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On 4/26/2019 at 8:03 PM, crazyaboutmika said:

Babylon, Babylon,   one day you're gonna fly?????

On 4/26/2019 at 8:12 PM, Amy hudsone said:

I read those lyrics on twitter

 

Fly balloon

Fly balloon

One day you're gonna fly

 

I don't know if this person get it right

On 4/26/2019 at 8:47 PM, Dominika said:

Fly below, fly below (or maybe actually balloon) 

We make more fun

 

I start to hear new things 

Now I'm curious whose version is actually right 

On 4/26/2019 at 9:27 PM, Irem Aytepe said:

I only understand "FABILON" what an amazing English I have

On 4/26/2019 at 10:24 PM, sara09 said:

After reading the tweet, "fly balloon (x3), one day you'll fly" makes sense to my ears. Without it, I could just hear "fly below" like you, @Dominika  

I'm SO curious about the sound of the new album, this short snippet made me feel euphoric! 

On 4/26/2019 at 10:35 PM, Mikasister said:

Some native english speaker can tell us what they sing? Fly ballon, fly belong, fly below or fabilon?? 

On 4/27/2019 at 10:11 AM, carafon said:

 

 

I first understood "fly baloon" but "fly below" is a good option too

Could be  a pig flying along with a baloon………????

On 4/27/2019 at 9:05 PM, Mikasister said:

 

 

I think we're going to laugh when we really know the true lyrics 

The time is now...poor Paloma. 

1 hour ago, Dominika said:

The excitement reaches its zenith!!  

What a shame that I'll be probably at work when Mika will do the live on instagram

46 minutes ago, kreacher said:

 

Me too. I trust someone will record & post it for us  

 

EDIT: i just realized noon in Paris is 5am my time, so i'll probably be asleep especially if i'm up listening to the album in the middle of the night xD

Me too, I have one class on Friday from 10:50 to 12:25. And I don't want to miss the first lesson of the new semester. Also there are only 7 students in that class so I think the teacher would notice... 

5 minutes ago, Sabine64 said:

so, die letzten 8 Stunden und 20 Minuten bis das neue Album raus kommt. Leider werde ich morgen nicht die Zeit und Muse haben das Album in aller Ruhe und mit dem ihm gebührenden feierlichen Gefühl zu hören und werde es mir auf Samstag aufsparen. Ich finde es wirklich viel zu schade gerade das erste Mal hören so zwischen Tür und Angel abzuhandeln nur weil ich zu ungeduldig bin. Nein ich werde mir am Samstag viel Zeit dafür nehmen und vielleicht auch ein Gläschen Wein dazu schlürfen und geniessen........

NPIH habe ich seinerzeit das allererste Mal in der Türkei am Strand gehört, TOOL habe ich zum ersten mal mit ca 30 Leuten in Mailand von Mika persönlich vorgespielt gehört und dieses Erlebnis werde ich nie vergessen. TBWKTM war mit Gläschen Wein nachts auf meiner Couch und LICM war 2008 am zweiten Weihanchtsfeiertag zusammen mit meinem Mann bei Kerzenschein und damit fing alles an.......

Wie habt ihr die anderen Alben das erste Mal gehört und wie habt ihr vor MNIMH zu hören?

Ich hab mir gedacht, dass ich es genau so mache wie früher. Da ich am Vormittag in der Uni bin und gegen Mitternacht schlafen gehe, werde ich einfach auf die CD warten. Das Päckchen wurde schon heute abgeschickt, also muss ich es morgen nur in der Packstation abholen. Ich werde es mir gemütlich machen und mit dem Booklet in der Hand das ganze Album zum ersten Mal anhören.

1 hour ago, mellody said:

 

I wonder if we'll get the video on Friday? Did he say it anywhere?

I think so too, there's usually a new music video on the album release day to promote it... 

Apparently the back cover of the album, I found it on Amazon.es... 

Also the creators of the tracks:

19 minutes ago, Mikasister said:

Until now I only heard Ice Cream on the radio 😞

Me too and only once in France... 

It's official that there'll be a Japanese Edition with Sound Of An orchestra and It's My House as bonus tracks but I haven't seen this edition anywhere else yet: https://www.universal-music.co.jp/mika/products/uicu-1312/ 

It should be released one week later, on 11th October. It seems I'll probably get both versions anyway because I want the physical copy as soon as it's available. 

5 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

Did they say when they usually get it? I'll try at the big international press shop at Munich central station this weekend - they should have it, but also probably not on the day of the official release.

I asked them and they didn't know for sure but I should try on Tuesday. Luckily I walk around many times a week so I'll just try next week... 

Today I was at a big bookshop in Prague where they also sell foreign books and press and they have the Italian Vanity Fair! They just had the previous number and it was expensive but I'll probably get there the one with Mika as soon as they get it anyway...  

49 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

17,99€, also das gibt sich wenig im Vergleich zum IC Bus / Zug. München ist zwar näher dran als Prag, aber auch allgemein teurer. Oder vielleicht wars auch noch günstiger vor ein paar Wochen, das kann natürlich auch sein.

Ich denke nicht, dass die Preise bei Flixbus regionsabhängig sind, die Fahrt muss ja dasselbe kosten, aber ich hab's schon vor einem Monat gebucht, kann also jetzt schon teurer sein... 

(Btw, ich weiß, dass Flugzeug wieder mal was anderes ist, aber ich bin mehrmals aus München in den Urlaub geflogen weil es trotz der Fahrt dorthin viel billiger war als aus Prag. )

4 minutes ago, mellody said:

Schau dir mal Zürich an, da gibts die Bahn bzw. Bustickets tatsächlich schon für 19,90€ einfache Strecke.

Was Zürich betrifft, ich hab für die Rückfahrt ein Flixbus für ca. 20 € gebucht, und dass nach Prag. Nach München muss es noch billiger sein.

Die Hinfahrt hab ich bei einer anderen Gesellschaft gebucht, da war es ein bisschen teurer, ca. 33 €, aber wie gesagt, München ist nicht so weit entfernt. 

2 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

I don't know. But there was a careraman on stage so it will be a DVD and not an audio CD.  Anyway there will be something additional to the album and it's great 👍

I've heard it should be both, like Sinfonia Pop (live album and DVD)... 

11 minutes ago, crazyaboutmika said:

Maybe he meant a live CD and DVD in which he sings songs live for the second time only It's a shame he didn't sing Sanremo on the second night I would have loved it to be on the live CD DVD. Thankfully MFCers filmed and shared it

There is also Sinfonia Pop (both live CD and DVD) but I guess it's something different for him because he sings with the symphony orchestra... And he probably already forgot about Live at Sadler's Wells (live CD)? Actually I collect CDs and the only live albums I have (and also the only I care about) are from Mika so it's quite strange that according to him he didn't release any. 

On 9/6/2019 at 11:54 PM, Kumazzz said:

 

I think it is.

 

 

Yes, also the part of Italian Riviera around Sanremo is called Riviera dei Fiori (Riviera of Flowers) and Sanremo is known as the city of flowers... 

Regarding the deluxe version, I was searching on Amazon.de for the physical copy because I'll probably order it there and I saw they recently added another version with a different ASIN, I hope it's a deluxe version but it also could be just an import (a French/Italian edition?). However, probably there are more editions of the album after all. 

Finally a czech review of Tiny Love, it got 9/10, Sanremo too:

https://musicserver.cz/clanek/61810/mika-tiny-love/

(I know nobody on MFC will appreciate it but I'm glad that at least someone here writes about the new songs and album...)

39 minutes ago, sara09 said:

We use this expression in Italian, don't know if there's a similar one in French. It means having a lot of success when on stage, doing a performance very well. For example, if a concert has a big response from the public, we say that the artist "ate the stage", provoked a huge/positive reaction. So in this case, he would have a big success, if he found the right show to perform in. Could it be what he meant?

That's exactly how I get it!

(Even though I speak neither Italian nor French and I'm not even a native speaker of English so my opinion is probably irrelevant... )

So how many tracks do we already know by name? Ice Cream, Tiny Love, Sanremo + Jealousy, Blue, Paloma..., Tomorrow, Platform Ballerinas (if those are the real titles) Anything else I've missed? 

An interesting interview where he speaks about Sanremo and Blue but also some new songs like "Paloma...":

https://www.edgemedianetwork.com/entertainment/music//281448#.XXLrOpLXWkA

From, "San Remo" not being about San Remo at all, but being about growing up gay and being a 13-year-old gay walking around the streets of San Remo and feeling incredibly intimidated by every other masculine presence that seems more beautiful, more slim, more heterosexual — just cooler and better than you'd think you could ever be. That's what that song is about. It's not obvious but it's in there.

To a song like, "Paloma..." It's about my sister and it's about the night that I found her on railings having fallen from the window of the fourth floor of her apartment... And I'm standing barefoot in my boxers. And she's dying on the railing. And I'm looking at her, at that situation... when I started writing about it... there was beauty in the fact that I saw her there in the most grotesque situation... She survived, that's why it's easier to see the beauty in it. Still, doing a process like this and not being Mika was very important. Being Michael Holbrook, this dude who is just writing songs about himself, about his life at the moment, his childhood, the women in his family — and about the fear of some of the future... and putting all of that insecurity into something still attractive, bearable and comforting and that's what the process of writing this record was.

My favorite song is "Blue," because it is the most romantic song. It challenges your preconceptions. And it plays on so many different levels. Blue is about gender, sexuality. It's about the idea that you're only okay if you're so ####ing upbeat and smiling at everyone all the time. When sometimes, actually, that's the biggest sign that you're ####ed up. And it's a love letter to the people that I love in saying that, from the deepest part of my heart, I will always love that blue in you because within that blue is the deepest color and the deepest version of you... It starts off as one thing and ends up as something completely different. And that kind of pirouette is really what makes me happy as a writer and its fun to sing because you're going on a journey.

They also mention two songs called "Tomorrow" and "Platform Ballerinas"...

EDGE: I always have a cherished MIKA song off each album that I play over and over like "Billy Brown," "Blame it on the Girls," etc. On this one I have "Tomorrow" and "Platform Ballerinas." Do you have a favorite?
 

(Mika talks about Blue here)

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.

(Ok, it seems that Tomorrow won't be really relatable for me... )

I don't know if it's already on MFC somewhere but he mentioned the music video for Sanremo in this interview:

https://www.edgemedianetwork.com/entertainment/music//281448#.XXLrOpLXWkA

"I'm working with a guy called W.I.Z., he's a director for my music videos. He did the "Tiny Love" video and we're doing another video for the song, "San Remo," which is based on homosexuality in the 1960s. All filmed on real film."

And also:

"From, "San Remo" not being about San Remo at all, but being about growing up gay and being a 13-year-old gay walking around the streets of San Remo and feeling incredibly intimidated by every other masculine presence that seems more beautiful, more slim, more heterosexual — just cooler and better than you'd think you could ever be. That's what that song is about. It's not obvious but it's in there."
 

7 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

Do you remember Mika's XL monthly column "POP UP" ?

It's very similar to the chapter he read here:

7 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

Bordighera and the streets of San Remo, were my first experience of Italy.

We spent our family holidays in Bordighera last year and in San Remo eight years ago so somehow it makes me happy to know Mika has been there with his family too... 

I have to say the more I listen to the song the more I like it, especially the chorus is really catchy, the verses aren't as remarkable for me so far but I enjoy the dreamy atmosphere... It's so different that it makes me think what other songs are on this album, each of the singles are so unique. This one could be a part of TOOL but Tiny Love didn't sound like that at all. 

5 hours ago, Gemz said:

Do you guys think there will be a deluxe or special edition of this album? Looking at his other albums he always has more than one version with more tracks.

Yes but I also have the feeling that deluxe editions aren't a thing anymore as unfortunetaly most people only stream their music... Maybe he will do a special edition later, a repack like the special edition of NPIH. 

4 minutes ago, ottimistaaccidentale said:

I hoped for particular references to Sanremo,

Me too, I've spent a summer holiday in Sanremo with my family a few years ago, so I kind of hoped this song will be inspired by his family holidays there...

If Ice Cream reminds of Prince and Tiny Love of Beatles, Billy Joel and Queen, Sanremo gives me somehow Phil Collins vibes, idk why...