Mika at German Radio stations 21.?+22.7.09

[larenaldise]

thank you very much!!!! it'd be soooo kind of u!!

 

 

but i'm still SUPER confused... so, when did this interview take place??? was anyone of us able to listen to it LIVE??? how abt that questionnaire and that prisoner pic???? are they the same??????

 

many questions, sori... but anyone plz??:blink:

 

this interview was recorded the 21st july and was broadcasted on 22nd on wdr!!!you can find a link for download the interview + WAG and everybody's talking on member audio section

the questionnaire and the prisoner pic was on another radio "eins" yesterday afternoon!!!

[mariposa]

I'm at it (the transcript)....takes quite sme time...but you'll have it. Be patient :wink2:

[huikings]

this interview was recorded the 21st july and was broadcasted on 22nd on wdr!!!you can find a link for download the interview + WAG and everybody's talking on member audio section

the questionnaire and the prisoner pic was on another radio "eins" yesterday afternoon!!!

 

 

ohoh so we hv altogether 2 German interviews so far..

 

1. his voice is covered by a female translator = questionnaire + prisoner pic = eins

 

2. his voice is covered by a male translator = video + acoustic WAG = wdr2

 

 

am i right??

 

THANK YOU VERY MUCH dear

[mari62]

Here are my recordings of Radio Hamburg from yesterday (good quality)

couldn't post them sooner as my internet connection was down

 

Everybody's Talking http://www.sendspace.com/file/irprva

 

WAG acoustic: http://www.sendspace.com/file/v8lvsj

 

Complete interview with songs: http://www.sendspace.com/file/t128ut

 

sorry I'm not able to cut the ads in-between

I'd be grateful if someone could do it for me

[dcdeb]

this interview was recorded the 21st july and was broadcasted on 22nd on wdr!!!you can find a link for download the interview + WAG and everybody's talking on member audio section

the questionnaire and the prisoner pic was on another radio "eins" yesterday afternoon!!!

 

I'm trying to update the front page with the interviews and videos, etc. so

let me see if I understand correctly.

 

The WDR video was taken the 21st? And which city is WDR then? Hamburg?

 

Do we have anything from Munich yet? I've been trying to keep up with all

of this but the time difference is killing me! LOL!

[sm09]

this interview was recorded the 21st july and was broadcasted on 22nd on wdr!!!you can find a link for download the interview + WAG and everybody's talking on member audio section

the questionnaire and the prisoner pic was on another radio "eins" yesterday afternoon!!!

 

Where is the "member audio section"?

[violet_sky]

He's Jean-Baptiste Grenouille!

 

And he likes illustration :fangurl:

[violet_sky]

And OMG OMG OMG! :fangurl:

 

 

I love that song!

[avoca]

He's Jean-Baptiste Grenouille!

 

And he likes illustration :fangurl:

 

omg!!!!! did you say grenouille??!! benji!! yes yes yes!! a dream come true!!

 

sorry, I have the softiest spot for ben whishaw.

[willywonka]

Here are my recordings of Radio Hamburg from yesterday (good quality)

couldn't post them sooner as my internet connection was down

 

Everybody's Talking http://www.sendspace.com/file/irprva

 

WAG acoustic: http://www.sendspace.com/file/v8lvsj

 

Complete interview with songs: http://www.sendspace.com/file/t128ut

 

sorry I'm not able to cut the ads in-between

I'd be grateful if someone could do it for me

 

T4P

 

Third link is not working for me marina...

[mari62]

T4P

 

Third link is not working for me marina...

it works for me Carla maybe you have to wait a little bit - try again

 

pls let me know otherwise I'll upload it again

[sariflor]

Here are my recordings of Radio Hamburg from yesterday (good quality)

couldn't post them sooner as my internet connection was down

 

Everybody's Talking http://www.sendspace.com/file/irprva

 

WAG acoustic: http://www.sendspace.com/file/v8lvsj

 

Complete interview with songs: http://www.sendspace.com/file/t128ut

 

sorry I'm not able to cut the ads in-between

I'd be grateful if someone could do it for me

 

 

Thank you, thank you! Mine was crappy quality so I am looking forward to yours

[Dark Angel]

Does anybody have the WDR2 interview?

[Louiza]

Thanks a billion Mellody for this 3d and everyone for infos, links, downloads, pics!

Have you seen this vid?

Anyone able to download it?

scroll down page

 

http://www.wdr.de/radio/wdr2/westzeit/524707.phtml

 

 

 

http://www.wdr.de/radio/wdr2/bildergalerie/index.phtml?gal=1896&kap=0&img=0

 

wow what a great vid! that is the best of the german interviews

 

we must find a way to download this

 

thanks so much marina for posting

[Neiobi]

Holy cr*p...

I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with all these interviews, it's the first time for me as came in here a bit late:shocked:

I hate how the man is speaking so loudly over Mika in that interview, I know it's for translating etc etc, but I find it so annoying and tiring to focus on just Mika's voice that I had to stop for a while:aah:

*stops whining* I love those pics though:wub2:

Oh but I hate how those radio stations aren't telling fans here that are asking where he will be. I'm really thankful for the work you're putting into it though, thanks guys:wub2:

[mariposa]

As promised, here's my transcript of the WDR2 Video available here http://www.wdr.de/radio/wdr2/westzeit/524707.phtml

I hope it helps.

 

Woman: WDR2 – the "Westzeit", Thursday noon, and we’re having a visitor, a good-looking one. A talented, nice man came to see us. And up til now we know of him more when singing than when speaking so today it is gonna be different – Welcome in Northe rhine-Westphalia (German land).

 

Mika: hello, how are you doing?

 

Woman: So, we’re gonna start with a fact sheet. Full name

 

Mika: My full name? Ohh, that’s not nice (?)...my name is Mika.

 

Woman: Age?

 

Mika: H stands for...ahm...I’ve never said what H stands for...actually it’s Holbrook

 

(translator: no the age (in German), woman: in any case not 30 yet, Mika carries on about his name LOL )

 

Mika: And, but, you know what, my real name, my legal name is Michael. But ever since i was a little boy, since my father’s also called Michael, my mother decided that i would be called Mika. I used to live in Paris and people called my Michaél. So that’s how the abreviations came about. When I was six months my mum started calling my Mika because my mum didn’t like the name Michael.

 

Woman: What languages do you speak?

 

Mika: I speak English, French, and some Spanish, and my German is terrible, I studied German at school for 2 years.

 

(so waht about Arab Mika???)

 

woman: What do you remeber in German?

 

Mika: I actually only remember Goethe poetry, the lyrics I had to learn for these German lieder. I was at uni studying music, and already studied music as a child, sand that’s why i remeber this. It’s all pretty useless what i remeber, it’s classical things, I’m completely lost if I have to order coffee for example.

 

Woman: What are your hobbies apart from music?

 

Mika: Ahm, I like to draw, I actually, I love illustration, I like theatre, but I guess I’m a musiscian because i like theatre. That’s how it all started. Even as a kid I already liked theatre. There are many strange things that i like to do. Well, I collect scents.

 

Woman: Ok.

 

Mika: Yeah, but they’re not all good smells. I have about 140 little bottles at home – all filled with different scents. They don’t all contain good smells like oils or flowers, but also things like tarmac or plastic. I think it’s very intersting and I don’t know why. I have the same attitudes towards music. It’s jsut all abou memories. I think music as just as interesting as scents.

 

Woman: Then I’ll invite you to come to our open-plan office at 30 degrees (celcius). There you’ll get to know many scnets/smells. Your favourite place to live?

 

Mika: My favourite place to live is London. However, that would be my kind of base. I’m looking somewhere to have my own house.

 

Woman: the most important single for you?

 

Mika: Ahm, it would probably be...

 

Woman. That takes a long time...

 

Mika: It’s hard. It’s gonna be something pop. As a single you mean?

 

Woman: One of yours.

 

Mika: One of mine? No, I’m not gonna talk about my music. You know what? Unashamedly pop. Either ahm “Like a prayer” or something like “When dogs cry” by Prince.

 

Woman. So alegedly your vocal ranges is 5 octaves. What’s the deepest note you can sing?

 

Mika: I suppose my octaves are not 5 octaves. Then I’d by just like the alien from the Fifth element. It’s more than normal men’s. But my lowest tone...Well, I was actaully singing baritone when I was a t uni.

 

Woman: Give us a demonstration of your lowest tone.

 

Mika: Noooo. It’s probably like that bit. (in a deep voice)

 

Woman: And the highest note?

 

Mika: I don’t know (in a high-pitched voice). Well actually, I sing just like I speak Ahhhhhhh...

 

Woman: One of our listeners once wrote:”When Mika is singing my tooth inlays are falling out!” What do you think about that?

 

Mika: I don’t know if that’s an insult or if it’s a very starnge compliment. Or this person schould go and get a better dentist.

 

Woman: Of course he’s not here without a piano. We have goten the special Mika piano so that he can play. The current new single “We are golden”. Mika unplugged now here at WDR2.

 

(Mika and Martin playing WAG)

 

woman: WAG unplugged performed live by Mika here at our studio. If you listeners at home wanna know how this man looks like: dark curls, dark eyes, a shirt, white pants, dark trainers

 

Mika: awww, look at my shoes.

 

Woman: Wow! Now what kind of shoes are that? They do look dangerous. There are spikes.

 

Mika: They’re the only ones in the world. And the shoemaker from France made me these shoes for dancing. Danging shoes so that I could stand on the points. But he now does have different models. He usually only makes shoes fro women. But now he’s thinking about selling men’s shoes, too. I think it’s pretty cool what he’s doing. That he’s now selling shoes that were originally designed for me.

Edited July 23, 2009 by mariposa

[mariposa]

Woman: What is that figure around your neck?

 

Mika: It’s from a Begian designer. His name is Walther van Berendonk (?). And this is a self-portrait of him. He gave this to me as a self-portrait. And these are prayer perls. I f you wish for something or if you’re praying you hag one of these things on the necklace. Unfortunatelly I have only one here. But at home I have a whole box of them.

 

Woman: He does have a lot. He also has a second album out soon. The first one was sold 6 million times. Mika, for doing this second album you had taken an apartment in LA, terminated the tenacy for your flat in London, but then your mum interferred. You shouldn’t make it that easy for yourself. What did she wanna say with that?

 

Mika: Well, actually when I wrote the album in London, it’s been about 6 months, I was at a studio composing. And just like it was for the first album I took a flight to LA to finish it over there. I had the same team for the production. But I didn’t wanna live in the same apartment. I was on tour for two years and a half, it all worked well and then I was telling myself that I could now yet me something really nice in LA since I was about to live there for 6 months, so I wanted to live there comfortably. I found a very good-looking house, very nice, it had a small garden, a lovely neighbourhood, it had 3 or 4 bedrooms so all my friends could come and visit me. I was very happy with the situation. Two days before I left to LA my mother found out about this without me knowing. And she normally doesn’t do things like that. But she cancelled absolutelly everything without me knowing. And so I was back in the same apartment as for the first album. She knows I’m so superstitious. And she put a little speell on me. She said the more money you spend on the second album adn for yourself while doing this album the worse it is gonna be. And when this was stuck on my head for once I mean, yeah, I started doing the other extreme.

 

Woman: What influence does your mum have on you?

 

Mika: Well, you know I think she had had a lot of influence on me as a kid. When I was younger. I’m a musician since the age of 12. I was thrown out of school and I had a lot of academic difficulties at school. So when I left school I didn’t really know what I could do and what I wanted to do. My education was a desaster. My formation, too. So my mother told the government, the local council, that I wasn’t going to school for nice months and then she taught me things a t home. And I worked a lot with my Russian singing teacher. So that’s when I started learnig about music. Every day I was 3 or 4 hours with my mum and I additionally studies music. It was very difficult but I made it. Then, I waent again to school and i had my first job at the Royal Opera house singing a Strauss opera. So it was good that my mother was there. She saw that I needed something. Otherwise I would have enede up as a complete mess. She thought if she didn’t do anything now I would be a complete chaotic person, she thought I could either do something special or end up in jail, nothing in between.

 

Woman: Up til now you still got your family around you, even now you’re a popstar. All of your siblings are working with you. What are they doing?

 

Mika: My siblings, we all work together. Well, not all. One of my sisters does all of the art work, and the graphics or illustrations and draws me things for the album. My other one is a stylist. She also does some PR work for me. The other two are actually at school. The one is studying fashion in China, and the other one is gonna ba an architect. So it’s actually a mix. But I like being around my siblings. Everybody thinks that if yours working with your siblings it’s peaceful and happy, like a family. But in fact it’s quite cruel. We’re arguing a lot and I guess we’re even arguing every single day. But it’s very honest. And this honesty is very healthy in a job situation such as mine.

 

Woman: You seem to be a very grounded person, apart from your shoes. Do you think that is important to be successful as a popstar?

 

Mika: Yeah, my shoes. They are the only ones in the world.

 

Woman: Is ist important to be grounded as a popstar, to be successful?

 

Mika: Actually I’m so cheap I would never ever buy these shoes. These are custom-made shoes by Christian Louboutin. And shoes by him are like 10.000 euros. And I’d never in a million years spend so much money on shoes. That’s crazy. But since he’s friends with me they’re free. So it’s fine.

 

Woman: But being grounded and a bit cheap, of what importance are these characteristics to be successful in the long run as a musician?

 

Mika: Oh, I don’t know. That’s difficult to say. I don’t know what other musicians do. But I know that I came from a kind of place where there was no place for me in pop music. No place for me on radio. So i decided that if I was gonna make it with my own music, i would do it in my own way. That I would have to do it 100% the way I could do it. I was in my own bubble. But I had the faith and the strenghth to keep to my ideals. I wasn’t alone. I knew that there would be people who would understand me. And it seems to have worked til now. I mean I’m down to the ground but then again I’m not. I kind of bubble myself. I guess the most important thing is to always respect the crafts of songwriting. And I think in the morning when you wake up, and no matter how big the show is, to sit down the next day, have breakfast and write a song. There’s nothing that would make this process more human. I’m very difficult to work with. If you asked people who worked with me they’d probably say that I’m the worst (musician) they have ever met or else they’ll stay with me/work with me for years. There’s nothing in between. And most of them stay with me for a very long time. And I prefer that. That’s my favourite method.

 

Woman: Mika has been very nice here in our studio. Not very hard to talk to. And because he was the first celb to have taken a pic of me I’ll give hime a present in exchange. A personal gift, a conditioner for curly hair. From us.

 

Mika: Thank you very very much.

Woman: And in return I would like you to sign this WDR2 collection cup with this nice pen,,,

 

Mika: I haven’t washed my hair in about three weeks.

 

Woman: but your hair is still looking good. It’s a bit shiny, now I know why.

 

Mika: Yes, they are shiny. It washes itself.

 

Woman: If you sign this WDR2 cup we will make a draw tomorrow in WDR2’s morning show. The listeners will be happy.

 

Mika: Alright. Sure.

 

Woman: Draw something nice. You seem to be a creavtive person. We wish you all the best with your album and your music. Stay the way you are. It’s fun with you. Thank you, Mika.

Edited July 23, 2009 by mariposa

[mellody]

waited at br3 together with awine (sarah) from german forum for 3 hours, then someone texted me that mika had been there already, interview won't be live but aired tonight.

on our way back to the station, we passed by the hotel that is directly next to the station and i looked and said to sarah - that guy sitting there on the hotel terrace in the cafe, is that mika?! and she said yes it is... at that moment i wanted to run away and not disturb him, she wanted to go to him, so we just stood there and argued, when he saw me and waved. i waved back but he was on the phone, so we didn't go there but just sat on a stone in a distance and waited til he was finished - then he waved us to come over. we talked for a few mins, i posted the most important stuff on twitter (twitter.com/mellody76). can't post the details now, no time, will do so tonight.

[robertina]

oh you lucky bunny!!!

 

your constance has been rewarded

[mariposa]

The WDR video was taken the 21st? And which city is WDR then? Hamburg?

 

WDR is Cologne/Köln, just live the EinsLive.

 

waited at br3 together with awine (sarah) from german forum for 3 hours, then someone texted me that mika had been there already, interview won't be live but aired tonight.

on our way back to the station, we passed by the hotel that is directly next to the station and i looked and said to sarah - that guy sitting there on the hotel terrace in the cafe, is that mika?! and she said yes it is... at that moment i wanted to run away and not disturb him, she wanted to go to him, so we just stood there and argued, when he saw me and waved. i waved back but he was on the phone, so we didn't go there but just sat on a stone in a distance and waited til he was finished - then he waved us to come over. we talked for a few mins, i posted the most important stuff on twitter (twitter.com/mellody76). can't post the details now, no time, will do so tonight.

 

Awesome! Can't wait to read your whole story tonight!

[Dark Angel]

waited at br3 together with awine (sarah) from german forum for 3 hours, then someone texted me that mika had been there already, interview won't be live but aired tonight.

on our way back to the station, we passed by the hotel that is directly next to the station and i looked and said to sarah - that guy sitting there on the hotel terrace in the cafe, is that mika?! and she said yes it is... at that moment i wanted to run away and not disturb him, she wanted to go to him, so we just stood there and argued, when he saw me and waved. i waved back but he was on the phone, so we didn't go there but just sat on a stone in a distance and waited til he was finished - then he waved us to come over. we talked for a few mins, i posted the most important stuff on twitter (twitter.com/mellody76). can't post the details now, no time, will do so tonight.

 

aawwwww thats great. Lucky you

[sienna]

Not that I'm complaining or anything, far from it, but imagine trying to understand when two people are talking at the same time in two different foreign languages!

I think I got the most of it though!

 

Thank you Mariposa for the transcript!

[mari62]

waited at br3 together with awine (sarah) from german forum for 3 hours, then someone texted me that mika had been there already, interview won't be live but aired tonight.

on our way back to the station, we passed by the hotel that is directly next to the station and i looked and said to sarah - that guy sitting there on the hotel terrace in the cafe, is that mika?! and she said yes it is... at that moment i wanted to run away and not disturb him, she wanted to go to him, so we just stood there and argued, when he saw me and waved. i waved back but he was on the phone, so we didn't go there but just sat on a stone in a distance and waited til he was finished - then he waved us to come over. we talked for a few mins, i posted the most important stuff on twitter (twitter.com/mellody76). can't post the details now, no time, will do so tonight.

awww!! you're really lucky mika wise!

Can't wait to read more!

Any idea what time they will air the interview?

 

Thank you so much for the transcript Mariposa!!

gonna print and read it!

[violet_sky]

Not that I'm complaining or anything, far from it, but imagine trying to understand when two people are talking at the same time in two different foreign languages!

I think I got the most of it though!

 

Thank you Mariposa for the transcript!

 

It's so annoying. And it seems to happen only in Germany. So strange, I hated this two years ago already with the last promo tour

But I have to say that this interpreter got most of what Mika said right. And this is by far not always the case with these people. I had watched bits of the MJ obsequies on German tv. They had the interpreter from hell.

I remember once having watched a talk show with someone who had a certain ressemblance to Eminem. Another guest mentioned that ('oh, you look like Eminem'), what the interpreter said in German was 'oh, you look like m&ms'. And then, probably feeling that he just said something extremely weird he thought he'd better explain on top of it: 'you know, those little chocolate drops'.

 

That was really

[Neiobi]

Mellody, that's great! You're quite lucky, and I'm glad you got to talk to him.

And thanks Mariposa for the transcript, really useful:wub2: