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Not sure of anyone cares about the chart discussion  but the album is #184 on Billboard 200.

The italian version sounds better to me - and I do understand the text, but I disliked the english lyrics a lot so Im not the best to judge

Hes always had a distinct point of view on many issues and I could usually see where he is coming from but literally all comments on sex and sensuality hes made this time are just ...off.

44 minutes ago, lorenzopozzi.45 said:

This morning he said that he and his staff are very happy because the album is going very well and the sales are better than the previous one...

They arent though, maybe better in terms of what their expectations were

26 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

 

Even Mika mentioned it in his interviews. The music marked has changed. Now they don't sell albums like it was in the past. Streaming and downloading is more important. There is money behind. And I think that if Mika is #1 or #100 the most important is if he gets enough money from sales to cover all the costs he had. He is a source of living for several persons (his musicians, managers ect).

He is a niche artist so he does not expect the same as the top singers of the world.

He isnt doing well on streaming thats why the chart placements are so low even though he sells well enough. The charts do matter from a marketing point of view...

Anyway if theyre happy then 🤷‍♀️

#57 in UK

3 minutes ago, Amy hudsone said:

NPIH didn't have a hit too, the break of 4 years has an important effect

Boum boum boum was a top 10 hit and Talked about you charted inside top 40 too

I agree about the 4 year break, but if Ice cream had done better, it wouldve sold the album too.

4 hours ago, krysady said:

even that song he mentioned about his fans 

I can see that

2 hours ago, Amy hudsone said:

I wasn't expecting that, but the album enters at #6 😫 in France, that's his bad entrance ever, I am shocked

 

LICM, TBWKTM and TOOL were #1 and NPIH #2

Its not that unexpected though, this album didnt have a hit

17 hours ago, kreacher said:

i was today years old when i learned he sings "love that you need me" and not whatever i thought he sings.

Why did i learn this today? Because in his BBC 2 [ Piano Room session ] he pretty obviously sings "Love that you're near me", which is also not what i thought he usually sings, so i looked it up.

I feel like "Love that youre near me" makes the most sense though, "Love that you need me" seems totally out of context to me. 

36 minutes ago, maggie112 said:

I also think that Tiny Love is not ONLY about Andy but inspired by all the love that he festa in his life, so, his family, but Andy as well 😊 And some lines in the “first song” (not the reprise) refer more to a “couple” love, not to a family love   

 

 

I thought Tiny Love was about his mom/family instantly but I seem to be only one who heard the first verse as him singing about how... he isnt singing about romantic love

1 hour ago, krysady said:

All his albums are personal, imo, probably the only difference is that in the past he was hiding behind some imaginary characters and starting with TOOL things have totally changed 

Agree that all his albums are personal and that his songwriting changed (well, I would rather say expanded) since TOOL, but I never got the point about imaginary characters I mean, 6/10 songs on LICM dont have any characters, hes always been upfront with what Big girl and Love Today are about and Lollipop and Billy Brown were obvious imo.

Writting about other people/from a double perspective just seems to be his preffered songwritting style, its more or less on all his albums.

1 minute ago, Mikaistheorigin said:

a) Tomorrow could have been a last minute addition

He talked about Tomorrow back in may in one of the first interviews he gave for this album so unlikely

3 minutes ago, Mikaistheorigin said:

b) we shouldn't believe everything he says

Agree lol

51 minutes ago, Mikaistheorigin said:

spring/summer of 2018.

No way its that old, cover stories are done 2-3 months in advance usually.

22 minutes ago, MatanBenYosef224 said:

So... I Guess you don't like Platform Ballerinas?

Something had to replace Make you happy as my most disliked Mika song I guess

23 minutes ago, MatanBenYosef224 said:

I Also thinks that Mika should sing RTCTL alone... Jack doesn't add anything special idk

I dont think he adds anything special either but I feel I wouldve found the song a bit too cheesy without his growly vocals; I do want to hear the solo Mika version though.

51 minutes ago, Martyna said:

 

He suggested it, a little bit 

 

EDGE: You write in the paradoxes, in the contradictions, in the multiple meanings. One of the things I love so much about "Tomorrow" is I felt it could be about a one night hook up or about two people who've been dating for a while...

MIKA: Or if you analyze it even closer it could be about a one-night hookup getting back together with someone that you've been with for a very long time but you swore you would never be with again.

I knew of this but 'it could be about' is very ... 'you can call me bi' lol. You could read his answer as him simply aknowledging that the song has multiple meanings/is open for interpretations not that it really means what he says Thats why I asked if he talked more explicitly.

23 minutes ago, mellody said:

That's possible - but "Ready To Call This Love" and "Stay High"?

I dont hear Ready to call this love as a love song but as encouraging someone to believe in love; and Stay hight just sounds like 'nonsense that flows with the beat' to me

32 minutes ago, WeirdChild said:

he often contradicts himself in interviews so I am still inclined to believe tomorrow is about Andy

He does, but did he explicitly say in any interview that Tomorrow is about Andy though? ( genuine question, Im not being snarky  )

Oh I like this kind of ranking

A+ Sanremo, Cry

A list: Ice cream, Ready to call this love, Paloma, Blue

B list: I went to hell last night, Dear Jealousy, Tiny love

C list: Tomorrow, Stay High, Tiny love reprise ( this wouldve been an A if it was only Mika singing and Ready to call this love a C without Jack )

Z list: Platform Ballerinas

2 hours ago, mellody said:

And, talking about Andy, he says "I haven't written any songs about him on the album..."

Thought so, lol.

2 hours ago, mellody said:

We're the most traditional and untraditional family. I'm certainly not the only one with a non-conventional sexuality in my family, but all that has come afterwards

Fortune?

38 minutes ago, giraffeandy said:

 

I think it's still better than these:

 

All these people talkin' to themselves

Think they're talkin' to someone

but they're talkin' to themselves

 

No, I can listen to those just fine, theyre just unispired, but these Stay High lyrics seems like an attempt at being quirky 'Oh I learned about gravity in school, this isnt just a dumb song about getting high'. Same for that 'our generation has so much gloom/ Cause there ain't no money left after the baby boom' line - it seems senseless in context, like he is trying to make the song more meaningful or something, it actually sounds really cringey to me cuz its a total underdeveloped and superficial idea.

This is my favourite song on the album 

And about the meaning @mellody my first thought was that its a metaphor about coping with depression/addiction actually. 

14 minutes ago, mellody said:

As the album altogether is about Mika's personal stories, this might be about someone he knows - so the things that might seem weird to some may just be about this particular person and their feelings

It did cross my mind that he may actually project his own feelings onto this character here since he talked in a couple of instances about feeling unmanly, lesser than heterosexual men etc.

I wish he wouldve written more specifically if he had someone in mind and dont generalize, because this doesnt seem like an universal experience to me

On 10/5/2019 at 9:26 PM, Dominika said:

What comes up must come down
I learn it in my science class
No, I'm not that dumb

These may be the worst lyrics he ever wrote

22 minutes ago, kreacher said:

 

but a whore could be a guy too

Yeah, 'From the priest to the whore'... so the same person then

54 minutes ago, MatanBenYosef224 said:

Another review - I Don't understand why the writer don't like this track. Here is a part about RTCTL, translated into english 

 

https://www.maxazine.nl/2019/10/07/mika-my-name-is-michael-holbrook/

 

On the album there is a terrible mistake, which may have been forced upon him by the record company. There is a duet with no one less than Jack Savoretti, the crooner-lossball whose music I described earlier as the perfect soundtrack of the 70s soft porn film 'Emmanuele Nera'. Savoretti is pushed and promoted in such a way that it is almost suspicious. The man was crazy about Pinkpop this year. Fortunately, that went by quite unnoticed. The song is called 'Ready to call this Love'. Horrifying to hear, and incomprehensible that Savoretti is being promoted here too. Fortunately we can fast forward and then we come to 'Cry', another beautiful typical Mika song with a nice electronic groove and beautiful vocals.

 

 

Ehh.. the forced marketing around Jack is pretty obvious

I get the message of the song yeah but this seems like a non-issue to me... I mean, I am a gender-nonconforming woman and Ive never felt less than girl and no one ever made me feel that way so the song is just bizzare to me and thats why Ive found it very condescending; hes assuming something that just ... never crossed my mind.

Or I guess less than a girl would mean less feminine? But, some women are just less feminine lol, some transwomen are less feminine, some men are more feminine than women. I dont see whats wrong with pointing this out, its just a question of aesthetics and preference not a judgement of value and no one really is denying peoples gender in this instance

3 hours ago, dcdeb said:

Blowing up her lips -- enhancing her lips with collagen, with exaggerated lipstick even?

That won't even help to get a guy to kiss her better -- having "better" lips won't make any guy kiss her more than he would otherwise, right?

And that don't make her less of a girl -- she's still a girl, whether she's kissed by a guy or not, whether she wears makeup or not, whether she wears a dress or not, whether she dances like a fool or not... no matter what she looks like, or does, or how people react to her, or what they think of her, she's still a girl.

I agree but.. who says otherwise? This seems redundant to me 

 Edit: Also isnt a girl who aint like any other senorita and wont let you ever forget getting ...exactly what she wants when people dont see her as any other girl ? This character in the song just sounds like a bitch who wants to have her cake and eat it too lol.