MIKA - Where's your EP???

[racinghorse83]

Mika and God both have their own concepts of time!

 

amen to that

[Aayame]

does anyone knoe what format he's releasing the EP- like is it going to be only through iTunes?

[Marilyn Mastin]

I think it's time Mika gave us some info himself! He's very naughty, making us read it in a magazine, instead of on his blog. We need to know

What songs are on the EP.

If the release date in the mag is correct.

How we can obtain it.

And we need those tour dates.

 

So that 'Lonely Goatheard' had better get off the mountains and give us some info! himself!

[crazyaboutmika]

A new EP this month and album in September aim to reveal the pop peacock's bleak side. But there is still room for sex-crazed furry animals....

 

Mika is preparing the follow-up to 2007's platinum-selling Life In Cartoon Motion, promising a "coming-of-age" album that marries eclectic, flamboyant pop with "dark" lyrical themes. As yet untitled, it's scheduled for release in September and will be prepared with a four track EP.

 

"The first record dealt with childhood", he says between sessions in Rocket Carousel Studios in Los Angeles. "This time I decided to age the world and characters I'd been writing about by 10 years. I wanted this record to sound like how I felt when I was 16 to 17 - sometimes it sounds big and out of control, other times it feels like a comfortable hug".

 

Having finished his world tour with a show in Lebanon, the singer songwriter began work on the album in London's Olympic Studios in June 2008, and began sketching a selection of "bleak fairy tales", some of which will be released on 25th May as the Songs For Sorrow EP.

 

"The lyrics are dark and emotional. There's a track called Toy Boy, which is about a toy that gets used and abused by different owners. I guess these songs are the antidote to my first album."

 

Despite the despondent lyrics, Mika's music remains decidedly flamboyant, inspired as it is by Disney soundtracks, '50s country starlet Patti Page and the hefty pop anthems of '80s artists such as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

 

"I wanted to make an unashamed pop record," he says. "I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own."

 

Mika moved into Rocket Carousel in September 2008, turning an album's worth of demos into polished tracks with Life In Cartoon Motion producer Greg Wells. The duo clearly had grand designs: Blame It On The Girls has Cuban pianos and a swaggering, hip-hop production, while We Are Golden bolts the Andrae Crouch choir (who sang Madonna's Like A Prayer) to a Pink Floyd-inspired groove.

 

With a world tour planned to promote the Songs For Sorrow EP this summer and a number of festival appearances already pencilled in, 2009 looks to be another busy year. However, the gimmicks and dancing bears that marked his first world tour are due for an overhaul.

 

"People thought I was putting on a kid's show," he says. "But really, the animals were inspired by a sexual craze called plushing - people getting dressed up in furry animal costumes and having sex with one another. My animals came on stage, hung out and started drinking. Then they had an orgy. But I don't care whether people get it or not. I'm a Marmite artist - people love me or hate me."

 

Track By Track

 

Blame It On The Girls

 

This sounds like No Doubt. It's about a wealthy, handsome boy who has everything, yet pretends to be miserable.

 

We are Golden

 

It's big sounding and aggressive, but in a good way. It's got a gospel choir on it and a kids choir, but unlike the first record, they are not singing sweetly, they're screaming on top of their lungs.

 

Rain

 

This is an unapologetic '80s pop record. I bumped into producer Stuart Prince while he was working with the Killers at Olympic Studios. He helped me program this. It reminded him of ABBA and Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

 

Toy Boy

 

This has a full orchestra, like a Disney soundtrack, but the lyrics are intense and dark. Toy Boy is full of twiddling flutes and lush strings, but the melody is very mechanic, like a music box.

[crazyaboutmika]

I apologize :sorry:to identicaltwin and thank you for keeping us updated, that's so nice of you!

[sienna]

I think it's time Mika gave us some info himself! He's very naughty, making us read it in a magazine, instead of on his blog. We need to know

What songs are on the EP.

If the release date in the mag is correct.

How we can obtain it.

And we need those tour dates.

 

So that 'Lonely Goatheard' had better get off the mountains and give us some info! himself!

 

:roftl:

That is lovely and so true!

[Marilyn Mastin]

A new EP this month and album in September aim to reveal the pop peacock's bleak side. But there is still room for sex-crazed furry animals....

 

Mika is preparing the follow-up to 2007's platinum-selling Life In Cartoon Motion, promising a "coming-of-age" album that marries eclectic, flamboyant pop with "dark" lyrical themes. As yet untitled, it's scheduled for release in September and will be prepared with a four track EP.

 

"The first record dealt with childhood", he says between sessions in Rocket Carousel Studios in Los Angeles. "This time I decided to age the world and characters I'd been writing about by 10 years. I wanted this record to sound like how I felt when I was 16 to 17 - sometimes it sounds big and out of control, other times it feels like a comfortable hug".

 

Having finished his world tour with a show in Lebanon, the singer songwriter began work on the album in London's Olympic Studios in June 2008, and began sketching a selection of "bleak fairy tales", some of which will be released on 25th May as the Songs For Sorrow EP.

 

"The lyrics are dark and emotional. There's a track called Toy Boy, which is about a toy that gets used and abused by different owners. I guess these songs are the antidote to my first album."

 

Despite the despondent lyrics, Mika's music remains decidedly flamboyant, inspired as it is by Disney soundtracks, '50s country starlet Patti Page and the hefty pop anthems of '80s artists such as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

 

"I wanted to make an unashamed pop record," he says. "I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own."

 

Mika moved into Rocket Carousel in September 2008, turning an album's worth of demos into polished tracks with Life In Cartoon Motion producer Greg Wells. The duo clearly had grand designs: Blame It On The Girls has Cuban pianos and a swaggering, hip-hop production, while We Are Golden bolts the Andrae Crouch choir (who sang Madonna's Like A Prayer) to a Pink Floyd-inspired groove.

 

With a world tour planned to promote the Songs For Sorrow EP this summer and a number of festival appearances already pencilled in, 2009 looks to be another busy year. However, the gimmicks and dancing bears that marked his first world tour are due for an overhaul.

 

"People thought I was putting on a kid's show," he says. "But really, the animals were inspired by a sexual craze called plushing - people getting dressed up in furry animal costumes and having sex with one another. My animals came on stage, hung out and started drinking. Then they had an orgy. But I don't care whether people get it or not. I'm a Marmite artist - people love me or hate me."

 

Track By Track

 

Blame It On The Girls

 

This sounds like No Doubt. It's about a wealthy, handsome boy who has everything, yet pretends to be miserable.

 

We are Golden

 

It's big sounding and aggressive, but in a good way. It's got a gospel choir on it and a kids choir, but unlike the first record, they are not singing sweetly, they're screaming on top of their lungs.

 

Rain

 

This is an unapologetic '80s pop record. I bumped into producer Stuart Prince while he was working with the Killers at Olympic Studios. He helped me program this. It reminded him of ABBA and Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

 

Toy Boy

 

This has a full orchestra, like a Disney soundtrack, but the lyrics are intense and dark. Toy Boy is full of twiddling flutes and lush strings, but the melody is very mechanic, like a music box.

Thanks for taking the trouble to copy the post. I had read it. The problem I have with magazine articles is that you can never be sure that the info is 100% correct. I'd just sooner hear it from Mika himself, then I know for certain it is all true.