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Or a pre-listening like he did for TOOL back then… ahh! We can only dream!

My same thoughts! It seems to be finished now? Otherwise they wouldn’t screen it? Which raises the question: if the movie is finished, the recording of The Piano presumably coming to an end (it is the final that will be recorded on the 10th?), it means Mika has time for… his albums?? Or do you all think he has other projects on the horizon as well?

My thoughts exactly. And “Feels Like Fire” is maybe part of it and will be after the movie came out releases separately as the next single for the English album?

I am flying on Stansted and they specifically state on the website that they do not advise to take it on the day of the strike.. but I guess you are traveling in on the 10th? Normal service should resume, just a little later on the day. Let’s cross fingers!

Wow thanks Anna for informing us! I will book a coach from the airport to the city (I land in Stansted)

I am dead I can’t with this thread anymore

I haven’t (yet), although I have contemplated to tear them apart and make a mosaic out of them. When you finish something there is a certain gratitude and contempt at the same time which may bring you to destroy it. I can imagine that. But then again, I’m projecting, this may not be true for him at all.

Doesn’t every artist? It’s like a chapter in your life and after that, it’s closed. You may have learned from it, you may have had fun with it, you may have made mistakes, you may have created something beautiful… but in the end, it is behind you. And you move on. (Projecting here )

Oh we sure did

The videos you saw were most probably from the encore (Elle Me Dit), that is where the public ran up to the front of the stage. It was also the only song where this was done, with the official concert everyone was seated. The first night it was actually quite tense! Haha. We weren’t sure if we were allowed to clap or sing along, knowing it would be filmed for French TV. I had heard that Simon LeClerc was very strict during the first symphonic concerts he did with Mika a few years ago, where too much noise from the public was not allowed/frowned upon. Also Mika was very tense, he had a strict schedule (he would later (after the concert) tune in live for The Voice finals who were that same night!) and I guess the pressure of it being recorded for TV. The second night he was a lot more relaxed, as was the public. So there was more audience participation like you had already mentioned.

At this point I feel he is just flying around in circles to confuse us

Well, I am out of wild theories for today but the picture could’ve been taken on any of his plane travels and he just posted it in light of the Diwali festival

Ahhhh I hear it now, too!

I hear; “…into the ocean let it all pull/pool down the m…(muse?)….” In the background “you’re the action(?)” And then the chorus sets back in with “love, feels like fire” I agree with the samba feels, Karin! I immediately started moving my hips

Ahhh good to see him on stage!! I get all fuzzy feelings when I see the lights, stage, wardrobe.. all those wonderful memories I made this summer come bubbling up ❤️

Ohhh I love this video!!

I think it’s Antwerp central station

Ahhh! It was shot in Antwerp it says in the title! Wish I was already a fan back then… looks like a good time ☺️

He did say once he likes to flirt with his coffee cup… but I don’t think that’s the kind of “pan” they’re talking about It reminds me of the Italian gossip article where they say he had a “hot night” with Emma those journalists really don’t do their research

I think he was always dyslexic, but maybe „high functioning“ up until the traumatic experience. After that he completely shut down and slowly found his way back. He does this together with Simon LeClerc, so I would imagine they are composing and writing together with the orchestra, as he plays the melodies on the piano and explains his visions.

Jenifer seems so organized compared to someone else….

„No animals were harmed: just the popstar who wrote the score to the movie“

That’s why he is sharing the joy with us albeit 0.2 seconds

Working on the movie score! Or at least putting it together it seems ☺️ And his finger injury seems to be a little more serious when it’s still in bandages. I can only imagine he keeps flipping off people to show it’s still not healed

MIKA: Oh, I was bullied my whole life. In some way I still feel like I am in some places — in some countries, let’s put it that way. People say they don’t judge me, but they do. They hate nonconformity in a lot of places. That kind of bullying is something that everyone experiences all the time, in some measure or another, in some way or another. I think it never really goes away. I wonder how he feels about this today, 9 years after giving this answer. Today gender and sexual identity is much more normalized/present (is that the correct term, please do correct me if I’m wrong) than it ever was. What struck me from reading one of the reviews from Billy Porter’s movie “Anything’s Possible” (the movie Mika has written and sung “Who’s Gonna Love Me Now”), was that in the movie, the mother says of her son: “thankfully he’s only gay!” - just to illustrate the shift of view in the last (two) decades concerning sexuality. I believe in a normalizing way. And the feeling of still being bullied in some places: does he still experience this, has this declined, or has it changed? And I wonder if part of this feeling has to do with not feeling like he fully belongs somewhere? Then again these are questions I ask myself sometimes, so there is a whole lotta projection there! MIKA: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Can you imagine? My life was a giant dressing-up-off! Our apartment was a mess, because it was a workshop. And everyone knows that an apartment that’s a mess is the most creative place to ever grow up, because when it’s a mess, you make it into anything you want. And there were clothes everywhere – dressing up was actually quite the serious part of growing up. Dressing up wasn’t just a stupid thing that was done at some children’s party. We all dressed up, all the time, as different things and different people. And stay in character for, like, the whole day. It’s really weird. I look back on it now and I’m just like, well, no wonder I didn’t have many friends. [Laughs.] But you know, we were five — we were a gang. So it protected us. I actually had to chuckle about this one, because we may not have five kids like the Pennimans, but we have a gang of three! And they stick together, have their own little rules and sometimes language. Especially during the pandemic they stuck together a lot, dressed up all day and were in their own little world. They still are, it’s pretty cool to witness it as a parent. (And no they don’t get along a 100%, I mean, they’re still siblings!!) MIKA: Oh, I’m completely uncomfortable in my own skin. I’m completely uncomfortable. [Laughs.] I think that’s why I write songs, because I always want to be something else. And I can turn myself into anything if I write a song. I visualize that I want to sing like a 16-year-old goth, and then I write a song about it, and I feel like that person. I’m neurotic, self-contradictory and just unbearable. And for all those reasons, I write. Oh I really would like to know what he says now! MNIMH is said to be more open and transparent than ever. Has he reconciled with himself and he is a little more bearable now?