Sherlocked Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Relax Take it Easy is Gold in Italy, though I thought it was already gold record but it's only right now, it's strange in 2007 Relax was played all the time anywhere!!! Anyway... yeyyyy or better as we say in Rome: EDDAJE!!!! Such great news! I'm so happy about this (Eddaje!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Clay Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 GOOD MIKA news, thanx ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marta. Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Two jumps this week! The Song Book passes from the ninth to the seventh position in the italian chart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 VIDEO Mika: ho preso le redini della mia musica Ho voluto fare un disco tutto da solo, sono molto soddisfatto 07 novembre 2013, 21:00 http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/videogallery/spettacolo/2013/11/07/Mika-ho-preso-redini-mia-musica_9584723.html nKfEIRjli4U I know this is a little bit older , but could someone make a translation of this video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 GAZZETTA TV Max Musica 9 Novembre 2013 Silenzio, parla Mika Il cantante presenta il nuovo disco Songbook Vol.1 http://video.gazzetta.it/07mika/5bd07216-492c-11e3-bf74-5e6cfcaa847f If somebody is still interested in downloading: http://www.mediafire.com/watch/sbzz62rz16kb33z/Mika_Int_2013-11-07_ita_GazettaIt-PresConference.flv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavia110 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 (edited) OK, here is the translation, ihihih now I go to bed In taking things in hand, I realized that there is a great freedom that comes after, but also a lot of work to have the freedom to do all the records I want to do. This is for all the artists and not just for me. All of us, all artists in the world, we have to find our way. As I did when I started. When I started I presented my record, my demo, as if it was an album already terminated by a record company. All finished, the visual, photography, everything. I did this to give the concept to the record company. After a while the situation changed because they are really… [here video is cut and the discourse change, he begins talking about Popular Song's videoclip!] I said **** I will not stand here waiting that a so big record company tell me, ok this thing goes well in this record, so do it. I said, no, I want to do this on my own and so I called all the people I know, for instance, I worked with Diadora (I think he said Diadora, I'm not totally sure :-D) to do this thing and I said it's not important if I have to do all these things to pay this video because Universal does not help me. I made this video on my own with my manager and now this video has 37 million views, large part from USA. 37 million for one song we did on our behalf. This made me realize the power of doing the things on my own. Now I can make the album I want to. With Universal's support but without asking permission and this is the most important thing I've done in this period of my career. Edited March 7, 2014 by flavia110 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 (edited) OK, here is the translation, ihihih now I go to bed Grazie mille It's a shame that it has been cut so much, hearing everything he said there would have been interesting. Edited March 7, 2014 by DerMoment1608 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Clay Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thank you. So we understand a bit better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Another article about the press conference in November, with some small parts that are not in the posted videos: Mika da X Factor Italia 2013 a Songbook vol.1 Scritto da Claudia Falzone il 19 nov 2013 Il periodo “italiano” di Mika sta dando moltissimi frutti. Non solo il pubblico italiano sta cominciando a conoscerlo ad X Factor, grazie ai suoi giudizi precisi e alla sua parlata condita con qualche neologismo (esempio: choosato, calco dall’inglese choose, al posto di scelto), ma ha realizzato anche l’album “Songbook vol 1“, pubblicato il 12 novembre con 15 successi internazionali, del quale ha curato ogni aspetto: dalla scelta delle canzoni, agli arrangiamenti riveduti, fino alla scelta della copertina. “Ho voluto chiamarlo Songbook perché è un concetto che mi piace di più. Best of non mi piace, perché lascia intendere che si chiuda un capitolo. Invece io non voglio chiudere proprio niente, è solo una raccolta dei pezzi dei primi tre album. Fra diversi anni voglio fare un songbook volume 2 e a 85 anni mi piacerebbe fare il volume 3. Questo disco è come se mi stessi guardando allo specchio, ricordando chi ero e chi sono adesso. Ho iniziato da bambino a cantare musica classica, nella fattispecie in un’opera di Strauss. Il mio interesse principale è sempre stato quello di fare pop ma come dico io.” L’artista inglese di origine libanese ha le idee ben chiare su ciò che vuole fare e lo dimostra anche all’interno di questo album nella scelta delle collaborazioni. “Stardust è senza dubbio il duetto più importante. Da quando ho visto Chiara Galiazzo partecipare ad X Factor 6, siamo rimasti in contatto e abbiamo voluto realizzarlo da subito. Ma per far sì che prendesse forma abbiamo dovuto aspettare, perché la politica delle due case discografiche non rendeva la cosa possibile. Adesso, finalmente, ci siamo riusciti. Per registrarla siamo andati nel mio studio a Londra e devo ammettere che il risultato mi piace parecchio. Stardust era nata come una canzone dall’impronta dance, adesso è diventato un pezzo tradizionale e di classe.” Al contrario la genesi di Popular Song, duetto con Ariana Grande, è stata più complicata: “all’inizio non ne ero molto convinto. Ariana Grande proviene da uno scenario teen e non era ciò che andavo cercando. Poi ho deciso di sentirla, ci siamo contattati via Skype e sono rimasto sorpreso dalla sua voce. Inoltre, Ariana ha anche un album r’n'b in cima alle classifiche americane, che l’ha aiutata a spostarsi dalla scena teen. Abbiamo registrato lei in Canada e io a Los Angeles. Il nostro video ha totalizzato più di 37 milioni di visualizzazioni su youtube e la canzone sta passando nelle radio statunitensi. E’ davvero strano, ogni volta che penso che una cosa possa non piacere, i fatti mi smentiscono sempre facendo arrivare puntualmente il successo.” Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr, questo il nome del cantante all’anagrafe, ha già in cantiere il nuovo album: “in passato ho sperimentato e fatto di testa mia. Adesso voglio sedermi al piano e comporre melodie orecchiabili. E’ ciò che mi viene più naturale al momento. Sicuramente il contatto con la musica italiana mi ha dato spunti interessanti. Ho iniziato a lavorare al prossimo disco con un giovane autore e gli ho fatto sentire un brano di Paolo Conte a velocità aumentata, per fargli capire che tipo di produzione e suono voglio. Sto lavorando con Morgan su un brano, con le mie parti in inglese e le sue in italiano. Il risultato potrebbe essere molto particolare…se lo finiamo! (ride, ndr) Scherzi a parte, nonostante la fama di personaggio controverso stimo parecchio Morgan come artista. Quando si mette al piano è come un bambino pazzo che vive di musica.” Quanto alla sua avventura come giudice di X Factor, Mika è conscio di avere per le mani la categoria più forte. Tuttavia, non fa mistero dei punti di forza e di debolezza delle sue concorrenti. “Roberta ha la voce più bella di tutta la competizione ma pecca nello stile, mentre per Gaia vale il discorso opposto: ha uno stile originalissimo ma bisogna rafforzare la parte vocale. Valentina deve fortificare la sua presenza scenica mentre Violetta deve rendere contemporaneo il suo genere. Ma soprattutto, voglio prepararle al post X Factor. Devono essere coscienti della loro identità musicale e dire di no, se non sono convinte di una canzone! Sono contento dell’esperienza di X Factor e in Francia mi hanno chiamato per fare The Voice!” Infine, come si trova Mika a Milano? “E’ una città meravigliosa, ma chiusa. Per scoprirla devi girare parecchio. Ad esempio, questa villa (Villa Necchi, bene del F.A.I. che ospita la conferenza stampa) è bellissima ma è nascosta, non l’avrei mai scoperta! Di sera mi piace andare ai Navigli per farmi una birra. Oppure mi rifugio in una trattoria, il cui proprietario è così gentile da riservarmi un tavolino. E lì posso lavorare e scrivere.” http://www.outune.net/livetune/interviste/mika-x-factor-italia-2013-songbook-vol-1/85745 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiam Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 OK, here is the translation, ihihih now I go to bed In taking things in hand, I realized that there is a great freedom that comes after, but also a lot of work to have the freedom to do all the records I want to do. This is for all the artists and not just for me. All of us, all artists in the world, we have to find our way. As I did when I started. When I started I presented my record, my demo, as if it was an album already terminated by a record company. All finished, the visual, photography, everything. I did this to give the concept to the record company. After a while the situation changed because they are really… [here video is cut and the discourse change, he begins talking about Popular Song's videoclip!] I said **** I will not stand here waiting that a so big record company tell me, ok this thing goes well in this record, so do it. I said, no, I want to do this on my own and so I called all the people I know, for instance, I worked with Diadora (I think he said Diadora, I'm not totally sure :-D) to do this thing and I said it's not important if I have to do all these things to pay this video because Universal does not help me. I made this video on my own with my manager and now this video has 37 million views, large part from USA. 37 million for one song we did on our behalf. This made me realize the power of doing the things on my own. Now I can make the album I want to. With Universal's support but without asking permission and this is the most important thing I've done in this period of my career. Grazie mille!! I love every word he says here!! This little speach is something I've been waiting for - for a long time!! I'm sooo pleased that he now takes controll of his own career - something we've known for quite some time now !! Love,love me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavia110 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Grazie mille!! I love every word he says here!! This little speach is something I've been waiting for - for a long time!! I'm sooo pleased that he now takes controll of his own career - something we've known for quite some time now !! Love,love me You welcome Here is the translation of the article above. The "Italian" period of Mika is making many fruits. Not only the Italian public is starting to know him in X Factor, thanks to his accurate judgments and his speech seasoned with some neologism (eg choosato, calque of English word choose, instead of scelto), but he has also realized the album "songbook vol 1", published on Nov. 12 with 15 international success, of which he took care of every aspect, from the choice of songs, the arrangements revised up to the choice of the cover. "I wanted to call it songbook because it is a concept that I like the most. I do not like "Best of", because it suggests that you close a chapter. But I do not want to close anything, it's just a collection of the pieces of the first three albums. Among a number of years I want to make a songbook volume 2 and at 85 years, I'd like to do the volume 3. This record is as if I was looking in the mirror, remembering who I was and who I am now. I started to sing classical music as a child, in this case into a Strauss's work. My primary interest has always was to do pop, but as I say. " The English artist of Lebanese origin has very clear ideas about what he wants to do and it shows into this album also in the choice of collaborations. "Stardust is undoubtedly the most important duet. Since I saw Chiara Galiazzo taking part in X Factor 6, we stayed in touch and we wanted to make it happen straight. But to ensure that this project took shape we had to wait, because the policy of the two record companies did not make it possible. Now, finally, we succeeded. To record it we went in my studio in London and I have to admit that I like the result a lot. Stardust was born as a dance song, now become a traditional classy piece. " On the contrary genesis of Popular Song, duet with Ariana Grande was more complicated: "at the beginning I was not very convinced. Ariana Grande comes from a teen scenery and it was not what I was looking for. Then I decided to hear her, we are contacted via Skype and I was surprised by her voice. In addition, Ariana also has a R & B album at the top of the American charts, which helped her to move from the teen scene. We recorded her in Canada and I in Los Angeles. Our video has totaled more than 37 million views on youtube and the song is going on the radio in the U.S.. It's really strange, every time I think that one thing may not appeal, the facts always belie me and does achieve success. " Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr, this is the name of the singer in the anagrafe, has already in the pipeline the new album: "I have experimented in the past and did my own thing. Now I want to sit down at the piano and composing catchy tunes. It's what comes most naturally to me right now. Definitely the touch with the Italian music gave me interesting ideas. I started working on the next album with a young author and I made hear to him a song by Paolo Conte at speeds increased, to let him know what kind of production and sound I want. I am working with Morgan on a track with my parts in English and he has the Italian one. The result could be very particular ... if we'll finish! (laughs) Seriously, despite the fame of controversial figure I admire a lot Morgan as an artist. When he sit down at the piano is like a crazy kid who lives of music. " As regards his adventure as X Factor judge, Mika is conscious to have on his hands the strongest category. However, he makes no bones about the strengths and weaknesses of his contestants. "Roberta has the most beautiful voice in the whole competition but she flaws in style, while Gaia is the argument opposite: she has a very original style but she needs to to reinforce the vocal part. Valentina has to fortify her stage presence while Violetta has to make her genre contemporary. But mostly, I want to prepare them for post X Factor. They must be conscious of their musical identity and say no, if they are not convinced of a song! I'm glad of the X-Factor Italia's experience and in France they called me to do The Voice! " Finally, how is Mika in Milan? "It's a wonderful city, but it's closed. To discover it you have to turn a lot. For example, this villa (Villa Necchi, which hosts the press conference) is beautiful but it is hidden, I would not have ever discovered it! In the evening I like to go to the Navigli to get me a beer. Or I take refuge in a restaurant, whose owner is kind enough to reserve me a table. And there I can work and write. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucrezia Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thank you Flavia for the translation!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DerMoment1608 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 You welcome Here is the translation of the article above. Thank you again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlelady Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 OK, here is the translation, ihihih now I go to bed In taking things in hand, I realized that there is a great freedom that comes after, but also a lot of work to have the freedom to do all the records I want to do. This is for all the artists and not just for me. All of us, all artists in the world, we have to find our way. As I did when I started. When I started I presented my record, my demo, as if it was an album already terminated by a record company. All finished, the visual, photography, everything. I did this to give the concept to the record company. After a while the situation changed because they are really… [here video is cut and the discourse change, he begins talking about Popular Song's videoclip!] I said **** I will not stand here waiting that a so big record company tell me, ok this thing goes well in this record, so do it. I said, no, I want to do this on my own and so I called all the people I know, for instance, I worked with Diadora (I think he said Diadora, I'm not totally sure :-D) to do this thing and I said it's not important if I have to do all these things to pay this video because Universal does not help me. I made this video on my own with my manager and now this video has 37 million views, large part from USA. 37 million for one song we did on our behalf. This made me realize the power of doing the things on my own. Now I can make the album I want to. With Universal's support but without asking permission and this is the most important thing I've done in this period of my career. Thanks so much:huglove: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiam Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Thank you again Thanks a lot, again, from me too - great job!! And thanks to you DerMoment - who found the art. You're really good with sharing stuff !! Love,love me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyn Mastin Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 OK, here is the translation, ihihih now I go to bed In taking things in hand, I realized that there is a great freedom that comes after, but also a lot of work to have the freedom to do all the records I want to do. This is for all the artists and not just for me. All of us, all artists in the world, we have to find our way. As I did when I started. When I started I presented my record, my demo, as if it was an album already terminated by a record company. All finished, the visual, photography, everything. I did this to give the concept to the record company. After a while the situation changed because they are really… [here video is cut and the discourse change, he begins talking about Popular Song's videoclip!] I said **** I will not stand here waiting that a so big record company tell me, ok this thing goes well in this record, so do it. I said, no, I want to do this on my own and so I called all the people I know, for instance, I worked with Diadora (I think he said Diadora, I'm not totally sure :-D) to do this thing and I said it's not important if I have to do all these things to pay this video because Universal does not help me. I made this video on my own with my manager and now this video has 37 million views, large part from USA. 37 million for one song we did on our behalf. This made me realize the power of doing the things on my own. Now I can make the album I want to. With Universal's support but without asking permission and this is the most important thing I've done in this period of my career. Go go Mika! Let me shake my pretty pom poms at you! I didn't know that Mika himself was responsible for the PS video which has helped him so much by getting so many views! What a lot of idiots that record company are. Yes Mika, do your own thing. You're doing great. Now come back and do great things in UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaolaC Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 News from Italy: Songbook Vol.1 has been certified DOUBLE PLATINUM!!! We want the whole world to celebrate:toot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathouzouf Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 News from Italy: Songbook Vol.1 has been certified DOUBLE PLATINUM!!!We want the whole world to celebrate:toot: Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavia110 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine64 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 News from Italy: Songbook Vol.1 has been certified DOUBLE PLATINUM!!!We want the whole world to celebrate:toot: thank you for letting us know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceebs Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Awesome! It's kind of funny, because that's the cd I was listening to, driving around town today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaolaC Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 thank you for letting us know You're all welcome Awesome!It's kind of funny, because that's the cd I was listening to, driving around town today. They call it destiny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 That's great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathouzouf Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Awesome!It's kind of funny, because that's the cd I was listening to, driving around town today. Me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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