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I've watched several of the videos of the Paris concert on Instagram that show moments that seem much more informal (with a lot of audience participation) than the official performance broadcast on TV. Was this the second evening? Was there less formality throughout the second evening ( I guess with no official filming)?

The past few weeks when I checked out the website below I often saw that " Life in Cartoon Motion" was popular in Luxembourg. Today people are listening to it in the UK as well. 😊

I got as far as "No wonder that it's Mika that we love!" 😄 Don't remember how it continues

The French subtitles end but if you use the link that ends with numbers 293, you can choose English subtitles

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=841414633926293 This link provided by Eriko has subtitles to the very end.

Apart from probably not trying to be very accurate with dates, I wonder if Mika's dyslexia also has something to do with giving different time periods. I remember the Italian talk show host Fabio Fazio once asking Mika about particular dates and Mika had trouble calculating how long he had been doing something ( I think working with the X Factor team in 2013). French subtitles are now available, as Mellody predicted. 😊

I couldn't find the interview on YouTube with subtitles ( even French would be ok). Is there a way of adding automatic subtitles? I'm not sure what Mika says after talking about his forthcoming albums.

I didn't think to look for the documentary. Thank you so much! I'll watch it when I've got time.

Here's an interview with Martinengo in which she talks about Mika (don't know if MFC website already has it somewhere): https://www.formatbiz.it/dettNews.aspx?id=9163 TWO WORDS WITH TIZIANA MARTINENGO - A BRILLIANT TV PROFESSIONAL IN THE ITALIAN INDUSTRY 2022-07-29 People Milan Tiziana Martinengo is a director, writer and producer. She founded the production company Milano Produzioni in the 80s and she is a very well-known professional in the Italian landscape. Let’s start since the origins: when did you found Milano Produzioni? Milano Produzioni was born in 1988 (I think it is the longest-running Italian production house) founded by me and my husband Carlo Previati. A true family business. We were very young, I was already working in the TV Industry, while Carlo (my husband), who graduated at the economics University of Bocconi with a thesis focused on British advertising and marketing in London, was a young manager at Unilever. By combining the two types of experiences we decide to found the company, taking a cue from the US model of branded content (then it was called barter). We started producing branded formats. A few years later we focused on pure production for national broadcasters, producing programs entirely conceived by us. What kind of programs did you produce? What’s your space in the Italian TV landscape? Surely the factual genre is what most represents us. In particular, we specialized in the theme of the houses. This is a topic that I love. I can mention some series like Chi scegli la seconda casa, Ok: la casa è giusta, Artiste per la casa, La casa più bella, and the last one Un Sogno in affitto (3 seasons for Sky). These programs are very popular and “aspirational”. I would have loved to continue on the makeover/ or renovation houses, but in Italy is more complicated than in the US (in 2 weeks they can make a full change) and it takes months to complete a full renovation. Other topic that I like much is the wedding and I produced several series like Il Matrimonio più bello, La Sposa più bella, Una sposa da sogno with the wedding stylist Antonio Riva. Let's say that our programs also reflect who I am very much, so there is always an emotional aspect. I am a person who gets excited a lot and I am happy when people get excited about beautiful and positive messages. Lately we have also approached the world of food with Celebrity Menù and Le Ricette del convent, filmed in a real convent with 3 monks from the Monreale Monastery. This format is achieving great success, both in terms of listening and satisfaction. On social media it is enjoying it and we got an incredible engagement. Recently we produce a docu-novels titled Eccellenze di Sicilia, stories of families’s business (pastry/bakery). The show was also presented at the Film Festival of Taormina 2022 and I was so happy to be invited to that prestigious event. How do you prefer to be called: register, author/writer, producer? When you do too many things you are not good at ones (laughing) but in my case I consider myself as a boomer (smiling) I was professional born in the 80s with the arrival of private television in Italy and in that early stage I was able to do a little bit of everything from different fields production and writing. I also, had the privilege of working with the most talent professionals of the Italian TV like Mike Bongiorno a myth of our television! Let's say that however my professional life is divided into 2 parts: One as Author and Director who has always worked as a freelancer for the biggest production companies such as MAGNOLIA, FREMANTLE, BLU YAZMINE, ENDEMOL, BALLANDI or directly for BROADCASTERS (in particular over the years'80 / '90 I've signed for MEDIASET Show as' MATRICOLE ',' METEORE ',' IL BRUTTO ANATROCCOLO',' VIVA NAPOLI '...) and I've worked for very important TV shows from TALENT to REALITY, GAME and QUIZ, working with ARTISTS of great stature. Shows seen by several million viewers, such as' L’ISOLA DEI FAMOSI 'that in the final episode of the second edition reached a peak of 73% share, a truly impressive number. Then, as partner of the company with my husband Carlo I like to present and pitch new shows to broadcasters and I feel this part of my job very stimulating and exciting. Let’s move to Mika, the great international artist. How did you meet him and how do you work together? In my life there are two important men, they are both called Michael. One is Mike Bongiorno and I shared many important part of my professional life until September 2009 working for the quiz show RISKYTUTTO for Sky Italia and the other is Mika. We met for the first time in 2013 for XFactor and there was an alchemy between the two of us! I remember being immediately 'kidnapped' by his style, his kindness, but above all by his intelligence and his ability to 'learn'. He had started studying Italian for a few months and already spoke it very well. Artistically, then, it is incredible. During the 3 years of X Factor our relationship has grown, above all thanks to a docureality that we have created together Il Viaggio di Mika, in which I filmed him in several situations in Italy and abroad, during his concerts, while he was shooting a video clip on the slopes of Etna, when he was a guest on an important television program in New York ... In that context, I was able to understand even more his artistic greatness. In 2016 I was with him in CasaMika, the one-man show produced by Ballandi for Rai. The show also won a Rose d’Or as best format in Europe. In addition to being a very good singer and musician, he knows how to present a TV show, supporting intense monologues, but he also knows how to manage hilarious moments, he knows how to interview with precise and punctual interventions (he has a great listening ability), I consider him a unique talent and it is wonderful to work with him, it is stimulating because he is also an extraordinary Artistic Director, he takes care of everything down to the smallest detail, from graphics to costumes, to lights ... I remember the nights after rehearsals until 3 am in his dressing room to 'build' the new episodes and not feel tired for the joy of what was being created. Even when he goes as a guest in a program, he personally and totally studies his performances, making use of the collaboration of his trusted team, of which I am a part, and his performance becomes a show within the show. For example, when he was a guest in 2020 at the Sanremo Festival, he first performed some of his choreographed pieces with a Gospel Choir that came from France and after a moment of great television impact he changed 'register' and atmosphere passing to a profound monologue before to perform the tribute to De Andrè with 'Love that you come, Love that you go'. It was pure emotion and the emotion became even more intense with Eurovision Song contest 2022. Working with him is something magical, like his piano. For me it was a unique experience, we worked inside a giant machine with incredible production dynamics and knowing that we were part of a program that was followed by 160 million viewers, well, the thrills come. How many shows did you produce in more than 40 years? Is there more? what else do you want to produce? any dream in the drawer? Actually Un Sogno nel cassetto (A Dream in the drawer) was the title of the first program I made with Mike. I was very young with a great desire to do and, if I look back, I consider myself truly lucky and privileged to have certainly achieved many more dreams than I could have wished for. Among other things, the word dream is present in many format titles I invented, perhaps because I am an incurable romantic. And then maybe I have a dream in the drawer. I would like to found a LAB with authors and directors of all ages to create new made in Italy formats to be distributed all over the world. Maybe we need to learn to be a little less individualistic and to do more TEAM because I am sure that with our creativity and our Italian 'spirit' we could really achieve great things and who knows that this may not become my new challenge for my first 60 years. years! 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Cool! I had no idea that Mika had held such an exhibition. Thank you!

You're not the only one. I almost missed the deadline for an application recently because I confused 2 and 3.

Carolina was also involved in the Coachella performance.

See the attached file? I often look at this website to see how Mika's music is doing in the charts. When I first saw the album circled on the right I thought there was an old Mika album I didn't know about. 🙂

I love " Heroes" too!

I didn't know you had already posted the Arena article in the other thread. 😊

https://www.larena.it/argomenti/spettacoli/mika-in-arena-1.9633466 There's a review of the show

About the concert in Verona https://video.corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/mika-concerto-all-arena-verona-finalmente-qui-video/4f44a96a-38ea-11ed-8da2-74484731b064/amp

Thanks to this virtual fan action I finally created an Instagram account today 😊 ( with my husband's help!) to send Mika a message. Now if I could only learn to use Twitter . . .

This then must be the RAI documentary announced some months ago. Cattelan is the only presenter who speaks in the video. There are several clips of Mika singing but none of Pausini ( unless I missed something as I was clearing the table 😃). Even though her performance wasn't as spectacular as his, they could have inserted something.

This afternoon I checked out https://www.rogerebert.com - a website I often use when I want a critic's opinion of a movie - to read what the reviewer had to say about the movie Mika recommended on his Twitter account. Here is an excerpt from the review which I think can throw some light on how to interpret Mika's remark: "Da quando mia mamma non c'è più vivo come fossi morto, così tutto è meraviglia." Marcel’s physical aesthetic of having one eye, a shell for a body and a never-ending perseverance is simultaneously contagious and admirable. Yet, the poetic justice and license of including Philip Larkin’s poem The Trees drives the dramatic thrust of this story, summing it up in one fell swoop: The signs of newness are also sewn into what has died away. Everything changes all the time. I love being alive, especially in the late spring, when the flowers return again. But you can’t enjoy the daffodil without honoring what has died so it can regrow. If you want to really grow, you must be able to know and allow for what change really looks like and feels like. "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" will make your spirit soar and remind you to enjoy those you love, inhale a bit of fresh air, and respect the earth every second as though it were your very first time. It's a reminder to embrace all the stages of grief and see our dark chapters as changes that somehow make us better on the other side. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-2022 Carla Renata June 21, 2022

Isn't it more likely he would write songs in French for the movie?

The poll uses caps in #YoMika. Do we have to use caps too or is #yomika ok as well? (Don't know much about hashtags! 😃)

How exciting!

#yomika has the advantage of being short and simple

Yeah, I was surprised that Ticketmaster was trying to be helpful.