More praise for Mika (Daily Telegraph)

[silver]

Neil McCormick, the critic from the Daily Telegraph who gave Mika's iTunes gig at the Roundhouse a 5-star review, has written an article about the revival of 80s pop. The whole article is worth a read, but here's what he has to say about Mika:

 

The roots of this contemporary pop revival lie in the “wonky pop” scene of recent years. It was scruffy pop music with indie adult appeal, although it took the breakaway success of Mika to really put a rocket up the genre.

 

Flamboyant, unashamedly commercial and seriously musically gifted, Mika may be the most talented pop star of his generation, his camp theatricality and operatic soul making him a one man cross between Culture Club and Wham!, a kind of Boy George Michael. Record companies always like to see hits before they follow with investment and this year they have embraced outright pop with a vengeance.

 

 

You can read the whole article here:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/5978573/La-Roux-Lady-Gaga-Mika-Little-Boots-the-80s-are-back.html

[suzie]

This one has already been posted, but thanks anyway:wink2:

[Christine]

Here's the original thread:

 

http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19203

 

Going to close this one up now.