks ! 

Scans of the entire column on Corriere

 

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 Thank you very much as always, Lucrezia ! 

Corriere

Lettera d’amore sull’adolescenza per non scegliere di essere invisibili

di Mika

http://27esimaora.corriere.it/articolo/lettera-damore-sulladolescenzaper-non-scegliere-di-essere-invisibili/

Sorry just share the link. And please, could anyone translate it? Thanks in advance. 

(did I post it in the right thread?)

Twitter

New interview on China Dragonfly radio : http://m.qingting.fm/vchannels/68694/programs/4074495

Thanks a lot for posting. But, I can't listen it...

I've uploaded it to Google Drive. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7eXUpoh6oHlTGFaUmhHdmpGWDA/view

The most envied man in the universe at the moment. 

Instagram

Ready for Battle Rounds! Whoop! Whoop!

Done! Hope it'll help.   

Never heard about this website before and I am quite surprised there's someone already made a similar campaign for my country, sadly she/he didn't share it for other people to see. 

He should try it in spanish, he does it really good and it's a good language to sing in. 

Totally right! We witnessed him singing on the spot the Spanish text, that he saw for the first time. And he did it perfectly! 

I loved it when he sang TAY in Spanish. 

A concert review from Young Post

http://yp.scmp.com/entertainment/music/article/102792/mika%E2%80%99s-postponed-hong-kong-show-was-witty-exciting-and-well-worth

Mika’s postponed Hong Kong show was witty, exciting and well worth the wait [Review]

Mika’s long overdue return to the city was definitely not disappointing

By Melanie Leung | February 29, 2016

Two hours before Mika’s sold-out show in Hong Kong was about to begin last Monday, the Grace Kelly singer told Young Post he had no idea what was going to happen. “I just don’t want it to be some sort of karaoke performance,” was all he would say.

In the intimate setting of Wan Chai’s The Vine Centre, there’s little pressure on Mika to keep him from having a little some fun. In between delivering old hits and songs from his latest album, No Place in Heaven, he teases the audience (“I can hear everything you say - so be careful what you wish for”), shows off his Cantonese, and tells a story about how he got sick in China once from eating too many snacks.

“It all began in a train,” he says. His band crowds around him, each holding a pair of drumsticks - you never know with Mika, he could be re-enacting some Jackie Chan fight scene - but as one they begin hitting different parts of his piano, producing a sound uncannily like the rattle of a train. To the mechanical clattering Mika adds a piano melody, which he slowly builds up into the cheerful notes of Lollipop. Ignoring the crowd’s excited cheers of recognition, he slows the song down to ballad tempo, and just as the anticipation mounts to near-bursting levels, the drums blast in, the lights explode, and the whole auditorium was dancing along to the full-on chorus.

The energy was kept ultra-high for songs like Talk About You, Grace Kelly, Relax (Take It Easy), We Are Golden and the sizzling French number Boum Boum Boum, with Mika hopping about, singing while on his back, or doing some slow-mo running .

He may have had to cancel his concert in September because of damage to his vocal chords, but his vocal delivery was powerful, pulling off his signature falsetto high notes with ease and dropping the next second to some solid low pitches. At the end of Happy Ending, Mika hushes the crowd and sings without his microphone, leaving little room to doubt his singing abilities.

But the night’s highlight was Underwater, which created a such serene, hazy atmosphere that it was hard not to get lost in the music. Mika ordered the lights to be switched off before crooning out final repeats of the chorus and asking the crowd to join in - “Sing as loud as you can - as if Donald Trump wouldn’t become president if you did!”

He ended the set on a sad note with Last Party, a song so depressing it felt guilty to dance along. The crowd wasn’t going to let him get away with that, and after a quick change of clothes Mika was back on stage with Love Today. Yes, we love, love you, Mika.

Hong Kong  

(and the article is in English yay  )

Young Post

http://yp.scmp.com/entertainment/music/article/102901/mika-reveals-his-love-dim-sum-why-small-gigs-are-important-and

Mika reveals his love for dim sum, why small gigs are important and how his mum reacted to his lyric “all that she wants is another son”

British singer Mika came to Hong Kong and spoke to Young Post about prepping shows, working with his mum and barbecue pork

By Melanie Leung  March 10, 2016

As flamboyant as Mika is on stage, backstage the British singer is soft-spoken with a thoughtful demeanour. Now at the age of 32, he’s never seemed more comfortable in his own skin. So why does No Place in Heaven sound so hopeless? “There’s no place in heaven for someone like me, there’s no place in hea ...” he croons in the song. But the lyrics pages might have gotten that last line wrong. Instead of a dragged on first syllable of “heaven”, Mika was singing “hell”. “So if there’s no place in heaven or hell that means I’m free,” Mika tells Young Post. “I’m liberated. The song is in a sense really horrible. It was partly written as a letter to my father that then turns into the father. You deal with the conflict by illustrating the conflict.”

With that settled, we discuss prepping shows, working with his mum, and French music.

How are you finding Hong Kong?

I was cooped up in my hotel room for the first 15 hours here doing all the press, and then afterwards I just walked around. I’ve been here many times. The thing about this place is that you guys have some of the best restaurants in the world. I just spend my time eating.

What’s your favourite thing to eat here?

Dim sum. There’s nothing like it. And barbecue pork. You dream of it when you’re eating that horrible [crappy] dim sum that you eat in London. And it’s so expensive in London.

You never listen back to your own music after you record it. So how do you prepare for a live show?

I designed a new system which is super geeky, but we use a sampling system which has pieces from every single song, from like a timpani sample to a girl’s “oooh” vocals. Which means that I can play any of my songs, from any of my albums, and make it sound like the record even without a set list.

When I’m preparing for a show it’s just about having as much flexibility as possible so that you’re not caught in some kind of sophisticated karaoke routine. I do different things every night. Like here, this is a tiny show. And at a tiny show there’s no point in bringing a set, because it’s all about the connection. If you manage to put a little bit of personal touch in it then that’s more memorable than any spectacular set you can ever have.

Personal touches are what matter in a small show, says Mika.

How often do you do small shows?

I always put in a couple of small shows even when I’m doing big shows in the same run. The last one I did was probably two months ago. I think it’s really good in tour even though it costs a fortune. It’s expensive to do small shows. But they keep you sharp. It’s like exercise. Keeps your brain ticking. They keep you fresh and you can develop ideas without the pressure of a team of 45 people on top of you waiting for the next cue.

And what’s your process for prepping big shows?

It’s one that I’m going through right now developing a new arena show. It all starts in my kitchen and it’s about, what’s the message? If I had to write the message for a show, can I do it in one sentence? So the last time I did this was about seven months ago and the show was called Heaven. I’m at the gate of heaven and I couldn’t get in. It looks like this kind of Blade Runner landscape.

I presented this to a friend of mine, Job Smeets from Studio Job. They’re mega designers that do museum shows. And I’m like, this is my story, can you help me illustrate it? And between him, a group of fans in a village in Italy who are specialists in street theatre, Valentino Couture house, and Christian Louboutin, we all came together, and built the show. We make models, illustrations, and little videos, and all these elements show in a huge aeroplane hanger, and I sit at a table and put together the show with my team. And we pray to God that it’ll be good.

It doesn’t guarantee you commercial success, but it certainly guarantees you inspiration. It’s all in the process. I’ve been doing this for 10 years now – I’ve given myself the freedom but I’ve also had to pay the price for it as well. But it doesn’t really matter to me because the totality of it tells a story and helps me develop my own way of doing things.

What’s it like working with your mum on costumes?

The funny thing is when we are together no one would even think she’s my mum. We just work together. I’m the kid that ran away with the circus but took his entire family with him. It wasn’t really the idea, but it just happened that way (laughs). I work with her because she’s good. She’s an anti-snob. She doesn’t care if something’s expensive or cheap, as long as it’s good. And that’s why we wear everything, from Uniqlo to a Valentino couture suit that’s taken seven weeks to make, to a pair of converse with holes in it. She’s much more focused on style than fashion. Which is why she’s quite good.

Songs like All She Wants is about your mother, where you have lyrics like “all that she wants is another son”. How does she react to that?

She’s remarkably OK. As long as it’s constructive or creative she doesn’t care. If it was a tabloid, she’d kill me, but if it’s for something good and constructive she doesn’t care.

You’ve been on several TV shows, like X Factor (Italy) and France’s version of The Voice. How has that impacted your career?

Hugely. Crazy opportunities come out of that, although you make sure that everything that is created comes back to your artistic intentions. I would never have been able to do the symphonic concert (with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra last year) if I hadn’t been doing The Voice in France, which really resonated in Canada. It was easier for me just to cold-call them, through a friend, saying hey, would you guys like to do this.

You’ve done quite a few songs in French. How does the French music industry differ from the British scene?

The temperature’s just a little hotter when it comes to tendencies in stylistic preferences. So it’s more European; a little more towards Italy. In France, there’s much more tolerance within different niches, and it’s such an incredible touring market. They have African artists that sell out arenas, and that’s unheard of. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that France is actually one of the most culturally curious countries, with one of the best cultural appetites. But beyond all that I think there’s a change that’s happening in the UK.

Six years ago there was an irreverent, mean, kind of attitude that was so popular and that’s just died. And thank God that’s kind of going. With a less destructive opinion culture, you can be a lot more experimental. You can let strange things grow. And that is absolutely crucial because I just think we’re in a massive transition in the music industry and we’re still only a quarter of the way through it, if even that. The music icons of the future are going to be niche icons, that will be able to amass millions of fans around the world, just through the online platforms, nothing else. And they will be free to make the music they want.

How does the French language lend to songwriting?

It’s more percussive. But English is the best language to sing in. Absolutely. Italian is really hard to sing in. Chinese is really hard to sing in (laughs). I wouldn’t know. In French there’s more wordplay as well, you can get away with more poetic lines, saying things like “My heart of silex quickly catches fire and your heart a pirate resists it.” Like, in a pop song. It’s premium.

the last 5 CDs i bought were (in order): No Place In Heaven (US deluxe), No Place In Heaven (French deluxe), No Place In Heaven (Korean magazine edition), No Place In Heaven (Italian reissue),  and No Place In Heaven (Korean puzzle that came with the French reissue).  

 

I think i may have a problem 

I want NPIH with Korean puzzle but I already have NPIH French reissue. 

That's intresting, I hadn't noticed that. Perhaps those verses were supposed to be in French in the new version but it didn't work out well. 

Perhaps. I try to translate the first verse but it sounds strange to me...

I always want to ask about this but keep forgetting. 

Why were all the verses of "Tant que j'ai le soleil" on special edition booklet written in French?

My Dear Good Guys  , do you have a separate video of a moment, when Goupil is talking to Mika in pajama?

I enjoyed it so much and definitely want to rewatch this many times without uploading the whole "La Suite" video.

Thanks in advance! 

'La compile de Goupil' avec Mika (5 mars 2016) 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds  Feb 25
Potete fare richiesta per i biglietti del mio concetto a Bari da adesso, non mancate! http://on.fb.me/1LHjCia 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds  Feb 25
Get tickets for my Bari show now, hurry! http://on.fb.me/1LHjCia 

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds  Mar 4
Gooooood Morning everybody!!!!!!!

MIKA official ‏@mikasounds  Mar 5
È bello vedere che la musica e l'arte possono contribuire a grandi cambiamenti sociali http://on.fb.me/21bVsDm 

I don't remember Oopsie Daisy being in Teletubbies. 

I know it's out of topic but this unicorn suit has made me feel so excited for an upcoming "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" movie! 

 Unicorn Power! 

"naughty corner" means being sent to the corner of the room when one is misbehaving

This is the naughty corner : http://www.mikafanclub.com/topic/27892-mfcs-naughty-corner-part-2/ 

Wow, thanks! 

Apple Daily

Love the Apple Daily interview.

I have the video in 360p, couldn't download any better quality, sorry.

Link: http://bit.ly/1VRLdmh

Also, can I ask a question?

I'm quite new here and I really have no idea what "the naughty corner" is.

Anybody care to explain? 

This is what will happen if his iPhone hit the police man's head.

The story was hilarious! Couldn't stop laughing. 

Thank you Bia for the info. And thank you Anne and Eriko for the alternative links. 

I hadn't noticed the mistakes at all but I love the animation, it's cute.  (non-native French speaker problem)