Michael Abbott Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Any info on the reprise? At the end of the album + show? 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumazzz Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 alitollervey the brilliant @mikainstagram filming “tiny love” London Aug 19. . . . . .#mika #musicfilm #wizfilmmaker #filmstills #musicphotography #canonuk http://www.alitollervey.com/on-set https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/24417/495b683191519c87424ef094a8ec1c58_hd.jpg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Am I the only one who feels reminded of the cherries in the Tiny Love video by this video? I can't make a connection though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellie Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 2 hours ago, mellody said: I can't make a connection though. Cherries are considered a sex symbol no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 13 minutes ago, ellie said: Cherries are considered a sex symbol no? Are they? I don't know... I just googled it and found something interesting on a German website. It's about the symbolism in Japan, and translated, it says: "(...) Crushing the flesh of the cherry to get to the core means sacrificing flesh and blood to get to the core of the human person." So maybe it's about the "core" of Mika's personality - and he's sacrificing... I don't know, his fears? His private life? It's all very personal and private. He has written very personal songs before, but he didn't tell us the meaning in interviews, as he does now - it was more the songs that didn't get much attention, and we could only guess what it's about. @Kumazzz as you're from Japan, do you know anything about this symbolism I mentioned above? I knew the cherry trees are very important in Japan, but I thought it was more about the blossoms (in the article I quoted they also write several sentences about the symbolism of the blossoms before they get to the fruit). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellie Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 6 minutes ago, mellody said: Are they? I don't know... Yeah, I mean thats how they are used in most pop songs and music videos. I assumed mika would make a similar reference since he's been talking about how desexualized pop music has become and his wish to be more sensual etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumazzz Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 I can't think of anything about CHERRIES. In Japan, we love cherry blossom so much. That cherries scene reminds me when I saw the video at first "Cherry-boy ? Does Mika imply his virginity...?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Wait, didn't he talk about a song called "Cherry Tree" at some point? 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellie Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Yeah he did. Found this on twitter 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carafon Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, mellody said: Wait, didn't he talk about a song called "Cherry Tree" at some point? 🤔 Here is that French interview but it's been a long time ago…….(at the very end) We ended with the opinion that he was mistaken with some phonetic vocabulary similitaries (French/Italian) We guessed he wanted to say "smiling person" instead of "cherry tree" He says "sorisier" (a word that doesn't exist ) ,not "cerisier" As he says that the opening sentence is that he found his smile on the floor and put it back on his face "smiling man " has more sense with the lyrics but we may be wrong as well …. Edited September 21, 2019 by carafon 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krysady Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 1 hour ago, carafon said: We ended with the opinion that he was mistaken with some phonetic vocabulary similitaries (French/Italian) We guessed he wanted to say "smiling person" instead of "cherry tree" He says "sorisier" (a word that doesn't exist ) ,not "cerisier" As he says that the opening sentence is that he found his smile on the floor and put it back on his face "siling man " has more sense with the lyrics but we may be wrong as well …. Yes, you're right, he was mistaken the word for sure, because the song was about his smile and he talked about this song only in this French interview. Then some fans started to spread the mistranslated word around on Twitter, and everybody took it as a fact. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krysady Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, ellie said: Yeah he did. Found this on twitter This is a translated text from that French interview posted by @carafon and around 42:30 you can hear he said "sorisier" Edited September 21, 2019 by krysady 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Ko Kolkowska Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 The 12th of September Mika gave us a tracklist of the album. No "Cherry Tree"... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carafon Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 57 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said: The 12th of September Mika gave us a tracklist of the album. No "Cherry Tree"... No "smiling man " neither……... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Ko Kolkowska Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 44 minutes ago, carafon said: No "smiling man " neither……... Ha ha ha! But in the first song on the album we have: My life was dull I used to walk in a different way But now I'm dancin', dancin', dancin', dancin' Don't care who can see me dancin' What a smile!!!! All his body is smiling - see the final scene of the video 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyaboutmika Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said: The 12th of September Mika gave us a tracklist of the album. No "Cherry Tree"... Unless it is a hidden track as Over my shoulder in LICM 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 58 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said: Ha ha ha! But in the first song on the album we have: My life was dull I used to walk in a different way But now I'm dancin', dancin', dancin', dancin' Don't care who can see me dancin' What a smile!!!! All his body is smiling - see the final scene of the video Yeah, that smiling song could well be Tiny Love... we know he has written it in 2017 (the time of the interview) and there's a lot more parts in Tiny Love that we don't know (yet). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 Getting back to the cherries and the other parts of the video that are still nebulous... If we assume it's the story of Mika's life, maybe we can try to look what's still missing in our analysis. If cherries are a symbol for sex, their appearance in the video might be about his sexual identity, which always was a big topic for him, personally - and from some point also publicly. So it surely can be found somewhere in the video. His father's change after Kuwait, his family moving to London, his problems at school and the way out of it by music also are important topics for him that we might be able to find in the video. Although it depends whether the video starts at his birth or at the age of 7 or at the start of his international career... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat_loves_mika Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 On 9/21/2019 at 7:18 AM, Anna Ko Kolkowska said: The 12th of September Mika gave us a tracklist of the album. No "Cherry Tree"... As stated before, it could have been Tiny Love before it was revised or maybe another song on the album is this one and it is just renamed to something different. But it could of just been cut completely. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellie Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 The music video doesnt seem that personal or autobiographical to me, it just looks like its portraying a toxic/weird romantic relationship; as for the song I assumed it is about his mom/family 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 In this article I can find several hints that I might be right with the Mika/Michael theory: He says Mika took too much space, that's why his creativity was blocked. Michael is Mika's "Tiny Love", in my opinion. He said in the other interview that he had just finished the song when he got the call that his mum needed heart surgery - in Vanity Fair he even says her illness was his punishment when he tried to emancipitate himself from his mother. Which makes sense, his mum "made" Mika, and he wanted to find Michael behind Mika. I'm glad he went on nevertheless. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carafon Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 On 9/21/2019 at 4:18 PM, mellody said: Getting back to the cherries and the other parts of the video that are still nebulous... If we assume it's the story of Mika's life, maybe we can try to look what's still missing in our analysis. If cherries are a symbol for sex, their appearance in the video might be about his sexual identity, which always was a big topic for him, personally - and from some point also publicly. So it surely can be found somewhere in the video. His father's change after Kuwait, his family moving to London, his problems at school and the way out of it by music also are important topics for him that we might be able to find in the video. Although it depends whether the video starts at his birth or at the age of 7 or at the start of his international career... On 9/27/2019 at 3:34 PM, mellody said: In this article I can find several hints that I might be right with the Mika/Michael theory: He says Mika took too much space, that's why his creativity was blocked. Michael is Mika's "Tiny Love", in my opinion. He said in the other interview that he had just finished the song when he got the call that his mum needed heart surgery - in Vanity Fair he even says her illness was his punishment when he tried to emancipitate himself from his mother. Which makes sense, his mum "made" Mika, and he wanted to find Michael behind Mika. I'm glad he went on nevertheless. Going back to the cherries mystery : As it seems that Mika and Michael are the 2 protagonists in the clip ,that in this article in the "Figaro" he says that creativity is feeding both ,could it be that the cherries represent creativity ? Mika is eating them greedily when Michael leave them in a basket on the piano ….. ??????? On 9/16/2019 at 3:00 AM, Michael Abbott said: Any info on the reprise? At the end of the album + show? 🙂 According to the small part that was aired on a Canadian interview ,it seems that it's a more orchestral version And according to the "Paris Match" article ,Paloma and Joannie are singing parts of the song 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatanBenYosef224 Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 Wait, What? Someone wrote on the youtube music video that Mika wrote "Tiny Love" for his cat: "Love that he wrote this for his cat. ❤️ He is clearly playing a cat in this video. Hence his size, being on her lap when she’s trying to play piano, getting pets behind his ears, etc. As a cat lover, it jumped out to me instantly." Does Mika has a cat? (I Know he has two dogs but a cat? I'm not sure about that) I Mean, that's, you know, maybe a kind of interpretation of the song/video clip, I Just asking myself how much can it be (I Mean if Mika has dogs it can be about his dogs...) But I Guess everyone has it's on interpretation of the video, I Prefer the one that says this song is about Michael / Mika. BTW, Everyday I'm falling in love with the song & video clip more. It's pure art. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krysady Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, MatanBenYosef224 said: Does Mika has a cat? (I Know he has two dogs but a cat? I'm not sure about that) Yes, he has a cat in Miami, named Tiny. He told the story on Twitter, it was a cat coming from neighborhood that moved to his house in the end. Edited September 29, 2019 by krysady 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carafon Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 10 hours ago, MatanBenYosef224 said: "Love that he wrote this for his cat. ❤️ He is clearly playing a cat in this video. Hence his size, being on her lap when she’s trying to play piano, getting pets behind his ears, etc. As a cat lover, it jumped out to me instantly." I don't see what you mean …….. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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