Mika audio interview @ Radio Chalom Nitsan (Nice 17 7 2012)

[mari62]

MIKA - Interview (french) _ Radio Chalom Nitsan (Nice - 17/07/2012)

 

Thank you very much to Sixtinement for uploading on YT and translating!!

 

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Interview de MIKA sur la Radio Chalom Nitsan lors de son passage à Nice au festival CrazyWeek le 17/07/2012. Merci à http://www.radiochalomnitsan.com

 

Translation :

 

Journalist : It seems for 2012 so for the CrazyWeek there is a change of your musicians. Why this change ?

Mika : During 5 years and a half I had the same musicians suddendly I've changed because I wanted a new energy I wanted the challenge to reinterpret things as we don't do the same things again and again. Tonight it's our fourth gig together After nearly six years of touring with the same band 4 gigs it's not much so I take all the opportunities to rehearse the most as possible.

 

J : The gigs of this summer it's also for testing new songs?

M : Of course. Yeah it's for testing the news songs and to warm up. When I'm in the studio I forget a little how to be on stage and it's a person very very diferent so there is still this transition a bit strange when I come back on stage. I become an another and I have to pick up an another form and now I'm in the transition.

 

J : And how is it with your french audience ?

M : It goes very well, I'm very lucky . I was saying before I have always a stage fright before doing a gig in France or in UK because it's my two countries of childhood so I really want it works. It's very important for me. And it's a pleasure.

 

J :There is a novelty on your next album there are french songs can you talk about it ?

M : There are 4 songs in french; there is "Karen" , there is "l'amour dans le mauvais temps" there is "elle me dit" and also a song called " un soleil (*mal luné/venu? I don't understand this part*) " and maybe an another but I'm not sure right now.

 

J : We say that this album is very diferent how did you manage to find all this inspiration years after years ?

M : It's been a long time I want to sing songs in french but as I speak french pretty good but not fluently it's very hard to write in french so I've waited and I've met a friend called Doriand who is an artist and a writer. Finally I reflected that's the person.

 

J : How did you manage to make your music powerful, lively ?

M : I've realized the mellody and the joy in the music is the power it gives power. If we take the joy and the mellody which is sticky, we mix up with something serious, depressing or sad or dayly/ We mix all together and it become something very powerful.

 

J : It's before the lyrics and next the melody ?

M : What is funny is not necessarily the lyrics or the melody. It's both at the same time. Even in french when I work with Doriand often the concept was born at the same time at the melody. We begin like this.

 

J : What are your artistic influences ?

M : Artistically for this album there was a few influences it was really a period for me where the pop was pretty perfect. The period of Fleetwood Mac, of the Bee Gees... things like that...it was pop who came from life of an artist. In Fleetwood Mac we hear the artist, in the Bee Gees we hear the artists it's music who come from their life; from their heart. And also an artist like Beck for exemple, he has the same thing or someone like Elton John in the seventies. For me it's a golden period of pop. And also during this period they begin to test with electronic music so for me there are a few songs which have a side more electronic but I dind't want to make an album completely eletronic.

Edited July 19, 2012 by mari62
adding link

[Marilyn Mastin]

Another great interview! T4P

[snowli]

mari62 you are brilliant!thanks sooooooooooo much.

[mer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3OGyB99VL-0

THANKS MIKA FOR ALL YOUR RADIO INTERVIEWS IS VERY AMAZING THAT I CAN HEAR NEWS OF YOU.

AND THANKS ALL THE FANS THAT HELP ME WITH HER TRANSLATIONS.

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YOUR LOOK HERE IS INTERESTING. I LIKE SO MUCH YOUR NEW ALBUM. I PROMISED TO ADQUIRE IT. THANKS AGAIN FOR TO MESAGE THE FANS IN THE PROFILE FANS PAGE .

ANY PHOTOS OF CONCERT.

Edited July 19, 2012 by mer

[Sabine64]

Thank you for posting and translating:thumb_yello:

[nikjass]

Thanks Mari for posting & translating the interview

[Dreamy_Queen]

I have Stayin' Alive (of Bee Gees) as a ringtone

[Louiza]

Great interview, thanks for the links:thumb_yello:

 

Very happy that now we know all the titles of the French songs!!! Hope he decided to include the fifth one as well.