JoAllison Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Hi I’m Jo, from the USA (upstate NY). I’ve been a big fan of Mika’s for a few years but have never seen him live (YouTube feeds my addiction. ) I don’t really know what to say, never joined a fan club before (I did check in on the USA thread, wrote more there because I wrote about what others I saw there write on). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikasister Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Hi Jo. Welcome to this forum. I hope you have a lot of fun here. See you around! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine64 Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Welcome to the MFC and have a lot of fun here. How did you discover Mika? I´m Sabine from Germany 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominika Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Hello, hello! I'm Dominika from Poland and to MFC! A lot of things is going on here so stick around and have fun! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabry74 Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Hi, I'm Gabriella and I live in Italy, nice to meet you and welcome to the MFC! Have fun here! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Hi and welcome to the MFC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoAllison Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 Thank you for the welcome! Sabine64 asked how I discovered Mika. This might get a bit long. I’ve had issues with depression since my middle brother died, hit by lightning about 7 years ago near DC. One of my ways of dealing has been watching YouTube videos of The Voice and X Factor in other countries in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep (have my favorite judges, Mika was definitely one). [Because of the years of watching I sort of understand French and Italian, and Dutch (plus one of my sister-in-laws is Dutch) and I took Spanish for 8 years a few decades ago & I still sort of understand it too, but have discovered I don’t really need to understand the language to like the music or the show.] Then one year I got the idea to listen to the music of all the coaches of The Voice since they’re the ones considered good enough to be coaches. I googled and found an article that listed all the countries that do The Voice (64!) and all the coaches for all the years. And I’ve been working my way through the coaches ever since via Spotify (and Wikipedia to check if they’re in a group). I’ve tried to give each one 1 hour to half a day, at minimum to see if I like them. If I like them I either add their stuff to one or more of my Spotify shuffle lists (can’t make a real playlist to save my life...I just add songs and hit shuffle), or straight out buy their music (or both). I’ve bought songs or albums for several, but Mika is the only one (so far) where I just had to track down every single song/album I could find and buy them, plus track down all his covers of others’ music I could find on YouTube and make my own private watch list, and have spent hours watching YouTube videos of his concerts. Some of his songs made me cry, most make me happy, and they all feel like a warm hug when I really need it, you know? And, learning more about him, I truly admire his human rights work, and his caring, his intelligence and super creativity & sense of fun, plus he seems really nice, (and yes, is really cute). So now for the first time in my life I joined a fan club. (I’m an introvert and kinda shy in non-computer life.) Sabine, your icon picture is familiar- do you have videos of Mika on YouTube (I probably watched them) ? Maybe Twitter? 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlelady Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Hi, welcome and enjoy MFC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camille* Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 Hello and welcome to the MFC Jo! Thank you for sharing how you discovered Mika, it's always interesting to read. Have fun here! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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