Siri

On 28/1/2018 at 6:00 PM, dcdeb said:

OK, back finally. Sorry for the delay, life is complicated. Anyhow, Siri, we would never ban you for expressing your opinion -- the only people who have ever been banned here are those who have been verbally abusive to other fans or who have repeatedly ignored our guidelines. No one's been banned for simply having a discussion!

 

And please do NOT be afraid to share your thoughts -- honestly, we will not blacklist you! 

Thank you!

On 26/1/2018 at 1:18 PM, BigGirl08 said:

First of all, I think the most important thing is that MFC remains free. Mika's fandom is composed for the most part by very young people who can't afford a quota and this would mean excluding them from initiatives and events.
So I think it's important to make everyone part of the fan club, even the last one, make sure everyone can feel important in the same way, because the goal of each of us is to follow a passion with the greatest possible serenity, without competitions.

21 hours ago, kreacher said:

I agree, this is a real problem, but I think making MFC cost money to join is not the best way to get people to use MFC at all. Perhaps some stipulations could be made for getting into meet & greets and for entering competitions? For example perhaps we can require someone to have a certain number (even if its a really small number!) of posts (real posts, not just junk posts) per month in order to get on the list or to enter comps.

16 hours ago, ladyolivier said:

Jumping in to say one thing: I understand the potential issue with people only appearing to take part in competitions and leave, but I s o agree that making this site paid would be terrible. I hate to disagree so vehemently, but merely reading that made me a little anxious. Mika's fans are mostly young, younger than me (I'm 20), even, and making this site paid would lock a lot of them out. Additionally, there are too many other resources (news, subtitles) on this site to take it out of easy public access. Speaking for myself, if I suddenly had to pay to be a part of this site, I would never be able to. It's not that I don't care enough, not at all, but that I'm..well, to be honest, rather poor, and could not afford that. In my opinion, things that lock people out based on money always end up selecting not the most dedicated fans, but the richest ones. The fact that this a truly official fan club which is free is something that I admire greatly about it, as many official things like this are paid.

I agree with this. As I already said, I had many doubts before joining and I decided to do so only because it was free; and as @ladyolivier said, it's not because I don't care, but if I'd have to pay, I would leave.

On 28/1/2018 at 6:00 PM, dcdeb said:

It's a good observation that sometimes Mika's team doesn't communicate with us. That is partly true. As I have learned, sometimes there are legal restrictions that keep them from giving us information. Often, that information leaks out earlier than it should and it makes MFC look stupid, but we can't control that. As the official fan club, we are required to do what Mika's team tells us to do, so that is a frustration for us as well as for the fans.

On 28/1/2018 at 10:32 PM, tiibet said:

 I would love it if MFC as Mika's official fan club could be the place where to find news first but I do understand why it can't happen and that someone always leaks before his team is allowed to confirm anything.

21 hours ago, kreacher said:

Amen to this! I think MFC fills that void as much as it can & that's another reason it's so valuable & i really wish Mika would utilize us more.

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I agree that Mika's internet presence isn't great. His website is horribly poorly updated and his official Facebook is weirdly managed.

I agree, Mika isn't well represented on the net, his website is really strange, not updated...it seems like he does nothing, like he is not active anymore, while is the exact opposite! As @kreacher and @tiibet said, I'd love that Mika (or his team) utilize more MFC, and that MFC was the place where to find news, not months after when everybody already knows them. I understand that there might be legal restrictions, but if the entire world already know it...I don't know.

21 hours ago, kreacher said:

My only issues with the subforums are: sometimes i don't know whether to put/find threads in Mika News and Press or Chat About Mika. And the Mika's Music & Artwork and Mika Media threads always confuse me.  Perhaps the distinctions can be clarified, or a mod can go through the threads and sort them better?

I always got confused if I manually search sth. Never know where to check, some forum names are the same thing in my head.

23 hours ago, mellody said:

That is true, although in some cases we do say no. A few restrictions are necessary, to protect our members as well as MFC's reputation. For example, no one except the Mods/Admins is allowed to collect money from members on MFC. We can't control what the organizers do with it, so if we want to make sure members can trust a project that is organized on MFC, the most reliable way is simply to keep this within the team. Of course, if someone has a fantastic idea that happens to involve money, we can discuss this and help.

 

Also, we try to watch that the projects don't get too much (for example, Mika doesn't need 20 birthday gifts from MFC...) and that at least the big ones (official MFC birthday gift, yearbook, or gifts for special events) are well organized, so we can be sure it works out. It'll help no one if someone who offers to organize a gift for Mika realizes after a few weeks how much work that really is and gives up. Indeed it has happened before that we were stuck with a half-done gift and had to do all the organization ourselves, so the member's contributions wouldn't get lost.

 

We try to do the birthday project every year (just last year we forgot to start in time), and for this, anyone is welcome to help with their ideas and organization skills, so we can create something as a team. I've just started the brainstorming thread for this year's gift yesterday, you can find it in the members only section.

 

Of course ideas are welcome at any time. And if you look in the MFC projects board, you'll find a lot of successful projects started by members. If we say no, it's for one of the above reasons, or simply because it's too short notice. Even if some might think this forum is dead - if there's a cool gift idea for Mika, you might be surprised by the amount of people wanting to participate.

Ok, that explains lot of things. I agree with the money issue; I've seen ppl collecting money not knowing what they was for, and ended up with an horrible gift. 
I was referring to special events like the cake for the ending of SCM recordings. But that implies money and short notice.

The thing is that I would expect the Official FC organize this sort of things, collecting money from memebers who are going, and maybe external ppl too if they want, leaving in any case the "event" free. I would expect everybody knows the FC is organizing this in a transparent way, and decide whether participating or not, knowing that IT IS NOT a M&G, and Mika not supposed to stop (he is free to do what he wants).

Instead the whole thing was organized by some small groups, maybe because they know those restrictions (with SCM you had very short advice) as they are mostly MFCers and Reps too. But then why Reps from countries where those events take palce have no authority to organize/collect money? I thought having Reps in every country was useful in that way, having somebody "on the field".
In that way the organisation was sort of "secret", ppl who payed think they have Mika's exclusive or preference (fortunately he doesn't do preferences between fans) and the FC was forced to "apologize" with other fans for not having organized that and not having let them know.

I'm talking about SCM, but it's only an example, it's the same for other nations Reps and events.

Talking about Reps @silver, I unfortunately had some troubles with them (as we have more than one). They were not helpful nor this kind to me (it seems like I was bothering them) and I had more help from other MFCers than from them. Maybe I was just not lucky.

21 hours ago, kreacher said:

Really? I tend to think MFCers (at least those who care & are still somewhat active) are better behaved than non-MFCers, mostly because MFCers don't want to get banned from the forum and M&Gs and such, but non-MFCers don't have that incentive. I wonder if at least some of people that said those things on the net had some kind of past run-in with an MFCer or are jealous and want to badmouth all MFC as some sort of petty revenge.

 

 

Regarding image building: From my personal experience in the queue at concerts I do think MFCers can seem a bit... cliqueish or even standoffish (i know i'm guilty of glaring at people so they don't try to cut in line xD). At past Mika gigs while I was sitting with my fellow MFCers for hours laughing and chatting and holding each others spots in line while we went to use the restroom i couldn't help but think of those poor folks behind us who just stood there with no one to talk to. I'm super shy with new people so from being by myself at other gigs & just dying to have someone to fangurl a little bit with i know the agony of this firsthand! Perhaps we can try to do better at engaging with other fans while we wait, even if a few MFC representatives can go down the line and just chat with people and hand out little MFC flyers. If people don't want to join or whatever, they can politely decline.

 

 

I generally think MFCers are very helpful about sharing about where he'll be and when! Maybe people think we're being selfish because they don't understand that Mika won't do an M&G with 100 fans so we have to draw the line somewhere  Even if I can't meet him I'm just glad someone does! Especially if they post a report about the encounter later as I love to hear about Mika's reactions to gifts and funny moments and how much he appreciates his fans! Why would anyone want to deny someone that chance if at all possible?

I want to say perhaps the people who think MFCers behave in a negative way are just super butthurt  ...but i won't. 

 

When I first went to a Mika concert (well, my very first concert, and the only one for now) I was with a friend. I arrived at 11 a.m. and went streight to the queue. I was alone. She arrived only hours later, and I felt terribly guilty for holding ONE place for her. Same when I asked somebody to hold our spot because we had to do the check in at the hostel for the night.
Then the queue growed up. Suddenly a group of ppl arrived and passed over us. There was one person in front of me before, and now there were five, and we had no place to stand! And it's not the only group who did so. There were really few ppl in the line when I arrived and after the day passed, I magically had a thousand ppl before me. Thats not fair. I had no rest the past days for school, but I made the line. I didn't move. I don't even know where the main entrance of the arena is, and discovered only after there was the chance to buy Mika's stuff (sh*t!).
Most of them was MFCers.
Then, as the fatidic hour was approaching, I began being nervous. I saw ppl who had make up for the concert and wanted that to. I decided to ask and have some chat with somebody (as you, I used to be really shy, but wanted so hard to fangirl with someone - my friend wasn't fan at this point). I approached some MFCers. They looked at me as they were disgusted. They was like  "how dare she approach us? The elected ones?". I felt really bad. Fortunately there was a girl that was very nice to me, we had a (very) little chat, and then I came back in my spot. 

Maybe (again) it's me that isn't lucky with people in real life? I don't know. But I read such things all around the net too, so I'm not the only one. And that doesn't help MFC reputation.
 

On 26/1/2018 at 1:18 PM, BigGirl08 said:

But all this process of improvement, in my opinion, will never be possible unless we first improve the way we relate to other members of the fan club.

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21 hours ago, kreacher said:

Really? I tend to think MFCers (at least those who care & are still somewhat active) are better behaved than non-MFCers, mostly because MFCers don't want to get banned from the forum and M&Gs and such, but non-MFCers don't have that incentive.

As without any proof we can't know about their behaviour, even if we have ppl who report them, because we can't know if it's true or just jealousy, they can behave as they want, nobody can do nothing against them...

8 hours ago, kreacher said:

EDIT: i just found this.... https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerio_Scanu_(album) Looks like some one translated "Erase" to Italian and someone covered it as "

Cancellalo Amore" in 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enxbMnECV-g But it was not written by Mika for them

 

I discovered it last year and was SO disappointed 

48 minutes ago, BigChiara96 said:

Nella mia città non ho ancora trovato le penne ma spero si riuscire a trovarle prima o poi perché ho intenzione di comprarle tutte 

In teoria in Italia non dovrebbero essere in vendita fino a Febbraio/Marzo, per quello non le trovi 

Or maybe, like @carafon said, it's only the sound track 

1 minute ago, carafon said:

But you know when you enter "mika" as a YouTube searching you got some others mika

That's true! Even in google search you have differents "Mika" if your browser doesn't register your latest research or preferences 

3 hours ago, silver said:

I've been looking through some old Mikagasmic threads and we have lost so many great pics

 

And of course, without the pics, the comments make no sense

I remember looking on this and others threads and wondering about what pictures were commented  It's so sad having dead links & images 

I think this belongs to this thread too

9 hours ago, cat_loves_mika said:

(We used to be linked on Mika's website, if I remember correctly. All that internet traffic is gone. We don't show up in the first few results when you google "mika" anymore. What happened?)

That's another "problem". I do know MFC is linked on mikasounds.com, but there are thousands of sites, fb/tw/ig pages Mika related. And that doesn't help. 
For example, I first used Mikawebsite.com before MFC, because is the first one I found and it's simple to understand. There's a bar on the top of the screen that help a lot for the site's organisation and to find what you're looking for (I don't know if I'm allowed to post a screen, so I won't do that).

There's Mikamusic.it that is the official italian site (run by Mika's italian staff if I'm not wrong) but it hadn't been updated since 2013!
There's too many non-official pages on socials, where is easier to find information hour per hour and all sort of stuff.
New fans get confused by this amount of sites and do not know what to do! "May I follow MFC on twitter? May I register? But in this x fb page I have more info/I understand it better/etc"

So I agree with @cat_loves_mika and @cathouzouf, maybe make clearer that MFC is the only official group in some way, explain who we are, what we do, organise more events/games (not necessarily with prizes, I had fun in entering some competitions just because, not for winning). Making the forum more fun, interactive and intuitive, because ppl don't want to read guidelines nowadays.

In addition, I know we're not on a social, but we're going through the imageification (? I just invented this word, I'm sure) of all the medias, and here on MFC images have no clear organisation and are not easy to find (many of them have also been lost in the last site's update)

9 hours ago, dcdeb said:

Siri, I'll reply to all your comments separately, because there are some really serious issues there that we all should talk about. Thanks for your patience!

Do I have to worry about my permanence here for what I said?  
According to the number of reaction to my post, I suppose I'm not the only one that felt all those things, thank you, this make me feel better! I'm not a mad who invent things in his head 

@Loo I'm not complaining about the site being in english, I was just reporting a fact

16 minutes ago, cat_loves_mika said:

I know that back in the day, there was some online drama. But that's because some people on here who were young just told some blatant lies on the internet.

 

Maybe making more of an effort to be internationally friendly should be a priority, then. It used to be that most Mika fans spoke english, but I think most of them nowadays speak Italian. If we haven't done a good enough job catering to them, then that is a problem.  

Oh well, online dramas never ends! And yes, there is also a sort of competiton between nations...that's no sense to me

9 minutes ago, cathouzouf said:

what I think MFC needs is a complete awareness campaign: what it is, why it’s there, how it is run (and ultimately, who is behind it). It would even be better (and more effective/legitimate) if Team Mika (or even Mika himself) would participate in a way. 

I agree with this

11 minutes ago, cathouzouf said:

Obviously, we can never control all the bad (and false) stuff you can sometimes see. We are humans, we are greedy and jealous by nature. 

 

But MFC had a very fond place in my heart, I might (in real and online) fabulous people through it, and it makes me sad to see it bashed.

 

That's true. And I met fantastic people thanks to Mika and MFC too. It's sad.

That's complicate.

I'm trying to tell what I felt/understood in the past 3 years, as an external person before, and then as a member. I don't know how or if this could help, as is not only about the site itself, but about the FC in general.

I hope not to be misunderstood, but I'm going to be frank.

I honestly didn't want to sign up at first. I read on the net about bad behaviours from people from MFC, and that on the site everybody act like friends, and then in person they treat you very badly.

As I continued using MFC as a visitor, I considered joining anyway, because that would have offered me those advantages you said, from M&Gs to tickets; but if it hadn't been free, I would never had signed up.

There are many positive aspects of being a member, but there are also many things that don't work as they have to in my opinion.

I find that sometimes there's a big lack of organisation, and it even seems that Mika's staff don't communicate with MFC INTENTIONALLY. Maybe they do so to avoid the unpleasant situations that happen often, but in this way people act on their own, without the FC mediation, and that create chaos and those situations the staff probably don't want.

So people thinks MFC is useless and leave it, or at least, they aren't active normally, but when some opportunity show off, they suddenly come back and then disappear again, with a very strange timing (and/or luck).

They do so even with other people. If you give them more possibilities to see Mika, both in a correct or incorrect way, you become a big friend of them; but if you are useless they abandone you.

Thanks God I found very nice people too, that always helped me and were here for any questions or problems.

But the bad feelings I had before joining sadly didn't went away; instead I now was SURE about what happened in some events, while with other media only I thought there were just impressions.

This athmosphere, where fans are in competition with each other, so if I know Mika would be guess at xxx I won't tell you so I'll have him only for me, or fans that overtake the official fan club, doesn't make you want to join, does it?

There are also some things I don't understand.

Why do some country have more rep than others? Are they elected in some way? Is there a reason in this difference?

Why (apart from the yearbook and Mika's birthday) the FC doesn't organise presents (I mean, in big occasions, not always), even if fans suggest it and offers to organise? In refusing, again, people will act on their own, in small or big groups not well organised, and everybody will be pissed off, those who were not aware of the thing and would have loved to participate, the FC, that have to explain it was not an official gift and Mika not expected to thank the fanclub...

Why we don't take action against people who have bad behaviours? Not only online but, I don't know, for example preventing them from entering next event, as they do for football: after being warned you can't play next match. I do know MFC is not the police, but sites normally have rules (I know MFC have them too) and normally if you do not follow them we take action against you.

Please note I'm talking about GENERAL FEELINGS after SURFING THE NET 3 years, as I went IN PERSON at only 2 events being a member.

Then we can talk about the site's graphic and logic. 

It's difficult to find what you're looking for and not obvious where to go - excluding the research option, that doesnt work all the time (sometimes it tells "no result" when the word I type exist in titles and in threads too).

I have difficulties in writing with my phone, some words magically disappear after typing them and I can't underline/change colour/size etc (but maybe is my phone's fault).

Plus I noticed many people have troubles in understanding/writing english, but here we can do nothing (it's only a fact. Many people tell they don't use the site because "it's in english!!!")

Finally, maybe someone find twitter, facebook or instagram more simple and faster than MFC.

Sorry for writing this at night, that doesn't help my english,  nor in writing clearly.

15 hours ago, cat_loves_mika said:

I completely forgot about how I own this thread 

 

If anyone wants to be added to the list let me know! In the meantime, I'm going to appreciate them EYES 

Mmmmh...I stopped asking to be added in sub-fanclubs because I think I would sign in nearly all of them  but if you ask it that way...

1 hour ago, teenagedreamer98 said:

Hi guys, how are you all doing? 

 

Sorry for being so inactive here lately.  I've been incredibly busy with college and have a lot on my mind right now.

 

I also have a bit of a dilemma.  There's this guy in my college course who I think is really cute.  We've been talking and hanging out quite a bit, and I really love spending time with him.  In fact, I found out through a mutual friend that he finds me attractive.  Only trouble is, there is an age gap of 8 years.  Plus, I've never been in a serious relationship, so I don't really know what I'm doing.  Should I ask him out and risk rejection, or do nothing?  He has shown a few signs of interest (he said he liked my eyes once ), but I feel that the age gap is the main issue.

 

Any advice would be appreciated!

My brother and her girlfriend have a gap of 8 years. They are together since 2010 I think (?) Don't remember well.

My best friend have a boyfriend 8 years elder than her. They are together since we were at high school (we're finishing university now).

I once had a relation with a guy elder than me. The gap was of 7 years. Our relation lasted 4 years. It was my first relation so did not know what I was doing neither  when he asked me what I thought about him, I told it was a really good friend of mine; he asked if he could be more, my answer was "I don't know". But I loved talking with him and so he became more than a friend.

What I want to say is don't mind the age gap. If you like spending time with him, do it! And if he likes hanging out with you too that's good. So, even if he rejects you, you can continue being friends, and maybe it can become more with time...or not, but you still have a good friend with no misunderstandings! (I had that problem too, I thought I had a good friend once, then I discovered he wanted sth else )

Edit: I took it for granted he's a good boy. I don't know him nor you or how much do you trust him. However please be careful, you never know and we hear such things nowadays...

9 hours ago, Anditwassummer said:

It's a  pretty safe guess Mika is going to be involved with a film as an actor soon.

I don't know what he thinks on acting in a film now, after doing Zoolander and this cameo (I didn't know about that, thanks @Mikasister), but he recently said he would love to WRITE a film about Lebanon, to show the other side of his native country, not only war/refugees/etc. And that he could be an actor in a film like this one, but only if he is involved in writing the story. I don't remember what interview it was, sorry

9 hours ago, Anditwassummer said:

I will take bets he is going to write a musical.

About writing a musical, I knew he said several times to be one of his dreams. Maybe one day he will do that too

1 hour ago, Boucarilla said:

 

It was not spanish?

It was 

8 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

MAGAZINE

 

Télé Poche

• 22 Janvier 2018 ( Florent Pagny interview )

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No, Florent 

3 minutes ago, crazyaboutmika said:

Sinon, tu peux les commander en ligne, mais on ne sait pas encore ou

J'attendrai patientement 

46 minutes ago, crazyaboutmika said:

Coucou tout le monde  Pilot Pen France m'a enfin répondu au sujet des coffrets Mika 

 

Septembre?  

Bon, alors je vais me les offrir pour mon anniversaire en Octobre 

Merci 

4 minutes ago, Loo said:

(tu auras le droit de couper le son et l'image quand le nouveau coach sera à l'écran.) 

Mais non, pourquoi? 

Il a l'aire très sympa a mon avis 

J'ai souvent vu des montages très pourri malheureusement, esperons ça ne sera pas le cas 

15 minutes ago, virgi said:

simplement j'étudie le français et je vous lis quelques fois pour exercer mon français, qui est quand-meme pire de celui de @Siri  

Mais non 

15 minutes ago, virgi said:

J'ai trop hâte que the voice commence! 

Est-ce qu'il y aura des talents très compétents cette année? 

Est-ce que vous pensez que l'émission sera mieux que l'année dernière? J'ai bien aimé les talents, j'adore les coaches, Nikos, Goupil, mais je trouvais que quelque chose manquait par rapport aux années passées  je ne sais pas bien quoi ni comment m'expliquer mieux que ça, désolée 

10 hours ago, crazyaboutmika said:

Le plus important c'est qu'on se comprenne Siri

Merci pour ta patience Anne 

1 minute ago, Boucarilla said:

 

Ah non c'est plutôt très bien, ça pourrait venir d'une française quoi...

Merci! Au moin grâce a Mika et d'autres artistes que j'ai découvert en France maintenant on regarde quelques emission française (surtout de musique) avec ma mère et ma soeur parfois, donc on s'exerce un peu plus qu'avant  

1 minute ago, Boucarilla said:

 

Si ton français est très bon! Il y a seulement une faute dans ta phrase! C'est VRAI au lieu de VRAIS mais bon c'est excellent! Pareil je vais de temps en temps sur le topic italien pour m'exercer...

Ahahah bon, pas trop mal, je fais pire que ça d'habitude en fait je n'ai pas beaucoup étudié la langue et donc je ne sais pas trop bien l'écrire  en plus on m'a dit que des fois je construis mes phrases d'une manière bizarre 

3 hours ago, Fan1955 said:

Bonne année! Je sais que je suis un peu en retard mais je viens de trouver ce 'thread' Je suis anglaise, j'habite en France depuis 2015. J'aime bien pratiquer l'écriture en Français. J'attends avec impatience The Voice:

Salut! Moi je suis italienne mais ma mère est française et je viens lire ce thread de temps en temps  après je n'écris jamais rien même si cela m'aiderait avec mon français, qui n'est pas si bon que ça en vrais 

7 hours ago, crazyaboutmika said:

@Siri you could find out in which order he sang the songs through the concert review threads and watch them in the correct order  

Too many threads about this tour, I don't even know how to start!

I don't know which thread check exactly neither, and the few I looked don't have the order 

(Well, maybe there is, but in order to avoid spoilers I didn't check very well )

Really, there's no full vid of that? Even a really bad one?