Le figaro / Madame 2007 - Mika In The French Press!!!!!

[Miks lil finga]

Thanks Hannah:biggrin2: . I'll make a presentation story when I'll have time...

[cath85]

No it's a recent one : an issue of this friday!!

You know it's one of the weekend supplement of the national french newspaper 'le Figaro"

 

shoot! I guess we can't buy it then anymore...

[Miks lil finga]

"After UK, says P. Laugier, France is the second country in the world where Mika has the most sold records. The audience has been very touched by the fact he grew in Paris, speaks French and knows perfectly our culture. I also think of his cover of "Champs Elysées", in Taratata show, has played fin his favour. His success reasons come alose from the fact he's transgenerational. He does not have a precise target. He touches the 7 to 77 years olds. Many of his buyers don't know yet downloading culture. Moreover his personnality and his story, we must recognize his success mostly comes from the inner quality of his songs".

Lookind from far, true, Mika's success is not the year's hild-up. Focusing in 3min the before-war cabaret spirit, 60s sweet melodies, 70s extravagance and sequins, 80s hedonism and beatmaker, Mika put everybody in his pocket, fact quasi unique in recent music history, as A. Winehouse. From specialised press to popular papers, from international fashion to M. Berger's fans, from the Young to the Eldest, froms gays to straights, we don't lack to praise this young man so talented. "It's the perfect type of federative artist, analyses H. Cassavetti, from Télérama. It's fun, fresh and dancing. He composes himself his songs, he plays several instruments, we have a real good time. He makes consensus. for me, he's the Brit version of our C. Willem, in less made. Mika is just in". If pop is back for few months now, gets out disco ceiling balls, and broad lapels, and G. Michael's brushing thanks to Mika, it's also thanks to an extravagant artists' generation like him who feel as heirs of a music hall tradition. "On stage, says H. Cassavetti, Mika gesticulates like a fool, there are multicoloured ballons falling on the crowd, he appears in a giant lion costume circled by his musicians. It's really the 'Récré A2' singer".

Instead of Freddy Mercury, the Scissors Sisters, Elton John or R. Wainwright, to who he's often compared, Mika does not present sexual ambiguities and rowdy words. H. Cassavetti: "He's not a threat for the family mother, he seduces lil girls, gays, big sisters, the 'Inrockuptibles' reader as well as the 'télé 7jours' one. He toucehs everybody. For me, he does not take enough risks and is too much reserved. I'm really waiting for his second record." Maybe also Mika does not want to fall in the people-isation who sent some down: "I'm really careful about my private life. I know you, journalists, are always waiting crisping details. I don't want to enter that game. I don't want to be a Paris Hilton or Britney spears way star, already out at 30 year old." Yeah, Mika, but not a Mickey (Mouse).

[backflip_76]

Thanks for the translations! Now I can practice my French and see how terrible my French vocabulary is...

[Miks lil finga]

Well, I'm glad you don't laugh at my English... My translations are far from being perfect!

[Kriszti]

OMG!!!! BRAND-NEW PICS!!!!!!!!!!

THANKS A BILLION!!!!

[esperia75]

OMG!!!

Wonderful pics!

Thank you for sharing the article!

[laurence]

shoot! I guess we can't buy it then anymore...

 

Maybe in foreign countries...but in France it's sure it's finished!

[Rizchi3]

I have to say, not only does he look quite yummy (as usual), but I definitely like the 5 o'clock shadow he's sportin'

[hotdlp]

yey!! managed to buy this magazine today in london love it!!

[greta]

In less than a year, he made the world love him.

Today, his fluorescent bubble pop is first of the hits. For us, he plays the model... and he does this well too!

 

Mika

Beware phenomenon

 

An angel goes... at first sight, the new saturday's night fever seems totally inoffensive and has no reason to put you in sweat. With his puppy eyes and his D Rocheteau's way curlies, an other angel too, his tights jeans, his soft voice and his polite words, Mika, tall and handsome and lanky boy, looks like more to a Paul smith's model, whose one shot model he was, than to the last dancing machine of the moment. But during whole summer, Mika made hot the fashion discos in St Tropez and Ibiza, fired evenings in atlantic coast campsites and enjoyed the nightclubbers with the hits Relax, Take it easy and Grace Kelly. "I always dreamt to be successful. When I started singin', 6 years ago, I was told I was weird and ridiculous. But I did not give up. That's the point I'm the most proud of: have sold so many records with the music I dreamt of. That shows you must always fight yourself in life. The revenge feeling does not exist in me, it would give too much importance to the people I hate" he explains in an almost perfect French with few English words from time to time. Mika, 24, Americano-lebanese, London resident since he's 10.

 

Touring all promotional Tv shows, his story began to be well-known, but we let him say it once more cos it explains everything that makes of his life an amazing and unbelievable success story. Born in Beirout in 1983 i Lebanese chaos. His evacuation under israeli bombs by American army. Arrival in Paris. his father taken in hostage and moved to the American embassy in Koweit. Leaving for London, dyslexia and "schoolmates who insulte him". his singing lessons "with the snobs" as he says, who talked onlyabout classical music or super underground pop. His hundred demos sent to music companies and thrown in trash. Finally the signature with universal after a casting passed in a hall hotel. "The removal and hard times I've lived in my youngest years, in London particularly, made me isaolate myself. I refused to learn reading or writing, and even talking. I was put out of school more than 6months. At this moment music became really important to me. she helped me to get back into the world around me. I was 7 when I knew I won't ever work behind a desk like my father. I wanted an artistic job. But when I was 19, I succeeded the entry exam of the School of Economics and Political Science. I went one day. I was watching the clock. I was pale, I couldn't stop saying to myself: go on, you must leave. Then I got up and took my stuff. People looked at me, thinking I was going to vomit. inever went back there. Later I entered the Royal College of Music".

Hurricane Mika lasts since 8 months: a wind that sweeps up everything on its way. with more than 3millions LICM sold worldwide, 8500000 of which in France, the Mika action throws in a panic the accountants of his music company, who smiles again in a devastated branch for 5years.

Philippe Laugeir, project director at Barclay's: "honestly, we were so unprepared to such a succes that we had to redo all the marketing strategy.

Facing the current huge crisis of music industry, those sales are exceptionnal, almost never imagined". Olivier nuc, figaro Magazine journalist, confirms: "when everybody is desperate in music companies, where contracts are broken wildly, this guy has ago at the rifle range. That's good and prooves the record market isn't dead".

 

"After UK, says P. Laugier, France is the second country in the world where Mika has the most sold records. The audience has been very touched by the fact he grew in Paris, speaks French and knows perfectly our culture. I also think of his cover of "Champs Elysées", in Taratata show, has played fin his favour. His success reasons come alose from the fact he's transgenerational. He does not have a precise target. He touches the 7 to 77 years olds. Many of his buyers don't know yet downloading culture. Moreover his personnality and his story, we must recognize his success mostly comes from the inner quality of his songs".

Lookind from far, true, Mika's success is not the year's hild-up. Focusing in 3min the before-war cabaret spirit, 60s sweet melodies, 70s extravagance and sequins, 80s hedonism and beatmaker, Mika put everybody in his pocket, fact quasi unique in recent music history, as A. Winehouse. From specialised press to popular papers, from international fashion to M. Berger's fans, from the Young to the Eldest, froms gays to straights, we don't lack to praise this young man so talented. "It's the perfect type of federative artist, analyses H. Cassavetti, from Télérama. It's fun, fresh and dancing. He composes himself his songs, he plays several instruments, we have a real good time. He makes consensus. for me, he's the Brit version of our C. Willem, in less made. Mika is just in". If pop is back for few months now, gets out disco ceiling balls, and broad lapels, and G. Michael's brushing thanks to Mika, it's also thanks to an extravagant artists' generation like him who feel as heirs of a music hall tradition. "On stage, says H. Cassavetti, Mika gesticulates like a fool, there are multicoloured ballons falling on the crowd, he appears in a giant lion costume circled by his musicians. It's really the 'Récré A2' singer".

Instead of Freddy Mercury, the Scissors Sisters, Elton John or R. Wainwright, to who he's often compared, Mika does not present sexual ambiguities and rowdy words. H. Cassavetti: "He's not a threat for the family mother, he seduces lil girls, gays, big sisters, the 'Inrockuptibles' reader as well as the 'télé 7jours' one. He toucehs everybody. For me, he does not take enough risks and is too much reserved. I'm really waiting for his second record." Maybe also Mika does not want to fall in the people-isation who sent some down: "I'm really careful about my private life. I know you, journalists, are always waiting crisping details. I don't want to enter that game. I don't want to be a Paris Hilton or Britney spears way star, already out at 30 year old." Yeah, Mika, but not a Mickey (Mouse).

 

 

{now I'll try to learn french confrontating the 2 text:roftl:}

[lillibet]

Mika is in Gala ( 24:10) : no photos but it's written that he was seen at LE Baron ( a select night club of Paris) coming on to many girls...

[Sara]

Ooooh - they are lovely pics!!!!! VERY nice!!

[Marilyn Mastin]

Those articles are lovely! Thanks for posting them! Yes Mika is seducing all the generations. At 53 years old, I never thought I'd be a fan of a pop star, but there you go. However, Mika is NOT just a pop star is he! He's everything more. He's bringing the whole world together under his multi-coloured banner. The guy is a true ambassador for love and harmony in this awful world and we all love him so much! Thank God for Mika!!

 

Love today, from Marilyn