Mika a des goûts de luxe !

[greta]

Le disque est en crise, alors les chanteurs se tournent vers les concerts, et les festivals, pour mettre du beurre dans leurs épinards.

Ainsi Mika, aurait demandé, selon Le Parisien, un cachet astronomique de 350 000 euros.

Alors que le chanteur anglo-libanais de 24 ans, refuse de céder à la pression de sa maison de disques, Universal, pour préparer son deuxième album rapidement, il accepte l’argent que lui tend le Main Square Festival d’Arras.

Mika demande ainsi la même somme que Ben Harper, tandis que le groupe Radiohead sera payé 400 000 euros pour sa prestation.

Mika sera au Festival d’Arras, dans le Pas-de-Calais, le 5 juillet, au grand bonheur de ses fans.

 

http://www.purepeople.com/8215-Mika-a-des-gouts-de-luxe-.html

 

a new record doesn't pay as gigs?

Let's see next year...I'm a bit tired of listening always the same songs

[sienna]

What does it mean?

 

I don't know French!

 

 

[rilo8913]

It's basically saying that Mika wouldn't yield to the pressure his record company's putting on him to release his second album quickly despite what large sum of money they would offer him. However, he will accept 350,000 euros to play the Main Square Festival in Arras on July 5 (which is the same sum they're paying Ben Harper, it says). Oh, and the title means that Mika has a taste for luxury. .....(any native speakers, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about any of that )

[level28]

It's basically saying that Mika wouldn't yield to the pressure his record company's putting on him to release his second album quickly despite what large sum of money they would offer him. However, he will accept 350,000 euros to play the Main Square Festival in Arras on July 5 (which is the same sum they're paying Ben Harper, it says). .....(any native speakers, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong )

 

No no it's good! That's what it says

They add that Radiohead will be payed 400 000€.

There's sth I don't understand though : first they say "he asked" (the amount of money) then they say "he accepted"

 

Do you think he asked for more money than he was supposed to be payed?

 

And thanks Greta for posting

[sienna]

Thanks Rilo!

[Blue Sky]

I think the words "un cachet astronomique" convey a certain.... je ne sais quoi about the sum he is being paid...they seem to transcend language boundaries...

 

 

and a quick xe.com calculation puts that figure at

$540,156.80USD

 

 

Probably enough to cover the plane tickets, the band, the hotel and food and drinks, wouldn't you say? With change left?:roftl:

 

 

GO MIKA!!

[Louiza]

 

Probably enough to cover the plane tickets, the band, the hotel and food and drinks, wouldn't you say? With change left?:roftl:

 

you're so right:roftl:

[Droopsy]

No no it's good! That's what it says

They add that Radiohead will be payed 400 000€.

There's sth I don't understand though : first they say "he asked" (the amount of money) then they say "he accepted"

 

Do you think he asked for more money than he was supposed to be payed?

 

And thanks Greta for posting

 

Hmmm, I don't understand that radiohead "only" gets 50 000 euros more than Mika... Not to say I don't like Mika ofcourse But if he gets paid that much I would expect them to get a whole lot more... I mean, they've been going for way longer and have a huge fanbase... oh well. I actually can't begin to understand how much money that is