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"Là où je t'emmènerai" avec Mika   http://www.tf1.fr/tf1/la-ou-je-t-emmenerai/videos/mika-emission-6-septembre-2015.html

 

 

Ce soir, elle était belle la #Camargue présentée par @mikasounds 1f603.323e550998.png RDV demain pour le replay ! @VacancesGard pic.twitter.com/vpPEq1h17c

 

 

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Là où je t'emmènerai

La Camargue: Sud de la France

http://www.tf1.fr/tf1/la-ou-je-t-emmenerai/videos/mika-emission-6-septembre-2015.html

 

Une personnalité invite à découvrir l'endroit où elle rêverait d'emmener un être cher.

 

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http://www.laoujetemmenerai.com/article/mika-en-camargue_a2360/1

 

Mika en Camargue

par Maeva Demougeot Lundi 7 septembre 2015
 

La Camargue est un endroit magique

 

La Camargue, ses chevaux sauvages qui courent au galop dans les plaines désertiques, ses taureaux fougueux et ses flamants roses majestueux…

En somme, une terre sauvage qui a notamment séduit le chanteur Mika. Partons en sa compagnie à la découverte des salines, où la Méditerranée rencontre le savoir-faire ancestral des Camarguais. Telle une invitation à la rêverie, ces grandes étendues d’eau rose s’imprègnent de mille reflets selon leur exposition au soleil.

Magique” comme dirait Mika.

 

“Cet album c’est le mélange d’un coeur léger et d’une tête sérieuse”
 
Le plus Français des chanteurs libanais revient avec un quatrième opus intitulé No Place In Heaven,
 
“pas de place au paradis” en français, sorti le 15 juin dernier.
Rassurez-vous, le coach de The Voice n’a rien perdu de sa joie de vivre, ces mélodies pop sont toujours aussi colorées et se dégustent comme des bonbons.
Mika partira sur les routes de France distiller ses tubes sucrés à partir du 19 septembre 2015.
 
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VIDS with Subtitles !!!

 

:france::uk: Mika talking about the album and Camargue

 

 

 

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Nous Deux September 8 to 14, 2015

 

:uk: translation by crazyaboutmika

 

 

 

 

Translation into English: 

Mika
 His love 
His projects
 The Voice
 Mika The 32 years old most sparkling judge in The Voice is releasing a fourth album that energizes September. His commitments as a citizen , his life with his companion, his passion for singing , Mika tells us everything. In a smile.
 
At home, I live mostly in one room: the kitchen! 
 
Mika Holbrook Penniman aka Mika, Lebanese and British and fluent French speaker , has been giving colors to pop music since ten years. But behind his contagious enthousiam and his making the show all the time, Mika asserts himself as an artist and a citizen who has a deep reflection about society around him. His fourth album, No Place in Heaven, is similar to him, sparkling!
 
Nous Deux: Isn't this album , No Place in Heaven the one of a more mature man? 
Mika: Yes, but in my own way...with this fourth album, I find again a lightness, a transparency. A more responsible maturity , meanwhile keeping the ability to marvel at life to keep being inspired. One has to have at the same time a light heart and a serious head. Both can and must live together!
 
Nous Deux: The sound of this album is clearly a reference to the pop of the seventies, isn't it?
Mika: Yes, we are in intimate pop, a very human pop! I don't want to be smooth. Which is not common nowadays...It's in the spirit of the singers-composers pop of the sixties and the seventees. I was influenced by that spirit which for me represents the best time period for singers-composers, the most credible, the most sincere, the less dirty.
 
Nous Deux: What do you mean by "less dirty"? 
Mika: I mean that after the seventees, it was so easy to become a commercial item, to get lost within a team of fiffty people in which the artist doesn't write his own songs anymore. 
 
Nous Deux: The single Last Party evokes Freddie Mercury. Do you feel you are an heir of this flamboyant pop that Elton John made popular as well?
Mika: Not really...I don't look back. I always dared to make a record my own way, without thinking too much about the consequences. One can get involved with a touch of softness, talk about important things in a light manner which doesn't betray credibility. But as far as inheritance goes, something else does unite the three of us together: the influence of classical music and the sense of the show!
 
Nous Deux: In Good Guys, you mention James Dean, David Bowie and Jean Cocteau? Why did you pay a tribute to those gay icons?
Mika: I pay a tribute to them with a lot of respect,and I think it's rather unusual for non conformist heroes. This song touches the heart of many people , and the heart of American press for example. It's more a tribute to difference less specifically to sģexuality. Sexuality by itself , without the circumstances, that's not very interesting.
 
Nous Deux: Is it becoming tiresome or are you proud to be presented as a gay icon?
Mika: It doesn't bother me, but I don't identify myself as such. And when I see who my fans are, it really isn't that important....If someone is interested in that theme, they can pick what they want in my universe, so it is positive. But today we are far from sexuality being a scoop; many people suffered for us and before us. 
 
Nous Deux: Paparazzis are after your couple. Is it a drawback of celebrity that is hard to accept?
Mika: When I'm alone people don't care. When we are outside as a couple, of course it is different. But I live with someone who is so normal, who walks around in shorts and Converses all year long. There's nothing extraordinary to shoot. In Italy we got followed by three boats. They waste so much time and money on photos that are not really interesting. ... 
 
Nous Deux: So your life is not continually a show?
Mika: There isn't any show whatsoever. All this circus can be irritating, but there are many advantages. celebrity opens doors which is a huge proviledge. The biggest is that people come and talk to me easily, whoever they are. Such human contacts are rewards that erase all the little constraints.
 
Nous Deux: How does Mika live when he's not on a stage? Do you take a long time to dress up to be elegant?
Mika:He cooks too much and badly, but he's always cooking.
He doesn't talk about himself using "he" [laughs]
I take my dogs out. I love driving but I'm a very bad driver.
I live in the center of London, in a rather big house where I'm alone most of the time.
I live in the kitchen!
And I wear white t-shirts, jeans and Converses. That's how I live.
 
Nous Deux: Is your success a way to take your revenge on those who humiliated you when you were young?
Mika: No, not a revenge.
Because I don't have an ounce of respect for those people who hurt me in difficult periods, as during adolescence.
To take a revenge on them would be giving them value, which I don't want.
When you are 14 or 18 you can truly get out of it, but you never forget.
You can forget the precise words those people said, but you will never forget what they did.
It's not a weight on my shoulders but I don't want to erase what I have had to cope with. 
 
Nous Deux: Aren't you afraid that your artist status cuts you from the rest of the world? 
Mika: No, emotional ignorance is a delicious thing, but it is not excusable to ignore society nor politics....you have to surround yourself with people who are more intelligent so you learn from them, it allows one to understand the world better.
I write for the daily newspaper Corriere Della Serra about issues such as aids or migrants...Reactions can sometimes be strong as about the Vatican for exemple.
 
Nous Deux: Are you a commited artist?
Mika: I'm only a normal person who looks at the world, who has his opinion, and who expresses it, as anyone who would be queing at their butcher's.
This idea of debating is something I'm totally enthousiastic about, it's fun and it fills up life without much cost.
 
 
Interview by Louis Preiss.
 
 Judge and coach in The Voice since 2014, when he replaced Louis Bertignac, Mika managed to find his place.
His pop elegance brought a lot to the third season, which was in fact won by Kendji Girac. If this fourth season was he admits leaves him :
"A bit disapointed, however he could sing for the first time during those shows his latest singles, Talk About You and Good Guys. He doesn't exclude to do the next season, he "likes this exercice".
The only problem being, his program is already very full for the next month: a world tour, XFactor TV show in Italy, a staging project in England and dub voicing for a long cartoon.
In 2016 he will also play a small part in a movie by Ben Stiller with Justin Bieber among others , Zoolander 2.

 

 

 

 

 

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Thank you Eriko :huglove:

I plan to translate it into English, but it might take a little time because we have several radio and videos interviews to subtitle as well   :squirrel:

my pleasure Anne, I've found a part of the article...

but, would like to read a whole of article in English !!

 

http://www.closermag.fr/people/people-francais/mika-parle-de-son-compagnon-je-vis-avec-quelqu-un-de-tellement-normal-555111

 

 

Mika, actuellement en pleine promotion de son album No place in heaven, a levé le voile sur sa vie privée et a parlé de son quotidien avec son compagnon Andy.

Mika est un homme heureux et amoureux, et il n'a pas peur de le dire. Avec son chéri Andy, c'est le grand amour.

Dans une interview accordée à Nous Deux, le chanteur a expliqué qu'il sentait que son couple faisait parler : 

"Quand je suis tout seul, les gens s'en fichent. Quand je suis en couple, effectivement, c'est différent. Mais je vis avec quelqu'un de tellement normal, qui se balade en short et Converse toute l'année. Il n'y a rien d'extraordinaire à photographier. En Italie, on s'est fait suivre par trois bateaux. Ils gaspillent tellement de temps et d'argent pour des clichés qui ne sont guère intéressants..."

 

Celui qui est coach dans The Voice est devenu une icône gay et il a raconté qu'il n'était pas gêné par ce statut. 

"Ça ne me gêne pas, mais ce n'est pas comme ça que je m'identifie. Et quand je vois le profil de mes fans, ça n'a pas tant d'importance que ça... Si cette thématique intéresse quelqu'un, il peut effectivement puiser ce qu'il veut dans mon univers,

donc c'est positif. Mais aujourd'hui, on a dépassé le stade du scoop sur la sexualité : beaucoup de gens ont souffert pour nous et avant nous," a-t-il lancé.

A 32 ans, Mika est heureux sur de nombreux plans : musique, télé, et vie sentimentale.

 

 

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my pleasure Anne, I've found a part of the article...

but, would like to a whole of article in English !!

 

http://www.closermag.fr/people/people-francais/mika-parle-de-son-compagnon-je-vis-avec-quelqu-un-de-tellement-normal-555111

 

 

 

Mika, actuellement en pleine promotion de son album No place in heaven, a levé le voile sur sa vie privée et a parlé de son quotidien avec son compagnon Andy.

Mika est un homme heureux et amoureux, et il n'a pas peur de le dire. Avec son chéri Andy, c'est le grand amour.

Dans une interview accordée à Nous Deux, le chanteur a expliqué qu'il sentait que son couple faisait parler :

"Quand je suis tout seul, les gens s'en fichent. Quand je suis en couple, effectivement, c'est différent. Mais je vis avec quelqu'un de tellement normal, qui se balade en short et Converse toute l'année. Il n'y a rien d'extraordinaire à photographier. En Italie, on s'est fait suivre par trois bateaux. Ils gaspillent tellement de temps et d'argent pour des clichés qui ne sont guère intéressants..."

 

Celui qui est coach dans The Voice est devenu une icône gay et il a raconté qu'il n'était pas gêné par ce statut.

"Ça ne me gêne pas, mais ce n'est pas comme ça que je m'identifie. Et quand je vois le profil de mes fans, ça n'a pas tant d'importance que ça... Si cette thématique intéresse quelqu'un, il peut effectivement puiser ce qu'il veut dans mon univers,

donc c'est positif. Mais aujourd'hui, on a dépassé le stade du scoop sur la sexualité : beaucoup de gens ont souffert pour nous et avant nous," a-t-il lancé.

A 32 ans, Mika est heureux sur de nombreux plans : musique, télé, et vie sentimentale.

 

 

Don't worry I have started it :wink2:
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Nous Deux September 8 to 14, 2015

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Translation into English: 

Mika
 His love 
His projects
 The Voice
 Mika The 32 years old most sparkling judge in The Voice is releasing a fourth album that energizes September. His commitments as a citizen , his life with his companion, his passion for singing , Mika tells us everything. In a smile.
 At home, I live mostly in one room: the kitchen! 
Mika Holbrook Penniman aka Mika, Lebanese and British and fluent French speaker , has been giving colors to pop music since ten years. But behind his contagious enthousiam and his making the show all the time, Mika asserts himself as an artist and a citizen who has a deep reflection about society around him. His fourth album, No Place in Heaven, is similar to him, sparkling!
 Nous Deux: Isn't this album , No Place in Heaven the one of a more mature man? 
Mika: Yes, but in my own way...with this fourth album, I find again a lightness, a transparency. A more responsible maturity , meanwhile keeping the ability to marvel at life to keep being inspired. One has to have at the same time a light heart and a serious head. Both can and must live together!
 Nous Deux: The sound of this album is clearly a reference to the pop of the seventies, isn't it?
 Mika: Yes, we are in intimate pop, a very human pop! I don't want to be smooth. Which is not common nowadays...It's in the spirit of the singers-composers pop of the sixties and the seventees. I was influenced by that spirit which for me represents the best time period for singers-composers, the most credible, the most sincere, the less dirty.
 Nous Deux: What do you mean by "less dirty"? 
Mika: I mean that after the seventees, it was so easy to become a commercial item, to get lost within a team of fiffty people in which the artist doesn't write his own songs anymore. 
Nous Deux: The single Last Party evokes Freddie Mercury. Do you feel you are an heir of this flamboyant pop that Elton John made popular as well?
 Mika: Not really...I don't look back. I always dared to make a record my own way, without thinking too much about the consequences. One can get involved with a touch of softness, talk about important things in a light manner which doesn't betray credibility. But as far as inheritance goes, something else does unite the three of us together: the influence of classical music and the sense of the show!
 Nous Deux: In Good Guys, you mention James Dean, David Bowie and Jean Cocteau? Why did you pay a tribute to those gay icons?
 Mika: I pay a tribute to them with a lot of respect,and I think it's rather unusual for non conformist heroes. This song touches the heart of many people , and the heart of American press for example. It's more a tribute to difference less specifically to sģexuality. Sexuality by itself , without the circumstances, that's not very interesting.
 Nous Deux: Is it becoming tiresome or are you proud to be presented as a gay icon?
 Mika: It doesn't bother me, but I don't identify myself as such. And when I see who my fans are, it really isn't that important....If someone is interested in that theme, they can pick what they want in my universe, so it is positive. But today we are far from sexuality being a scoop; many people suffered for us and before us. 
Nous Deux: Paparazzis are after your couple. Is it a drawback of celebrity that is hard to accept?
 Mika: When I'm alone people don't care. When we are outside as a couple, of course it is different. But I live with someone who is so normal, who walks around in shorts and Converses all year long. There's nothing extraordinary to shoot. In Italy we got followed by three boats. They waste so much time and money on photos that are not really interesting. ... 
Nous Deux: So your life is not continually a show?
 Mika: There isn't any show whatsoever. All this circus can be irritating, but there are many advantages. celebrity opens doors which is a huge proviledge. The biggest is that people come and talk to me easily, whoever they are. Such human contacts are rewards that erase all the little constraints.
 Nous Deux: How does Mika live when he's not on a stage? Do you take a long time to dress up to be elegant?
 Mika:He cooks too much and badly, but he's always cooking. He doesn't talk about himself using "he" [laughs] I take my dogs out. I love driving but I'm a very bad driver. I live in the center of London, in a rather big house where I'm alone most of the time. I live in the kitchen! And I wear white t-shirts, jeans and Converses. That's how I live.
 Nous Deux: Is your success a way to take your revenge on those who humiliated you when you were young?
 Mika: No, not a revenge. Because I don't have an ounce of respect for those people who hurt me in difficult periods, as during adolescence. To take a revenge on them would be giving them value, which I don't want. When you are 14 or 18 you can truly get out of it, but you never forget. You can forget the precise words those people said, but you will never forget what they did. It's not a weight on my shoulders but I don't want to erase what I have had to cope with. 
Nous Deux: Aren't you afraid that your artist status cuts you from the rest of the world? 
Mika: No, emotional ignorance is a delicious thing, but it is not excusable to ignore society nor politics....you have to surround yourself with people who are more intelligent so you learn from them, it allows one to understand the world better. I write for the daily newspaper Corriere Della Serra about issues such as aids or migrants...Reactions can sometimes be strong as about the Vatican for exemple.
 Nous Deux: Are you a commited artist?
 Mika: I'm only a normal person who looks at the world, who has his opinion, and who expresses it, as anyone who would be queing at their butcher's. This idea of debating is something I'm totally enthousiastic about, it's fun and it fills up life without much cost.
Interview by Louis Preiss.
 Judge and coach in The Voice since 2014, when he replaced Louis Bertignac, Mika managed to find his place. His pop elegance brought a lot to the third season, which was in fact won by Kendji Girac. If this fourth season was he admits leaves him :"A bit disapointed, however he could sing for the first time during those shows his latest singles, Talk About You and Good Guys. He doesn't exclude to do the next season, he "likes this exercice". The only problem being, his program is already very full for the next month: a world tour, XFactor TV show in Italy, a staging project in England and dub voicing for a long cartoon. In 2016 he will also play a small part in a movie by Ben Stiller with Justin Bieber among others , Zoolander 2.
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Translation into English: 

Mika
 His love 
His projects
 The Voice
 Mika The 32 years old most sparkling judge in The Voice is releasing a fourth album that energizes September. His commitments as a citizen , his life with his companion, his passion for singing , Mika tells us everything. In a smile.
 At home, I live mostly in one room: the kitchen! 
Mika Holbrook Penniman aka Mika, Lebanese and British and fluent French speaker , has been giving colors to pop music since ten years. But behind his contagious enthousiam and his making the show all the time, Mika asserts himself as an artist and a citizen who has a deep reflection about society around him. His fourth album, No Place in Heaven, is similar to him, sparkling!
 Nous Deux: Isn't this album , No Place in Heaven the one of a more mature man? 
Mika: Yes, but in my own way...with this fourth album, I find again a lightness, a transparency. A more responsible maturity , meanwhile keeping the ability to marvel at life to keep being inspired. One has to have at the same time a light heart and a serious head. Both can and must live together!
 Nous Deux: The sound of this album is clearly a reference to the pop of the seventies, isn't it?
 Mika: Yes, we are in intimate pop, a very human pop! I don't want to be smooth. Which is not common nowadays...It's in the spirit of the singers-composers pop of the sixties and the seventees. I was influenced by that spirit which for me represents the best time period for singers-composers, the most credible, the most sincere, the less dirty.
 Nous Deux: What do you mean by "less dirty"? 
Mika: I mean that after the seventees, it was so easy to become a commercial item, to get lost within a team of fiffty people in which the artist doesn't write his own songs anymore. 
Nous Deux: The single Last Party evokes Freddie Mercury. Do you feel you are an heir of this flamboyant pop that Elton John made popular as well?
 Mika: Not really...I don't look back. I always dared to make a record my own way, without thinking too much about the consequences. One can get involved with a touch of softness, talk about important things in a light manner which doesn't betray credibility. But as far as inheritance goes, something else does unite the three of us together: the influence of classical music and the sense of the show!
 Nous Deux: In Good Guys, you mention James Dean, David Bowie and Jean Cocteau? Why did you pay a tribute to those gay icons?
 Mika: I pay a tribute to them with a lot of respect,and I think it's rather unusual for non conformist heroes. This song touches the heart of many people , and the heart of American press for example. It's more a tribute to difference less specifically to sģexuality. Sexuality by itself , without the circumstances, that's not very interesting.
 Nous Deux: Is it becoming tiresome or are you proud to be presented as a gay icon?
 Mika: It doesn't bother me, but I don't identify myself as such. And when I see who my fans are, it really isn't that important....If someone is interested in that theme, they can pick what they want in my universe, so it is positive. But today we are far from sexuality being a scoop; many people suffered for us and before us. 
Nous Deux: Paparazzis are after your couple. Is it a drawback of celebrity that is hard to accept?
 Mika: When I'm alone people don't care. When we are outside as a couple, of course it is different. But I live with someone who is so normal, who walks around in shorts and Converses all year long. There's nothing extraordinary to shoot. In Italy we got followed by three boats. They waste so much time and money on photos that are not really interesting. ... 
Nous Deux: So your life is not continually a show?
 Mika: There isn't any show whatsoever. All this circus can be irritating, but there are many advantages. celebrity opens doors which is a huge proviledge. The biggest is that people come and talk to me easily, whoever they are. Such human contacts are rewards that erase all the little constraints.
 Nous Deux: How does Mika live when he's not on a stage? Do you take a long time to dress up to be elegant?
 Mika:He cooks too much and badly, but he's always cooking. He doesn't talk about himself using "he" [laughs] I take my dogs out. I love driving but I'm a very bad driver. I live in the center of London, in a rather big house where I'm alone most of the time. I live in the kitchen! And I wear white t-shirts, jeans and Converses. That's how I live.
 Nous Deux: Is your success a way to take your revenge on those who humiliated you when you were young?
 Mika: No, not a revenge. Because I don't have an ounce of respect for those people who hurt me in difficult periods, as during adolescence. To take a revenge on them would be giving them value, which I don't want. When you are 14 or 18 you can truly get out of it, but you never forget. You can forget the precise words those people said, but you will never forget what they did. It's not a weight on my shoulders but I don't want to erase what I have had to cope with. 
Nous Deux: Aren't you afraid that your artist status cuts you from the rest of the world? 
Mika: No, emotional ignorance is a delicious thing, but it is not excusable to ignore society nor politics....you have to surround yourself with people who are more intelligent so you learn from them, it allows one to understand the world better. I write for the daily newspaper Corriere Della Serra about issues such as aids or migrants...Reactions can sometimes be strong as about the Vatican for exemple.
 Nous Deux: Are you a commited artist?
 Mika: I'm only a normal person who looks at the world, who has his opinion, and who expresses it, as anyone who would be queing at their butcher's. This idea of debating is something I'm totally enthousiastic about, it's fun and it fills up life without much cost.
Interview by Louis Preiss.
 Judge and coach in The Voice since 2014, when he replaced Louis Bertignac, Mika managed to find his place. His pop elegance brought a lot to the third season, which was in fact won by Kendji Girac. If this fourth season was he admits leaves him :"A bit disapointed, however he could sing for the first time during those shows his latest singles, Talk About You and Good Guys. He doesn't exclude to do the next season, he "likes this exercice". The only problem being, his program is already very full for the next month: a world tour, XFactor TV show in Italy, a staging project in England and dub voicing for a long cartoon. In 2016 he will also play a small part in a movie by Ben Stiller with Justin Bieber among others , Zoolander 2.

 

 

Thank you for your great job!!  :thumb_yello:  :flowers2:  :clap:

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My internet has been down for a few days. It also mashed up the computer and I had to re-set everything!

I'm back now.

Oh MY God (in that realm that Mika has a place in) Did Mika actually say a beautiful word starting with E?

ENGLAND!!!!! 

What's this staging project???

I wait with bated breath!!!

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Translation into English: 

Mika
 His love 
His projects
 The Voice
 Mika The 32 years old most sparkling judge in The Voice is releasing a fourth album that energizes September. His commitments as a citizen , his life with his companion, his passion for singing , Mika tells us everything. In a smile.
 At home, I live mostly in one room: the kitchen! 
Mika Holbrook Penniman aka Mika, Lebanese and British and fluent French speaker , has been giving colors to pop music since ten years. But behind his contagious enthousiam and his making the show all the time, Mika asserts himself as an artist and a citizen who has a deep reflection about society around him. His fourth album, No Place in Heaven, is similar to him, sparkling!
 Nous Deux: Isn't this album , No Place in Heaven the one of a more mature man? 
Mika: Yes, but in my own way...with this fourth album, I find again a lightness, a transparency. A more responsible maturity , meanwhile keeping the ability to marvel at life to keep being inspired. One has to have at the same time a light heart and a serious head. Both can and must live together!
 Nous Deux: The sound of this album is clearly a reference to the pop of the seventies, isn't it?
 Mika: Yes, we are in intimate pop, a very human pop! I don't want to be smooth. Which is not common nowadays...It's in the spirit of the singers-composers pop of the sixties and the seventees. I was influenced by that spirit which for me represents the best time period for singers-composers, the most credible, the most sincere, the less dirty.
 Nous Deux: What do you mean by "less dirty"? 
Mika: I mean that after the seventees, it was so easy to become a commercial item, to get lost within a team of fiffty people in which the artist doesn't write his own songs anymore. 
Nous Deux: The single Last Party evokes Freddie Mercury. Do you feel you are an heir of this flamboyant pop that Elton John made popular as well?
 Mika: Not really...I don't look back. I always dared to make a record my own way, without thinking too much about the consequences. One can get involved with a touch of softness, talk about important things in a light manner which doesn't betray credibility. But as far as inheritance goes, something else does unite the three of us together: the influence of classical music and the sense of the show!
 Nous Deux: In Good Guys, you mention James Dean, David Bowie and Jean Cocteau? Why did you pay a tribute to those gay icons?
 Mika: I pay a tribute to them with a lot of respect,and I think it's rather unusual for non conformist heroes. This song touches the heart of many people , and the heart of American press for example. It's more a tribute to difference less specifically to sģexuality. Sexuality by itself , without the circumstances, that's not very interesting.
 Nous Deux: Is it becoming tiresome or are you proud to be presented as a gay icon?
 Mika: It doesn't bother me, but I don't identify myself as such. And when I see who my fans are, it really isn't that important....If someone is interested in that theme, they can pick what they want in my universe, so it is positive. But today we are far from sexuality being a scoop; many people suffered for us and before us. 
Nous Deux: Paparazzis are after your couple. Is it a drawback of celebrity that is hard to accept?
 Mika: When I'm alone people don't care. When we are outside as a couple, of course it is different. But I live with someone who is so normal, who walks around in shorts and Converses all year long. There's nothing extraordinary to shoot. In Italy we got followed by three boats. They waste so much time and money on photos that are not really interesting. ... 
Nous Deux: So your life is not continually a show?
 Mika: There isn't any show whatsoever. All this circus can be irritating, but there are many advantages. celebrity opens doors which is a huge proviledge. The biggest is that people come and talk to me easily, whoever they are. Such human contacts are rewards that erase all the little constraints.
 Nous Deux: How does Mika live when he's not on a stage? Do you take a long time to dress up to be elegant?
 Mika:He cooks too much and badly, but he's always cooking. He doesn't talk about himself using "he" [laughs] I take my dogs out. I love driving but I'm a very bad driver. I live in the center of London, in a rather big house where I'm alone most of the time. I live in the kitchen! And I wear white t-shirts, jeans and Converses. That's how I live.
 Nous Deux: Is your success a way to take your revenge on those who humiliated you when you were young?
 Mika: No, not a revenge. Because I don't have an ounce of respect for those people who hurt me in difficult periods, as during adolescence. To take a revenge on them would be giving them value, which I don't want. When you are 14 or 18 you can truly get out of it, but you never forget. You can forget the precise words those people said, but you will never forget what they did. It's not a weight on my shoulders but I don't want to erase what I have had to cope with. 
Nous Deux: Aren't you afraid that your artist status cuts you from the rest of the world? 
Mika: No, emotional ignorance is a delicious thing, but it is not excusable to ignore society nor politics....you have to surround yourself with people who are more intelligent so you learn from them, it allows one to understand the world better. I write for the daily newspaper Corriere Della Serra about issues such as aids or migrants...Reactions can sometimes be strong as about the Vatican for exemple.
 Nous Deux: Are you a commited artist?
 Mika: I'm only a normal person who looks at the world, who has his opinion, and who expresses it, as anyone who would be queing at their butcher's. This idea of debating is something I'm totally enthousiastic about, it's fun and it fills up life without much cost.
Interview by Louis Preiss.
 Judge and coach in The Voice since 2014, when he replaced Louis Bertignac, Mika managed to find his place. His pop elegance brought a lot to the third season, which was in fact won by Kendji Girac. If this fourth season was he admits leaves him :"A bit disapointed, however he could sing for the first time during those shows his latest singles, Talk About You and Good Guys. He doesn't exclude to do the next season, he "likes this exercice". The only problem being, his program is already very full for the next month: a world tour, XFactor TV show in Italy, a staging project in England and dub voicing for a long cartoon. In 2016 he will also play a small part in a movie by Ben Stiller with Justin Bieber among others , Zoolander 2.

 

 

Thanks for posting!  I am very excited about this staging project in England. :cheer:

But seriously...working alongside Justin Bieber?? :doh:

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My internet has been down for a few days. It also mashed up the computer and I had to re-set everything!

I'm back now.

Oh MY God (in that realm that Mika has a place in) Did Mika actually say a beautiful word starting with E?

ENGLAND!!!!! 

What's this staging project???

I wait with bated breath!!!

 

 

Thanks for posting!  I am very excited about this staging project in England. :cheer:

 

 

That might have just been a reference to working on the stage design for his new tour :dunno:

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That might have just been a reference to working on the stage design for his new tour :dunno:

I have no idea...I hope we get to know more soon... the French word was "mise en scène", so "staging" ...I'm hoping it's a new project, but Silver might be right too.... :dunno: 

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INTERVIEW

 

NANCY : MIKA AU ZÉNITH LE 9 OCTOBRE

 

Entretien avec Mika avant sa venue à Nancy.

 

11/09/2015 à 14:00 , actualisé à 13:13

 

 

mika-sera-au-zenith-le-9-octobre-avec-un

 

 

 

Vous revenez avec votre nouvel album, « No Place in Heaven ». Une façon pour vous de vous exprimer…

 

Absolument. Ça, ça ne change vraiment pas. Du moins pas pour l’instant. Quand j’écris, quand je compose, c’est comme si j’étais transparent. J’ai le courage d’écrire des choses que je ne peux pas faire, ni dire dans ma vie normale. Je peux même explorer des choses qui me dérangent et surtout, ça m’aide à gérer ma vie ! Du coup, lorsque j’écris, je me sens mieux. C’est un drôle de sentiment mais je pense que tout le monde l’a en commun. Ça donne un sentiment de valeur. On devient très facilement addict…

 

Est-ce ce sentiment et ce besoin qui vous ont poussé à sortir votre premier album, en 2007. Un opus dans lequel vous abordez des sujets de société…

En fait, ce sont des sujets qui font partie de ma vie. Ce ne sont pas des sujets que j’ai choisis, comme ça, au hasard. Mais des sujets que je dois gérer, que je dois comprendre et qui me tiennent à cœur. Quand j’écris, j’ai le sentiment d’appuyer sur « pause » et d’arrêter le temps. Et lorsqu’on regarde mes albums, on peut suivre les changements dans ma vie. Dans le deuxième, on ressent la peur d’avoir trop partagé ; dans le troisième, ce sont des moments difficiles, douloureux. Dans le quatrième, on est comme après l’orage du troisième, comme si les choses commençaient à se rouvrir. Mais oui, j’avoue que mes albums sont un reflet de ma vie, avec ses bons et ses mauvais moments.

 

Un processus de création qui vous aide, visiblement, à surmonter les épreuves…

Oui, c’est ça. Et je sais que pouvoir faire ça est un privilège. Lorsqu’on grandit dans une famille comme la mienne, avec ce côté oriental et cette pudeur héritée, si on parle de notre vie, de notre travail, c’est comme si on lavait notre linge sale publiquement. Alors qu’en fait, ce n’est pas vrai, c’est une chose importante, il faut le faire sans avoir honte. Plus jeune, lorsque je chantais des chansons écrites par d’autres j’étais déçu, ma voix était trop particulière, ça ne fonctionnait pas. Du coup, j’ai écrit mes propres compositions et ça m’a aidé, je peux écrire et chanter sur ce que je veux. Ça a ouvert quelque chose de plus important.

 

Quoi qu’il arrive, vous renvoyez l’image d’une personne joyeuse. Ce que l’on retrouve, d’ailleurs, dans vos mélodies et dans vos clips… La patte Mika ?

Je ne vois pas ça comme ça, comme une marque. Quand je suis fâché, je l’exprime aussi honnêtement que quand je suis content ! Je souris uniquement lorsque je me sens libre… Etre libre est ce qui me procure le plus de joie… Je pense que le job que j’ai aujourd’hui est un énorme privilège parce que je me sens libre. Et je pense que ça m’a adouci. J’ai un agenda quatre fois plus chargé qu’avant mais mon cœur est quatre fois plus léger ! Je ne gaspille pas mon énergie.

 

Un agenda chargé dans lequel figure The Voice. Un programme dans lequel vous exprimez également cette liberté. Est-ce que cette participation vous apporte un plus, d’un point de vue artistique ?

Oui, absolument. Et les gens qui disent que ce n’est pas vrai sont des menteurs. Ceux affirmant que participer à un tel programme n’est pas puissant, sont en train de mentir. C’est à la fois puissant et extrêmement dur. Si je l’avais fait il y a cinq ans, ça n’aurait pas été bon pour moi parce que je n’étais pas prêt. La télévision agit comme un révélateur. On rentre dans le salon des gens, on fait partie de leur famille une fois par semaine. C’est un truc de dingue ! Et là, il ne faut rien avoir à cacher. Pour moi, ma vie publique a totalement dépassé l’évolution de ma vie privée. Et j’ai dû joindre les deux. The Voice, qui est un programme où l’on parle beaucoup, m’a permis de montrer qui j’étais dans le privé. Ça, ça simplifie ma vie.

 

Votre entrée dans le programme a été fracassante puisque c’est un de vos talents, Kendji Girac, que vous avez rapidement repéré, qui a remporté la troisième saison…

Comme le disent mes racines, Inch’Allah, si Dieu le veut. Quand on voit quelqu’un comme Kendji, son histoire, son parcours, ce gosse qui a souffert de la discrimination à l’école, qui n’a pas été éduqué comme les autres et qui n’avait pas les mêmes chances, et qui se retrouve là, seul, à chanter… Je suis le seul à me retourner, lorsque j’entends le clash entre la musique pop française, sa culture et le son de sa voix, je ne savais pas s’il était vieux ou s’il était jeune. Et je prends ce risque… Je pense que c’était écrit. Je ne suis qu’une toute partie de son histoire.

 

Un choc des cultures qui vous ressemble et sur lequel vous jouez également…

Oui, ça me ressemble, bien sûr. Et en règle générale, on est toujours attiré par ce qui nous ressemble émotionnellement.

 

Parallèlement à tout cela, vous travaillez, notamment, avec Christian Louboutin… Est-ce que vous fonctionnez de la même façon dans la mode ?

Je déteste la mode ! Il n’y a rien de pire ! Dans ma vie, j’ai dû voir deux défilés. C’est une industrie tellement violente, où il y a des monstres ! Ce sont les pires ! Dans ce milieu, j’ai toujours évolué avec des gens qui voulaient travailler avec moi. Des personnes qui regardent ça plutôt comme du style, qui racontent des histoires. Christian Louboutin est comme ça. C’est un personnage iconique français. C’est un mélange de « high class » et de « low class »… Quelqu’un qui aime l’art, la musique, qui est très intelligent… Mais qui est surtout très simple, qui vient de la terre.

 

Pour revenir à la musique, dans quel état d’esprit êtes-vous avant d’attaquer les grandes salles ?

On a débuté et testé la tournée en Asie et aux Etats-Unis où on a eu beaucoup plus de succès qu’on ne l’attendait. Ça a très bien fonctionné. Là, en septembre, on la démarre officiellement en Europe avec le nouveau show. Ça veut dire que l’on repartira en Asie, aux Etats-Unis, avant de faire l’Amérique du Sud. C’est devenu beaucoup plus qu’une tournée européenne !

 

Qu’est-ce que le public va voir dans ce nouveau show ?

Un show mis en scène, avec un début, un milieu et une fin. Avec, visuellement, un chemin. Il y a un concept, une histoire qui vient de mes racines, du théâtre, de l’opéra, dans le contexte de mes chansons. C’est une sélection de titres des quatre albums encadrés dans une histoire qui explique qui je suis. C’est un show riche dans lequel on peut se perdre… C’est mon objectif. J’ai créé quelque chose qui provoque de l’émerveillement, quel que soit son âge. C’est super-important pour moi. Et je ne le fais pas avec des leds, avec des énormes écrans mais avec des choses qui sont faites à la main, des techniques très simples qui provoquent de l’émotion.

 

On vous sent aussi impatient qu’à vos débuts !

Tout à fait ! Je le suis à 100 %. Je suis impatient, j’ai faim ! Créer et construire une sorte de réalité parallèle me donne une force et une envie incroyable ! C’est une impatience qui, à la fin, va me manger !

 

Mika sera en concert au Zénith de Nancy le vendredi 9 octobre.

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INTERVIEW

 

NANCY : MIKA AU ZÉNITH LE 9 OCTOBRE

 

Entretien avec Mika avant sa venue à Nancy.

 

11/09/2015 à 14:00 , actualisé à 13:13

 

 

mika-sera-au-zenith-le-9-octobre-avec-un

 

 

 

Vous revenez avec votre nouvel album, « No Place in Heaven ». Une façon pour vous de vous exprimer…

 

Absolument. Ça, ça ne change vraiment pas. Du moins pas pour l’instant. Quand j’écris, quand je compose, c’est comme si j’étais transparent. J’ai le courage d’écrire des choses que je ne peux pas faire, ni dire dans ma vie normale. Je peux même explorer des choses qui me dérangent et surtout, ça m’aide à gérer ma vie ! Du coup, lorsque j’écris, je me sens mieux. C’est un drôle de sentiment mais je pense que tout le monde l’a en commun. Ça donne un sentiment de valeur. On devient très facilement addict…

 

Est-ce ce sentiment et ce besoin qui vous ont poussé à sortir votre premier album, en 2007. Un opus dans lequel vous abordez des sujets de société…

En fait, ce sont des sujets qui font partie de ma vie. Ce ne sont pas des sujets que j’ai choisis, comme ça, au hasard. Mais des sujets que je dois gérer, que je dois comprendre et qui me tiennent à cœur. Quand j’écris, j’ai le sentiment d’appuyer sur « pause » et d’arrêter le temps. Et lorsqu’on regarde mes albums, on peut suivre les changements dans ma vie. Dans le deuxième, on ressent la peur d’avoir trop partagé ; dans le troisième, ce sont des moments difficiles, douloureux. Dans le quatrième, on est comme après l’orage du troisième, comme si les choses commençaient à se rouvrir. Mais oui, j’avoue que mes albums sont un reflet de ma vie, avec ses bons et ses mauvais moments.

 

Un processus de création qui vous aide, visiblement, à surmonter les épreuves…

Oui, c’est ça. Et je sais que pouvoir faire ça est un privilège. Lorsqu’on grandit dans une famille comme la mienne, avec ce côté oriental et cette pudeur héritée, si on parle de notre vie, de notre travail, c’est comme si on lavait notre linge sale publiquement. Alors qu’en fait, ce n’est pas vrai, c’est une chose importante, il faut le faire sans avoir honte. Plus jeune, lorsque je chantais des chansons écrites par d’autres j’étais déçu, ma voix était trop particulière, ça ne fonctionnait pas. Du coup, j’ai écrit mes propres compositions et ça m’a aidé, je peux écrire et chanter sur ce que je veux. Ça a ouvert quelque chose de plus important.

 

Quoi qu’il arrive, vous renvoyez l’image d’une personne joyeuse. Ce que l’on retrouve, d’ailleurs, dans vos mélodies et dans vos clips… La patte Mika ?

Je ne vois pas ça comme ça, comme une marque. Quand je suis fâché, je l’exprime aussi honnêtement que quand je suis content ! Je souris uniquement lorsque je me sens libre… Etre libre est ce qui me procure le plus de joie… Je pense que le job que j’ai aujourd’hui est un énorme privilège parce que je me sens libre. Et je pense que ça m’a adouci. J’ai un agenda quatre fois plus chargé qu’avant mais mon cœur est quatre fois plus léger ! Je ne gaspille pas mon énergie.

 

Un agenda chargé dans lequel figure The Voice. Un programme dans lequel vous exprimez également cette liberté. Est-ce que cette participation vous apporte un plus, d’un point de vue artistique ?

Oui, absolument. Et les gens qui disent que ce n’est pas vrai sont des menteurs. Ceux affirmant que participer à un tel programme n’est pas puissant, sont en train de mentir. C’est à la fois puissant et extrêmement dur. Si je l’avais fait il y a cinq ans, ça n’aurait pas été bon pour moi parce que je n’étais pas prêt. La télévision agit comme un révélateur. On rentre dans le salon des gens, on fait partie de leur famille une fois par semaine. C’est un truc de dingue ! Et là, il ne faut rien avoir à cacher. Pour moi, ma vie publique a totalement dépassé l’évolution de ma vie privée. Et j’ai dû joindre les deux. The Voice, qui est un programme où l’on parle beaucoup, m’a permis de montrer qui j’étais dans le privé. Ça, ça simplifie ma vie.

 

Votre entrée dans le programme a été fracassante puisque c’est un de vos talents, Kendji Girac, que vous avez rapidement repéré, qui a remporté la troisième saison…

Comme le disent mes racines, Inch’Allah, si Dieu le veut. Quand on voit quelqu’un comme Kendji, son histoire, son parcours, ce gosse qui a souffert de la discrimination à l’école, qui n’a pas été éduqué comme les autres et qui n’avait pas les mêmes chances, et qui se retrouve là, seul, à chanter… Je suis le seul à me retourner, lorsque j’entends le clash entre la musique pop française, sa culture et le son de sa voix, je ne savais pas s’il était vieux ou s’il était jeune. Et je prends ce risque… Je pense que c’était écrit. Je ne suis qu’une toute partie de son histoire.

 

Un choc des cultures qui vous ressemble et sur lequel vous jouez également…

Oui, ça me ressemble, bien sûr. Et en règle générale, on est toujours attiré par ce qui nous ressemble émotionnellement.

 

Parallèlement à tout cela, vous travaillez, notamment, avec Christian Louboutin… Est-ce que vous fonctionnez de la même façon dans la mode ?

Je déteste la mode ! Il n’y a rien de pire ! Dans ma vie, j’ai dû voir deux défilés. C’est une industrie tellement violente, où il y a des monstres ! Ce sont les pires ! Dans ce milieu, j’ai toujours évolué avec des gens qui voulaient travailler avec moi. Des personnes qui regardent ça plutôt comme du style, qui racontent des histoires. Christian Louboutin est comme ça. C’est un personnage iconique français. C’est un mélange de « high class » et de « low class »… Quelqu’un qui aime l’art, la musique, qui est très intelligent… Mais qui est surtout très simple, qui vient de la terre.

 

Pour revenir à la musique, dans quel état d’esprit êtes-vous avant d’attaquer les grandes salles ?

On a débuté et testé la tournée en Asie et aux Etats-Unis où on a eu beaucoup plus de succès qu’on ne l’attendait. Ça a très bien fonctionné. Là, en septembre, on la démarre officiellement en Europe avec le nouveau show. Ça veut dire que l’on repartira en Asie, aux Etats-Unis, avant de faire l’Amérique du Sud. C’est devenu beaucoup plus qu’une tournée européenne !

 

Qu’est-ce que le public va voir dans ce nouveau show ?

Un show mis en scène, avec un début, un milieu et une fin. Avec, visuellement, un chemin. Il y a un concept, une histoire qui vient de mes racines, du théâtre, de l’opéra, dans le contexte de mes chansons. C’est une sélection de titres des quatre albums encadrés dans une histoire qui explique qui je suis. C’est un show riche dans lequel on peut se perdre… C’est mon objectif. J’ai créé quelque chose qui provoque de l’émerveillement, quel que soit son âge. C’est super-important pour moi. Et je ne le fais pas avec des leds, avec des énormes écrans mais avec des choses qui sont faites à la main, des techniques très simples qui provoquent de l’émotion.

 

On vous sent aussi impatient qu’à vos débuts !

Tout à fait ! Je le suis à 100 %. Je suis impatient, j’ai faim ! Créer et construire une sorte de réalité parallèle me donne une force et une envie incroyable ! C’est une impatience qui, à la fin, va me manger !

 

Mika sera en concert au Zénith de Nancy le vendredi 9 octobre.

Thanks to Auntie Google I've read the interview in English. I'm sort-of understanding what the "Staging Project" might be now. He's going to create a show using his experience in theatre and opera with a story to it. Something new around songs from all 4 albums. Should be great to see it.

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