greta Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Bernie Dodd is a young Broadway director.....one of those directors (like This Simon Cowell who told Mika some years ago he was rubbish at an audition) who can decide of your future existence (or not) into the music industry and that's probably why mika quoted "The Country Girl" : "Last time we talked Mister Dodd you reduced me to tears, I promise you it wont happen again" says Georgie... all the "quotes" in te song GK were recorded by an actress in Los Angeles, using the original microphones from "Fantasia" and "Mary Poppins" oooh finally!.. someone who posts interesting mika-related infos:thumb_yello: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loverrated Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Oh this is true. I wonder if it would be too much to ask to have one for each song....? I'd love to... but it's a dream that might never come true hunny * gonna pick you up like a paper cup* etc etc mika writes about taboos you know, what no one is actually expecting to find in a pop song...that's the concept of pop or power pop music actually...clever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyGodiva Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 ahhh, wait. i'm confused:blink: I was just talking about having a separate thread on MFC for each song where people can discus the meanings and such? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babspanky Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Does everything have to make sence maybe? Sometimes we overanalyse on here , I think, so I agree with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greta Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 sometimes I find interesting the background and the origins of things..the global view instead of the over focus on details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loverrated Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 sometimes I find interesting the background and the origins of things.. ...all the time....I find it interesting all the time...there is a time to dance and a time to learn...(but of course that's just ME) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasia87 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I read that in America, Grace Kelly didn't get played because the radio stations thought Mika was saying he wanted to be a woman! If people don't know the story behind Grace Kelly, maybe it could be confusing. But it's still an awesome song which has become a world classic already! Welcome to the MFC. It's great to have another new American fan. More proof that Mika is slowly breaking America! a lil off topic.. but.. At the chicago show, he mentioned how he was told "Billy Brown" was too innapropriate for the US market and how he wasn't getting airplay in the states yet all the shows on the concert tour are sold out.. we were all like "BOO!!" and Mika was like "That's right BOO!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loverrated Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 mika writes about taboos you know, what no one is actually expecting to find in a pop song...that's the concept of pop or power pop music actually...clever *quote yourself because no one else will...plus it's so utterly 80's!" at the grammys... ...while the extremely tall Mika revealed he’s somewhat inspired by prostitutes. “You know a lot of my lyrics are twisted,” he insisted. “I have a song called ‘Love Today’ that four-year-olds sing, but the truth of the matter is it’s about a hooker. I would come across them at three o’clock in the morning coming out of the studio in Miami.” ....the whole xplanation: So if you listen to a song like Love Today”, there's coded little stories in it. One of them's about a hooker, because when I was writing I was working in Miami demoing with a bunch of musicians who were helping me for free and I co-wrote with a woman called Jodie Mark who helped get me some attention, and we'd be borrowing studio time, we'd come back from the studio at 3 in the morning and meet at the corner of 95 which is this highway there. Don't ask me why Miami, it just had to be Miami, and it was during holiday time when I was at the Royal College of Music and I got a student loan out, stayed with friends, it was ridiculous. It took us a year to do four songs, but that's the only reason why I got my deal. And there'd always be hookers and drug dealers because it was kinda rough, and there was always one that never got picked up. So she's in the song, it goes “Carolina sits on 95/ Give her a dollar and she'll make you smile/ Hook her, book her, nook her then walk away, but everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today”. And if you're a kid and you hear that song, you don't hear tha!. “Girl dresses like a kid for fun, she licks her lips like there's something other/ She tries to tell you life has just begun/ So now you know she's getting something other than the love from her mother”. You' don’t get that if you're a kid, but if you're an adult you get it. It's like a cartoon - you take what you want out of it and leave what you don't. Crikey. Like Grease, we never realised how dirty the lyrics are. They're disgusting! It's all about writing lyrics that get around all the (sex thing) like “**** her senseless”: you don't wanna say that, so say “Hook her book her nook her”. power pop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackViolet Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 The "Kerchinga" does in fact have meaning. As someone said, it's the sound of the cash register, but when he wrote the song, he didn't know it'd be such a hit. The "kerchinga" was meant to be a snide way of referring to what the record companies he was angry with really wanted from him--just a way to make money. Of course now that it has made tons of money it's a bit of an ironic tease. --Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greta Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 *quote yourself because no one else will...plus it's so utterly 80's!" at the grammys... ...while the extremely tall Mika revealed he’s somewhat inspired by prostitutes. “You know a lot of my lyrics are twisted,” he insisted. “I have a song called ‘Love Today’ that four-year-olds sing, but the truth of the matter is it’s about a hooker. I would come across them at three o’clock in the morning coming out of the studio in Miami.” ....the whole xplanation: So if you listen to a song like Love Today”, there's coded little stories in it. One of them's about a hooker, because when I was writing I was working in Miami demoing with a bunch of musicians who were helping me for free and I co-wrote with a woman called Jodie Mark who helped get me some attention, and we'd be borrowing studio time, we'd come back from the studio at 3 in the morning and meet at the corner of 95 which is this highway there. Don't ask me why Miami, it just had to be Miami, and it was during holiday time when I was at the Royal College of Music and I got a student loan out, stayed with friends, it was ridiculous. It took us a year to do four songs, but that's the only reason why I got my deal. And there'd always be hookers and drug dealers because it was kinda rough, and there was always one that never got picked up. So she's in the song, it goes “Carolina sits on 95/ Give her a dollar and she'll make you smile/ Hook her, book her, nook her then walk away, but everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today”. And if you're a kid and you hear that song, you don't hear tha!. “Girl dresses like a kid for fun, she licks her lips like there's something other/ She tries to tell you life has just begun/ So now you know she's getting something other than the love from her mother”. You' don’t get that if you're a kid, but if you're an adult you get it. It's like a cartoon - you take what you want out of it and leave what you don't. Crikey. Like Grease, we never realised how dirty the lyrics are. They're disgusting! It's all about writing lyrics that get around all the (sex thing) like “**** her senseless”: you don't wanna say that, so say “Hook her book her nook her”. power pop... Mika lyrics are disgustingly well composed:naughty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinkalicious1 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Mika lyrics are disgustingly well composed:naughty: i definitely definitely agree... but i love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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