Mika to be a judge @X Factor Italia 2021!

[Mikasister]

Mikainstagram

 

After the final, muy team and two friends letting our hair down and having the first bits of panettone of the season ❤

 

@danilodauriafoto

#xfactor2021

[carafon]

1 hour ago, krysady said:

 

  I am still confused how come no one from their coaching team didn't realize it simply doesn't work, not even Mika 

Maybe it was worse with other songs ????

[krysady]

1 minute ago, carafon said:

Maybe it was worse with other songs ????

Very possible 

[mellody]

Here's a short interview with the judges from before the show (thanks @Kumazzz for posting it on the MFC Twitter):

https://xfactor.sky.it/video/intervista-giudici-ante-factor-x-factor-715048

 

 

13 hours ago, Emily2b said:

I found his reaction!!

 

 

Haha, he's like

 They're both fangurling at each other.

 

4 hours ago, carafon said:

 

 

For me the main problem was that Fellows voice was very unsure when he started the song

 

 

That I noticed too, but it's no surprise if he has to sing in front of such a huge crowd - I think the fact that his insecurities aren't hidden behind a facade makes him very likeable. Actually I enjoyed their duet a lot, I think it was beautiful.  Fellow has almost an opera voice (I didn't follow him that closely, does he have a background in opera?) and I thought his voice added to the song. Even Mika's duet with Emma a few weeks ago worked (at least it positively surprised me), although their voices are very different - and Jack Savoretti's voice also is very different to Mika's and "Ready to call this love" still is beautiful.

 

I think the best performance of the first round was Gianmaria and Emma - I didn't like the other 2 performances of Gianmaria, but that first one was awesome. I think it was because it was emotional... in the other 2 performances Gianmaria seemed almost arrogant to me, definitely missing that emotion that Fellow put in his performance. And Baltimora only convinced me in his 3rd performance - from the first round I wouldn't have thought he'd win.

 

Anyway, all of them were fantastic (tho Bengala Fire weren't exactly my cup of tea, but they are good musicians and performers, in their genre), and I think in that finale it was even more a question of luck and fanbase and one particular performance who would or wouldn't get further, than it already is in XF in general. If Gianmaria had done his duet with Emma as the last performance, maybe he would have won? Who knows. Or maybe it was just because those who had voted for Fellow / Bengala Fire in the first rounds preferred Baltimora over Gianmaria.

[Dreamy_Queen]

21 hours ago, krysady said:

Gianmaria's duet with Emma was the best, awesome song and their voices perfect together.

Totally agree!

[Dreamy_Queen]

Sincerely, I hope to see Mika at FX next year. It's the only possibility to see him that much. And I don't watch the Voice, I can't force myself to find it interesting anymore  It seems to me Mika is much more himself at Italian TV.

I really love Italian culture and music, since my childhood (thus Italian was the first foreign language I had heard in my life) So... (or he can issue a new album till next summer as an alternative )

[Mikasister]

[Kumazzz]

La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/asti/2021/12/11/news/fellow_essere_davanti_a_mika_a_x_factor_e_stato_abbastanza_magico_-1342510/?awc=9417_1639242930_ff82671c15546ad6d710f8c9873ceae7

11 Dicembre 2021

 

Fellow: “Essere davanti a Mika a X Factor è stato abbastanza magico”

 

«È stato abbastanza magico»
Fellow conclude «X Factor» da quarto classificato, ma con la grande soddisfazione di un percorso comunque di successo e con due inediti ascoltati da milioni di persone. Nella finale ha duettato con Mika in «Underwater», ma è stato eliminato al televoto: primo dei finalisti a dover lasciare il palco, è stato salutato da lunghi applausi. Fermato nella parte iniziale dello show, Fellow non ha potuto ricantare il medley delle sue esibizioni né l’inedito, comunque già tra i brani più scaricati.

 

Già alla vigilia della finale, nelle sue parole la soddisfazione per un viaggio musicale importante:
«Da questa esperienza mi porto a casa un sacco di cose, che non pensavo sarebbero successe. La più importante è avere sperimentato. È stata come una liberazione. Ho imparato ad avere meno paura del giudizio altrui».
 Il terzo posto è andato ai Bengala Fire (nel team di Manuel Agnelli), secondo per gIANMARIA (con Emma) e vittoria per Baltimora (con Hell Raton), nome d’arte di Edoardo Spinsante.

 

Fellow è Federico Castello: torinese, nato ad Asti 21 anni fa (nella campagna astigiana vivono i nonni), nel primo video di presentazione per il talent ha raccontato il suo debutto nella musica a 8 anni, cantando brani anni ’60 e ’70
«nella band del nonno e nelle sagre di paese, indossando cappello da cowboy e giacca militare».
Prima di X Factor, nel 2020, si era aggiudicato il premio Siae al Festival di Castrocaro. Il nome d’arte è nato unendo l’iniziale del nome, il finale del suo cognome e la lettera W: Fellow, che in inglese significa compagno, amico, «compagno di vita».

 

Cantautore soul, arrivato a X Factor da fan di Mika, l’artista ha subito attirato l’attenzione interpretando «Follow you» degli Imagine Dragons:
 «Quando Fellow arriva sul palco e comincia a cantare diventa un gigante, mantenendo comunque tutta la sua dolcezza. E’ per questo che lui è diventato il mio Rocketman».
Con il sì di Mika, anche quelli degli altri tre giudici.

 

Ormai calato il sipario sul talent, nessun rimpianto:
«Un anno fa non avrei mai immaginato di essere al Forum di Assago. La cosa principale che mi porterò è stata proprio la confidenza sul palco. Credo che X Factor mi abbia dato la chiave per essere me stesso: mi ha lasciato quella consapevolezza di voler essere naturale con tutti gli errori o le cose non giuste che possono arrivare, che in realtà sono giuste perché sono naturali».
 E del suo rapporto con Mika:
 «E’ stato difficile conciliare il mio essere fan con il fatto che lui fosse davanti a me. E’ stata una cosa speciale, uno stato astrale».

 

Per Mika
«Fellow ha la forza di mischiare l’intimità con il potere vocale. Il nostro rapporto è stata una cosa intensa. Lui ha preso potere e anche coraggio. Federico ha saputo divertirsi seriamente».
Nelle puntate dei Live, Fellow ha proposto i suoi brani originali «Fire» e «Non farmi andare», oltre a cover di Elisa, Coldplay, Florence e The Machine, passando per il duetto con Clementine, uno dei suoi cantautori di riferimento: «E’ stato incredibile, sarà un ricordo indelebile. La sua intensità e semplicità sono così potenti che arrivano dritte all’anima, la sua umiltà è incredibile: sono onorato e non saprei quali altre parole aggiungere».

 

Google translator

Spoiler

 

Fellow: "Being in front of Mika at X Factor was quite magical"

 

"It was quite magical"
Fellow concludes «X Factor» in fourth place, but with the great satisfaction of a successful path and with two unreleased songs listened to by millions of people. In the final he duet with Mika in "Underwater", but was eliminated in the televoting: first of the finalists to have to leave the stage, he was greeted by long applause. Stopped in the initial part of the show, Fellow was unable to sing again the medley of his performances or the unpublished one, however already among the most downloaded songs.

Already on the eve of the final, in his words the satisfaction for an important musical journey:
“From this experience I take home a lot of things that I didn't think would happen. The most important is to have experienced. It was like a release. I have learned to be less afraid of the judgment of others ».
 Third place went to Bengala Fire (in Manuel Agnelli's team), second for Gianmaria (with Emma) and victory for Baltimore (with Hell Raton), the stage name of Edoardo Spinsante.

Fellow is Federico Castello: Turin, born in Asti 21 years ago (his grandparents live in the Asti countryside), in the first presentation video for the talent he recounted his debut in music at the age of 8, singing songs from the 60s and 70s
"In the band of the grandfather and in the village festivals, wearing a cowboy hat and military jacket".
Before X Factor, in 2020, he had won the Siae award at the Castrocaro Festival. The stage name was born by combining the initial of the name, the ending of his surname and the letter W: Fellow, which in English means companion, friend, "life partner".

Soul singer-songwriter, who came to X Factor as a fan of Mika, the artist immediately attracted attention by interpreting "Follow you" by Imagine Dragons:
 “When Fellow comes on stage and starts singing he becomes a giant, while still keeping all the sweetness of him. That's why he became my Rocketman. "
With Mika's yes, also those of the other three judges.

The curtain has now fallen on the talent, no regrets:
«A year ago I would never have imagined being at the Assago Forum. The main thing that I will bring to me was the confidence on stage. I believe that X Factor has given me the key to being myself: it has left me with that awareness of wanting to be natural with all the mistakes or wrong things that can come, which are actually right because they are natural ».
 And of his relationship with Mika:
 "It was difficult to reconcile my being a fan with the fact that he was in front of me. It was a special thing, an astral state "

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For Mika
"Fellow has the strength to mix intimacy with vocal power. Our relationship was an intense thing. He gained power and courage too. Federico was able to have fun seriously ».
In the Live episodes, Fellow proposed his original songs "Fire" and "Don't let me go", as well as covers by Elisa, Coldplay, Florence and The Machine, passing through the duet with Clementine, one of his reference songwriters:
"It was incredible, it will be an indelible memory. His intensity and simplicity are so powerful that they reach straight to the soul, his humility is incredible: I am honored and I don't know what other words to add ".

 

 

 

[mellody]

On 12/11/2021 at 1:38 PM, Dreamy_Queen said:

Sincerely, I hope to see Mika at FX next year. It's the only possibility to see him that much. And I don't watch the Voice, I can't force myself to find it interesting anymore  It seems to me Mika is much more himself at Italian TV.

I really love Italian culture and music, since my childhood (thus Italian was the first foreign language I had heard in my life) So... (or he can issue a new album till next summer as an alternative )

 

I also love Italy and the language, but I see it the opposite than you, I like Mika a lot more in the Voice than in XF.

 

Totally with you re. the album tho.

 

Elly Guerra has posted some stories with photos of this year's backstage pix, and there's also some of Mika. On one of them he's lighting himself a cigar, ugh. 🤢 Cigar smoke is one of the most disgusting smells in the world for me, glad he doesn't do that when I'm around.

 

Here are her photos - hope I didn't miss any with Mika, she has posted a lot, lol!

 

I think with the straw hat that's Mika, right? Can anyone figure out what he's holding in his hands?

 

edit: Apparently the crowd in the standing places between the stages were professional dancers, here's a post by one of them: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXYqt2zIQPW/ 

[Kumazzz]

@mellody

 

I guess it's Emma's handbag. ( GUCCI : Black Diana small tote bag )

 

 

https://www.thedoublef.com/

 

 

[Kumazzz]

Sky TG24

X Factor, Fellow: sono davvero contento, Mika fantastico | Video Sky

 

X Factor, Fellow: sono davvero contento, Mika fantastico

X Factor, Fellow: I'm really happy, Mika fantastic

 

 

[Kumazzz]

Road to Final FELLOW

 

"Credo di essere cambiato tanto sul palco dal primo incontro con Mika"

 

"I think I've changed a lot on stage since the first meeting with Mika"

 

 

[Hero]

On 12/12/2021 at 6:28 PM, mellody said:

On one of them he's lighting himself a cigar, ugh. 🤢

 

But, hang on. He doesn't smoke, does he??  I remember an interview where he said Manuelito could sit on the other table because he smoked, it was playful but...

 

I guess we don't actually see him smoking it, he could be lighting it for someone else? Seems odd during a pandemic, but if they'd all tested negative for working and socialising without masks they might have felt safe. 

 

Even so. No, I don't want my Mika with those things in his mouth. If I find out this is down to one of the other judges I will be having words with them.  Oh hell no. 

[holdingyourdrink]

3 minutes ago, Hero said:

Even so. No, I don't want my Mika with those things in his mouth. If I find out this is down to one of the other judges I will be having words with them.  Oh hell no.

Ok mum 

[mellody]

1 hour ago, Hero said:

But, hang on. He doesn't smoke, does he??  I remember an interview where he said Manuelito could sit on the other table because he smoked, it was playful but...

 

I guess we don't actually see him smoking it, he could be lighting it for someone else? Seems odd during a pandemic, but if they'd all tested negative for working and socialising without masks they might have felt safe. 

 

Even so. No, I don't want my Mika with those things in his mouth. If I find out this is down to one of the other judges I will be having words with them.  Oh hell no. 

 

I know from some friends that they only smoke if they're drunk - especially stuff like cigars or cigarillos. I even remember an old interview where Mika said he smokes cigarillos occasionally, and just because he would actually prefer to smoke a pipe but was advised against it, so he smokes cigarillos instead. I wasn't sure back then if that was serious or he was joking, but in any case, I do believe that he smoked the cigar at this XF party.

 

Yes, I also remember that interview where he said he didn't want to sit next to a smoker at XF. Well they probably all smoke, so he didn't have much of a choice. 🙈

 

As I said before, I think XF has a bad influence on him. Drinking, smoking, and look how skinny he has become since the start of the XF lives... I wouldn't say it's the fault of the other judges, Mika is responsible for his own actions, and this is just a side of him that comes to the surface in the company of the XF people. Certainly not my fave side of him - but look at cover of TBWKTM and the Dr John lyrics, for example... that's about his teenage years. He used to escape from his parents' house at night, go to gay clubs and get drunk ("in the corner undone") & probably drugged. Why should he suddenly have become an angel once he entered the world of Rock'n'Roll? I do think / hope he has grown up and avoids getting himself into dangerous situations, and takes care of his health and his voice, but well, the occasional cigar at a party surely won't hurt him. As I said, I hope it's indeed only occasional and he stays away from me with that disgusting smoke stuff. 😝 (in fact I'd much prefer a pipe, if anything, lol! )

[Kumazzz]

INSTAGRAM

 

Underwater rehearsal

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXb8QSdMRMt/

 

 

 

 

 

[Kumazzz]

1 hour ago, mellody said:

As I said before, I think XF has a bad influence on him. Drinking, smoking, and look how skinny he has become since the start of the XF lives... I wouldn't say it's the fault of the other judges, Mika is responsible for his own actions, and this is just a side of him that comes to the surface in the company of the XF people.

 

Emma is smoking next to Mika.

 

 

 

Mika lights his cigar after dinner.

[Kumazzz]

Mika is put in guy's lap and suck thumb ! Like a baby

 

 

On 12/13/2021 at 3:28 AM, mellody said:

 

I also love Italy and the language, but I see it the opposite than you, I like Mika a lot more in the Voice than in XF.

 

Totally with you re. the album tho.

 

Elly Guerra has posted some stories with photos of this year's backstage pix, and there's also some of Mika. On one of them he's lighting himself a cigar, ugh. 🤢 Cigar smoke is one of the most disgusting smells in the world for me, glad he doesn't do that when I'm around.

 

Here are her photos - hope I didn't miss any with Mika, she has posted a lot, lol!

 

I think with the straw hat that's Mika, right? Can anyone figure out what he's holding in his hands?

 

 

 

 

edit: Apparently the crowd in the standing places between the stages were professional dancers, here's a post by one of them: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXYqt2zIQPW/ 

 

[holdingyourdrink]

1 hour ago, mellody said:

and look how skinny he has become since the start of the XF lives

Actually, I think he takes really good care of himself most of the time. He is very slim built, but the amount of toning up muscle since the Revelation Tour and how defined it is, suggests he’s following a balanced diet and a lot of discipline (including workout regime) to get a fat percentage that low, focused on sculpting.
 

And apparently he had a very high energy level according to the Belgian interview, you can achieve that with enough sleep and a balanced diet, but sinning here and there is part of the deal  and I guess we only see the sinning part. 

[mellody]

47 minutes ago, Kumazzz said:

Mika is put in guy's lap and suck thumb ! Like a baby

 

 

 

 

That pic might be taken completely out of context, like the one where it looks like Mika and Emma are dancing - we saw the video of that, and it was just a second of posing for the camera. Who knows what this is. Maybe he was biting his nail, or joking about something.

 

38 minutes ago, holdingyourdrink said:

Actually, I think he takes really good care of himself most of the time. He is very slim built, but the amount of toning up muscle since the Revelation Tour and how defined it is, suggests he’s following a balanced diet and a lot of discipline (including workout regime) to get a fat percentage that low, focused on sculpting.
 

And apparently he had a very high energy level according to the Belgian interview, you can achieve that with enough sleep and a balanced diet, but sinning here and there is part of the deal  and I guess we only see the sinning part. 

 

Hmm, you're right about the energy, also at the gig in Vars... but to my eyes seeing him topless now vs. a few months ago isn't an improvement. In the clips of the Vars gig his ribs stand out as much as his abs, that just doesn't look healthy to me. Maybe it was also the cold that makes the skin look pale, but as little as I know about sports and diets, I know you can also overdo it.

 

Anyway, I'm glad XF is over and hopefully next year he'll focus on touring again. Which might be just as stressful, but then at least we're invited to the party (= gigs).    For now, I hope he has some time off, to relax and have a bunch of substantial Christmas dinners - the panettone after the final was a good start.

 

Btw, in the last question of the Belgian interview he says he wants to take even more risks next year because putting yourself in danger gives you energy. I take that to refer to his artistic choices and not to his health, but who knows - after him going shirtless at -10°C, I'm not sure I'm up for more surprises.   

[mellody]

Here's a video of Mika as the 3rd in this post, not sure if it's an old one but I haven't seen it before: 

  https://www.instagram.com/p/CXWFeGkKzWZ/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

what does he say?

[SilviaM]

1 hour ago, mellody said:

Here's a video of Mika as the 3rd in this post, not sure if it's an old one but I haven't seen it before: 

  https://www.instagram.com/p/CXWFeGkKzWZ/?utm_medium=copy_link

 

what does he say?

"We are in a much much better mood than our author Giacomino (Giacomo Carrera), because if we were like him right now, this would be a crappy show!"

[Kumazzz]

FAREMUSIC

https://faremusic.it/2021/12/17/i-retroscena-della-finale-di-x-factor/

Sono passati pochi giorni dalla Finale di X Factor Italia e già si parla della prossima edizione – forse l’ultima, dicono gli informati – a meno che non accada una rivoluzione, cosa assai improbabile dato che il format è in onda da oltre un decennio.

 

Torno quindi sulla finalissima perché pochi sanno che nell’ultima settimana prima della diretta, è accaduto di tutto. La notizia più eclatante è che il bravissimo regista Luigi Antonini ha dovuto fare le prove e la diretta da remoto. Non potendo essere al Forum ha diretto tutta la giostra da casa sua con una gestione remotata in intercom collegato con tutto lo staff e il cast tramite un I pad. Davanti a uno schermo da 86 pollici ha praticamente diretto da solo le inquadrature e gli stacchi di ben 20 telecamere.

 

Per gli addetti ai lavori, non sembra una grande impresa, dato che nei concerti e nei grandi eventi è abituale utilizzare studi e regie mobili esterne, ma il fatto in realtà è assolutamente straordinario se si considera che il regista essendo una figura professionale centrale e determinante, partecipa per almeno una settimana intera a tutte le riunioni di produzione, degli autori e della redazione, quindi la sua presenza fisica sul set è fondamentale, a maggior ragione se si tratta di una finalissima in prima serata, dove la pressione e l’adrenalina sono a mille.

 

Luigi Antonini ha svolto tutto il lavoro in smart working, con riunioni telefoniche o in videocall fino a tarda notte. Un lavoro pazzesco. Credo sia la prima volta che accade un fatto simile nella tv italiana.

 

Con Antonini ho avuto la fortuna di lavorare con lui a “Cielo che gol”, un settimanale in diretta su Sky Uno. Niente di particolarmente complicato in verità, ma con sole 4 telecamere a disposizione la regia di Antonini sembrava averne a disposizione almeno una decina. Soprattutto durante le prove degli interventi musicali si inventava di tutto con una creatività che non avevo mai visto prima da nessun regista televisivo italiano.

Come autore di programmi musicali ne ho fatti a decine e ho lavorato con tanti registi. Vi assicuro che pochissimi di loro conoscono la musica, sanno contare le battute, i quarti, gli ottavi, i sedicesimi, etc. Quasi tutti in regia hanno un assistente musicale che gli anticipa gli stacchi e gli ingressi degli strumenti o addirittura le parti del cantante da una strofa a un ritornello e viceversa Fateci caso.

 

Se durante un’esibizione musicale vedete abbondanza di totali, cioè inquadrature larghe del palco e abbondanza di primi piani del cantante solista, significa che il regista non conosce la musica ma con il mestiere, rischia il meno possibile. Insomma Il “compitino” se lo porta a casa. Altri invece, staccano le camere a caso, magari inquadrando il pubblico mentre inizia un assolo di un chitarrista.

 

Invece con Luigi Antonini si va a nozze. Nulla della sua regia è a caso, tutto studiato frame per frame.

In verità durante la finale di X Factor ho notato qualche strana anomalia. Una su tutte quella in cui “il guastafeste” Mika, dai Coldplay in poi, è salito in piedi sul tavolo impallando la camera principale, cioè la centrale, posta pochi metri dietro al tavolo dei tutor. La cosa è accaduta più volte ed è durata a lungo nella parte finale.

 

Mi sono chiesto come mai, nessuno avvisava lo spirlungone Mika che stava rovinando le inquadrature di Antonini. Ho pensato che non funzionasse l’intercom, cioè che nessuno sentisse i “moccoli” che probabilmente Antonini stava urlando dalla regia. Ai miei tempi se accadeva una cosa del genere, mandavo l’assistente di studio a spostare fisicamente dal campo l’impallatore di turno, o entravo in studio facendo gesti da far invidia a un segnalatore di una portaerei.

 

Invece Mika stava sempre lì per interi minuti a passeggiare e a ballare in piedi sul tavolo.
La verità è che da casa sua i moccoli di Antonini li hanno sentiti tutti, ma Mika pur avvisato, si è fatto il suo party privato perché tanto ormai aveva deciso di farlo.

 

Questo per spiegare ai tanti social stalker che la televisione è un mondo dannatamente complesso, dove anche se hai a disposizione una macchina perfettamente funzionante e hai degli ottimi professionisti in squadra, basta una stupidaggine improvvisa per rovinare lo spettacolo e mandare all’aria ore, giorni, settimane di lavoro.

 

Certo, come cantava De Gregori, “Non è da questi particolari che si giudica un giocatore” ma vedere Baltimora lasciato solo sul palco che sul finale dice tra sé : “E adesso che succede ?” o Mika che si prende la scena a discapito degli altri fa pensare che il “bello della diretta” riguarda ben altro. O forse sono proprio questi momenti casuali e inaspettati che ridanno alla televisione una dimensione umana.

 

Del resto c’è chi ha fatto carriera in tv con i “fuori onda”. E chissà magari saranno proprio questi a dare un po’ di imprevisti e  novità alla prossima edizione di X Factor. Intanto si mormora già che la squadra dei tutor sarà completamente rinnovata.

Probabilmente Mika nel prossimo dicembre 2022 potrà ballare sul tavolo di casa sua da remoto.

 

Google translator

Spoiler

 

A few days have passed since the X Factor Italia Final and we are already talking about the next edition - perhaps the last, the informants say - unless a revolution occurs, which is very unlikely given that the format has been on the air for over a decade.

So I go back to the final because few know that in the last week before the live broadcast, everything happened. The most striking news is that the talented director Luigi Antonini had to rehearse and live it remotely. Not being able to be at the Forum, he directed the whole carousel from his home with a remote management in intercom connected with all the staff and the cast via an I pad. In front of an 86-inch screen, he practically directed the shots and cuts of 20 cameras by himself.

For insiders, it does not seem like a big undertaking, given that in concerts and large events it is common to use external mobile studios and control rooms, but the fact is actually absolutely extraordinary if we consider that the director is a central and decisive professional figure. , participates for at least a whole week in all the production, authors and editorial meetings, so his physical presence on the set is essential, even more so if it is a prime time final, where the pressure and adrenaline I'm a thousand.

Luigi Antonini carried out all the work in smart working, with telephone meetings or video calls until late at night. Crazy work. I think this is the first time that a similar event has happened on Italian TV.

With Antonini I was lucky enough to work with him on "Cielo che gol", a weekly live on Sky Uno. Nothing particularly complicated in truth, but with only 4 cameras available, Antonini's direction seemed to have at least a dozen available. Especially during the rehearsals of the musical interventions he invented everything with a creativity that I had never seen before from any Italian television director.

As the author of music programs I have done dozens of them and have worked with many directors. I assure you that very few of them know music, they know how to count bars, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc. Almost everyone in the direction has a musical assistant who anticipates the cuts and inputs of the instruments or even the parts of the singer from a verse to a chorus and vice versa.

If during a musical performance you see an abundance of totals, that is, wide shots of the stage and an abundance of close-ups of the solo singer, it means that the director does not know the music but with the profession, he risks as little as possible. In short, the "homework" takes it home. Others, on the other hand, detach the rooms at random, perhaps framing the audience while a guitarist's solo begins.

Instead, with Luigi Antonini you go to a wedding. Nothing of his direction is random, all studied frame by frame.

In truth, during the X Factor final I noticed some strange anomalies. One above all the one in which "the troublemaker" Mika, from Coldplay onwards, stood up on the table impalling the main room, that is the central, placed a few meters behind the tutors' table. This happened several times and lasted a long time in the final part.

I wondered why, no one warned the tall Mika that he was ruining Antonini's shots. I thought that the intercom was not working, that is, that no one heard the "snot" that Antonini was probably shouting from the director. In my day, if such a thing happened, I would send the studio assistant to physically move the shift worker from the field, or I would enter the studio making gestures that would be the envy of an aircraft carrier signalman.

Instead Mika was always there for minutes walking and dancing standing on the table.
The truth is that from his home, Antonini's moccoli have heard them all, but Mika, despite being warned, had his private party because he had decided to do so by now.

This is to explain to the many social stalkers that television is a damn complex world, where even if you have a perfectly functioning machine and you have excellent professionals on your team, a sudden stupidity is enough to ruin the show and blow up hours, days. , weeks of work.

Of course, as De Gregori sang, "It is not by these details that a player is judged" but to see Baltimore left alone on stage who at the end says to himself: "What happens now?" or Mika who takes the stage to the detriment of others suggests that the "beauty of direct" concerns something else. Or maybe it is these random and unexpected moments that give television a human dimension.

After all, there are those who have made a career on TV with "off the air". And who knows, maybe these will be the ones to give some unexpected and novelties to the next edition of X Factor. Meanwhile, it is already rumored that the team of tutors will be completely renewed.

Probably Mika will be able to dance remotely on the table in his home next December 2022.

 

 

This writer's perception is incorrect.
In the final episode, he wasn't dancing on the table. He just stood beside his chair and swayed to the music.

 

X Factor should hire the short judges next season.

 

The scene, Mika swayed to the music by the table.

 

 

Edited December 19, 2021 by Kumazzz
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[mellody]

2 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

This writer's perception is incorrect.
In the final episode, he wasn't dancing on the table. He just stood beside his chair and swayed to the music.

 

Pfft, I don't know what problem this writer has with Mika, I don't think any of the regular audience noticed any problems in the camera shots because of Mika standing up. I certainly didn't. But maybe they did tell them to stay seated, that would explain why the other judges did. But I have to say, in that I don't mind at all if Mika is a "troublemaker" - his fans are the same at gigs where we are supposed to stay seated. We just won't.  The joy is more important than the etiquette and the perfect camera shots, I'm totally with Mika on that, and that writer person should stop attacking him, but rather learn how to have fun.

[Elena Mastro]

I think the author exaggerated a bit in this article. Watching the show I didn't get the impression Mika was disturbing anything. Placing the central camera right behind the judges' table and pretending to have an unobstructed view was simply illogical. However, if they wanted the perfect shot, they could have placed the camera just a little higher: the stands at the Assago Forum are quite steep, so it would have been easy. 
I agree... he must have some problems with Mika, no other explication.