Fresh Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Mika - 'We Are Golden' Fraser McAlpine | 11:51 UK time, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 It would be so tempting to let this one slide. It's not like it's awful. You'd have to be a killjoy of epic proportions to take a bright and beautiful comedy butterfly of a song like this and stamp on it with heavy boots. You'd have to basically find the idea of having fun, of dancing about your bedroom in your pants like Mika does in the video, to be beneath you, because your mind is on higher things. You'd have to want to pull the plug on every social event in which music is played so that people could dance about and raise a healthy sweat. You'd have to be a huffbag, a bitter lemon, a lollipop-stealer, a grinch, a sourpuss, a balloon-popper, a bunting-burner, a COWELL, in other words. On the other hand...it is all a bit much, isn't it? (Here's the video. Mika is 26 years old.) It's a bit much that this can be boiled down into a one-sentence mission statement like Hollywood execs do with films. So where Alien was famously reduced down to "Jaws - in space", this is "Meat Loaf presents 'Walking On Broken Glass' by Annie Lennox". It's a bit much that this song demands so much of the listener. You have to let yourself get swept up in the glorious brilliance, or it doesn't work at all, then you have to let preposterous thing after preposterous thing go without raising so much as a murmur of complaint. These include: A grown man singing about a teenage circus, the swoops into falsetto, being hammered over the head by the West End musical theatre production, the way he says the word "golden" as if he is Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, the defensive lyrics - pre-empting criticism by claiming to live for "glitter, not you", the total lack of that thing people call The Cool, and the worrying realisation that it might not be as important as everyone thought...there's a lot to forgive. And you HAVE to do it, or you're a grouch. It does help that the middle eight, the only bit of the song which doesn't churn the same soft-rock riff around and around, is rather grand. But every enjoyable moment comes at a price. The yelling in the back of your head is not another stage-school showoff giving it the junior banshee, it's your musical conscience being repeatedly kicked in the stomach. But apart from that, CHOON! Download: Out now CD Released: September 7th http://www.mikasounds.com BBC Music page (Fraser McAlpine) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chartblog/2009/09/mika_we_are_golden.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinghorse83 Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 interesting! lol. they make mika sound like a bit of a dweeb, which i dont like but T4P! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika4Life13 Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Wow, maybe if the people that wrote this article didn't get so off topic and confusing about things that don't even pertain to the matter I would actually taken what they said to heart. But I have no clue what they're going on about 3 stars out of 5 is all I understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickadee Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Oooh, bit harsh isn't it. And they make it sound like a bad thing that the song demands all those things of you:mf_rosetinted: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinghorse83 Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Wow, maybe if the people that wrote this article didn't get so off topic and confusing about things that don't even pertain to the matter I would actually taken what they said to heart. But I have no clue what they're going on about 3 stars out of 5 is all I understand. it was a little lost in translation huh, i think they were trying to make themselves look extremely smart Oooh, bit harsh isn't it. And they make it sound like a bad thing that the song demands all those things of you:mf_rosetinted: the song only demands things if you let it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickadee Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 it was a little lost in translation huh, i think they were trying to make themselves look extremely smart the song only demands things if you let it :roftl: Like a toddler, hey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiza Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 (Here's the video. Mika is 26 years old.) It's a bit much that this can be boiled down into a one-sentence mission statement like Hollywood execs do with films. So where Alien was famously reduced down to "Jaws - in space", this is "Meat Loaf presents 'Walking On Broken Glass' by Annie Lennox". It's a bit much that this song demands so much of the listener. You have to let yourself get swept up in the glorious brilliance, or it doesn't work at all, then you have to let preposterous thing after preposterous thing go without raising so much as a murmur of complaint. These include: A grown man singing about a teenage circus, the swoops into falsetto, being hammered over the head by the West End musical theatre production, the way he says the word "golden" as if he is Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, the defensive lyrics - pre-empting criticism by claiming to live for "glitter, not you", the total lack of that thing people call The Cool, and the worrying realisation that it might not be as important as everyone thought...there's a lot to forgive. And you HAVE to do it, or you're a grouch. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chartblog/2009/09/mika_we_are_golden.shtml and why shouldnt you let yourelf get swept up in the glorious brilliance?? t4p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beauty Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 the total lack of that thing people call The Cool, and the worrying realisation that it might not be as important as everyone thought...there's a lot to forgive. And you HAVE to do it, or you're a grouch. Ooohh nooooez he doezn't have the coooooolz!! *head desk* Some people just don't get what Mika's about, which is fair enough, but don't let them anywhere near his music with a mission to review it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mari62 Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 t4p! he doesn't seem to like WAG well.... marmite.... either love it or hate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Angel Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Thx for posting! I really donno what to say right now except for 3 out of 5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soaring Simpson Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I think it's a great review! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessa Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I think it's a great review! Me too ! But why only 3 stars ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sienna Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Oooh, bit harsh isn't it. And they make it sound like a bad thing that the song demands all those things of you:mf_rosetinted: That’s funny, because I’ll gladly be up for it! Ooohh nooooez he doezn't have the coooooolz!! *head desk* Some people just don't get what Mika's about, which is fair enough, but don't let them anywhere near his music with a mission to review it! Have I told you lately that I love you? Great comment! I think it's a great review! In its own peculiar way it actually is! The writer had to make sure we didn’t think he would just take it to his heart without making clever comments and in that way show the more intellectual part of his potential readers that: Yeah, it’s good but in these conditions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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