crazyaboutmika Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Yeah, but Mikasoon is each time more distant from Wonkasoon... I love this I truly believe it should be added to our Mika dictionnary as a proverb and I'm adding it now EDIT with Marilyn Mastin explanation "Mikasoon means anytime between now and the apocolypse." I had no idea my beloved good gone girl was inspired by Anna Nicole Smith, but I find it would be totally logical now I've always felt sorry for that woman whose fate was tragic and who burnt her wings as a butterfly attracted to fame lights; I also loved her smile and felt so sorry for her as she's had to go through such sad life; I didn't know she had done reality shows; in spite of everything she still had innocence in her eyes and she seemed to be able to keep hope and try to live her dreams... I tend not to judge because you only see the appearences and not what really goes on when you're an outsider . Her story is a dark fairy tale indeed and I really would like to know if she inspired good gone girl to Mika. I was hoping Mika would write about Japan situation, but this was probably written before the tragic events there and I hope the next blog will. I agree that someone must be reading MFC because we didn't have to wait for Mika's blog this time and that is great What's more,I love the way Mika shares more and more of his thoughts in his blogs and the funny thing is I alwaya seem to agree with him, he seems to be wanting to make this word a better place not only though his songs, but also when he writes about his hopes for a better and more human world I love this man more and more as I get to know him through his interviews and blogs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kath Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I don't give a **** about opera nor ANS...When, oh when can we have proper music blogs or vlogs???? I am with you there WW But thanks anyway Robi, Nezza and Mana..............and to MS for finally waking up........how long will that last I wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamy_Queen Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 What's more,I love the way Mika shares more and more of his thoughts in his blogs and the funny thing is I alwaya seem to agree with him, he seems to be wanting to make this word a better place not only though his songs, but also when he writes about his hopes for a better and more human world I love this man more and more as I get to know him through his interviews and blogs :thumb_yello: Hope our multifarious attitude to the topic of this article would not disappoint him and he will go on expressing himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzie Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 @LeiRe and @Mellody That video is NOT from the opera, it is only a trailer. I remember it being posted on the website of the ROH before the premier and they kept emphasizing that the music was a real opera unlike the music of that promo video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Clay Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) Edited March 31, 2011 by A. Clay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eloise.shaw Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 It doesn't work for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trix the Mubbin Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 UUUUuuuuggggghhhhh. I'm glad it doesn't show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Clay Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 It doesn't work for me? I know . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeiRe Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 @LeiRe and @MellodyThat video is NOT from the opera, it is only a trailer. I remember it being posted on the website of the ROH before the premier and they kept emphasizing that the music was a real opera unlike the music of that promo video. I knew it was the trailer when I posted it It says: Watch the trailer for the world premiere of Anna Nicole, highlighting some key moments in her provocative life. Please note the music in the ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trix the Mubbin Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I know . . . Thank the lord that one's so much better. *cuddles up against it and tries to hide from the other one* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Clay Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 It doesn't work for me? UUUUuuuuggggghhhhh. I'm glad it doesn't show up. A substitute just for you-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzie Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I knew it was the trailer when I posted it oh, ok then. I still had to mention it as others might have thought it was the music of the opera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeiRe Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 THESE are scenes from the Opera: [YOUTUBE]iGp8A1_aCsg[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywonka Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I am with you there WW But thanks anyway Robi, Nezza and Mana..............and to MS for finally waking up........how long will that last I wonder. Yes, i forgot to thank the girls for posting and translating, but as i am so fed up with Mika's updates these days i just felt like saying that... Thank you, girls... As for MS, there's a portuguese saying: This sun won't last longer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzie Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I always thought he wrote Good Gone Girl about Ana Nicole ( Georgia ) and Kati Price ( April ). Maybe I was right..... No, luckily...( It would totally destroy the song for me.. ) ISomething in her life story obviously has deeply driven him in a symphatetic and compassionate way, and I agree with Sabine that his lyrics could have been also affected with her life story. Her story might inspire Mika to write a song about Anne Nicole - like Sting wrote Roxanne - but GGG is actually about a once sweet girl who hangs around rock bands, gives up everything and uses everyone in order to become a star. In Mika's words:"It is about an attention seeking, very ambitious girl who forsakes everything in order to make it... and it's based on somebody I know " So, pretty obvious, I guess:teehee: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 @LeiRe and @MellodyThat video is NOT from the opera, it is only a trailer. I remember it being posted on the website of the ROH before the premier and they kept emphasizing that the music was a real opera unlike the music of that promo video. i know, but i didn't talk about the music in my post, just about the way how her life was summed up in the trailer. and after all, mika said he *did* like the music! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Clay Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) :thumb_yello:Hope our multifarious attitude to the topic of this article would not disappoint him and he will go on expressing himself The article really shows MIKA's huge capacity for empathy: Edited March 31, 2011 by A. Clay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyaboutmika Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 The article really shows MIKA's huge capacity for empathy: It does Thanks for summing it up so well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lollipop_monkey Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I suppose what it comes down to is this: what is the intended entertainment value in this Anna Nicole opera? It's either to instill some sort of reflection, as Mika seems to have been hoping, or else it's just another flavour of Jerry Springer-style, we-like-watching-trainwrecks mockery. I didn't see this opera but given that the audience "laughed and laughed" it seems that mockery was probably the intent - and I would agree that it's ridiculous to make a production for the sole purpose of mocking someone, especially someone whose story took place so recently. I think it would be a challenge for any director to build any true empathy with Anna Nicole using opera as the medium. It just doesn't seem to fit. If they really wanted to instill "worry, compassion or self examination" the best medium would have been a film documentary. That would be a much more effective way of conveying whatever good traits this woman may have had, and casting emphasis on the truly tragic aspects of her life as opposed to the self-inflicted destruction. Perhaps Mika admires her tenacity, for example (if that's indeed what it was) that took her from a nobody to a Playboy centrefold. A film may have been better able to convey that tenacity as one of her shining traits. Admittedly from where I stand she seems like a complete disaster and the majority of it is directly because of her own bad decisions. Mika mentions that the poor dear was a single mother at 20. Sure but so are countless women in the US and all over. Did she struggle? Quite likely, but maybe she shouldn't have gotten married and had a child when she was still a teenager. And the debacle with her late husband's fortune is of her own making too. If they were truly in love she would have been in his will, as far as I'm concerned. There would be no room for debate. I don't fault her for being a porn star at all - if a woman (or a man) goes down that path of their own volition, all the power to them. I don't even fault her for being a gold digger, if that's what the situation was, but I can't imagine she was surprised when it didn't go according to plan and her husband's family mounted an opposition. What I fault her for is doing disservice after disservice to herself, and ultimately to her children. It's great to feel compassion for Anna Nicole, but what about her children who suffered as a result of her decisions? When Anna Nicole was found dead, she had a toxic cocktail of at least seven different drugs in her body - some of which had been prescribed for others, not for her. She left behind a baby girl who will never know her mother. Again I don't fault her for posing for Playboy, but I do fault her for this destructive pattern of behaviour that left her infant daughter alone. I think she did a disservice to her son as well. His death was attributed to a combination of the drugs zoloft, lexapro and methadone. Why was a 20 year-old man on such a cocktail of drugs?! I can't chalk it up to coincidence that Anna Nicole and her son both died far too young of the same root cause. To me that looks like pretty convincing evidence that she passed on her self-destructive behaviours to her son. Mika calls his death "as tragic as they come", but I don't agree. To me tragedy is something wholly unexpected and wholly out of control of the victim(s). Yes her son's death is horrible and must have destroyed her - to lose a child is probably among the worst horrors a parent can experience. But to call it "as tragic as they come" seems to absolve Anna Nicole and her son of responsibility for the contributing factors to his death (and hers) that were within their control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiibet Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 (edited) What I fault her for is doing disservice after disservice to herself, and ultimately to her children. It's great to feel compassion for Anna Nicole, but what about her children who suffered as a result of her decisions? When Anna Nicole was found dead, she had a toxic cocktail of at least seven different drugs in her body - some of which had been prescribed for others, not for her. She left behind a baby girl who will never know her mother. Again I don't fault her for posing for Playboy, but I do fault her for this destructive pattern of behaviour that left her infant daughter alone. I think she did a disservice to her son as well. His death was attributed to a combination of the drugs zoloft, lexapro and methadone. Why was a 20 year-old man on such a cocktail of drugs?! I can't chalk it up to coincidence that Anna Nicole and her son both died far too young of the same root cause. To me that looks like pretty convincing evidence that she passed on her self-destructive behaviours to her son. Mika calls his death "as tragic as they come", but I don't agree. To me tragedy is something wholly unexpected and wholly out of control of the victim(s). Yes her son's death is horrible and must have destroyed her - to lose a child is probably among the worst horrors a parent can experience. But to call it "as tragic as they come" seems to absolve Anna Nicole and her son of responsibility for the contributing factors to his death (and hers) that were within their control. I was wondering about what actually happened to her children. I knew her basic story, but I was never interested enough to follow the case so closely I could remember the details about her children, especially about her son and his death (her story was told here mostly in tabloids anyway). It's such a tragical story. I don't want to even start to analyze who to blame, it looks she wasn't capable of taking care of any of her responsibilities or strong enough to make any decisions (but as I said, I didn't much follow this case). Edited April 1, 2011 by tiibet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etoile2roses Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 No, luckily...( It would totally destroy the song for me.. ) Her story might inspire Mika to write a song about Anne Nicole - like Sting wrote Roxanne - but GGG is actually about a once sweet girl who hangs around rock bands, gives up everything and uses everyone in order to become a star. In Mika's words:"It is about an attention seeking, very ambitious girl who forsakes everything in order to make it... and it's based on somebody I know " So, pretty obvious, I guess:teehee: GGG makes me think of Courtney Love, I saw a picture of her during a live show (festival or whatever) where she wrote "Georgia" on her body (maybe she was playing in Georgia this time) it is an old pic (like in between the 1990 and 1998) I don't remember, I don't find it now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvVYESI2PzM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngievV Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Even if those choices lead to the death and abandonment of their children? I'm surprised that Mika seems to think that the American public's opinions about her are based solely on judgements about porn and gold digging when she put her own needs ahead of those of her children. Even so, she was torn apart by the media and the rest of the world. The world enjoyed the breakdown. Had no one paid this amount of negative attention, she wouldn't have been famous and she wouldn't have made those choices. She wasn't a stable person to begin with and basically was forced to play the part the media wanted her to play. And that has taken its toll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagpieXG Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngievV Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 mark. o polo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naectegale Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 o polo? no that would be marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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