Shanie

This thread is for fun “what if they made a song together” speculation. Would you like to see your other favorite artists do a song with MIKA? Speculate! What would it be like if they did!

(As always, remember to respectful of others tastes and opinions☺️.)

To start I think I’d like to see a Lil Nas X x MIKA collab. For one it would be good exposure for both artists in each respective fandoms. But considering  songs like Nas’s “Am I Dreaming”, “Lost in the Citadel” and “Sun Goes Down” and MIKA’s own “Sanremo”, “Dear Jealousy” and “All She Wants”, I feel like we’d get something fun, exiting, and beautifully, emotionally raw. It would be wonderful to see.

On 10/30/2017 at 9:17 PM, JoAllison said:

Hi! I’m new and I’d like to be added. My screen name is JoAllson, but you can call me Jo.

 

I’m from near Albany NY. I’ve been a fan of Mika’s for a couple years now but am not a big “ joiner” (introvert, yes, and kinda shy) and put off joining MFC until I figured out you all might have the best information and updates on him (and any advice on how to watch Casa Mika from here would be greatly appreciated!), so here I am. I’m 57, work for NY state govt as a lawyer/ALJ. I’m into reading, music, YouTube videos of The Voice/XFactor, genealogy, and am a politics-junkie (will not talk politics here). 

 

I saw that people are putting how they discovered Mika in their first posts so I will but it might get a bit long. I’ve had issues with depression since my middle brother died, hit by lightning about 7 years ago near DC. One of my ways of dealing has been watching YouTube videos of The Voice and X Factor in other countries (have my favorite judges, Mika was definitely one). [Because of the years of watching I sort of understand French and Italian,  and Dutch (plus one of my s-I-ls is Dutch) and I took Spanish for 8 years several decades ago so I sort of understand it too, but have discovered I don’t really need to understand the language to like the music.] Then one year I got the idea to listen to the music of all the coaches of The Voice since they’re the ones considered good enough to be coaches. I googled and found an article that listed all the countries that do The Voice (64!) and all the coaches for all the years. And I’ve been working my way through the coaches ever since via Spotify (and Wikipedia to check if they’re in a group). I try to give each one 1 hour to half a day, at minimum. If I like them I either (or both) add their stuff to one or more of my Spotify shuffle lists (can’t make a real playlist to save my life...I just add songs and hit shuffle), or straight out buy their music. I’ve bought songs or albums for several, but Mika is the only one (so far) where I’ve tracked down every single song/album I could find and bought them, plus tracked down all his covers of others’ music I could find on YouTube and made my own private watch list, and have spent hours watching YouTube videos of his concerts. Some of his songs made me cry (personal reasons), most make me happy, and they all feel like a warm hug when I really need it, you know? And, learning more about him, I truly admire his human rights work, and his caring, and super creativity and sense of fun, plus he seems really nice, (and yes, is very handsome).  So now for the first time in my life I joined a fan club. 

 

Anybody have any advice on how to watch Casa Mika from the States?

 

 

Welcome to the fandom! Sorry about your brother and I'm happy for you that you were able to gain something good out of tragedy. Here's a link to the official Network website that Stasera CasaMika airs on http://www.raiplay.it/programmi/staseracasamika/mika. It'll take you right to the CasaMika page and once you log in with facebook you can watch some of those videos... it's a good thing you are familiar with Italian, because there be no subtitles. (Which is a downer for me because I dont know much of anything about the Italian language.)