Mika in French Press - 2014

[Marilyn Mastin]

Marilyn, remind me what you're trying to view on? Laptop? Tablet? What browser are you using? We need to google to find a way to let you see all these delicious videos you're missing!

It's a Silk Browser. But the tablet is being such a pest. It keeps turning off tabs. I can be doing something, like writing a message on here. I tap submit, and get that white page that says "page does not exist", or something like that.

That page you always get when the internet is down.

Or this thing that says "tab has stopped working" and "do you want to restore your tabs?"

Either way, if I'm writing something, it doesn't get saved. If I'm trying to see a video, I don't get to see it.

It was working better, a while ago, but now it's playing up again.

I feel like chucking it in the bin!

It's a Kindle Fire HD.

Should be called Piece Of HD Crap

[Melyssa]

can we add them to Mikatube?

 

Oh I am ok for that if it helps. Only I don't know how

 

I can't put it on youtube anyway as it is too long for my channel - or as last resort I can cut it in two and put it on YT if it then works better for you Marilyn?

 

I'll thank my family, the old Gods and the new, Scorsese, Maradona and you.

 

I tolerate them all around me in the speech

[Pandora_Z]

Here is a subtitled version of c à vous part one. As always, sorry if there are mistakes etc.

 

-> https://vimeo.com/99333161

 

(with a special thanks to Log lady for support )

 

Thank you so much! This is awesome! I always try to watch interviews that Mika does even if I don't know what they are talking about. But to have the subtitles was simply wonderful and I appreciate the work you did on it.

[Kumazzz]

Finally the interview from RTL2 is online:

 

http://www.rtl2.fr/video/7772571968/interview-rtl2-mika

 

Dailymotion

 

RTL2 : photo galerie

 

http://www.rtl2.fr/galerie/7772855758/mika-interview-rtl2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[~TheLoveYouBreathe]

Thanks for the photos

[Alireine]

Dailymotion

 

RTL2 : photo galerie

 

 

Thank you

[Melyssa]

Here is a subtitled version of c à vous part one. As always, sorry if there are mistakes etc.

 

-> https://vimeo.com/99333161

 

(with a special thanks to Log lady for support )

 

And here is part 2, just pretend the first one is not here all alone since a thousand years ago

 

It's quite short as I had gotten rid of everything that wasn't Mika-related (so basically 88% of the whole thing)

 

-> https://vimeo.com/100032636

 

 

(by the way, I put my little subtitled stuff in a channel, as it is more easy for me to organise myself that way, but as some others might be interested too it's all here https://vimeo.com/channels/774783 )

Edited July 6, 2014 by Melyssa

[DerMoment1608]

And here is part 2, just pretend the first one is not here all alone since a thousand years ago

 

Thank you very much

[Alireine]

As the video clip of Boum Boum Boum has been released, a few articles appeared in French press, especially online press. I thought most of them aren't really interesting, as they are from "not serious" press, that's why I didn't put them here, but there is now an article in Le Figaro, which is one of the most famous and serious newspaper

 

http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2014/07/10/03006-20140710ARTFIG00324-mika-se-prend-pour-james-bond-dans-le-clip-de-boum-boum-boum.php

 

Mika se prend pour James Bond dans le clip de Boum Boum Boum

 

VIDÉO - Les images qui accompagnent le titre débridé du chanteur de pop britannico-libanais emprunte[nt] à tous les genres du 7ème art: western, film noir ou thriller. Une façon de se moquer des figures sacrées masculines?

 

On en oublierait presque les paroles. Le nouveau clip de Mika pour la chanson Boum Boum Boum se place résolument dans un registre grandiloquent, emprunté au 7ème art.

On y voit un Mika grimé tour à tour en cow-boy échappé d'Il était une fois dans l'ouest de Sergio Leone, en James Bond façon Docteur No (le premier avec Sean Connery et Ursula Andress, évidemment). Il s'invite également dans le Barry Lyndon de Stanley Kubrick, entre dans la peau du détective privé Sam Spade, incarné par le légendaire Humphrey Bogart dans Le Faucon Maltais, ou se réincarne en Peter O'Toole dans Lawrence d'Arabie .

À chaque personnage correspond une esthétique particulière versant dans la caricature: ranch, saloon, et paysage désertique, tête à tête en noir et blanc, ou flirt avec une jolie blonde sortie de la piscine. Un clip résolument «second degré», même si on aurait aimé que Mika assume un peu plus le contenu de sa chanson légère et débridée sur les ébats d'un couple homosexuel.

«Hier, on était chez ta mère, elle a failli tomber par terre en entrant dans le dressing-room, quand toi et moi on faisait Boum Boum Boum», chante l'artiste. Il évoque avec malice le «septième ciel» dans «les ascenseurs des hôtels» et les «étagères qui font badaboum». Entre la sulfureuse chanson de Boris Vian Johnny, fais-moi mal! et la naïveté enthousiaste de Charles Trenet dans Boum, Mika reprend à son compte cette onomatopée célèbre de la chanson française et la détourne de séduisante manière.

Une esthétique baroque et décalée

 

Si le clip ne fait pas directement écho aux paroles audacieuses du chanteur, il surprend par son esthétique baroque et décalée qui agit comme une douce satire des grands rôles masculins au cinéma. Boum, Boum, Boum est le premier extrait du prochain album de Mika, prévu pour novembre. Après avoir été coach (gagnant avec Kendji) dans le télécrochet The Voice et avoir enregistré plusieurs titres dans la langue de Molière (Elle me dit, Karen, Un soleil mal luné et L'amour dans le mauvais temps), l'artiste a annoncé qu'une partie de l'album sera en français.

[Littlelady]

Thanks Melanie:huglove: BTW the vid has cracked 500000 views:wub2:

[crazyaboutmika]

As the video clip of Boum Boum Boum has been released, a few articles appeared in French press, especially online press. I thought most of them aren't really interesting, as they are from "not serious" press, that's why I didn't put them here, but there is now an article in Le Figaro, which is one of the most famous and serious newspaper

 

http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2014/07/10/03006-20140710ARTFIG00324-mika-se-prend-pour-james-bond-dans-le-clip-de-boum-boum-boum.php

 

Mika se prend pour James Bond dans le clip de Boum Boum Boum

 

VIDÉO - Les images qui accompagnent le titre débridé du chanteur de pop britannico-libanais emprunte[nt] à tous les genres du 7ème art: western, film noir ou thriller. Une façon de se moquer des figures sacrées masculines?

 

On en oublierait presque les paroles. Le nouveau clip de Mika pour la chanson Boum Boum Boum se place résolument dans un registre grandiloquent, emprunté au 7ème art.

On y voit un Mika grimé tour à tour en cow-boy échappé d'Il était une fois dans l'ouest de Sergio Leone, en James Bond façon Docteur No (le premier avec Sean Connery et Ursula Andress, évidemment). Il s'invite également dans le Barry Lyndon de Stanley Kubrick, entre dans la peau du détective privé Sam Spade, incarné par le légendaire Humphrey Bogart dans Le Faucon Maltais, ou se réincarne en Peter O'Toole dans Lawrence d'Arabie .

À chaque personnage correspond une esthétique particulière versant dans la caricature: ranch, saloon, et paysage désertique, tête à tête en noir et blanc, ou flirt avec une jolie blonde sortie de la piscine. Un clip résolument «second degré», même si on aurait aimé que Mika assume un peu plus le contenu de sa chanson légère et débridée sur les ébats d'un couple homosexuel.

«Hier, on était chez ta mère, elle a failli tomber par terre en entrant dans le dressing-room, quand toi et moi on faisait Boum Boum Boum», chante l'artiste. Il évoque avec malice le «septième ciel» dans «les ascenseurs des hôtels» et les «étagères qui font badaboum». Entre la sulfureuse chanson de Boris Vian Johnny, fais-moi mal! et la naïveté enthousiaste de Charles Trenet dans Boum, Mika reprend à son compte cette onomatopée célèbre de la chanson française et la détourne de séduisante manière.

Une esthétique baroque et décalée

 

Si le clip ne fait pas directement écho aux paroles audacieuses du chanteur, il surprend par son esthétique baroque et décalée qui agit comme une douce satire des grands rôles masculins au cinéma. Boum, Boum, Boum est le premier extrait du prochain album de Mika, prévu pour novembre. Après avoir été coach (gagnant avec Kendji) dans le télécrochet The Voice et avoir enregistré plusieurs titres dans la langue de Molière (Elle me dit, Karen, Un soleil mal luné et L'amour dans le mauvais temps), l'artiste a annoncé qu'une partie de l'album sera en français.

 

Thanks Melanie:huglove: BTW the vid has cracked 500000 views:wub2:

I'll translate it in English now

I'm really happy about that news Frauke

Thanks to both of you for sharing

[crazyaboutmika]

As the video clip of Boum Boum Boum has been released, a few articles appeared in French press, especially online press. I thought most of them aren't really interesting, as they are from "not serious" press, that's why I didn't put them here, but there is now an article in Le Figaro, which is one of the most famous and serious newspaper

 

http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2014/07/10/03006-20140710ARTFIG00324-mika-se-prend-pour-james-bond-dans-le-clip-de-boum-boum-boum.php

 

Mika se prend pour James Bond dans le clip de Boum Boum Boum

 

VIDÉO - Les images qui accompagnent le titre débridé du chanteur de pop britannico-libanais emprunte[nt] à tous les genres du 7ème art: western, film noir ou thriller. Une façon de se moquer des figures sacrées masculines?

 

On en oublierait presque les paroles. Le nouveau clip de Mika pour la chanson Boum Boum Boum se place résolument dans un registre grandiloquent, emprunté au 7ème art.

On y voit un Mika grimé tour à tour en cow-boy échappé d'Il était une fois dans l'ouest de Sergio Leone, en James Bond façon Docteur No (le premier avec Sean Connery et Ursula Andress, évidemment). Il s'invite également dans le Barry Lyndon de Stanley Kubrick, entre dans la peau du détective privé Sam Spade, incarné par le légendaire Humphrey Bogart dans Le Faucon Maltais, ou se réincarne en Peter O'Toole dans Lawrence d'Arabie .

À chaque personnage correspond une esthétique particulière versant dans la caricature: ranch, saloon, et paysage désertique, tête à tête en noir et blanc, ou flirt avec une jolie blonde sortie de la piscine. Un clip résolument «second degré», même si on aurait aimé que Mika assume un peu plus le contenu de sa chanson légère et débridée sur les ébats d'un couple homosexuel.

«Hier, on était chez ta mère, elle a failli tomber par terre en entrant dans le dressing-room, quand toi et moi on faisait Boum Boum Boum», chante l'artiste. Il évoque avec malice le «septième ciel» dans «les ascenseurs des hôtels» et les «étagères qui font badaboum». Entre la sulfureuse chanson de Boris Vian Johnny, fais-moi mal! et la naïveté enthousiaste de Charles Trenet dans Boum, Mika reprend à son compte cette onomatopée célèbre de la chanson française et la détourne de séduisante manière.

Une esthétique baroque et décalée

 

Si le clip ne fait pas directement écho aux paroles audacieuses du chanteur, il surprend par son esthétique baroque et décalée qui agit comme une douce satire des grands rôles masculins au cinéma. Boum, Boum, Boum est le premier extrait du prochain album de Mika, prévu pour novembre. Après avoir été coach (gagnant avec Kendji) dans le télécrochet The Voice et avoir enregistré plusieurs titres dans la langue de Molière (Elle me dit, Karen, Un soleil mal luné et L'amour dans le mauvais temps), l'artiste a annoncé qu'une partie de l'album sera en français.

 

Mika thinks he is James Bond in Boum Boum Boum video

 

VIDÉO -The images that go along with the unbridled song of the British-Lebanese singer borrow to all styles of the seventh art:western, detective movie or thriller. A way to mock the holy masculine stereotypes?

We'd almost forget about the lyrics. The new Mika clip for the song Boum Boum Boum is shot in a bombastic way, borrowed to the movies .

There Mika made up to look like a Once Upon A Time In The West by Sergio Leone, as James Bond Doctor No style ( the first James Bond movie with Sean Connert and Ursula Andress, of course) He also revisits Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, embodies Sam Spade, the private detective , who was played by the legendary Humphrey Bogart in the Maltese Falcon, or reincarnates as Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.

For each character, there's a matching visual universe more or less caricatural : ranch, saloon, desert, intimate black and white interview, or flirting with a blonde girl out of a swimming pool. A video with an "ironical touch" even though we would have liked Mika s movie to be a bit more in synch with what's in his light and unbridled song about a gay couple love making.

"Yesterday, we were at your mother's , she almost fell on the floor when she entered into the dressing room where you and me were going Boum Boum Boum" sings the artist. He mischeviously alludes to "seventh heaven" in the "hotel lifts" and "the shelves going badaboum". In between Boris Vian red hot song "Johnny , fais moi mal" (Johnny , hurt me) and the enthousiastic ingenuity of Charles Trenet in his "Boum" song, Mika takes over this famous onomatopoeia of French songs history and twist it in a seductive way.

It is esthetically baroque and quirky.

Although the video doesn't echo the bold lyrics of the singer, it surprises because it is esthetically baroque and quirky which is a sweet satire of the most famous masculine parts in the movies. Boum, Boum, Boum is the first single from Mika's next album, which should be out in November. After having been a coach (and having won with Kendji) in The Voice ( a talent show) and after recording several songs in Molière's language ("Elle me dit"," Karen", Un soleil mal luné and "L'amour dans le mauvais temps),the artist said that a part of the album will be in French.

[charlie20]

As the video clip of Boum Boum Boum has been released, a few articles appeared in French press, especially online press. I thought most of them aren't really interesting, as they are from "not serious" press, that's why I didn't put them here, but there is now an article in Le Figaro, which is one of the most famous and serious newspaper

 

http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2014/07/10/03006-20140710ARTFIG00324-mika-se-prend-pour-james-bond-dans-le-clip-de-boum-boum-boum.php

 

Mika se prend pour James Bond dans le clip de Boum Boum Boum

 

VIDÉO - Les images qui accompagnent le titre débridé du chanteur de pop britannico-libanais emprunte[nt] à tous les genres du 7ème art: western, film noir ou thriller. Une façon de se moquer des figures sacrées masculines?

 

On en oublierait presque les paroles. Le nouveau clip de Mika pour la chanson Boum Boum Boum se place résolument dans un registre grandiloquent, emprunté au 7ème art.

On y voit un Mika grimé tour à tour en cow-boy échappé d'Il était une fois dans l'ouest de Sergio Leone, en James Bond façon Docteur No (le premier avec Sean Connery et Ursula Andress, évidemment). Il s'invite également dans le Barry Lyndon de Stanley Kubrick, entre dans la peau du détective privé Sam Spade, incarné par le légendaire Humphrey Bogart dans Le Faucon Maltais, ou se réincarne en Peter O'Toole dans Lawrence d'Arabie .

À chaque personnage correspond une esthétique particulière versant dans la caricature: ranch, saloon, et paysage désertique, tête à tête en noir et blanc, ou flirt avec une jolie blonde sortie de la piscine. Un clip résolument «second degré», même si on aurait aimé que Mika assume un peu plus le contenu de sa chanson légère et débridée sur les ébats d'un couple homosexuel.

«Hier, on était chez ta mère, elle a failli tomber par terre en entrant dans le dressing-room, quand toi et moi on faisait Boum Boum Boum», chante l'artiste. Il évoque avec malice le «septième ciel» dans «les ascenseurs des hôtels» et les «étagères qui font badaboum». Entre la sulfureuse chanson de Boris Vian Johnny, fais-moi mal! et la naïveté enthousiaste de Charles Trenet dans Boum, Mika reprend à son compte cette onomatopée célèbre de la chanson française et la détourne de séduisante manière.

Une esthétique baroque et décalée

 

Si le clip ne fait pas directement écho aux paroles audacieuses du chanteur, il surprend par son esthétique baroque et décalée qui agit comme une douce satire des grands rôles masculins au cinéma. Boum, Boum, Boum est le premier extrait du prochain album de Mika, prévu pour novembre. Après avoir été coach (gagnant avec Kendji) dans le télécrochet The Voice et avoir enregistré plusieurs titres dans la langue de Molière (Elle me dit, Karen, Un soleil mal luné et L'amour dans le mauvais temps), l'artiste a annoncé qu'une partie de l'album sera en français.

 

It's an interesting and nice interpretation of the video, and their comment was pretty much inevitable (I agree with it).A good article, seems to me.

[Log lady]

Mika thinks he is James Bond in Boum Boum Boum video

Thank you Anne, I like this interpretation. It's the same I had when I saw the first stills of the video: an ironic subversion of the masculine stereotype achieved by making those iconic movie characters (all typical masculine idols) look funny and quirky. Considering the other, more obvious, interpretation as well (the symbolic representation of sex through the "boum boum" of the gunshots, which leads to the contrast love/violence), I think the video is appropriate because it celebrates ALL kinds of love (as he said the song does) in an elegant, non-vulgar and clever way. On this note, making fun of the traditional image of the manly sex symbol seems to me quite a statement.

Please forgive me if I've repeated the things others have already said before, I'll be able to catch up when my exams are over

Edited July 11, 2014 by Log lady

[Elwendin]

western, detective movie or thriller. A way to mock the holy masculine stereotypes? A video with an "ironical touch"

Because it is esthetically baroque and quirky which is a sweet satire of the most famous masculine parts in the movies.

I think that most random people watching it don't see any particular irony in it

 

We can look for it cause we like to understand every and each detail of his work, but it doesn't seem a satire to me. Maybe I lost my my sense of humour

[tiibet]

My first thought was that there's a lot of self irony in the vid so I totally see the point in the article. It's a very funny video, I think he succeeded really well with the idea. I've watched the clip many, many times and I'm still not bored

[Alireine]

Thanks for the translation Anne

[Marilyn Mastin]

I think that most random people watching it don't see any particular irony in it

 

We can look for it cause we like to understand every and each detail of his work, but it doesn't seem a satire to me. Maybe I lost my my sense of humour

It's more of a homage than a satire, I think.

I think it's a really clever idea, and turns the song into the accompaniment, rather than the main part of the video.

That's good, because not all the viewers can speak French, but they've all got eyes, and the visuals are universal.

I'm thrilled about the number of hits already! Hopefully the waves of the video will wash up on the shores of that large island that's just North of France, where the trees Mika planted, still need nurturing.

[mamiam]

It's more of a homage than a satire, I think.

I think it's a really clever idea, and turns the song into the accompaniment, rather than the main part of the video.

That's good, because not all the viewers can speak French, but they've all got eyes, and the visuals are universal.

I'm thrilled about the number of hits already! Hopefully the waves of the video will wash up on the shores of that large island that's just North of France, where the trees Mika planted, still need nurturing.

 

What a lovely way of expressing it, Marilyn!!

 

Love,love

me

[tiibet]

It's more of a homage than a satire, I think.

I think it's a really clever idea, and turns the song into the accompaniment, rather than the main part of the video.

That's good, because not all the viewers can speak French, but they've all got eyes, and the visuals are universal.

I'm thrilled about the number of hits already! Hopefully the waves of the video will wash up on the shores of that large island that's just North of France, where the trees Mika planted, still need nurturing.

 

It's amazing the video has that many hits already! It's brilliant how well the video/images fit with the song even they tell a different story! The visuals fit with the sound extremely well (especially love the most important part in the song) and I like the double-meaning for boum boum boum. I find this clip really funny, in a good and very clever way.

[Dreamy_Queen]

AnneБ thank you so much!

[Alireine]

Mika is said to be in "50 Minutes inside" tonight (6PM?) on TF1

[Meeks]

Mika is said to be in "50 Minutes inside" tonight (6PM?) on TF1

 

Maybe some promo for the BBB video??

 

Anyway, Mika and Nikos together again, that's great

[Christine]

It's more of a homage than a satire, I think.

 

I totally agree with you. I think he made a very earnest effort to emulate these characters, not satirize them. If it comes off a bit goofy at times it's because he's Mika, not Laurence Olivier or Clint Eastwood or Daniel Craig. I think he did the Bond role very well though because it's part of the Bond persona to be a bit cheeky and silly. Especially in the Pierce Brosnan era.

[RAK1]

Mika thinks he is James Bond in Boum Boum Boum video

 

VIDÉO -The images that go along with the unbridled song of the British-Lebanese singer borrow to all styles of the seventh art:western, detective movie or thriller. A way to mock the holy masculine stereotypes?

We'd almost forget about the lyrics. The new Mika clip for the song Boum Boum Boum is shot in a bombastic way, borrowed to the movies .

There Mika made up to look like a Once Upon A Time In The West by Sergio Leone, as James Bond Doctor No style ( the first James Bond movie with Sean Connert and Ursula Andress, of course) He also revisits Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, embodies Sam Spade, the private detective , who was played by the legendary Humphrey Bogart in the Maltese Falcon, or reincarnates as Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.

For each character, there's a matching visual universe more or less caricatural : ranch, saloon, desert, intimate black and white interview, or flirting with a blonde girl out of a swimming pool. A video with an "ironical touch" even though we would have liked Mika s movie to be a bit more in synch with what's in his light and unbridled song about a gay couple love making.

"Yesterday, we were at your mother's , she almost fell on the floor when she entered into the dressing room where you and me were going Boum Boum Boum" sings the artist. He mischeviously alludes to "seventh heaven" in the "hotel lifts" and "the shelves going badaboum". In between Boris Vian red hot song "Johnny , fais moi mal" (Johnny , hurt me) and the enthousiastic ingenuity of Charles Trenet in his "Boum" song, Mika takes over this famous onomatopoeia of French songs history and twist it in a seductive way.

It is esthetically baroque and quirky.

Although the video doesn't echo the bold lyrics of the singer, it surprises because it is esthetically baroque and quirky which is a sweet satire of the most famous masculine parts in the movies. Boum, Boum, Boum is the first single from Mika's next album, which should be out in November. After having been a coach (and having won with Kendji) in The Voice ( a talent show) and after recording several songs in Molière's language ("Elle me dit"," Karen", Un soleil mal luné and "L'amour dans le mauvais temps),the artist said that a part of the album will be in French.

 

I really wish they would stop making comments about the album possibly coming out in November. I pretty sure that is not going to be happening. January or February would be more like it, I think.