Miro Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Great review! Thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mari62 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Photobucket was too slow so... http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4022/qmagazineoctober09mika0.jpg edit: http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/363/mikaqmag20002.jpg more in a min........ (are there others up already? I hadn't seen them) It is, really sums it up. Why is my screen name tauruslady, I'm so bored of it now http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/85/mikaqmag20005.jpg one more soon... Okay this is that last Mika related thing in Q. It's just a full page ad, I got excited and scanned. http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5985/mikaqmag20004.jpg thank you TL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveLove Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 That's my MIKA. :thumb_yello:I'm very very happy for him. Counting the days for TBWKTM. Have a super day everyone. "The Camp One Comes Up Pop Trumps Again" 4 stars = Excellent (out of 5) The artist know to his Mum as Michael Holbrook Penniman is a one off. Out he flounced two years ago singing songs about Grace Kelly and girls with big bums,ever likely to break into a ludicrous falsetto and comporting himself like a precocious Rufus Wainwright. There were many who considered him the spawn of satan and found his jolly camp as appealing as the contents of a sick bag.... Not that Mika should care. His debut album Life In Cartoon Motion found a home in nearly six Million households worldwide.So although the Lebanese-born kitsch conductor divided people in a way that say, Elbow do not, there were more than enough in his camp to make this second album an event. There were but two courses for Mika to take this time around.With the unfathonable reasoning that grips many successful but not acclaimed stars he could opt to woo the doubters with an austere new direction.Or he could continue to go about his buisness while at the same time suggsting an artistic development from the fun but flawed first record.Being no fool,there was little doubt which way Mika would head - and any that lingered will have been dispatched by the single and title track. A glam-pop storm of grand proportions,We Are Golden reintroduces that falsetto, utilises the services of not only one but two chiors and in all probability has had many a kitchen sink tossed at it to boot.No one driven to tears by Mika in the past will abide by it.For everyone else its a terrific return-the fact that it brings to mind both the gargantuan melodrama of a Jim Steinman production and a climatic High School Musical Show tune being but part of the appeal. Rightly it opens the album with a flourish and sets the tone for all that is to come. For while nothing as over-the-top follows,it serves notice of Mika's improved craft as a writer of great pop tunes and the degree to which he understands great pop:that is should be rendered in bold primary colours,get to the chorus before it bores us and in doing so provoke extreme reactions. On its heels (We are Golden) come two surefire hits: Blame It On The Girls (clipped piano, a rhythm track of clapping hands) and Rain, wherin Mika calls upon the services of Madonna collaborator Stuart Price to release his inner Madge by way of prime time Pet Shop Boys. If trimming a couple of the tracks that ensue would have made it a tighter record, nothing lets the side down either. There is a brace of power ballads that echo the grown up Take That (I See You,By The Time),vaudeville (Dr John), power pop (Touches You), much else that is giddily insistent and further fine songs in Blue Eyes, One Foot Boy (Prince when he was fun) and Pick Up Off The Floor, which could have belonged to Judy Garland. We get to know no more about Mika the man through any of this (the suggestion on Toy Boy that its protagonist maybe "better off with a Barbie Girl" is knowing - his sexuality remains otherwise off limits), and that too is very pop. But in writing and performing every note, and in so doing bringing to mind everything from George Michael and the Scissor Sisters to Madonna and the Pet Shop Boys in the flush of (relative) youth, he is undoubtedly a star of the old school - And A Rare One At That. Indie dullards are habitually applauded for their labours, pop stars with panache less so. Yet this is as bold, daring and vibrant an album as we'll hear this year. In any event, Mika is likely to have the last laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveLove Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 What does CAMP mean? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREDDIESDOUBLE Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 What does CAMP mean?Thanks Hmmmmmmm ...... female like in actions , soft not hard , a male but gentle .. ish ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FralovesMika Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Can anyone post here the link of the site to buy the signed copy of the album? I'm trying to convince my brother to buy it for my birthday xD Thanks in advance Bie ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREDDIESDOUBLE Posted August 25, 2009 Author Share Posted August 25, 2009 Can anyone post here the link of the site to buy the signed copy of the album? I'm trying to convince my brother to buy it for my birthday xD Thanks in advance Bie ;D http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/6791579/The-Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/Product.html There is a thread toooooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FralovesMika Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/6791579/The-Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/Product.html There is a thread toooooooo Thanks a lot Freddie do you also know if the 2cd deluxe edition of the album is signed too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREDDIESDOUBLE Posted August 25, 2009 Author Share Posted August 25, 2009 Thanks a lot Freddie do you also know if the 2cd deluxe edition of the album is signed too? No not as yet , I dont think it will be by the looks of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FralovesMika Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 No not as yet , I dont think it will be by the looks of it Ok thanks Freddie now i have to corrupt my brother Thanks a lot Bie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FralovesMika Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Ok thanks Freddie now i have to corrupt my brother Thanks a lot Bie Finallly corrumpt my brother he has preordered me the CD!!!! Can't wait to have it at my home ahahah so happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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