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What a lovely documentary!!! I love the format of it... touring his life etc. then ending with footage of a gig-- it was the perfect combination of his personal life and his beautiful shows and really highlighted how much he loves what he does!

 

I also love his family :) Yasmine is so cute, and they are so cute together! And lastly, Jimmy's little dance down the hallway at 12:50 made me laugh :roftl:

 

 

I absolutely agree with you! Such a lovely doc! :wub2:

You can see how much the makers actually do appreciate his work and are fascinated by the little world Mika created.

 

Loved hearing Mika's mum talking French!

I also loved the little things you just pointed out.

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Unfortunately, the vimeo link has been deleted.   Here is the new link, you can watch and download the video.   MEGA https://mega.nz/file/49EHUYpa#8m8orP7NZ9XSeLiOv2aFmLrF85uiYgV7jw

Mikaleyshialicious

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THE END:

 

Tonight, Mika is on stage, on the biggest stage in Vienna. He has done more than 1000 concerts in four years and he still can't believe it.

In Japan, we are going to do 4 concerts in a few weeks, and in Seoul we are going to do the Olympic room. That's cool, it astonishes me.

As always, the concert is sold out. 5000 fans will be there in a few hours. Always paying attention to every detail, Mika regulates the lighting himself.

speaks english (very sexy accent:) )

The family is never far away, backstage, Jasmine prepares the costumes of YOUUUU all:)

A few moments before the concert, last moment of concentration.

Self confident, Mika just has a little apprehention

 

I: you discover an audience tonight?

M: Yes for the first time and I don't know how they gonna be: maybe formal, maybe silent (as if?!??!!:) )

 

But soon after the first notes of one of his hits, the fear goes away. Mika is raging (positive meaning) and involves the audience. Tonight, it's a huge inflatable leg that he throws in the audience. The little dyslexic boy who used to tell himself stories with his piano is forgotten (is he?). Mika has become a stage animal who shares his universe with thousands of fans.

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Thank you Lucrezia for letting me know where to find the vid.:thumb_yello:

Thank you Camille & Mikaleyschialicious for the translations.:thumb_yello:

Thank you mf22392 for the snaps.:thumb_yello:

It is always so much fun & very enjoyable when I (we) get excited about an upcoming Mika Event & it always turns out to be better than I can imagine & anticipate.

Love it! Love it! Love it!

Now I have to go watch it all again.

 

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So here is the whole translation (so you don't need to search for the different parts) by Camille and myself:

 

This morning, Mika has a meeting in the London suburbs to prepare his next tour. This tall lanky young man wasn't able to sell his songs just 4 years ago. Today, he can afford the George Lucas studio, a huge warehouse created for the making of Star Wars. 30 meters under the ceiling, and a team made of 25 people working hard. A lot of resources at the service of the unbridled imagination of this new pop star.

 

Mika : It's cool, we're having fun.

Interviewer : It's impressive.

M: Yes it's not bad. Here are my planets. The thing with my planets is that they are totally white, but when you put UV light on them, you realise they're entirely painted like planets with craters and stuff.

 

More than a planet, it's a universe that Mika managed to impose with a few hits, like Relax, take it easy, a chorus that went all around the world. A coloured and childish style, a high pitched voice and above all a rhythm which irresistibly makes you want to dance. This is Mika's trademark.

 

In only 3 years, he has already sold 8 million albums. Michael Penniman, aka Mika, is an exceptionally talented 26 year old man. Songwriter and singer, he takes care of everything, including costumes and set for his next tour. Everything is made in this warehouse. This is where he feels the best. In the core of this princesses and dragons world coming out of his imagination.

 

M : I love it. This is like a big fluff, but it's a tree, decorated with a small lion, leaves, hearts, clocks, which is all my universe's language.

I: You look like a child discovering his toys.

M: They're my toys for the next 4 months.

 

A big boy who dreams in the middle of his toys, and who hasn't completely cut the umbilical cord (Sorry it's a French idiom, meaning he's not totally independent)

 

M : Here are my mother and my sister making the stuffing for my Toy Boy.

 

At the back of the room, it is indeed Mum, professional costume maker, making him a giant doll, with Paloma and Jasmine, his two big sisters. Mika has always been protected by the women in his family.

 

M: And here is my man! He's great isn't he? My mother made it.

 

I: Does your son give you a lot of work?

 

Mrs P : A little bit.

 

Paloma : He needs us so that everything works.

 

M: I need help.

 

Mrs P: He has always been the same. He has always been mad like this. He has always wanted huge dolls and always wanted to create fantasy since he was a child. He's the same as before.

 

Mika's childhood is first of all an incredible crossbreeding. Half Lebanese from his mother, half American from his father, he grew up in Paris before settling in England.

 

M: I'm a percentage of all these countries, and not only one country.

I : Is that an asset?

M : It is an asset, but it can maybe give some identity complex. For a musician, it is not a problem, it gives us personality, it helps.

 

Mika still lives at his parents', in Kensington, a rich district in London. He lives in the basement of the family house. Mika sleeps, works and composes in these 50m². We could believe we are in one of his music videos, a small tangy world, populated with multicoloured objects, like these Mexican figurines, or this collector bike from the 40s.

 

M : I collect. I'm always collecting things. For example, I found these masks in China, and they don't really look like anything, but when you put them on, they become something..

 

Excentric Mika, and to find the evidence of it, you just need to go to his wardrobe, and have a look at all his shoes.

 

M: It's probably not even a quarter of all the shoes I have. I have a lot more shoes. And, I don't know, I think they are really pretty, so they're not worth putting in a suitcase.

 

I: Are they shoes for the stage or do you also wear them on the streets?

 

M: In the streets too, of course. Not these ones, no. I am not going to go to the supermarket wearing these.

 

In all those collections, there is also inheritance from his childhood. French music discs, in which he finds a part of his inspiration.

 

M: I grew up with songs by Moustaki, Barbara, Aznavour, Gainsbourg, France Gall.. When I'm sad and I need to be alone and listen to some music, I always listen to French music.

 

Moments when he is down, because in Mika's past there are also some cracks. At 10, he becomes dyslexic. Failing at school, he shuts down on himself and takes refuge in music. His best friend is then this piano, that he always keeps preciously in his living room.

 

M: This is the piano that we had in our flat in Paris. It is very cheap, it is totally broken. I wanted to play the piano but because I was dyslexic, I am dyslexic, I couldn't read notes, so if I wanted to play something I had to make up melodies. And this is how it started. I made melodies up.

 

Mika has developed his own way of composing music.

 

M : I stand in front of it and I think about a story. So it can start for example with...(plays) There are imaginary movies in my head. So I think of a short scenario and on the piano I am writing the music. And then I write a song on it. 'Blue eyes'

 

An experienced pianist, with an exceptional voice which covers 3 octaves and a half. Mika has chosen his career since he was 12. His family followed him. Today they still work together. It's with his sister Jasmine that he prepares the presentation book for his next tour.

 

Photos, illustrations and even mannequins, everything is home made

showing photos of painted people

M: that's my brother, Fortuné, who is currently studying architecture. He's 18. Those are all friends from his class.

Everybody participates, but in the end, it's Mika who decides

Mika and Jasmine talking in english

 

Mika has his eyes on everything. For the people close to him, it's not always easy to compose(?) with his exigent, as well as phantasque (a lot of phantasiy) personality.

J: We really want to offer the people who buy this photos that they can not access that easily. It's not ... (sees Mika with his very nice and serious looking mask)

interviewer: Isn't he to difficult to handle the little brother?

J: oh no, very easy

I: Do you have arguments sometimes?

M: Constantly, we often have arguments

J: I was going to say no

M: Liar! You are lying now. You are lying you are lying, just like your concealer (make up to hide the rings under the eyes... dunno if that is a concealer...) you are lying.

 

Mika likes to have the last word, in his family as in his career.

In the beginning, no recording company would accept this song. It was labelled as too shifted (not matching the times we are in) and not formatted enough.

 

VIENNA

Stubborn, he refuses to change his style (note for myself: luckilyyyy) and makes himself known on the internet. The success is immediate. Since then, he tours all over the world. Two weeks ago, he was in Vienna, Austria. Promotion, non stopping interviews in big/nice hotels is everyday life.

 

M: It get's slightly annoying if it's the 10th time in the same hotel but no it is pleasant we cannot complain

I: Lassitude?

M: Not yet, but maybe in an hour

 

Mika plays the game with his eternal cocktail of elegance and professionalism.

He has even learnt some words in german (sorry but he does not speak german there:) ) for the occasion

 

Mika speaks austrian (I think)

But the ? teen isn't always far away and when the journalist takes his guitar out, Mika sings with him

Too bad for his press attachés who get impatient because other journalists are waiting. Mika, for himself, is having fun

 

 

Tonight, Mika is on stage, on the biggest stage in Vienna. He has done more than 1000 concerts in four years and he still can't believe it.

In Japan, we are going to do 4 concerts in a few weeks, and in Seoul we are going to do the Olympic room. That's cool, it astonishes me.

As always, the concert is sold out. 5000 fans will be there in a few hours. Always paying attention to every detail, Mika regulates the lighting himself.

speaks english (very sexy accent:) )

The family is never far away, backstage, Jasmine prepares the costumes of YOUUUU all:)

A few moments before the concert, last moment of concentration.

Self confident, Mika just has a little apprehention

 

I: you discover an audience tonight?

M: Yes for the first time and I don't know how they gonna be: maybe formal, maybe silent (as if?!??!!:) )

 

But soon after the first notes of one of his hits, the fear goes away. Mika is raging (positive meaning) and involves the audience. Tonight, it's a huge inflatable leg that he throws in the audience. The little dyslexic boy who used to tell himself stories with his piano is forgotten (is he?). Mika has become a stage animal who shares his universe with thousands of fans.

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thanx for the video and for the translations! :thumb_yello:

 

the stuff he says in german (german and austrian are more or less the same, just a different accent and a few different words - you could compare it to BE and AE i think... :wink2:) is the lyrics of that "rauschendes bächlein" song. "rauschendes bächlein so silbern und hell" (iirc).

 

i love this documentary, even if i had to read the translations first to understand what he's saying. :teehee: love seeing all those stage things for the new show, WOW!! :shocked:

and, um, that blue princess dress... :shocked: - THIEF!! :lmfao: ok, i don't mind at all, hehe. :teehee: but seriously, a royal blue princess dress with planets on it? on the one hand i'm thinking i must be mad to believe that MY costume inspired him for a stage outfit (wonder who will wear it, probably imma?), but on the other hand it would be a very strange coincidence... :fisch::naughty: can't wait to see what that dress looks like on stage! :wub2:

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I just wanted to say how thankful i am to everyone for posting and translating this interview. Thats one of the best i have seen in while. I really loved the parts with mika and his family.

 

Thanks again :biggrin2:

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His shoes! :shocked:

 

Thankyou so much for all the translations! :flowers2:

 

That was really good to watch - i'm excited to see how all those props are used on stage! :biggrin2:

 

And his flat...it's decorated so nicely, can't believe he'd want to move out of it!

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Thank you all so much for the video and especially for the translations! I can imagine that it must have been a lot of work to translate that much...

:flowers2:

 

It was quite long but first of all Mikaleyshialicious helped me and that was great, and secondly it is always a pleasure to translate for all of you, and translating means Mika spoke in French which I absolutely love! :wub2: I'm always overexcited when there's a French interview and then I've got the energy to translate it :biggrin2:

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