Kodes100 Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Here is a great review that DANI56 posted in the concerts section. With her permission I am posting it here: Mika performed in concert at Bercy in Paris on April 26, 2010. By now it is clear that Mika is not as other artists are. His surname could just as well be ‘Singular’. Enveloped in an imaginative musical world of his own creation, he is one of the few British male pop stars of his age that doesn’t run with the pack. Classically trained, racially mixed and prone to theatrical physical gesture, he has become a scion of ambitiously delivered self-expression. He says his music can be condensed easily, ‘the basic principals are that it is joyful and empowering and doesn’t cowtow to fashion or convention,’ calling to mind an old and almost forgotten pop notion: individuality. Mika opened his pop career with the defining single Grace Kelly. It has sold almost 3million copies worldwide and was only the second British single to top the chart on downloads alone. His total single sales from Life In Cartoon Motion add up beyond six million. The album itself bagged over 5million till receipts. Mika was nominated for and won awards from the Brits, the Grammys, the Ivor Novellos, Capital Radio, Q magazine, The World Music Awards, BT and Vodaphone, Virgin Media and MTV’s Europe, Asia, Australia and Japan, amongst others. But the statistics only hint at the strident grip he boldly took on pop music when he entered its fray; they are the neat vindication that one of pop’s biggest outsiders could conquer from within http://france.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_Mika_performs_in_concert_at_Bercy_20000101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Angel Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 thx for posting ggrrrrrrr Love that expression Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikas_gal07 Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 thx for posting ggrrrrrrr Love that expression Wow :wub2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julia2a Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 tanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyn Mastin Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 That is a beautiful piece of writing! T4P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B!anka Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Things look sooo good from the front row! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 love the writing... t4p:thumb_yello: :bow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mici Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 I love this photo so very much... so childlike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 I love this photo so very much... so childlike. agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lui Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 wow amazing pics! thanks for posting! x) I really really want to see him live u.u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toy_girl_mika96 Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 wow amazing pics! thanks for posting! x)I really really want to see him live u.u +1 T4p!! It & He looks amazing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superstar Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 He says his music can be condensed easily, ‘the basic principals are that it is joyful and empowering and doesn’t cowtow to fashion or convention,’ calling to mind an old and almost forgotten pop notion: individuality. ] Very well-written .. and great at describing the MEEKS! I cut out my favorite sentence -- this gives a great picture of Mika's career as an artist in my opinion. Thanks Kodes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Um... actually, that's not a review. That piece of writing is lifted straight from Mika's bio on Mikasounds.com: http://mikasounds.com/about The phrase "racially mixed" is what tipped me off -- I knew I'd read that on Mikasounds before. Anyhow... the photos are gorgeous, I agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kodes100 Posted April 29, 2010 Author Share Posted April 29, 2010 Um... actually, that's not a review. That piece of writing is liftedstraight from Mika's bio on Mikasounds.com: http://mikasounds.com/about The phrase "racially mixed" is what tipped me off -- I knew I'd read that on Mikasounds before. Anyhow... the photos are gorgeous, I agree Oops! Shame on me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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