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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?

He spoke a lot about the church, but the first part of his answer in the interview struck me the most and explains (to me) his stance to the church: MIKA: Yes, I am still a Roman Catholic. And I grew up a Melchite, which is one of the oldest forms of Christianity. The Masses are in Aramaic, and it’s a Lebanese form of Christianity that is similar in some ways to Greek Orthodox, but it’s not. It recognizes the pope. And a big part of my life growing up was church, and the ceremony of church. Added to that, when you’re a child and you sing, inevitably, 50 percent of the material that you’re going to be doing, even for professional jobs, is going to be religious-based, in a church. So the show biz of church – the preparation that goes into those ceremonies – was a very big part of my training growing up. A good friend of ours is Aramean and also speaks Aramaic with his children. Without getting into a religious or political debate that is connected to the church, Aramaic is believed to be the language Jesus and his disciples spoke and is one of the oldest languages in the Middle East. There is a strong history and tradition that comes with the language alone: imagine in combination with religion. We do not speak about religion with our friend, but we notice what a profound part it is of his life and his identity. I can only imagine it was similar to Mika and his family. Despite being born in the 20th and growing up in the 21st century, to be confronted with such a huge contradiction (that is the church) that is part of your identity, I can understand why he doesn’t want to completely abandon that. Despite his views of the church, despite his views of stability. It gave him and his family, as he calls his siblings and himself “the nowhere children” a sense of community and belonging. And his views of stability may have changed; but his views of community and the importance of it have (I believe) not. He still speaks about communion of spirit to this day.

Love reading old interviews of Mika, especially as elaborate and candid as this one. It’s been almost 10 years since this one and I wonder what answers he would give today. He does admit he’s contradictory and that makes him unbearable , but I do believe at least 30% is still the same. I do have some thoughts, I will write them up in a separate reply.

Wait, this is not the proper dresscode to go to the forest/river??? (Just kidding!) Our globetrotting jet-setter popstar living his best life still adore the contrast between his posts. It’s mud-glamour-mud, curls-sleek-curls, canine-people-canine… But always royalty-royalty-royalty! (queens-prince-queens )

Like I said in another thread. He is the best popstar by carefully feeding us with stuff to talk/speculate about

So I was almost right! Brunch in Italy = lunch in NYC Adriatic sea = a random river in Europe

Yes!! Just planning the trip, speaking to other fans and the anticipation of seeing both eachother and Mika - again, much sooner than we thought… is a true treat!! Off topic, but I might even see my newborn niece when I’m there. My cousin’s due date is the week before, so I can cuddle up with either a newborn, or her huge belly it’s a win for me either way

Oh and in Italy they refer to the icecream as “cornetto Algida” or just “Algida” and the brioche as we know it as “pan brioche”

After consulting the experts (Italians from the northern regions ) I have found that in northern Italy, a croissant (French) is referred to as a brioche, in other regions it is called cornetto (Italian for croissant). When I ordered a “cornetto” in Verona last month (northern Italy), I found out it’s called brioche on the menu, but they knew what I meant anyway: (Fun fact; this is the cafe belonging to the restaurant where Mika had dinner after the Verona concert. And as a true stalke……ehhh…..FAN, I had to try some of their food! 🤪)

(I have no reason to believe he might be hanging out in Trieste, but we are currently enjoying our fall break in Croatia and I just like the idea that we’re looking at the same sea 🌊☺️)

So my wild theory where he might be and what he’s doing: He is taking a break from intermittent fasting and is enjoying a cornetto (because he’s in Italy) and a black coffee this Sunday morning and is looking out over the Adriatic Sea, because he’s in Trieste doing something mysterious for a next project. Or do you say brioche (instead of cornetto) in Trieste?