Anna Ko Kolkowska

About 2 years ago I recorded this song as a cover (I think I posted it on this Forum). And I remember when I read the lyrics for the first time from the beginning to the end. I was soooo disappointed. It begins like a "church" song and then they "pass to act" I wonder how it's possible that in some song competitions there are children singing it!!!!!!!!!! Do their parents understand the meaning???? For me it's the same with "Ice Cream". Hearing children singing "I want your ice cream I want it melting on my tongue" makes me feel a little uncomfortable

And a part when they are watching "Hallelujah". Lara Fabien explains the meaning of the song, which is not at all a "church" song There are several versions.But in general it's an ode to the orgasme as she sais No, I will not go to the Naughty Corner! Post Mortem du 7e variete - part about Hallelujah.mp4

"Post Mortem" after the show of the 28th of March. The part where the students watch the whole show on the screen and Lara Fabien comments their performances. Here is the part where they are watching the part with Mika. After they are laughing about the comments posted on Twitter, sort of: "Congratulations to accountants, Insurance company and firefighters " 733182351_PostMortemdu7evariete-partaboutMikashow.mp4

Ah, ok, you mean the La quotidienne. It's every evening at 19:30 and I think it a "resume" of what happened during the Sunday live, post mortem and during the day - meetings with profs and guests.

The show is live on Sunday evening in Quebec = on very early Monday in Europe (or in a middle of the night? anyway at 1:30 am)

You're not the only one. Me too, I find these large suits not very "sexy". I don't understand why they promote this style which doesn't fit Mika's silhouette

So this week Mika will work with the students on Thursday https://www.facebook.com/staracademietva/photos/a.373359754066991/544698476933117/

And the final one with Mika. What is he preparing for the second show? It will be completely different. I will put the students in danger: musically and not only. But we will have fun doing this. Episode 07 partie 8 Mika talks about the next show.mp4

And from partie 5 Mika talks about hard work of the students episode 07 partie 05 Mika talks about students.mp4

The talk with Mika from the Segment 1. Everybody is an artistic director of his/her own art Intro of the episode 07 - with Mika.mp4

I loved Boum Boum Boum - girls did a great job And Happy Ending..... I had tears in my eyes - a cherry on top of the cake. And I forgot to mention: "Hallelujah" - great arrangement

Now it works again. I was watching 30 minutes ago and the video with Mika became blocked after 5 minutes. All videos were blocked.Looks like it works again

Dailymotion blocked the videos

Here is the correct text about Mika en En Vedette. https://www.envedette.ca/potins-stars-quebec/television/star-academie-voici-les-artistes-invites-dimanche-28-mars-1.14844017 La star internationale Mika présentera sa première carte blanche à titre de directeur artistique. Une prestation 100 % à son image, au son de ses plus grands succès, mis en scène dans six tableaux uniques créés spécialement pour l’occasion. Ce numéro spectaculaire et unique risque de faire beaucoup jaser! English: International star Mika will present his first carte blanche as artistic director. A performance 100% in his image, to the sound of his greatest hits, staged in six unique tableaux created especially for the occasion. This spectacular and unique performance is likely to generate a lot of talk!

I removed the post. Well, sorry but I think we misunderstood the message - it's about Marc Dupre...

Well, sorry but I think we misunderstood the message - it's not about Mika (even if his photo is in the article) but about Marc Dupre... I am removing my post.

I've just watched the episode with Greg. And I totally agree with you. Some of the students were not prepared for all the details Mika taught them. But as Greg said - Mika is responsible of his Sunday show, not like other teachers in the Academie who have time to concentrate on each student. And they had only one day to work together. A lesson for them to learn different ways of communication and cooperation. And Greg added that many artists like working with people who know what they want and are concentrated on details like Mika - with this outstanding way of seeing pictures and colors of what they working on. Like @mellody said I was sometime as well annoyed by some students who couldn't properly sing a line or they were changing notes. But I can as well understand they were stressed and not all knew Mika's songs by heart. Another lesson for them how to prepare the performance and how to manage their stress. For sure Mika was stressed too. We know his body language But he is a professional and he knows how to pull himself together. I am sure that young people learned a lot that day and next days in the studios. And they will be proud of the performance they are preparing.

I've just posted an article from the canadian press. So we learn that the plan was to come and leave Quebec several time during 3 months. But with all restrictions it's quite impossible. The superstar is in Quebec to participate in Star Académie and will spend two weeks with the competitors - he will run two performances, including one with his own songs - unlike the initial plan which called for four times in three months. “It had to be longer and more dispersed. I'm coming, I'm going, I'm coming back, to see the progress, "he explains. Health restrictions have of course changed plans. But Mika did not want to give up his participation in the popular show, even if it involved two weeks of quarantine on his arrival, among other things because, among his canceled shows, there were those planned at the Bell Center and at the Videotron Center. . "It meant that this region that I love and owe a lot to, which has always given me energy for the last 14 years, well, I could have not been there for three years, potentially . It's too much. "

An article from the canadian La Presse+ https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/ad4cd20f-b76f-4c48-a2cf-c8adf02dfac0__7C___0.html?utm_content=ulink&utm_source=lpp&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=internal share&fbclid=IwAR0QbGqEbnc_lnWmEJ2fO0LPpImsNlJhiwnptQKphBCAff2Q6oYafvNltP4 MUSIQUE LA DOUCE RÉSISTANCE DE MIKA OSÉE LAPOINTELA PRESSE Avec son masque et sa casquette, c’est à peine si on reconnaît Mika lorsqu’il se présente au rendez-vous mercredi. Vêtu d’une veste rouge et de jeans, baskets aux pieds, le chanteur se promène incognito dans le centre-ville de Montréal. Son dernier passage chez nous remonte à septembre 2019, lors de deux spectacles mémorables au Théâtre Corona, prélude à une tournée mondiale des grands arénas… qui n’a jamais eu lieu pour cause de pandémie. « J’avais deux mois de tournée aux États-Unis qui étaient vendus full », nous raconte-t-il lors d’un entretien charmant, assis sur un banc de parc. « Lollapalooza, Coachella, l’Amérique du Sud… Mais j’ai pris la décision, dès le départ, de tout annuler et de ne pas reporter. Je voyais ce qui se passait en Asie, je voyais ce qui s’en venait et je me disais : c’est pas possible, ce truc est trop gros. » La supervedette est au Québec pour participer à Star Académie et passera deux semaines avec les concurrents – il montera deux numéros, dont un avec ses propres chansons –, contrairement au plan initial qui prévoyait plutôt quatre fois en trois mois. « Ça devait être plus long et plus dispersé. J’arrive, je m’en vais, je reviens, pour voir le progrès », explique-t-il. Les restrictions sanitaires ont bien sûr changé les plans. Mais Mika n’a pas voulu se désister de sa participation à la populaire émission, même si elle impliquait deux semaines de quarantaine à son arrivée, entre autres parce que, parmi ses spectacles annulés, il y avait ceux prévus auCentre Bell et au Centre Vidéotron. « Ça signifiait que cette région que j’aime et à laquelle je dois beaucoup, qui m’a toujours amené de l’énergie au cours des 14 dernières années, eh bien, j’aurais pu ne pas y aller pendant trois ans, potentiellement. C’est trop. » LIGNE DE BEAUTÉ L’année 2020 a été émotivement éprouvante pour Mika, mais il n’a jamais arrêté de travailler. « Je ne suis pas un héros pour avoir fait ça. Mais pour moi, c’est une sorte de douce résistance. » Le chanteur d’origine libanaise a entre autres organisé un grand spectacle caritatif virtuel pour venir en aide aux sinistrés de l’explosion de Beyrouth – « Je reconnais que c’est un petit truc par rapport à l’ampleur de la crise là-bas, mais ce n’est pas parce qu’on se sent impuissant qu’on ne peut pas faire de bruit quand même » –, composé la musique du feu d’artifice du 31 décembre au château de Versailles, offert un concert classique de ses grands succès dans la salle somptueuse de l’Opéra royal de Versailles (qu’on peut toujours regarder sur le site de France Télévision, et dont l’album est offert sur les plateformes d’écoute en continu). "Dans une période de crise, on ne peut pas répondre avec des banalités. » — Mika Il a donc voulu créer des projets signifiants, question d’y trouver chaque fois une « ligne de beauté ». « Il y a différentes manières de regarder le monde, qui permettent de mettre du sens et de l’ordre dans la vie autour de nous et en nous, explique Mika. Une de ces règles, c’est la règle de la beauté. Parce qu’il y en a même dans la tristesse. Même dans la peine. Il y a de la beauté même dans la mort. » Cette quête est justement inspirée par la mort de sa mère, qui a été emportée il y a deux mois par un cancer après avoir aussi attrapé la COVID-19 et y avoir survécu. C’est sa mère qui l’a aidé à trouver sa voix et à se construire, se souvient-il, et tout ce qu’il fera dans cette « ligne de beauté » lui sera toujours dédié. « Je n’ai pas honte de le dire », avoue doucement Mika, qui estime que ce concept lui « donne du courage ». « Cette idée aide à la survie et à la créativité, et rester créatif sera important dans la prochaine phase de ma vie, alors que j’approche de la quarantaine. » VALEUR Cette année qui vient de s’écouler a aussi permis à l’auteur-compositeur-interprète de réfléchir à son rôle comme artiste. Lui qui se sentait souvent « perplexe » et « hors contexte » lorsqu’il comparait sa musique à celle de la scène urbaine, comme le rap et le R&B, affirme avoir réalisé pendant la crise que c’était en fait sa « plus grande valeur ». « Je me suis dit : c’est OK, ça va, c’est la raison pour laquelle je peux toujours travailler, autant avec de grands moments de succès commercial que des moments plus discrets. Et ça, c’est une force, pas une faiblesse. J’espère que ça m’aidera à assumer encore plus, pour être encore plus fort dans ma réponse créative. » Alors qu’il a recommencé à écrire pour un prochain album et pris goût aux happenings et aux évènements ponctuels, Mika ne cultive aucun regret par rapport à sa tournée annulée. « C’est passé, ça, la frustration. Et puis, c’est intéressant aussi, une interruption. Il y a un côté un peu oriental dans ça. Un peu inch Allah. Qui le sait, tu vois ? » — Mika Ce qui est certain, par contre, c’est que même si 2020 a été terrible et « étouffante », il prêche pour le devoir de mémoire : l’oubli serait une énorme erreur, croit-il. « Ce serait insultant pour les gens qui ont souffert le plus. Si t’as pas eu d’argent, pas eu le soutien du gouvernement comme il fallait, si t’es mort sans ta famille, si t’as perdu quelqu’un sans lui dire au revoir… et on t’efface ? Ou, au contraire, on souligne, on rend honneur à la souffrance qui a été vécue, et on change au moins quelque chose. Oui, il y a des choses que j’aimerais oublier. Mais 2020, non. » GOOGLE TRANSLATION MIKA'S SOFT RESISTANCE JOSÉE LAPOINTE With his mask and hat on, you can hardly recognize Mika when he shows up for the meeting on Wednesday. Dressed in a red jacket and jeans, sneakers on, the singer walks incognito in downtown Montreal. His last visit to us was in September 2019, during two memorable shows at the Corona Theater, the prelude to a world tour of the great arenas ... which never took place due to the pandemic. "I had two months of touring the United States that were sold full," he tells us in a charming interview, sitting on a park bench. “Lollapalooza, Coachella, South America… But I made the decision from the start to cancel everything and not postpone. I saw what was going on in Asia, I saw what was happening and I thought to myself: it's not possible, this thing is too big. " The superstar is in Quebec to participate in Star Académie and will spend two weeks with the competitors - he will run two performances, including one with his own songs - unlike the initial plan which called for four times in three months. “It had to be longer and more dispersed. I'm coming, I'm going, I'm coming back, to see the progress, "he explains. Health restrictions have of course changed plans. But Mika did not want to give up his participation in the popular show, even if it involved two weeks of quarantine on his arrival, among other things because, among his canceled shows, there were those planned at the Bell Center and at the Videotron Center. . "It meant that this region that I love and owe a lot to, which has always given me energy for the last 14 years, well, I could have not been there for three years, potentially . It's too much. " BEAUTY LINE 2020 has been an emotionally trying year for Mika, but he never stopped working. “I'm not a hero for doing this. For me, it's kind of a gentle resistance. " The singer of Lebanese origin has among other things organized a big virtual charity show to help the victims of the explosion in Beirut - "I recognize that it is a small thing compared to the extent of the crisis there. , but it is not because we feel powerless that we cannot make noise ”-, he composed the music of the fireworks of December 31 at the Palace of Versailles, offered a classical concert of his great successes in the sumptuous hall of the Royal Opera of Versailles (which can still be watched on the France Television website, and of which the album is available on streaming platforms). "In a time of crisis, we cannot respond with banalities." - Mika He therefore wanted to create meaningful projects, a question of finding there each time a "line of beauty". “There are different ways of looking at the world, which help bring meaning and order to the life around and within us,” explains Mika. One of those rules is the rule of beauty. Because it is even in sadness. Even in pain. There is beauty even in death. " This quest is inspired by the death of his mother, died of cancer two months ago after also catching COVID-19 and surviving it. It was his mother who helped him find his voice and built him, he recalls, and everything he does in this "beauty line" will always be dedicated to her. "I'm not ashamed to say it," confesses Mika quietly, who believes the concept "gives him courage." “This idea helps with survival and creativity, and staying creative will be important in the next phase of my life as I approach my forties. " VALUE This past year has also given the singer-songwriter an opportunity to reflect on his role as an artist. He who often felt “perplexed” and “out of context” when comparing his music to that of the urban scene, such as rap and R&B, claims to have realized during the crisis that it was in fact his “greatest value". "I thought to myself, it's OK, I'm fine, I can still work, both with great moments of commercial success and more low-key moments. And that is a strength, not a weakness. I hope this helps me even more, to be even stronger in my creative response. " While he has started writing again for an upcoming album and has taken a liking to happenings and one-off events, Mika cultivates no regrets about his canceled tour. "The frustration is the past already. And then, it is interestion this interruption. There is a bit of an oriental side to it. A little Inshallah. Who knows, you see? " - Mika What is certain, however, is that even though 2020 has been terrible and "stifling," he preaches the duty to remember: forgetting would be a huge mistake, he believes. “It would be insulting to the people who have suffered the most. If you didn't have money, didn't get the proper government support, if you would died without your family, if you lost someone without saying goodbye ... and we wipe you out? Or, on the contrary, we underline, we honor the suffering that has been experienced, and we at least change something. Yes, there are things I would like to forget. But not 2020. "

In "La quotidienne episode 24" there is some parts of Mika's coaching and the students comments. I am not able to download the video And the link is only for VPN owners or canadians... The sequence qith Mika starts at 10:00. https://www.qub.ca/tvaplus/tva/star-academie-2021-la-quotidienne/saison-1/episode-24-1039872120

Ah, the video from workshop is too long to write any translation. But just to tell you that during the 14-15 minutes performance they will go from one studio to another, there will be a fanfar team during Lollipop, and performance will end up with INDOOR fireworks (in the underground parking)! Which usually is forbidden. Mika explained that this is very rare and very expensive event. It's not a fire going from the floor (as we've seen on some concerts). But real fireworks! So during the dress rehearsal they will not do it - only during the live. Surprise for everybody

Just in a few words (well it turned out to be almost the whole interview): Question about Star Academie. Mika: I don't teach anything. really. You shouldn't think about teaching but about collaboration. ... During my quarantine I took lessons of philosophy and I've learned that Aristotle did not write anything. He was walking and speaking. You should learn by living and doing things. ... Not on lessons. I've learned when I was 7 by doing things. I remember very well this fear when I had to go on the stage in front of 2'000 people. And I had to sing out loud with the orchestre of 120 musicians. This is not workshop. This is life. ... I am not the artistic director of the whole program. I am preparing only two performances of 14-15 minutes. I was working on details during several weeks or even months with Star Academie team and my teams in Ireland, UK and France... I hope it will work. And through this experience the students will learn things. I decided not to treat them like candidates on the casting to the singing competition. I will treat them like other persons working with me. So if I am too hard or I am expecting too much it's because the real life is like this... Mika explains that pop music needs to be universal and not just more accessible to the public. Example "Black Bird" of the Beatles - the text very strong but very universal, and this is its strength. Catherine asks about Mika's collaboration with Pierre Lapointe and other canadian artists. Mika: This morning I was talking on the phone with an artist not from Quebec but he has very strong connection with Canada and Quebec - Rufus Wainwright. I like him a lot. And we are trying to cook something together. Not literally. I am a friend with Adam Cohen, I sang with Beatrice from "Le Coeur de Pirate". And with Pierre we exchange messages from the beginning of my quarantine. He promised me to make a date via Zoom with a coffee or a glass of wine. Well, I would prefer to meet him in real life because drinking with a tablette is not very nice. Then Catherine comes back to the beginning of the quarantine when Mika was doing his lives "Cooking with Mika". She was following his account. "How did you live this period? Did you make a progress in your artistic life or the contrary? Mika: It's the period very creative. With huge changes in my life, in my business, in my structure and in the projects which will appear during next 3 years. So the things we are preparing will take 3-4 years. But I didn't show anything about it in the social media.... I didn't want to sing in my living room. When I answered in music I did a huge effort with my team to react to the crisis in Lebanon. I was so happy that it was possible to show it on canadian television. For the New year I wanted to do something strong and poetic. We have prepared a 9 minutes sequence in Palais de Versailles. With fireworks. I have to tell you it was so complicated to do. It was incredible. So singing in the living room... I think you should play music in a special way. So just not to close the door completely I decided to cook in my kitchen. But the truth is that I didn't cook too much. I was singing using a bunch of spaghetti as a mic and a glass of wine in the other hand, I was swinging my hips to a song of Cher... If I had to do it again in front of the camera I am not sure if I would do it again. well, I did it and it makes a part of things I put in to a closet. Catherine mentions that she made a Cher imitation too. And she is not proud of it either. As they use Zoom to talk they start to play with hair to look like Cher. And they sing like Cher. Catherine recalls their last interview when she proposed a choreography to Relax. Mika promised to do it on stage but the concerts have been cancelled. Mika: But I will come back. Even now I am here (in Canada) and I made 2 weeks of quarantine to work for 2 weeks at Star Academie. First because I like the proposal ... but as well... yes, we had to cancel the concert in Centre Bell and Videotron but it doesn't mean I have to cancel my connection with Quebec. It's impossible. That's why I am here as well. It's to say Ok, we couldn't do that but we can do something different while waiting.... But your choreography needs some development I think. Because for the moment you dance as well as I cook. Catherine: But I dance very well. I will develop more my choreography and I will come on stage to dance it with you. And they wrap up the interview.

Here is the interview for ICI MUSIQUE with Catherine Pogonat "Face a Face" https://www.instagram.com/p/CM2QDMCHEAb/ 305331936_Mon_entrevue_dlirante_avecmikainstagram_est__couter_iciEn.mp4

@holdingyourdrink Michelle, Eriko posted the mp4 file here. 3 GB but you can download it with no problem.

Thank you so much Eriko!!!! I feel like during the Voice recording - watching Mika at work. But this time it's much better. Mika shows how he works, how he sees his songs how he prepares his own shows. What is the role of the artistic director. And how he talks with the students. How he explains his ideas to young people!!!! How he is able to transfer his thoughts and expectations.