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8 hours ago, Fan1955 said:

I am in a draw to see Mika record The Voice France in Paris next month. Wish me luck!

Good luck!!!! 

I have no idea what this is...?

15 hours ago, mellody said:

 

They wrote about the pro-Mika tweets too, but Eriko didn't copy that part. Thought the article was all negative until I read the rest of it. The article you posted still is a lot better tho. They even mentioned the Rose d'Or award.

I hate this kind of show. I hate most anything that tries to take the rough edges, the individuality away from people.  Except for maybe a choir.  Nearly everyone sounds the same.  When they try to impress people it sends them to hell in a hand basket.  One of those performances was so over the top it hurt.  And these kids are about to be eaten up by the X Factor and its aftermath, at least if they want to be artists with their own vision.  I only heard one who was an individual. Mika heard it too.  Doesn’t mean he should win.  You never know what the best choice is until you’ve lived through the consequences.  

As for the nasty tweets, their ignorance over Mika disqualifies them from being anything but trolls.   But then, what do you expect from twitter?  Or a tabloid?

i, for one, am very glad I found Mika this year again.  It didn’t take long to discover that although he dropped out of my immediate range, he was.alive and well in the big wide world, doing amazing things.    the idea that if someone isn’t famous in your world they must be nobody is evidence of our great need to reach out across borders and realize greatness is everywhere, and some of it is in service of a better world, not the charts or the record companies or the pockets of the X Factor.   

Arcade Fire got lukewarm reviews of their last album.  I saw the abolutely amazing show last night.  As Win Butler said,  “don’t believe everything you read.”

Rant over.  

3 hours ago, Mikasister said:

There's a thread about Mika's shoes 

 

 

Of course there is.  How could I imagine there wasn't.  

So I am walking past an anonymous store in an old marketplace near my house where I go to buy chicken and stop dead.  "Look, " I think.  "Mika shoes for girls!" 

It turns out they were.  It's a Christian Louboutin store.  Ha!

Here goes another strange thought.  Mika reminds me so much of Giulietta Masina in La Strada.  Of course she brought alot of Charlie Chaplin to the role, so there is that.  But she is the heart of Fellini's world.  She sees the magic in life.  And she feels for everyone. 

And now I know which Tarot card he would be -- the King of Cups.  

This song is a welcome, a promise, a song of inclusion.  It is beautifully generous and full of heart.  It's what I imagine you all feel when you walk into a Mika show. (I have never been).   

" 'Cause my house

Is your house

My heart is too

It's my house

It's your house
There's room for you

Ain't no walls you could keep my heart in
Ain't no walls I won't lock you out"

I really, really, really like this man.

I read somewhere on this forum that Mika has perfect pitch?  I kind of doubt it, except for his facility with language.  It would be easy to be flat if you can't hear yourself in a mix,  but if you have perfect pitch, you don't need to hear a reference tone.  For some reason, I find perfect pitch fascinating.  And I sure don't have it.

14 hours ago, krysady said:

 

You mean from the suitcase? It was Luciana's stuff ( a joke of course) that Fabio give it to Mika for the period of time they will work together, because she is working with Fabio since many years.

Oops. I am sorry Luciana.  Ha!  I thought the slippers were too small.

By the way what was all that with the old people stuff?  

With that red suit he looks like a valentine.  I swear this guy is a walking tarot card. But which one?  Basically what I mean is that he is an archetypal human being, someone we all carry in our universal unconscious.  That might be why the love is so strong.  He is the part of each of us that makes us dream.  And you can quite believe his energy could power a city, much less a house.  I am staying tuned with my aluminum rabbit ears.  Go Mika, go!

I am still looking, but so far, the Paris de Prince is my favorite of the early performances.  The energy he had for this entire gig is a phenomenon.  The bond between him and that huge crowd is a terrific illustration of why people go to see live music, and what happens when the music becomes not just the performer's, but everyone's.  Intimate events have their own equally  transcendant vibe, but this performance in particular, partly because of the way it was shot, makes you feel united with the whole of humanity, and that makes me so so so so HAPPY.  

I know many people are impatient for new work and new shows.   I have never seen the man so I am biding my time and saving my cash.   He is still young.   But how grateful am I that we live in a time when these performances, so many of them,  have been made available for us to see and hear again and again.   https://youtu.be/QfK6vNPRgaM

By the way, how do I attach this as a link with the image?  If a mod wants to fix it, I would be grateful.

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On 9/21/2017 at 4:42 PM, Sabine64 said:

Here you can see one of my favourite GK vids

 

 

You know, his accent singing this is very like Mick Jagger's when he was young.

On 9/20/2017 at 1:21 AM, Kumazzz said:

It's too difficult to choose The Best GK.

 

This performance is one of my favs, Jools Holland Studio Live in 2006.

 

 

 

It's too strange to see people sitting like mannequins in the background!  What is wrong with them?!

They are both good. I guess I am looking for one where the energy is off the hook like this cover.  I know its asking a lot.

Best live performance of Grace Kelly?

Thanks

5 hours ago, Dominika said:

 We are the proof of how many people in different age, different culture, different part of the world he can bring together and that in my opinion is beautiful.

It is beautiful.  As much as any one of us changes, it will always be beautiful.

I just saw the beginning of Casa Mika 4.  I had to stop watching for a while after Mika read his story (?). It surprised me, it was so daring.   And that story is something worth translating and making available.  When somebody puts himself on the line like that, how can you not feel something? Something like love?    

In front of a huge audience expecting music, joking, or conversations, Mika

delivers a story that is so small and so personal, it is really extraordinary. To make it big with that orchestra?  This is incredibly brave, maybe even reckless. 

That story about seeing someone when the light is red and imagining who he is, who he could be?   He is very much talking about himself.  "Run," he says, "run and never stop running."  "They will tell you that you are doing it wrong,   but run, run and never stop running.  Only then will you achieve all your dreams."  The things he wants to do that are not music?  He is running to do all those things.  Because he has big dreams.  And life is very short. 

 To want Mika to stick to singing alone when he has this in him?  Not me. 

Run, Mika.  Just run.  

On 9/15/2017 at 9:35 PM, silver said:

 

We've long thought that a perfect Mika gig would be just him with a piano.  He's not a great piano player, but he writes some very lyrical accompaniments to his songs. 

 

Try listening to "Falling", which later became "I See You"    

 

 

I heard this once before and it proves the point.  One voice and a few notes on an instrument, and you can be just as moved as listening to a symphony.   BTW I am still figuring out this forum.  Wanted to quote you without the link and this is what happened!  

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if you like a guy singing in a high register,  check this dude out.   John Elliott is the guy behind THE LITTLE UNSAID.  I adore this band, and this man.  He is, like MIKA, a unique songwriter.   His songs, like MIKA's, can be reduced to a singer and a single instrument.   His melodies are lovely.  His lyrics are frequently extremely dark.  He is more folktronica than pop. Good music crosses genres for me.  He tours and records mostly with a full band.  His musicianship is stunning.    He is a recent winner of the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award for boundary-pushing new music creators.

The music industry is very different now.  That this band is not supported by a label is only sad because it's so hard to do it yourself and have time for your music.  If you live in England and can see one of his shows this fall, do it! The energy is fantastic and do not  I will be terribly jealous.  

Sorry the links are so big.  

I am not a great guitarist.  But I am on my quest to figure out what exactly I like these songs so much.  So I put a bunch of them in C with a capo.  And sang them.   

This is when you really hear the simplicity and beauty of the melodies.  Everyone talks about Mika's melodies, including him.   But for me, until I went very very simple, the production has been a problem.  I like some of it, other stuff I think is overproduced.  Even the simple stuff usually has harmony singers.   Pull it back from that and you can own it,  stripped down to the core and forget the octave jumps if you like.  It is still beautiful stuff.  Maybe more beautiful that the big versions?

14 hours ago, ladyolivier said:

Not really an opinion on anything you said (which I think is beautiful), but just a related thought: you touch here on one of the things that I find myself admiring most about Mika as a human being, not as a star or an artist, but just as a person: the way he's matured and yet remained so beautifully childish and playful. I dearly love the person he is and the person he's become....He's such a goofball but such a thoughtful, intelligent goofball. I have so much respect for someone who can be so classy and refined and philosophical and then the next moment be dancing like...well, like Mika.

 

Okay, tbh this is just me taking an opportunity to ramble about how much I love Mika.

oh well

We're all the same here  

 

I find what you said beautiful, too.  And I also love Mika.   What's wrong with that?  Off topic, but he is probably responsible for this dog that fell into my lap.  I might call him Humphrey! 

Interesting that some people are nol pleased by Mika's choices to do The Voice and another season of Casa Mika.  This makes for a really meaty conversation, I think.  Not about the shows, but about how everyone is handling Mika's growing up. 

Because I recently got into Mika and we now have everything available to watch, I have spent the past month seeing him mature as an artist over ten or so years.  The early years were a special kind of magic for all the misfits including Mika.  Mika did what he wanted, the way he wanted to.    Sometimes the transformation to adulthood is shocking in its ugliness, and sometimes shocking in its beauty.  How did this secretive, scarred, chubby kid turn into such a beautiful, kind young man?  Where does this spark come from in someone which makes them glow like that?   How on earth was he able to turn his unhappiness into our (and his) pure joy?  And now, where is that beautiful boy going?  What is going to happen to our sorrow if we don't have Mika's music to transform it? 

Growing older is always trouble. You become someone else over and over. How many times can you expect him to play the same songs?  And with the presence and passion of the first time?  Or write the same kinds of songs?  If he did, I don't believe people would like them.  They would make us sad, and maybe we wouldn't even know why.  Be careful what you wish for.  As you age you become responsible for more and more.  How many people does Mika employ, and what would happen to them if he just walked away?   They are his family, literally or not. I have faith in Mika.  He is supernaturally gifted.  Let him wander where he will, and learn more about himself and what he really wants.  When he comes back to the music, I don't think he will disappoint.

44 minutes ago, ladyolivier said:

I saw one person who said he did mention that he is terrified for his Miami house. I am too, and for my own house all of my home state of FL. 

Someone on my FB page suggested people filed insurance claims asap because you may be reimbursed for your evacuation exoenses.  Hope it goes okay for you. Glad you are safe.

3 hours ago, Lucrezia said:

I leave the full translation to the Subs team that I'm sure they'll make an incredible work.

 

 

Is he worried about his Miami friends and his house?  Those of us in the States are terrified for anyone there, and it's supposed to arrive on Sunday.  Nothing you can do either, nature is the boss.  And loss is a miserable creature.   I very much hope he is able to give himself over to the writing and the music soon.  He has a unique vision that is much needed by this difficult world.