tiibet Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 But he would still have to make very deliberate decisions about how many children he wants, it's not just going to befall him like it does with a man/woman couple. Fans are not just going to bring children to the gigs to hand them to him during a M&G I can already picture it, fan after fan handing him babies after gigs... He needs to rent busses for their future road trips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucrezia Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 (edited) Ahahah thank you, but it's not true about you! As for the translation, as I said, I can make a very literal one but now I'm not home, I can make it tonight though! Teresa we can split it in two parts so the work will be easy for us Let me know! I'm uploading the scans Edited October 30, 2013 by Lucrezia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teresa Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Teresa we can split it in two parts so the work will be easy for us Let me know! I'm uploading the scans Ok, good idea!! I can translate the last page, if it is ok! From 'se intende il matrimonio' till the end, you can do the first two, the long introduction of the interviewer about his new house and the interview until 'le stesse possibilità di scelta', so the split will follow the split of the pages and people who are interested can find the 'original' sentences in the scans Let me know if it is ok, if so I will translate my part tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucrezia Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Ok! Here's the scan of the mag: let me know if you're able to read it! http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/92/9b/7d/929b7dea0ed73f5896786a72c2b15f67.jpg http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/52/28/df/5228df974074ef6ab113df04d537e52c.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/c1/3e/30/c13e3051ea3bf3526b6f95cd341335cf.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/7c/3d/33/7c3d3334a939d4d94c04af0144cc27de.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/24/04/60/240460127fc113b6005e7b1217f5dd52.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/87/1d/d2/871dd2eca20d267dee353d2d8b608028.jpg http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3d/c3/47/3dc3474fa76b9fdd51a72d2900e4e317.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/90/f3/d9/90f3d91996b44c8d1d4965fa74a14f56.jpg (Thanks Amneris for the digital version) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucrezia Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Ok, good idea!! I can translate the last page, if it is ok! From 'se intende il matrimonio' till the end, you can do the first two, the long introduction of the interviewer about his new house and the interview until 'le stesse possibilità di scelta', so the split will follow the split of the pages and people who are interested can find the 'original' sentences in the scans Let me know if it is ok, if so I will translate my part tonight! Perfect! Tonight i'll post the first part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanuk Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Teresa we can split it in two parts so the work will be easy for us Let me know! I'm uploading the scans Thank you!!: Wub2: : Bow:: Bow:: Bow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanuk Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Ok, good idea!! I can translate the last page, if it is ok! From 'se intende il matrimonio' till the end, you can do the first two, the long introduction of the interviewer about his new house and the interview until 'le stesse possibilità di scelta', so the split will follow the split of the pages and people who are interested can find the 'original' sentences in the scans Let me know if it is ok, if so I will translate my part tonight! Thank you!!: Wub2: : Bow:: Bow:: Bow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikasister Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Ok! Here's the scan of the mag: let me know if you're able to read it! http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/92/9b/7d/929b7dea0ed73f5896786a72c2b15f67.jpg http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/52/28/df/5228df974074ef6ab113df04d537e52c.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/c1/3e/30/c13e3051ea3bf3526b6f95cd341335cf.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/7c/3d/33/7c3d3334a939d4d94c04af0144cc27de.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/24/04/60/240460127fc113b6005e7b1217f5dd52.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/87/1d/d2/871dd2eca20d267dee353d2d8b608028.jpg http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3d/c3/47/3dc3474fa76b9fdd51a72d2900e4e317.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/90/f3/d9/90f3d91996b44c8d1d4965fa74a14f56.jpg (Thanks Amneris for the digital version) Thanks Lucrezia Just can see the big parts but not the ones with small letters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Wicky~ Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Ok! Here's the scan of the mag: let me know if you're able to read it! (Thanks Amneris for the digital version) Thank you for posting and thanks in advance for the ones who are making the translation! You are all so kind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Ok! Here's the scan of the mag: let me know if you're able to read it! http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/92/9b/7d/929b7dea0ed73f5896786a72c2b15f67.jpg http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/52/28/df/5228df974074ef6ab113df04d537e52c.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/c1/3e/30/c13e3051ea3bf3526b6f95cd341335cf.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/7c/3d/33/7c3d3334a939d4d94c04af0144cc27de.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/24/04/60/240460127fc113b6005e7b1217f5dd52.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/87/1d/d2/871dd2eca20d267dee353d2d8b608028.jpg http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3d/c3/47/3dc3474fa76b9fdd51a72d2900e4e317.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/90/f3/d9/90f3d91996b44c8d1d4965fa74a14f56.jpg (Thanks Amneris for the digital version) Thank you I did only a quick look for now, and some parts are @Mikasister Can you save them and than zoom in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikasister Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Thank you I did only a quick look for now, and some parts are @Mikasister Can you save them and than zoom in? Yes but they are still too small and I have to fix my eyes too much and they hurt me. I've read some parts but I'll wait for the translation. Thanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alireine Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Thank you dear Italian fans! (Lucrezia and Teresa especially ) You are very well organized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krysady Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Grazie mille,Lucrezia! Loved it! So that it's his new house in Milan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camille* Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Wow I really really love the whole interview Still looking forward to the translation as there are some details I think I didn't get, so thanks in advance for that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucrezia Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Thanks Lucrezia Just can see the big parts but not the ones with small letters Oh I'm sorry Can you see them now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikasister Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Oh I'm sorry Can you see them now? Wow, yess!! thanks so much Lucrezia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teresa Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Lucrezia, my part is ready! l'll post it after yours, so it will be in order! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucrezia Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Lucrezia, my part is ready! l'll post it after yours, so it will be in order! Perfect! I'm posting it in a moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathouzouf Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Nice to see team work:thumb_yello: Can'twait to read translation... Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucrezia Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 (edited) I'm not a criminal! The King of Twitter The pop star Mika, 30 years, is the new judge of X Factor 7, every Thursday on Sky Uno. The first live show was a success: the cheer was close to a million and there are already 150 thousand of tweets in which the Lebanese singer naturalized English was quoted. Mika: << A classic wedding in the church, no. But a lot of kids, yeah!!>> Perhaps with the partner to which he has dedicated so many love songs. The revelation of X Factor has no trouble talking about homosexuality. Because "being gay is not a crime," and equal rights is a battle of common sense. From the entrance, still bare, we moves into a long hallway. Then the two dining rooms, the kitchen, the bedrooms. White feathered chandeliers, a statue of the Virgin Mary, optical carpets, paintings that occupy entire walls, embroidered sheets with drawings of animals (today the choice fell on butterflies), vintage amps, and then the furniture design, colorful sofas, chairs, armchairs. Two hundred square meters in the center of Milan. Welcome to the new home of Mika. Joannie, her mother Lebanese, go forward and back in slippers on the parquet arranging the final details: the fresh flowers on the table, the Virgin Mary that it is better to remove it from the hallway and put it in the big hall. Mika, very tall and in great shape, with the grease in the hair, is excited for the pics which is making ("the best that I have ever done" - he screams happy as a child) for the new furniture, for all these people around him. He lies down on the chair, says to the photographer, the same that for us has portrayed Bolle: "I do not bare and I do not show muscles, so I do not make a bad impression to Roberto." At every change of dress goes to her mother: "Am I good?" "Yes" And then he can shoot. The landlord asks, amused, where the bathroom is. He will have time in the next few months to get used to these new rooms: X Factor is entered into the heart of the live, on Sky Uno, Mika is already the star of the program and only for Italy he will launch in the coming days "Songs Book Vol .1 - the greatest hits ", a best of his career, from Grace Kelly, the first hit, to Stardust, in a new and romantic version with Chiara Galiazzo. In our country, in short, he will pass some time! He began to travel around the world as a child with his father, an American diplomat: from moving to Paris a few months after his birth in Beirut, to nine years in London and the unhappiness of a school that between dyslexia and bullying from his classmates, would have been a nightmare exceeded only by the music. << I have changed so many homes, because of the work of my father, so I've learned not to attack to anything >> he tells me during a break between shots. <<In Italy I feel happy, but for me it's surreal take root. At one point, the walls do not belong to you anymore, while the songs you write, will be forever yours. >> At the end of the photo shoot, he puts a chair to block the entrance of the hall (<< There aren't doors in this house>>) Then he sits on the couch and we start the interview. You imagine, more or less one aswer yes and one no, his laugh. Her mother helps you a lot with the house. She seems in love with you. no, look, my mom and I always quarrel. And then, me and my sisters, Paloma and Yasmine, we know for a fact that she prefers her two youngest children. You gotta be kidding me. No it's all true! And to us that's okay, it's not a problem. Why a pop star decides to participate in a Italian talent show? why not? I accepted because maybe I immediately felt at ease. But in the past you have described X Factor as a cruel program, that deludes some aspiring singers. You had even ironically suggested the idea of an "X factor Rehab" to detoxify the former competitors. Oh well, even some judges, between us, would need it... So why did you accept? Joking aside: I was speaking about the English edition, which tends to homogenize the competitors. Here in Italy is quite different and much more interesting, because it puts the emphasis on originality. Viò and Gaia, my team, are so special that they would never have entered to the X Factor UK. Yours is the strongest team, everybody says it even the other judges. Does the production wants you to win? Maybe I was assigned to the young because they know that I would have done less damage than Morgan. For girls I'm a lot less dangerous than him, do you not believe it ? Who will win X factor? One of the three girls of my team. I do not know who of them. Talking about the judges. Simona Ventura. She's fantastic, we are friends. Elio I enjoy to make him uncomfortable. I pass him tix, which I write the most disgusting things that come to my mind, or almost pornographic drawings. But he's not so shocked about them.... Morgan is the judge whith whom you have tied up the most? no he is just the one that requires the most attention, maybe it's for this reason that I speak with him more. Is it true that you will do an album with him? False. We're just trying to make a song. It is fun to work with him. He is crazy, intelligent, hyperactive. On the piano, he passes from fift blues to boogie-woogie, ending with Bach: it's impressive his talent. An "Enfant terrible", in every sense. But the star of X Factor is you. No, I'm just the novelty. Where did you learn to do television? The bad figures that I make are involuntary. Maybe I work well just because I'm spontaneous, I say what goes through my head and I think the consequences later. I have always done in this way. About consequences, what happened after that, last year, you decided to declare you homosexual? I do not know, the fans always follow me. Some of them do not believe it. If Kinsey's theory is valid, or if there is a scale of sexual orientations ranging from zero to six, where zero indicates a heterosexual one hundred percent convinced and six a homosexual, who can say where I stand on this scale? Vanity Fair has launched the campaign "No couples of series B". Last May, in Paris, you have participated in the demonstrations for the law on gay marriage and you played for the final concert in the Bastille. Why did you take a position? Because it is very important. I convinced all my friends to come to the event and bring along their children. There were grandparents, children, people with feathers and people in suits, rich and poor, all together: it was nice. I was sorry only that the media have exaggerated the conflict: it was a pacific battle much of what has been said and written. Where do we stand in this battle? Obtain equal rights for homosexuals is an unavoidable fact, in human evolution. It is just common sense. In Italy we are still behind. yes, it is incredible the influence of the Church. For countries such as Italy we should say: if homosexuality is not a crime, then what's wrong with equal rights? Not all homosexuals are interested in marriage. It is true, for some it's just a stupid heterosexual institution, but I'm not going to be eterophobic. The point is to have equal rights and duties, the same choice. Edited October 30, 2013 by Lucrezia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shieun Jeon Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 I ordered it yesterday so I pick the issue 30th October qs it was said yesterday it would be released today. Fingers crossed Thank you! But I can't seem to find Mika on the cover? Or did I find the different one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teresa Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 LAST PART OF THE INTERVIEW (third page of the written scans); the previous parts have been translated by Lucrezia in previous posts! I: And you, do you want to get married? M: If you mean the classic marriage in church, no. But if the question is: do I want to have the same rights as a married couple? Yes, a hundred per cent. Do I want to make a commitment? Yes, hundred per cent. Do I want to face the consequences of breaking that commitment? Yes, hundred per cent. Do I think it is right that I should have kids? Yes, a thousand per cent. Do I think I can be able to give a child love and a good education, a welcoming and free environment? Yes, thousand per cent. I have no doubt. And who says I'm wrong doesn't know what he is saying, he's a poor fool. I: Do you feel ready to have a family? M: Maybe yes, maybe no. But if I project myself in the future, I see myself with a lot of children. I: A lot? M: The right number is 4 or 5. I come from a numerous family and I'd like to create a similar one. I like confusion. Just think that last summer we went on holiday all together: 26 people, 8 cars, 48 suitcases. A beautiful trip, through France and Italy. Where were we? I: You were saying you are not interested in marriage, but you are in having kids. M: Actually I don't exclude getting married, one day. The thing is that I have already made a commitment, I've been with my partner for 7 years. It didn't always go smoothly, on the contrary, there have been highs and lows and we even broke up for some time: a horrible period. But nothing strange, ours has always been a very conventional love story. I: Do all the songs that you have written talk about him? M: Oh no, some of them talk about imaginary loves, people I fantasized about. Sometimes you make movies in your head, everybody does, it's pointless to deny it. I: In The Origin Of Love you sing: “From the air I breath, to the love I need, the only thing I know is you're the origin of love”. M: This one was dedicated to my partner. I love him very much. I: What makes your love strong? M: Sense of humour, tolerance and trust. I: But you're always around the world. M: We don't see each other every day, but it is not a big problem. I: Is he perchance Italian? M: No, he's not Italian, or at least not completely... I don't want to say more. I have always wanted to protect him, just like I've always wanted to protect my private life. Now, actually, I am sharing always bigger pieces with the public, just like with this interview. But I'll never accept the absurd idea that, once you have become a famous figure, you are obliged to talk by force about your own business, about your sexuality. I: Is it not part of the game? M: To a certain extent. The continuous attempts to extort information belong to a distructive idea of information. Moreover, already before I came out, my life was in my songs. Billy Brown talks about a middle-aged husband who leaves wife and kids to be with his man. I've never hidden. I: Has this created any problems for you? M: Of course. When I showed my record company in America my first album, they called me up, all embarassed: “Listen, Mika, in this song, Grace Kelly, you're saying that you look at yourself in the mirror and that you would like to be like a woman.” Me: “So what?”. “Well, we'd have a few problems”. “And what the f**k do I care?”. They asked me if I wanted to change the lyrics, I answered absolutely no way. I: Then why did you wait such a long time to come out? And why did you eventually decide to do it? M: Who insinuates it has been a marketing operation says bulls**t. And the truth is that I have waited because I wasn't ready. I did it when I was feeling happy. And then, I had to deal with a lot of things, before. I had to tell my auntie, my uncle, my friends who didn't know it. I had to talk about it with my family and with my partner's family. It wasn't just about me. I: And how did it go? M: In the family with some it went well, with others it was terrible. I have gone through a few cruelties. But cruelty is the product of fear: fear that you may have changed and that a bond may break, fear of what you don't know. Then things settle, and in fact relationships get better, because we are more sincere. I: What role did religion have? M: My family is Maronite christian, but we are open-minded people. Even if I consider myself a believer [the word is “credente”, I think the right translation is “religious” but I'm not sure], I don't want the Church to judge me or to try to change me. Because there's absolutely nothing to change. I: And with press? M: It was hard. Once a gay journalist said I was an as***le because I didn't want to say I was gay. But it was about my life! And this pressure is bullism, the same homophobic bullism I had been a victim of at school, when I was a kid. I: Isn't a public figure coming out an example for those who are afraid to declare their homosexuality? M: The example is the person, not his sexuality. And I've always tried to be an example for all my fans. My songs talk about the outsiders, about tolerance. Nerds, gays, heteros, all together have always come to my concerts. It is my message from the stage: we are a group of weird people, but we are ok like this, and for a few hours we can forget everything. I: And you, have you forgotten the bullies of your childhood? Have you forgiven them? M: Yes. I don't feel anger anymore. Or better, I only feel it sometimes. I: What made you angry, back then? M: Kids can be cruel, much more than adults. They used to make fun of me for my sexuality, even before I myself started undestanding something of it. And then there was a teacher that used to massacre me. Psychological tortures, on the edge of physical violence. When my father realized it, he went to the school and made a big fuss: they said I was a liar, I got expelled. I: When did it start to get better? M: The first time I got on a stage. A sudden revelation: this is the place where weird people like me stand, and they are all happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucrezia Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Thank you Teresa!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikasister Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 I'm not a criminal! The King of Twitter The pop star Mika, 30 years, is the new judge of X Factor 7, every Thursday on Sky Uno. The first live show was a success: the cheer was close to a million and there are already 150 thousand of tweets in which the Lebanese singer naturalized English was quoted. Mika: << A classic wedding in the church, no. But a lot of kids, yeah!!>> Perhaps with the partner to which he has dedicated so many love songs. The revelation of X Factor has no trouble talking about homosexuality. Because "being gay is not a crime," and equal rights is a battle of common sense. From the entrance, still bare, we moves into a long hallway. Then the two dining rooms, the kitchen, the bedrooms. White feathered chandeliers, a statue of the Virgin Mary, optical carpets, paintings that occupy entire walls, embroidered sheets with drawings of animals (today the choice fell on butterflies), vintage amps, and then the furniture design, colorful sofas, chairs, armchairs. Two hundred square meters in the center of Milan. Welcome to the new home of Mika. Joannie, her mother Lebanese, go forward and back in slippers on the parquet arranging the final details: the fresh flowers on the table, the Virgin Mary that it is better to remove it from the hallway and put it in the big hall. Mika, very tall and in great shape, with the grease in the hair, is excited for the pics which is making ("the best that I have ever done" - he screams happy as a child) for the new furniture, for all these people around him. He lies down on the chair, says to the photographer, the same that for us has portrayed Bolle: "I do not bare and I do not show muscles, so I do not make a bad impression to Roberto." At every change of dress goes to her mother: "Am I good?" "Yes" And then he can shoot. The landlord asks, amused, where the bathroom is. He will have time in the next few months to get used to these new rooms: X Factor is entered into the heart of the live, on Sky Uno, Mika is already the star of the program and only for Italy he will launch in the coming days "Songs Book Vol .1 - the greatest hits ", a best of his career, from Grace Kelly, the first hit, to Stardust, in a new and romantic version with Chiara Galiazzo. In our country, in short, he will pass some time! He began to travel around the world as a child with his father, an American diplomat: from moving to Paris a few months after his birth in Beirut, to nine years in London and the unhappiness of a school that between dyslexia and bullying from his classmates, would have been a nightmare exceeded only by the music. << I have changed so many homes, because of the work of my father, so I've learned not to attack to anything >> he tells me during a break between shots. <<In Italy I feel happy, but for me it's surreal take root. At one point, the walls do not belong to you anymore, while the songs you write, will be forever yours. >> At the end of the photo shoot, he puts a chair to block the entrance of the hall (<< There aren't doors in this house>>) Then he sits on the couch and we start the interview. You imagine, more or less one aswer yes and one no, his laugh. Her mother helps you a lot with the house. She seems in love with you. no, look, my mom and I always quarrel. And then, me and my sisters, Paloma and Yasmine, we know for a fact that she prefers her two youngest children. You gotta be kidding me. No it's all true! And to us that's okay, it's not a problem. Why a pop star decides to participate in a Italian talent show? why not? I accepted because maybe I immediately felt at ease. But in the past you have described X Factor as a cruel program, that deludes some aspiring singers. You had even ironically suggested the idea of an "X factor Rehab" to detoxify the former competitors. Oh well, even some judges, between us, would need it... So why did you accept? Joking aside: I was speaking about the English edition, which tends to homogenize the competitors. Here in Italy is quite different and much more interesting, because it puts the emphasis on originality. Viò and Gaia, my team, are so special that they would never have entered to the X Factor UK. Yours is the strongest team, everybody says it even the other judges. Does the production wants you to win? Maybe I was assigned to the young because they know that I would have done less damage than Morgan. For girls I'm a lot less dangerous than him, do you not believe it ? Who will win X factor? One of the three girls of my team. I do not know who of them. Talking about the judges. Simona Ventura. She's fantastic, we are friends. Elio I enjoy to make him uncomfortable. I pass him tix, which I write the most disgusting things that come to my mind, or almost pornographic drawings. But he's not so shocked about them.... Morgan is the judge whith whom you have tied up the most? no he is just the one that requires the most attention, maybe it's for this reason that I speak with him more. Is it true that you will do an album with him? False. We're just trying to make a song. It is fun to work with him. He is crazy, intelligent, hyperactive. On the piano, he passes from fift blues to boogie-woogie, ending with Bach: it's impressive his talent. An "Enfant terrible", in every sense. But the star of X Factor is you. No, I'm just the novelty. Where did you learn to do television? The bad figures that I make are involuntary. Maybe I work well just because I'm spontaneous, I say what goes through my head and I think the consequences later. I have always done in this way. About consequences, what happened after that, last year, you decided to declare you homosexual? I do not know, the fans always follow me. Some of them do not believe it. If Kinsey's theory is valid, or if there is a scale of sexual orientations ranging from zero to six, where zero indicates a heterosexual one hundred percent convinced and six a homosexual, who can say where I stand on this scale? Vanity Fair has launched the campaign "No couples of series B". Last May, in Paris, you have participated in the demonstrations for the law on gay marriage and you played for the final concert in the Bastille. Why did you take a position? Because it is very important. I convinced all my friends to come to the event and bring along their children. There were grandparents, children, people with feathers and people in suits, rich and poor, all together: it was nice. I was sorry only that the media have exaggerated the conflict: it was a pacific battle much of what has been said and written. Where do we stand in this battle? Obtain equal rights for homosexuals is an unavoidable fact, in human evolution. It is just common sense. In Italy we are still behind. yes, it is incredible the influence of the Church. For countries such as Italy we should say: if homosexuality is not a crime, then what's wrong with equal rights? Not all homosexuals are interested in marriage. It is true, for some it's just a stupid heterosexual institution, but I'm not going to be eterophobic. The point is to have equal rights and duties, the same choice. LAST PART OF THE INTERVIEW (third page of the written scans); the previous parts have been translated by Lucrezia in previous posts! I: And you, do you want to get married? M: If you mean the classic marriage in church, no. But if the question is: do I want to have the same rights as a married couple? Yes, a hundred per cent. Do I want to make a commitment? Yes, hundred per cent. Do I want to face the consequences of breaking that commitment? Yes, hundred per cent. Do I think it is right that I should have kids? Yes, a thousand per cent. Do I think I can be able to give a child love and a good education, a welcoming and free environment? Yes, thousand per cent. I have no doubt. And who says I'm wrong doesn't know what he is saying, he's a poor fool. I: Do you feel ready to have a family? M: Maybe yes, maybe no. But if I project myself in the future, I see myself with a lot of children. I: A lot? M: The right number is 4 or 5. I come from a numerous family and I'd like to create a similar one. I like confusion. Just think that last summer we went on holiday all together: 26 people, 8 cars, 48 suitcases. A beautiful trip, through France and Italy. Where were we? I: You were saying you are not interested in marriage, but you are in having kids. M: Actually I don't exclude getting married, one day. The thing is that I have already made a commitment, I've been with my partner for 7 years. It didn't always go smoothly, on the contrary, there have been highs and lows and we even broke up for some time: a horrible period. But nothing strange, ours has always been a very conventional love story. I: Do all the songs that you have written talk about him? M: Oh no, some of them talk about imaginary loves, people I fantasized about. Sometimes you make movies in your head, everybody does, it's pointless to deny it. I: In The Origin Of Love you sing: “From the air I breath, to the love I need, the only thing I know is you're the origin of love”. M: This one was dedicated to my partner. I love him very much. I: What makes your love strong? M: Sense of humour, tolerance and trust. I: But you're always around the world. M: We don't see each other every day, but it is not a big problem. I: Is he perchance Italian? M: No, he's not Italian, or at least not completely... I don't want to say more. I have always wanted to protect him, just like I've always wanted to protect my private life. Now, actually, I am sharing always bigger pieces with the public, just like with this interview. But I'll never accept the absurd idea that, once you have become a famous figure, you are obliged to talk by force about your own business, about your sexuality. I: Is it not part of the game? M: To a certain extent. The continuous attempts to extort information belong to a distructive idea of information. Moreover, already before I came out, my life was in my songs. Billy Brown talks about a middle-aged husband who leaves wife and kids to be with his man. I've never hidden. I: Has this created any problems for you? M: Of course. When I showed my record company in America my first album, they called me up, all embarassed: “Listen, Mika, in this song, Grace Kelly, you're saying that you look at yourself in the mirror and that you would like to be like a woman.” Me: “So what?”. “Well, we'd have a few problems”. “And what the f**k do I care?”. They asked me if I wanted to change the lyrics, I answered absolutely no way. I: Then why did you wait such a long time to come out? And why did you eventually decide to do it? M: Who insinuates it has been a marketing operation says bulls**t. And the truth is that I have waited because I wasn't ready. I did it when I was feeling happy. And then, I had to deal with a lot of things, before. I had to tell my auntie, my uncle, my friends who didn't know it. I had to talk about it with my family and with my partner's family. It wasn't just about me. I: And how did it go? M: In the family with some it went well, with others it was terrible. I have gone through a few cruelties. But cruelty is the product of fear: fear that you may have changed and that a bond may break, fear of what you don't know. Then things settle, and in fact relationships get better, because we are more sincere. I: What role did religion have? M: My family is Maronite christian, but we are open-minded people. Even if I consider myself a believer [the word is “credente”, I think the right translation is “religious” but I'm not sure], I don't want the Church to judge me or to try to change me. Because there's absolutely nothing to change. I: And with press? M: It was hard. Once a gay journalist said I was an as***le because I didn't want to say I was gay. But it was about my life! And this pressure is bullism, the same homophobic bullism I had been a victim of at school, when I was a kid. I: Isn't a public figure coming out an example for those who are afraid to declare their homosexuality? M: The example is the person, not his sexuality. And I've always tried to be an example for all my fans. My songs talk about the outsiders, about tolerance. Nerds, gays, heteros, all together have always come to my concerts. It is my message from the stage: we are a group of weird people, but we are ok like this, and for a few hours we can forget everything. I: And you, have you forgotten the bullies of your childhood? Have you forgiven them? M: Yes. I don't feel anger anymore. Or better, I only feel it sometimes. I: What made you angry, back then? M: Kids can be cruel, much more than adults. They used to make fun of me for my sexuality, even before I myself started undestanding something of it. And then there was a teacher that used to massacre me. Psychological tortures, on the edge of physical violence. When my father realized it, he went to the school and made a big fuss: they said I was a liar, I got expelled. I: When did it start to get better? M: The first time I got on a stage. A sudden revelation: this is the place where weird people like me stand, and they are all happy. You are a stars, thanks a lot for those translations and Mika...I just can say, I LOVE that man openly and sincere interview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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