Mika in French Press and Other Media - 2023

[Kumazzz]

On 10/20/2023 at 4:41 PM, Kumazzz said:

Sweet FM Radio

 

IG stories by sweetfmradio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C'est la Vie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Mika - C’est la vie (version live)

Sweet FM VIP / Grand Studio Sweet FM / Le Mans / octobre 2023

 

 

YouTube

C’est la vie (version live) Sweet FM VIP

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyl3v7bsS0E/

 

Mika était l’invité exceptionnel de Sweet FM ce jeudi 19 octobre 🤩

Un moment magique et ultra VIP pour les auditeurs et pour l’équipe de la radio 💖✨

 

Merci @mikainstagram ❤️

 

 

 

FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/sweetfmfrance/posts/pfbid02XsXAw7h9aaWDDq5aAYPpk1V7rHW12B1q8fRrHb6BmdTSZia533KMgYqKA4coiwj5l

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Mika était l’invité exceptionnel de Sweet FM ce jeudi 19 octobre

Un moment unique pour les auditeurs et pour l’équipe de la radio

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Ouest France

https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/le-mans-72000/au-mans-le-chanteur-mika-en-visite-eclair-chez-sweet-fm-

 

Au Mans, le chanteur Mika en visite-éclair chez Sweet FM

À quelques semaines de la sortie de son nouvel album, l’artiste aux mélodies pop et dansantes était jeudi 19 octobre 2023 dans les studios de Sweet FM au Mans, en présence d’une vingtaine de fans.

 

Dans une tenue sage et sobre, le chanteur Mika a passé une petite heure dans les studios de la radio Sweet-FM, au Mans (Sarthe), ce jeudi 19 octobre 2023. Au micro de Jonathan Lateur, il a évoqué la « résistance poétique » contenue dans sa chanson C’est la vie, où il rend hommage à sa mère décédée.

 

Plus léger, il a raconté devant une vingtaine de fans, ses concerts, ces moments où il « se sent connecté aux gens autour de lui et plus humain ». Enfin, comme il note dans un carnet tous les restaurants dans lesquels il a (bien) dîné, il assure être capable de « recommander une bonne table dans les grandes villes du monde ».

 

 

 

merged IG stories and Ouest France video.

 

 

 

 

UPDATE !

I got a HD ( 720p ) video from FACEBOOK.

Sweet FM Radio

 

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Ouest France

https://www.facebook.com/OuestFranceLeMans/videos/6853776817999389

 

Au Mans, le chanteur Mika en visite-éclair chez Sweet FM

À quelques semaines de la sortie de son nouvel album, Mika était, ce jeudi, dans les studios de Sweet FM, en présence d’une vingtaine de fans

 

 

[Juless]

MIKA on RIFFX

https://twitter.com/RIFFX_fr/status/1716479549217612087?t=pdWl92Wv8OFov9e52VxDuw

 

And if anyone wants, I made a translation (which should be pretty much correct) of this interview 

 

[Kumazzz]

RIFFX

( second post - questions from fans )

 

Thanks a lot for translations @Juless

 

What are you most proud of on this new album?

 

I feel free, without complexes. I'm 40 now and it's strange cause i'm less hung up, I ask myself fewer questions on what people gonna think, on what I write, the tunes/melody, on what i'm wearing, than when I was 22. Funny, isn't it?

Because usually, we should become a bit more conservative, silent, reserved with the age.

But it's the contrary, and it's the music, and your listening, and your support too, which able me to evolve in this way.

 

The song that took you the most time to write?

 

On the writing, probably "Moi, Andy et Paris". It took time cause... I don't know, because it's personal.

And on the production, "Sweetie Banana". I wrote it in 15 minutes and it took 1 year to produce it.

 

If you had to describe this album only with colors?

 

Right now, while thinking about this question, I visualise a sort of red-pink, a bit raspberry~ Which is morphing a little bit, which is not flat.

 

What was your approach, and what message do you want to convey?

 

It's funny cause, for this album, I didn't had a concept. It's not an album, written on the piano, talking about me while passing through the 40 years, bla bla bla. No.

I'm gonna relate an album talking about me, today. But really, like that, BAM, inguenously.

 

Why the name "Apocalypse Calypso" for the Tour?

 

"Apocalypse Calypso", it's a song on the album. I wanted to write the most romantic song on Earth and I said to myself: "What is the most romantic gesture?" Making love in the middle of the Apocalypse.

For the concert, it's the same ambition. Not making love, but rather a ball taking place during or just after the Apocalypse.

 

In 2022, you made the Original Soundtrack of "Zodi et Téhu", what do you retain from this experience?

 

I loved making music for a movie. It's a really ambitious project, there were 200, 250 musicians who worked on that. It took me one year, of arrangement, orchestration, composition.

I would love to make another movie.

 

What does your tweet "OM2206" posted in October 2020 mean?

 

Om...

 

 

INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyvzU5gqI67/

 

X ( Twitter )

TikTok

 

On 10/12/2023 at 1:32 AM, mellody said:

The Riffx interview is finally here

Edit: It's not yet the one with questions by fans, they wrote on Twitter that that one will come later and that they made some more content. 

 

Anyway, I love this one, it brings across that he loves the concerts just as much as we do.

 

3 hours ago, Juless said:

MIKA on RIFFX

https://twitter.com/RIFFX_fr/status/1716479549217612087?t=pdWl92Wv8OFov9e52VxDuw

 

And if anyone wants, I made a translation (which should be pretty much correct) of this interview 

 

 

1st post

 

INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyQ4ZM4q9g-/

YouTube

 

X ( Twitter )

 

TikTok

 

[camille*]

On 10/19/2023 at 6:28 PM, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

Mika was today in the radio Tendance Ouest.

There was as well 10 or 12 fans who won invitations for it.

 

I don't find a podcast yet.

Here is my audio recording.

Part 1 - the interview.

Part 2 - Mika singing C'est la vie and saying goodbye.

Sorry the files are in a wrong order. The longer one (23 minutes) is the part 1.

I am not able to change the order.

 

(EDIT FROM @dcdeb  I've changed the order for you!)

 

I wrote the (long ) translation of last week's Tendance Ouest interview:

 

-Hello Mika
-Hello, I'm pleased to be here
-I am also very happy to be here. How is it going these days ?
-I'm very good.  Strangely, I always say that the creative process is like a spinning wheel and right now the wheel really is spinning, it's going 'tch tch tch'... The advantage is that ideas are easy.  It means that if I have an idea, it's going to develop in an interesting way and quickly.  It's not slow.  The only drawback is that from time to time, at 9pm I'm a little tired.  
-So last night at 9, you were asleep.
-Nearly.  Nearly.  No last night I had dinner in Caen.  
-And?
-It was delicious.
-Where did you go to eat ?
-I treated myself.  I really treated myself, it was me and my French manager, we ate at a very good restaurant whose chef is called Ivan, and it was very good.
-Good that you ate well in Caen in Normandy.
-And once again this morning I treated myself, I didn't eat like last night, but I saw that he had pepper, he sells pepper, I was amazed, he has 19 different sorts of pepper, so I bought them all, from all over the world.  Because pepper is actually so precious.  We have lost awareness that pepper is a rare spice, when it's real pepper.  So I bought 19 of them, and I've arrived here with 19 sorts of pepper.  
-So you'll be able to test them at home
-Potentially
-How come 'potentially', because you'll have to taste all this pepper...
-This tradition has started with my father, who is a very excentric man, almost strange, and he travels with his own pepper.  
-He does too ?
-I promise you.  When he's at a restaurant, he takes out his small bag secretely, he has a small tupperware or something in foil, he opens it, he has 3 or 4 of them in his pocket, and he adds pepper on his meals.  
-So he knows what pepper to marry with what ingredient, he has become a pepper expert
-Except he doesn't want waiters to see him, or they will feel insulted that this man is bringing foil bags
-He has never been caught ?
-He has already been completely told off, especially in Paris.
-Here in Caen we are not going to tell you off.
-Thank you very much, I'm delighted.
-So you are here to talk about your new album
-Yes, not about pepper actually!  I'm not here to sell pepper, I'm here to sell you I don't know what but not pepper. 
-We are impatient to listen to your album, you have unveiled the tracklist 2 days ago, this album is to be sincere and real, not that the previous ones were not, but it's another page of your life opening up with 'Que ta tête fleurisse toujours'
-Exactly, in a way it's a restart.  To find a way to be sincere, to be in the emotion and also very intimate in what I tell and at the same time without being melancholic, without being sentimental.  Doing it with melodies that stay in mind, with this pop anglo saxon attitude, all this pop I adore and I grew up with, Pet Shop Boys, Bee Gees, Elton John, and doing it in French.  That was my challenge.
-An album 100% in French which is not your native language, it was a risk, why did you want an album only in French ?
-You know I've lived some painful stuff these last years, there's also a link with France that took shape, that strenghtened these last years because I was not doing any TV shows, I was less exposed, and it allowed me to form another link
-What strenghtened that link ?
-My mother was ill.  And specialists who had to follow her, the best in Europe, were in Paris, at La Salpêtrière.  It starts with something sad, and life is often like that.  And often in music.  And so I was often visiting, and around this, she told me at the start of her illness 'If I fall ill and all my children stop being creative, furiously creative, I would be disappointed, I would be disappointed with you' You say 'Thank you Mum...'As a consequence the first thing I did was to force her to sing
-It annoyed your family a little bit, didn't it ?
-They didn't understand because it was hard.  It was just one sentence, two sentences, and as she had brain problems, she had had several brain surgeries, it took 4 hours and a half to record one sentence.  She didn't want to leave the studio and everyone was furious.  They thought I was doing something unfair, but I could see in her eyes that she wanted to do it.  And it was like a wheel starting to spin like we said at the beginning, the wheel has to spin.  And when it starts spinning and it's for real, everything is possible and we feel free.  To explain 'Que ta tête fleurisse toujours', it means if you can have ideas, it means you are giving yourself the possibility that the small idea has value.
-Flowers have a link with the visual you have unveiled, they are mentioned in the song 'C'est La Vie', it's the first one we know from this album, tomorrow another one will be released, where did this idea of flowers come from ?
-It's from a message from my mother. Everything comes from there but the album does not talk about her, and the album is not sad, I promise.  Because if the album is as intensely sad as what I'm telling, I'd better take out some pepper.  It starts from there, from that provocation 'May your head always bloom'.  But it's not flowers in the sense like flowers we see on our curtains, it's the idea of a flower, the idea of something that grows, something small that becomes magnificent and colourful, and then that disappears, and then the cycle starts again
-The circle of life
-That's it
-The album does not talk about your mum, but this song C'est La Vie evokes her
-It's the last song I wrote for the album, I had finished everything and then I was in the studio and I wrote this song and I thought 'here is a good front door for this kaleidoscopic album'
-Your mum, very important for you and who followed you all along your artistic life, was she also a friend ?
-Oh yes, for sure we had fun.  When we were working (we had been working for a very long time together), a lot of people would not realise that she was my mother because from one moment to the other, we would be laughing like crazy and the next arguing
--You talk about intimate things on this album, maybe things you have never talked about before, like your boyfriend Andy, the song 'Andy, Paris et moi' has been mentioned several times, song that annoys your partner.
-'Partner' yes, much better than 'boyfriend'
-Yes because you have been together a long time
-Also because.. not that little/small you know (boyfriend in French literally translates as little friend)
-He's a tall as you.  There's also the song 'Jane Birkin', we have not heard it yet but can't wait to hear it, you have worked with Valérie Lemercier on this song ?
-Actually, what happened is that I wrote this song 10 months ago, almost a year ago
-She had not left us yet
Exactly.  And it's an homage to Jane Birkin in the sense that if my song 'Grace Kelly' was a reference for my family as she was my grandmother's icon, if I had to think of an icon of my childhood, my teenage years in France, I think of Jane Birkin, because it also represents this relationship English/French, as poetic and elegant as she was punk and dangerous.  What was incredible with this woman, is that she was also an actress, she was doing pop, symphonic, art, philosophy, and she always kept that very mysterious side.  And I think if today you have to find how to get inspired, how to behave... because you need to always be a fan. Always. Even at 40, at 50, you have to still be a fan and you need to have people in your mind about whom you're thinking 'one day when I'm old, I want to be like him or her'  Now I'm 40 and I still think 'one day when I'm old I want to be like him or her'
-Right now who are you thinking of apart from Jane ?
-One day when I'm old, I'd like to have Moustaki's poetic sense, I'd like to have the irreverence with a mind-blowing musicality of Prince, I'd like... All of this are dreams, but why not ? We need to have dreams. I'd like... I'd like to be happy and resistant.
-Are you not happy ?
-Yes I am, but it's not guaranteed that I'll be later.
-To be back on track about this song, what about Valérie Lemercier ?
-Ah yes Valérie, I had seen her the week before, I don't know why I had seen her, I had seen her somewhere... I think we had something to eat.  Oh yes she loves to eat.  
-You saw her because you are friends.
-Yes sometimes she draws a portrait of me and she sends it to me on the phone.  I have one from yesterday.  
-I'd like to see.
-I can show you. What is interesting is that on it I look on the left, she had asked me a question and she didn't know whether I was going to say yes or no, I'm not going to tell you what she asked me, but she drew a look that hasn't decided yet if it's going to say yes or no, it's incredible. This woman is incredible, I can confirm it.
-So that's why you had her work on this song ?
-No, it's very simple. She sings well. And in the song there are some replies that go 'ah ah', and when I was doing it, it sounded very pop.  It was not sensual enough. And Valérie came and did 'ah ah'and then 'Jane Birkin', and when she does, it's magical.  She understood immediately.  Even if it was just a few sounds and the name Jane Birkin, she immediately understood how to do it. So she didn't write anything on the song, but she contributed.  But when she was on her way to meet, she heard something on the taxi on the radio, and also on TV a few nights before, and she was angry saying 'why in all these commercials is there always this message saying For your health, move more while they are selling you a burger ?' And she told me 'you have to write a song about this, it's enough' And I said ok.  On the same night I went to see a concert at Les Folies Bergères.
-Whose concert ?
-No it's ok, it was alright. So we're not going to say who.  And I was looking around me and I thought 'I'm falling asleep' and it's a shame because this venue, you shouldn't fall asleep in this venue, you could do something amazing there, there are balconies, there is everything... I thought, why, you shouldn't do something too sentimental here, you have to go right ahead, it's a rave! And I had a flash in my head and I thought, if one day I perform here, what would I do ? And I could hear an organ 'My beloved, we are here to share what binds us.  On the TV, on the radio, you hear the same words' To start the gig with.  And then I started to laugh while the person on stage was singing something very boring and sentimental, and I was laughing out loud when suddenly I could hear the sentence 'For your health, move more'  And this is what opens my album.
-So on the visual of this album you are coming out of a cloud like an angel
-Like an angel ? I don't know if I'm an angel, it remains to be seen
-That's the impression I got, with this blue sky all around.  You have worked with Mat Maitland
-Yes, my sister, me and Mat Maitland, he's a great English graphic designer
-He has worked with many well-known brands, he's known for his collages
-Yes but not only brands, he's the visual world of Beck, of Björk, of many things, it's quite an incredible culture.  Because the English are very good with the idea of getting associated with an artist in order to build a contemporary graphic world that can tell a lot in just a few lines.  That's what I wanted. I draw and my sister also draws and I had the idea of a living logo.  To burn and to rip up my former logo because now the logo is something organic, like an alien.  He asked what I wanted, I said I want the blob, that my name becomes blobs that will change shapes.  And for each song, the logo just like a living blob, an organic shape will change.  And so we will never get bored.
-It makes me immediately think of your stage sets, I imagine it will be crazy.
-Yes, we are working hard!  A few years ago, I was so frustrated.  There is a mechanism in which the artists find themselves.  It's funny because I remember one year ago, I always remember this conversation I had with Big Flo & Oli who asked me plenty of questions 'how did you build that? And why? Everybody tells us we can't' And it's funny because it's what people kept on telling me 'no, it's too expensive.  No you don't have the right to. No, you're not an American artist, you're not Madonna, you're not Ariana Grande, you can't do it'
-But you are Mika though?
-Yes but it's different
-And you've always had original, colourful visuals
-But you have to fight to get all of this, to be able to develop ideas.  So what I did is that I opened an Atelier, and it's constantly creating things, clothes, suits, stage props, inflatable structures... And sometimes I receive phone calls from my office in the US because I have an accountant who follows all this and she's like 'but wait, why are you buying 95 meters of inflatable latex fabric ?'Well it's complicated but... This idea of constantly developing ideas so that when an opportunity comes up, either a concert or a tour or the rugby final like in one week, well what we do for the rugby final, there are elements that took one year and a half to be developed.  And they were being developed well before I learnt I would be doing the rugby final with these 100 kids from La Mêlée des Choeurs who will be on stage.  Some magical things will happen and it's like a laboratory, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but without chocolate, I don't like chocolate.
-You don't?
-I confirm.  For me it's my happy place, music, sculpture, art, fashion, all of this mixing. I could live in this Atelier but legally I don't have the right to.  Because we are in an industrial area, and without hot water.
-When you write songs, are you thinking immediately of how it will turn out on stage ?
-No but it's a part of the process. I feel a little bit like Inspector Clouseau, I get into a frenzy, I write a song and then I try to identify, to find out how it will develop visually on stage.
-And then it has to be ready for early 2024 when your tour starts on March 1st.  I wanted to mention your comeback on The Voice, you talked about Big Flo & Oli earlier, they will be your rivals.  No, you don't see it like this?  You will have to fight.
-No, with me, it's more the English way.  I don't say it, but afterwards, as soon as I am on the seat, the fight is on.
-You'll also be next to Vianney with whom you have collaborated on Keep It Simple, how is it to work with him ?
-It was extremely cool and extremely simple.  That's how we make music, we sit on a sofa, me with a piano on my left, him with a guitar, and 20 minutes later the song is there.
-The song was written in 20 minutes
-It's often like this.  Most of the time, either with Vianney or with someone else or me on my own, we spend hours and hours searching and then it's written in 15, 20, 30 minutes.  
-What's it like being coach on The Voice for you ?
I like it because I don't change who I am. And I feel like I can express myself without fearing consequences.  What is remarkable with the French version, and that is not the case at all in other countries, is that some contestants have big careers. At my first season I thought 'if I do it, there has to be something concrete coming out of it' otherwise we are not believable in our speeches, and I remember once I had a moment of fright because at the first season I turned my chair and there was a young man singing a Maître Gims song with his guitar, flamenco style, and I said 'I can guarantee that you are the only person..' they even cut out a part of my speech, I said 'you are the first person I hear today who will sell albums afterwards'
-You were right.
-It was Kendji. But it's not that I was right, it's that I told myself that with this kind of things, we can build careers.  And I'm not the only one who did that, like now what's happening with Mentissa, what happened with Frero Delavega, Louane, all this is real.  
-Are you impatient to go back ?
-To be honest I enjoy myself there.  In a job where you really have to find some bubbles where you can really express yourself and be yourself, there I have never never never pretended, I have never said something I didn't believe.  We go through strong emotions and it's different each time.

I think in the 2nd part he also talks a bit about Apocalypse Calypso, I will try to add that tomorrow   

[mellody]

Thank you for the transcript & translation @camille*, that's awesome!  I understood that he said his Dad was bringing something to restaurants but could't figure out that it was pepper or how they even got to that topic.  Love reading all those details I missed.

 

33 minutes ago, camille* said:

But it's not flowers in the sense like flowers we see on our curtains, it's the idea of a flower, the idea of something that grows, something small that becomes magnificent and colourful, and then that disappears, and then the cycle starts again

 

This actually reminds me of the hour flowers in the book Momo, by Michael Ende. I wonder if Mika ever read this. I gave it to him as a gift for his bday in 2010, because at the time he had said something (about time) in an interview that reminded me of this book, so I thought he might like it. But ofc he's always busy so he might never had time to read it. The flowers in the book represent time, and each of the flowers lasts exactly for one hour, then it disappears and the cycle starts again. I think Mika's description reminds me more of this than of real flowers, because he makes it sound a bit more abstract, as he says, the idea of a flower, like time, which also is an idea and which Michael Ende made visible / tangible through the image of a flower in that book.

[mellody]

1 hour ago, Kumazzz said:

I feel free, without complexes. I'm 40 now and it's strange cause i'm less hung up, I ask myself fewer questions on what people gonna think, on what I write, the tunes/melody, on what i'm wearing, than when I was 22. Funny, isn't it?

Because usually, we should become a bit more conservative, silent, reserved with the age.

But it's the contrary, and it's the music, and your listening, and your support too, which able me to evolve in this way.

 

Thank you @Juless for the translation! I don't know who told him that we should become more silent and reserved with age, lol...  maybe when you're 80 (tho not sure about that either). Maybe more sensible and responsible, but certainly less concerned about what others think and more confident - I mean, who is confident when they're like 16 or 20?! Back then I thought everyone except me was, but now I know that pretty much no one is. At that age you're still learning who you are, and while you do that, it's hard to find confidence. I mean, even now I'm still learning who I am, but I have a lot more experience to build on than I had when I was 20.

And love that he says it's the music and us, his fans, who enable him to evolve in this way.

[holdingyourdrink]

1 hour ago, camille* said:

Yes sometimes she draws a portrait of me

This sounds familiar 

 

 

Thank you @camille*for your hard work to translate the interview!! I only got 50% of what he said, so I’m very grateful for this translated transcript ❤️

[dcdeb]

Thanks @camille* and @Juless  -- you're lifesavers!

[Kumazzz]

NRJ Music Awards

 

Télé magazine - 4 Novembre 2023 (No. 3547)

 

 

Page 88 + 89

 

VENDREDI 10 nov.

TF1

21:10

NRJ Music Awards
25E ÉDITION

Présentation: Nikos Aliagas (225'). TF1 et NRJ vous donnent ren- dez-vous pour l'une des plus grandes cérémonies musicales du monde : la 25e édition des NRJ Music Awards, présentée par Nikos Aliagas. Les NRJ Music Awards réunissent chaque année les plus grandes stars françaises et internationales à l'occasion de la seule cérémonie de remise de prix où les gagnants sont désignés par le public. Ils sont devenus le rendez-vous musi- cal incontournable de l'année ! Le public pourra voter pour ses artistes/titres pré- férés jusqu'au jour de la cérémonie.

 

0:55 Euro Millions JEU

 

1:00

25es NRJ Music ...

...Awards : stars, secrets, coulisses et moments cultes

 

Inédit

Témoignages de stars, secrets de coulisses, anecdotes, images d'archives et retour sur les prestations des invités vont vous permettre de revivre les meil- leurs moments de cette compétition musicale. Sont notamment nommées, les personnalités suivantes:
Jain, Juliette Armanet, Louane, Mentissa, Santa, Shay et Vitaa (artiste féminine francophone de l'année),
Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, Olivia Rodrigo, Rihanna, Rosalia, Shakira et Tay- lor Swift (artiste féminine internationale),
Claudio Capéo, David Guetta, Kendji Girac, Pierre de Maere, Ridsa, Slimane et Vianney (artiste masculin francophone),
Calvin Harris, Ed Sheeran, Jason Derulo, Lil Nas X, Maluma, Sam Smith et The Weeknd (artiste masculin international).
 Bianca Costa, Calema, Chiloo, Joseph Kamel, Nuit Incolore et Vacra (révélations francophones).

À l'heure où nous écri- vions ces lignes, Louane, Slimane Vitaa, Jain, M, M Pokora ou encore Mika avaient confirmé leur présence à la cérémonie.

 

( Google translator )

At the time of writing these lines, Louane, Slimane Vitaa, Jain, M, M Pokora and even Mika had confirmed their presence at the ceremony.

 

 

 

 

[crazyaboutmika]

Hello

I translated RIFF (fans questions interview) into English

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyvzU5gqI67/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

🇬🇧Fans questions to Mika
Mika: Hi everyone this is Mika and I'm going to answer to your questions for RIFF.
Question: @cassie What are you the most proud regarding your new album?
Mika: You can tell I'm freed, uninhibited. I am fourty now and it is wierd because I am more uninbited and I care less about what people will think about what I write, about the melody, about what I wear than when I was twenty two. Isn't it funny? Because normally one is supposed to become a bit more concervative, more quiet, more modest, but it is the opposite and it's music and your attention and it's your support too that allows me to evolve this way.
Question @axelle The song that took you longer to write?
Mika: n the  writing process "Moi, Andy et Paris". It took time probably because... I don't know, because it is personal. And as far as the production "Sweetie Banana".  I wrote it in fifteen minutes and the production took a year.
Question: @valy If you had to describe this album only by colors?
Mika:When I think about this question I immediatly see a sort of red pink, a bit raspberry which morphs, which is not flat.
Question: @luke & marion
What was your approach of the album and what message do you want to convey?
Mika:It's wierd. For this album I didn't have any concept. It's not a piano album about me and the fact that I turned forty and so on ... No. In this album will tell about me now, today.  But truly just like that, bam, in a fully candid way.
Question @annik Why is your new tour called Apocalypse Calypso tour?
Mika:Apocalypse Calypso is the name of one of the songs in the album. I was trying to write the most romantic song in the world. I asked myself "What would be the most romantic thing in the world?" Making love in the middle of the apocalypse. So for the concerts it is a bit the same ambition. It's not making love  but rather like a ball which takes place during or right after the apocalyse.
Question@apocalypse now
In 2022 you made the soundtrack of the movie "Zodi and Tehu"What did you keep of this experience?
Mika: I loved making a movie soundtrack. It was a very ambitious project. 200 or 250 musicians worked on it. It took me a year for the arrangements, the orchestration and composition. I would very much love to make another movie soundtrack.
Question@all your fans What does your tweet "OM2206" that you posted in october 2020 mean?

 

 

And I google translated my English translation into Italian
 

  🇮🇹Le domande dei fan a Mika
Mika: Ciao a tutti, sono Mika e risponderò alle vostre domande per RIFF.
Domanda: @cassie Di cosa sei più orgoglioso riguardo al tuo nuovo album?
Mika: Puoi dire che sono libero, disinibito.  Adesso ho quarant'anni ed è strano perché sono più disinvolto e mi importa meno di cosa penserà la gente di quello che scrivo, della melodia, di quello che indosso rispetto a quando avevo ventidue anni.  Non è divertente?  Perché normalmente si dovrebbe diventare un po' più conservatori, più silenziosi, più modesti, ma è il contrario e sono la musica, la tua attenzione e anche il tuo supporto che mi permettono di evolvere in questo modo.
Domanda @axelle La canzone che hai impiegato più tempo a scrivere?
Mika: nel processo di scrittura di "Moi, Andy et Paris".  Ci è voluto del tempo probabilmente perché... non lo so, perché è una questione personale.  E per quanto riguarda la produzione "Sweetie Banana".  L'ho scritto in quindici minuti e la produzione ha richiesto un anno.
Domanda: @valy Se dovessi descrivere questo album solo attraverso i colori?
Mika:Quando penso a questa domanda vedo subito una sorta di rosso rosato, un po' lampone che si trasforma, che non è piatto.
Domanda: @luke e marion
Qual è stato il tuo approccio all'album e quale messaggio vuoi trasmettere?
Mika: È strano.  Per questo album non avevo alcuna idea.  Non è un album per pianoforte su di me e sul fatto che ho compiuto quarant'anni e così via... No. In questo album si parlerà di me adesso, oggi.  Ma proprio così, bam, in un modo del tutto sincero.
Domanda @annik Perché il tuo nuovo tour si chiama Apocalypse Calypso tour?
Mika:Apocalypse Calypso è il nome di una delle canzoni dell'album.  Stavo cercando di scrivere la canzone più romantica del mondo.  Mi sono chiesta "Quale sarebbe la cosa più romantica del mondo?"  Fare l'amore nel mezzo dell'apocalisse.  Quindi per i concerti l’ambizione è un po’ la stessa.  Non è fare l'amore ma piuttosto come un ballo che si svolge durante o subito dopo l'apocalisse.
Domanda@apocalisse adesso
Nel 2022 hai realizzato la colonna sonora del film “Zodi e Tehu” Cosa ti è rimasto di questa esperienza?
Mika: Mi è piaciuto molto realizzare la colonna sonora di un film.  Era un progetto molto ambizioso.  Vi lavorarono 200 o 250 musicisti.  Mi ci è voluto un anno per gli arrangiamenti, l'orchestrazione e la composizione.  Mi piacerebbe moltissimo realizzare un'altra colonna sonora per il film.
Domanda@tutti i tuoi fan Cosa significa il tuo tweet "OM2206" che hai pubblicato nell'ottobre 2020?

[Kumazzz]

On 10/24/2023 at 5:52 AM, Kumazzz said:

RIFFX

( second post - questions from fans )

 

Thanks a lot for translations @Juless

 

What are you most proud of on this new album?

 

I feel free, without complexes. I'm 40 now and it's strange cause i'm less hung up, I ask myself fewer questions on what people gonna think, on what I write, the tunes/melody, on what i'm wearing, than when I was 22. Funny, isn't it?

Because usually, we should become a bit more conservative, silent, reserved with the age.

But it's the contrary, and it's the music, and your listening, and your support too, which able me to evolve in this way.

 

The song that took you the most time to write?

 

On the writing, probably "Moi, Andy et Paris". It took time cause... I don't know, because it's personal.

And on the production, "Sweetie Banana". I wrote it in 15 minutes and it took 1 year to produce it.

 

If you had to describe this album only with colors?

 

Right now, while thinking about this question, I visualise a sort of red-pink, a bit raspberry~ Which is morphing a little bit, which is not flat.

 

What was your approach, and what message do you want to convey?

 

It's funny cause, for this album, I didn't had a concept. It's not an album, written on the piano, talking about me while passing through the 40 years, bla bla bla. No.

I'm gonna relate an album talking about me, today. But really, like that, BAM, inguenously.

 

Why the name "Apocalypse Calypso" for the Tour?

 

"Apocalypse Calypso", it's a song on the album. I wanted to write the most romantic song on Earth and I said to myself: "What is the most romantic gesture?" Making love in the middle of the Apocalypse.

For the concert, it's the same ambition. Not making love, but rather a ball taking place during or just after the Apocalypse.

 

In 2022, you made the Original Soundtrack of "Zodi et Téhu", what do you retain from this experience?

 

I loved making music for a movie. It's a really ambitious project, there were 200, 250 musicians who worked on that. It took me one year, of arrangement, orchestration, composition.

I would love to make another movie.

 

What does your tweet "OM2206" posted in October 2020 mean?

 

Om...

 

 

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[Kumazzz]

Maritima Médias

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

 

 

❤️ @mikainstagram 💙 #MaritimaJEU ❤️

 

Avec Maritima gagnez vos invitations* pour @mikainstagram le mercredi 08 novembre à 16h00

 

Une interview en public et une rencontre aux @docksvillage - @laplacedescanailles à Marseille !

 

✅Pour participer

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2. Aimez et partagez ce post dans votre story
3. Taguez @ une ou plusieurs personnes de votre choix !
4. Envoyez le mot "MIKA" + nom, prénom, numéro de téléphone, adresse mail et votre ville de résidence en message privé à @maritimamedias

 

Si vous êtes tiré au sort vous serez prévenu en message privé 😀

 

*événement gratuit sur invitation UNIQUEMENT

 

[crazyaboutmika]

11 minutes ago, Kumazzz said:

Maritima Médias

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

 

 

❤️ @mikainstagram 💙 #MaritimaJEU ❤️

 

Avec Maritima gagnez vos invitations* pour @mikainstagram le mercredi 08 novembre à 16h00

 

Une interview en public et une rencontre aux @docksvillage - @laplacedescanailles à Marseille !

 

✅Pour participer

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2. Aimez et partagez ce post dans votre story
3. Taguez @ une ou plusieurs personnes de votre choix !
4. Envoyez le mot "MIKA" + nom, prénom, numéro de téléphone, adresse mail et votre ville de résidence en message privé à @maritimamedias

 

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Good luck to everyone who enters

[mellody]

12 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

Maritima Médias

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

 

 

❤️ @mikainstagram 💙 #MaritimaJEU ❤️

 

Avec Maritima gagnez vos invitations* pour @mikainstagram le mercredi 08 novembre à 16h00

 

Une interview en public et une rencontre aux @docksvillage - @laplacedescanailles à Marseille !

 

✅Pour participer

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2. Aimez et partagez ce post dans votre story
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I've moved this to French Press, it's a radio show.

 

The album prelistening competition is not really press, so I'm just linking to it here:

 

[Kumazzz]

Télé Star

30 Octobre 2023 (No. 2457)

 

• WEB https://www.telestar.fr/actu-tv/nma/kendji-girac-je-l-espere-ces-nouvelles-de-florent-pagny-qu-il-n-a-pas-843954
• PDF file ( 1 page / 136 kb ) Télé Star_2023_10_30_page-13_Kendji.pdf

 

Que pensez-vous du retour de Mika comme coach dans The Voice ? (Mika est le seul à s'être retourné sur la prestation de Kendji aux auditions à l'aveugle, lors de la troisième saison, en 2013)

 

Je trouve que c'est très bien qu'il y retourne.

Il a une oreille incroyable. Pour moi, Mika, c'est un peu l'emblème de l'émission. C'est grâce à lui que je suis allé jusqu'au bout et que j'ai pu décrocher cette victoire. Avec lui, les candidats seront entre de bonnes mains.

 

Google translator

What do you think of Mika's return as coach in The Voice? (Mika is the only one who looked back on Kendji's performance at the blind auditions, during the third season, in 2013)

 

I think it’s very good that he’s going back there.

He has an incredible ear. For me, Mika is a bit of the emblem of the show. It's thanks to him that I went all the way and was able to achieve this victory. With him, candidates will be in good hands.

 

 

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[NaoMika]

 

This article explains why the concert in Châteauroux was canceled after it was announced.

 

La Nouvelle République du Centre Ouest

 

https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/chateauroux/un-accord-avec-le-printemps-de-bourges-derriere-l-annulation-du-concert-de-mika-au-mach-36#:~:text=La joie des fans de,l'artiste annulait son concert.

 

Un accord avec le Printemps de Bourges derrière l’annulation du concert de Mika au Mach 36

27 Octobre 2023

 

 

Mika : le Mach 36 victimed’une clause d’exclusivité

 

La joie des fans de Mika aura été de courte durée. Le 8 septembre 2023, le Mach 36 annonçait la venue du chanteur libano-britannique, à Châteauroux, le 16 mars 2024. Quatre jours plus tard, patatras : en raison d’un « conflit d’agenda » évoqué sur sa page Facebook, l’artiste annulait son concert. Le lendemain, Alias Production faisait état de « raisons de contre-programmation », promettant d’autres dates « dans la région ». Chose promise chose due : le 21 septembre, Mika était annoncé au Printemps de Bourges, le 24 avril 2023.

 

Le Mach 36 a en fait été victime collatérale d’une clause d’exclusivité entre la production de l’artiste et le festival. « La date avait été confirmée chez nous, début juillet 2023, avant même que la tournée soit montée, jure Jean-Michel Dupas, directeur artistique du Printemps de Bourges. Celle-ci a d’ailleurs été organisée autour du festival. Jamais nous ne nous serions permis de demander la déprogrammation d’un artiste déjà calé. »

 

Dans le contrat passé entre la production et le Printemps de Bourges était glissée une clause d’exclusivité. C’est-à-dire un terme de l’accord qui permet aux festivals d’obtenir l’exclusivité de la venue d’un artiste, sur un territoire et un temps donnés. « Dans ce cas, nous avions exigé 200 km durant tout le temps de la tournée », révèle Jean-Michel Dupas.

 

L’annonce de la venue de Mika au Mach 36 a très vite fait réagir le Printemps de Bourges. « Le producteur a reconnu avoir fait une erreur, ne s’étant pas rendu compte que Châteauroux était aussi proche de Bourges. » Et a réagi en annulant le concert dans la salle déoloise. Pourquoi avoir attendu si tard ? « D’habitude, nous recevons le “ routing ” des tournées, mais pas cette fois. » Le Printemps de Bourges n’était donc pas au courant.

 

Les clauses d’exclusivité sont désormais monnaie courante, « dans tous les festivals d’été », assure le directeur artistique du Printemps. « Elles ont toujours existé mais sont désormais sans doute plus exigeantes car les cachets des artistes sont de plus en plus élevés. » Pour Mika, il s’agit, d’après nos informations, d’un cachet à cinq chiffres. « Plus c’est élevé, plus les clauses sont draconiennes. C’est d’habitude trois mois avant et trois mois après la date, ça peut monter à six. » Le périmètre géographique est lui aussi proportionnel au tarif. Ces conditions sont moins sévères avec les artistes français : « Par essence, un groupe français se produit plus en France et vit de cela, ça n’aurait aucun sens de l’empêcher de jouer en mettant des clauses très longues et très grandes. »

 

De même, le festival permet quelques écarts. Ainsi, Mika se produira bien le 13 mars 2024 à Tours, situé à… 160 km de Bourges. Une clause d’exclusivité existait aussi pour Shaka Ponk, à l’affiche du Printemps, le 25 avril 2024. « On l’avait bouclé dès mars 2023. » Ce qui n’empêchera pas le groupe de se produire le 18 novembre 2023, au Mach 36

 

 (Google Translation)

 

An agreement with Printemps de Bourges behind the cancellation of Mika’s concert at Mach 36

October 27, 2023

 

Mika: the Mach 36 victim of an exclusivity clause

 

The joy of Mika's fans was short-lived. On September 8, 2023, the Mach 36 announced the arrival of the Lebanese-British singer, in Châteauroux, on March 16, 2024. Four days later, woes: due to a “calendar conflict” mentioned on his Facebook page, the The artist canceled his concert. The next day, Alias Production reported “counter-programming reasons”, promising other dates “in the region”. Something promised, something due: on September 21, Mika was announced at Printemps de Bourges, on April 24, 2023.

 

The Mach 36 was in fact the collateral victim of an exclusivity clause between the artist's production and the festival. “The date was confirmed with us, at the beginning of July 2023, even before the tour was set up,” swears Jean-Michel Dupas, artistic director of Printemps de Bourges. This was also organized around the festival. We would never have allowed ourselves to ask for the deprogramming of an artist who was already stuck. »

 

An exclusivity clause was included in the contract between the production and Printemps de Bourges. That is to say a term of the agreement which allows festivals to obtain exclusivity for the arrival of an artist, in a given territory and time. “In this case, we had requested 200 km during the entire tour,” reveals Jean-Michel Dupas.

 

The announcement of Mika's arrival at Mach 36 quickly caused Printemps de Bourges to react. “The producer admitted having made a mistake, not having realized that Châteauroux was so close to Bourges. » And reacted by canceling the concert in the Déoloise venue. Why did you wait so late? “Usually we receive tour routing, but not this time. » Le Printemps de Bourges was therefore not aware of this.

 

Exclusivity clauses are now commonplace, “in all summer festivals,” assures the artistic director of Printemps. “They have always existed but are now undoubtedly more demanding because artists' fees are higher and higher. » For Mika, it is, according to our information, a five-figure fee. “The higher it is, the more draconian the clauses. It's usually three months before and three months after the date, it can go up to six. » The geographical scope is also proportional to the price. These conditions are less severe with French artists: “In essence, a French group performs more in France and makes a living from that, it would make no sense to prevent them from performing by putting very long and very large clauses. »

 

Likewise, the festival allows for some deviations. Thus, Mika will perform on March 13, 2024 in Tours, located… 160 km from Bourges. An exclusivity clause also existed for Shaka Ponk, on the Spring bill, on April 25, 2024. “We had it completed in March 2023.” Which will not prevent the group from performing on November 18, 2023, at Mach 36

 

 

[NaoMika]

MIKA interview: talking about Le Printemps de Bourges festival.

 

Leberry.fr

https://www.leberry.fr/bourges-18000/loisirs/mika-le-printemps-de-bourges-a-un-eclectisme-tres-rare-dans-le-panorama-des-differents-festivals_14390648/

 

Mika : "Le Printemps de Bourges a un éclectisme très rare dans le panorama des différents festivals"

20 Octobre 2023

 

 

Passé sur la scène du W en 2013 et 2016, Mika fera son retour au Printemps de Bourges en 2024. Son premier festival avec son nouvel album Que ta tête ne finisse jamais de fleurir, qui sortira en décembre prochain.

 

Mika, vous êtes de retour au Printemps de Bourges après deux passages en 2013 et 2016, que vous inspire ce festival ?

 

C'est un forum d'artiste ! Ce qui est beau c'est que c'est un grand festival qui reste à échelle humaine. C'est remarquable qu'il y ait tellement de scènes, de genres musicaux. Et ce clash entre les différents univers qui donne un éclectisme très rare dans le panorama des différents festivals.

 

Effectivement, vous ouvrirez d'ailleurs le festival (le mercredi 24 avril) aux côtés de Zaho de Sagazan, Kyo et Martin Solveig. C'est assez varié !

 

La vérité, c'est que les festivals, ou les forums comme j'aime dire, où tous les genres musicaux se rencontrent, c'est très rare ! Maintenant nous avons tellement de festivals que les différents genres et sortes de musiques se sont séparés. Il y a toujours une ligne éditoriale pour un festival et je trouve ça plutôt dommage... Se croiser provoque une énergie différente entre nous les artistes, et par rapport au public. C'est pour cela que beaucoup d'artistes apprécient venir ici, car on a envie de se croiser.

 

Vous faites donc une différence entre vos concerts en tournées et les festivals comme le Printemps ?

 

Les festivals sont très importants pour moi. Ça fait près de 15 ans que j'en fais dans le monde entier, aux États-Unis, en Asie. C'est hyper important. Il y a certains artistes où un truc spécial se passe dans les festivals. Pour moi je pense que c'est lié aussi à la sorte de musique que je fais. Une sorte de pop archi-colorée mais aussi fondamentalement un côté "halte". C'est ce mélange d'univers dans ma musique, dans l'ADN de mon écriture qui se prête beaucoup aux festivals, quels qu'ils soient. Je me retrouve et peux nager dans des eaux très différents.

 

Votre prochain album, qui sortira en décembre, porte un peu en lui cette notion de Printemps au travers de son nom "Que ta tête ne finisse jamais de fleurir". Parlez-nous en un peu.

 

C'est parfait que le premier festival que je fais avec ce nouvel album soit le Printemps de Bourges. Cette idée de renaissance, de résistance forte mais aussi poétique. C'est un album où j'ai vraiment cherché à trouver cette empreinte de pop anglo-saxonne qui est aussi dansante et mélodique que sérieuse et touchante. C'est la pop avec laquelle j'ai grandi, et je voulais trouver une manière de faire ça en français, car la France est une grande partie de ma vie et la langue française a sa place dans mon coeur. Je voulais voir si les deux pouvaient se mélanger ! C'était très différent pour moi, ce n'était pas un processus évident, mais il m'a énormément plu. Cela m'a un peu libéré... Je me suis mis dans une bulle avec cet album.

 

Votre premier passage au Printemps de Bourges date de 2013. Ce ne sera certainement pas le même Mika qui viendra en avril. Comment jugez-vous votre évolution sur les 10 dernières années ?

 

C'est une évolution réciproque. Moi j'ai évolué. Sur certaines choses, je suis devenu plus libéré, j'ai moins peur de ce que les gens pensent, ce qui me donne la possibilité de prendre plus de risque et ça m'amuse. Et mon public aussi a évolué. Le monde a changé. J'ai un public extrêmement divers, de tous les âges, toutes les sortes de musique, surtout dans les festivals où certains ne prennent pas un billet pour venir voir ma pop, mais où dans le contexte comme ça, se perdent, lâchent leur défense, et se laissent porter par l'énergie collective. C'est quelque chose dont je suis très reconnaissant, cette liberté que le public de festival m'offre tant en France qu'en Asie ou ailleurs. C'est cette liberté dont je rêvais petit, je disais "si je réussis à faire de la musique mon métier, peut-être un jour je me sentirai un peu plus libre." Et le public de festival m'offre ça.

 

C'est la même chose un festival en France, à Bourges, ou un festival en Asie, vous avez la même attitude, la même réception ?

 

Absolument ! Au début c'est différent, chaque pays a sa culture avec ses différentes intentions. Mais il y a un point médian dans le concert où ça bascule, et à la fin, on retrouve cette cette énergie universelle qui m'étonne à chaque fois.

 

Comment on gère sa prestation sur scène quand on a une carrière comme la vôtre avec tous ces tubes, et un nouvel album ?

 

Avec créativite et musicalité. La crédibilité musicale est fondamentale. Ce qui donne le pont entre, jouer avec fraîcheur et une nouvelle énergie, les tubes qu'ils attendent, et présenter avec fierté et férocité les nouveaux titres. Ce qui est très important, c'est de trouver un équilibre où le public est étonné par la nouveauté et la redécouverte des anciens morceaux.

 

Vous avez parlé de toute votre évolution. Dans votre single "C'est la vie", vous évoquez votre famille, le Liban. Est-ce que vous êtes influencé par tout ce qu'il se passe dans le monde ?

 

On ne peut pas vivre sans sentir de l'empathie et sans se sentir connecté autour de nous. C'est à la fois troublant et déstabilisant. J'ai grandi dans une famille où je suis la deuxième génération d'une famille d'immigrés. On a grandi entouré par l'instabilité et la guerre, en proximité ou à distance, mais toujours avec ça. La guerre civile au Liban, ensuite la guerre du Golfe où était impliqué mon père d'une certaine manière. Ça me rend triste et nous, en tant qu'artiste, nous avons besoin de répondre de manière artistique et poétique, et de ne pas faire semblant d'être dans une bulle.

 

 

(Google Translation)

 

Having appeared on the W stage in 2013 and 2016, Mika will make his return to Printemps de Bourges in 2024. His first festival with his new album Que ta tête never finishes flowering, which will be released next December.

 

Mika, you are back at Printemps de Bourges after two visits in 2013 and 2016, what does this festival inspire you?

 

It's an artist forum! What's beautiful is that it's a big festival that remains on a human scale. It's remarkable that there are so many scenes, so many musical genres. And this clash between the different universes which gives a very rare eclecticism in the panorama of the different festivals.

 

Indeed, you will open the festival (Wednesday April 24) alongside Zaho de Sagazan, Kyo and Martin Solveig. It’s quite varied!

 

The truth is that festivals, or forums as I like to say, where all musical genres meet, are very rare! Now we have so many festivals that the different genres and kinds of music have separated. There is always an editorial line for a festival and I find that rather unfortunate... Crossing paths causes a different energy between us artists, and in relation to the public. This is why many artists like to come here, because we want to meet each other.

 

So you make a difference between your touring concerts and festivals like Printemps?

 

Festivals are very important to me. I've been doing it for almost 15 years all over the world, in the United States, in Asia. It's super important. There are certain artists where a special thing happens at festivals. For me I think it's also linked to the kind of music I make. A sort of colorful pop but also fundamentally a "stop" side. It is this mixture of universes in my music, in the DNA of my writing which lends itself very well to festivals, whatever they may be. I find myself and can swim in very different waters.

 

Your next album, which will be released in December, carries a little of this notion of Spring through its name “Let your head never finish blooming”. Tell us a little about it.

 

It’s perfect that the first festival I’m doing with this new album is Printemps de Bourges. This idea of rebirth, of strong but also poetic resistance. It's an album where I really tried to find this imprint of Anglo-Saxon pop which is as danceable and melodic as it is serious and touching. It's the pop I grew up with, and I wanted to find a way to do that in French, because France is a big part of my life and the French language has a place in my heart. I wanted to see if the two could mix! It was very different for me, it wasn't an easy process, but I enjoyed it immensely. It freed me a little... I put myself in a bubble with this album.

 

Your first visit to Printemps de Bourges dates back to 2013. It will certainly not be the same Mika who will come in April. How do you judge your evolution over the last 10 years?

 

It’s a reciprocal evolution. I have evolved. On certain things, I have become more liberated, I am less afraid of what people think, which gives me the possibility of taking more risks and that amuses me. And my audience has also evolved. The world has changed. I have an extremely diverse audience, of all ages, all kinds of music, especially at festivals where some don't buy a ticket to come see my pop, but where in the context like that, get lost, let go of their defense , and let themselves be carried by the collective energy. It’s something I’m very grateful for, this freedom that festival audiences offer me, both in France and in Asia and elsewhere. It's this freedom that I dreamed of when I was little, I said "if I succeed in making music my profession, perhaps one day I will feel a little more free." And the festival audience gives me that.

 

It's the same thing, a festival in France, in Bourges, or a festival in Asia, do you have the same attitude, the same reception?

 

Absolutely ! At the beginning it's different, each country has its culture with its different intentions. But there is a midpoint in the concert where things change, and at the end, we find this universal energy which amazes me every time.

 

How do you manage your performance on stage when you have a career like yours with all these hits, and a new album?

 

With creativity and musicality. Musical credibility is fundamental. Which provides the bridge between, playing with freshness and new energy, the hits they expect, and presenting with pride and ferocity the new titles. What is very important is to find a balance where the public is surprised by the newness and the rediscovery of old songs.

 

You talked about your entire evolution. In your single “C’est la vie”, you talk about your family, Lebanon. Are you influenced by everything that happens in the world?

 

We cannot live without feeling empathy and without feeling connected to those around us. It is both disturbing and destabilizing. I grew up in a family where I am the second generation of an immigrant family. We grew up surrounded by instability and war, nearby or at a distance, but always with that. The civil war in Lebanon, then the Gulf War in which my father was involved in a certain way. It makes me sad and we, as artists, need to respond artistically and poetically, and not pretend to be in a bubble.

 

[mellody]

Seems Mika will be at some French TV show that is aired at the end of the year, something like the Hits of this year. As Vianney will be there too, I assume they might perform Keep It Simple? You can register for the filming here: https://www.emissions-tv.com/shootings/placements/13272/3_soirees_exceptionnelles?fbclid=PAAaZ5MtqSTIxe1WaKDYEnvp8ZTULMYQfPE4Jhd2P9LnJRB-6A8AUvb2-K2ng - Mika will be there at the filming next Tuesday 7 November at 12 noon. They say it's 2 hours away from Paris, Millesium d'Epernay.

[mellody]

And another one, he'll be at the NRJ Music Awards on November 10:

 

 

[Kumazzz]

4 hours ago, mellody said:

And another one, he'll be at the NRJ Music Awards on November 10:

 

 

 

Here is a NEW thread for NRJ Awards 2023

 

 

[Kumazzz]

Taratata

 

Les 30 ans

https://www.france.tv/france-2/taratata/5349492-les-30-ans.html

• diffusé le 03/11/2023 à 21h10
• Disponible jusqu'au 18/11/2023

A Birthday message from Mika at 03:27:53.

 

 

Here is the screen captured video.

 

 

[Kumazzz]

22 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

Taratata

 

Les 30 ans

https://www.france.tv/france-2/taratata/5349492-les-30-ans.html

• diffusé le 03/11/2023 à 21h10
• Disponible jusqu'au 18/11/2023

A Birthday message from Mika at 03:27:53.

 

 

Here is the screen captured video.

 

 

 

Taratata

 

Les 30 ans

https://www.france.tv/france-2/taratata/5349492-les-30-ans.html

 

YouTube

 

YouTube by Mikawebsite

Thanks a million for sharing ! @Antoine

 

 

[Kumazzz]

Sweet FM Radio

 

Mika en live dans le Grand Studio Sweet FM

 

Mika était l'invité exceptionnel de Sweet FM, jeudi 19 octobre 2023.

Il a répondu aux questions de notre journaliste Jonathan LATEUR et interprété son nouveau single "C'est la vie" sur la scène du Grand Studio Sweet FM !

Un moment unique et magique pour le public et l'équipe de la radio !

 

 

On 10/23/2023 at 3:44 AM, Kumazzz said:

 

UPDATE !

I got a HD ( 720p ) video from FACEBOOK.

Sweet FM Radio

 

FACEBOOK

Ouest France

https://www.facebook.com/OuestFranceLeMans/videos/6853776817999389

 

Au Mans, le chanteur Mika en visite-éclair chez Sweet FM

À quelques semaines de la sortie de son nouvel album, Mika était, ce jeudi, dans les studios de Sweet FM, en présence d’une vingtaine de fans

 

 

 

[Kumazzz]

Sweet FM Radio

 

Mika - C'est la vie (live)

 

Mika était l'invité exceptionnel de Sweet FM, jeudi 19 octobre 2023.

Il a interprété son nouveau single "C'est la vie" sur la scène du Grand Studio Sweet FM !

Un moment unique et magique pour le public et l'équipe de la radio.

 

 

[mellody]

7 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

Sweet FM Radio

 

Mika en live dans le Grand Studio Sweet FM

 

Mika était l'invité exceptionnel de Sweet FM, jeudi 19 octobre 2023.

Il a répondu aux questions de notre journaliste Jonathan LATEUR et interprété son nouveau single "C'est la vie" sur la scène du Grand Studio Sweet FM !

Un moment unique et magique pour le public et l'équipe de la radio !

 

 

 

 

Thanks! I think I understood most of it, with help of the automatic English subtitles. Love what he says about gigs making him feel more connected.  Don't like so much what he says about putting on his pyjamas and jumping right in the car after a show. Unless it means he's planning to meet us in his pyjamas.  Pyjama party after the shows, why not, lol!  And he says more about the tour, that the show is set after the apocalypse, all back to zero and building something new from there. Hm... to me, "Apocalypse" means there's nothing and no one left to build anything, that's why I find it hard to follow his thought about finding anything positive or desirable in the apocalypse... but when he describes it like this, it makes me think of The Neverending Story, where Bastian builds a new fantasy world after the original one was destroyed. And from that viewpoint I fully understand Mika's intention. Just the images I connect with it (a fantasy novel full of crazy fairytale figures) are pretty different from the ones Mika has in mind (apocalypse).

 

And he was really scared about the non-French tourdates, that people wouldn't be interested in his French project and seeing him on that tour outside of France - and now those dates are sold out. And that he hopes he can (and will try to) live up to people's expectations. Makes me want to hug him when he says that. 🥺 I mean, yeah, I guess some fans in the UK might not be aware that it's a French project, or hope for some teasers from the English album... I'm sure he could do the latter, I just don't know if he wants to, or if he prefers to keep this tour to the new French songs. From what I understood in this interview he says he was scared because there's this idea that if you do a French project, you isolate yourself (question to French speakers, did I understand that right? The presenter was talking at the same time, so the subtitles didn't catch that part) ... and I find that interesting, because I don't think that the fact of doing a project in French (or another language except English) per se means isolating oneself, but the way you do it. If you only do it for your French, or French-speaking audience then yes, the rest of the world might not follow, or at least find it very hard. But if you think of it as broadening your repertoire, your creativity, more cultural variety, etc. and making this broader approach accessible to all of your fans (as Mika does it now, for example with the subtitles), then it's something enriching for everyone, instead of something limiting.

 

Btw, another funny bit in the Interview was when Mika said he already thinks of his dinner while talking to the presenter, and that he'll have fish for dinner - so they started joking about the presenter being Mika's favourite fish.

And Mika said it's torture to learn a new language. Interesting, haha, I would have thought the same as the presenter, that Mika enjoys it.  But he talked about his duolingo struggles while learning Greek, about some other user called Kylie, whom he compares himself to, that he wants to be better than her.  I don't use duolingo, so no idea how it works - do they have some kind of ranking which users do best in a certain language? Guess that means Mika feels motivated by competition. Can't relate, but why not, if it helps him to learn better/faster.

 

Edit: Ah yes, and he said that going on tour is life for him, it's his life.  A hard one, but much better than back in 2007, he said he hated it then and couldn't deal with how much his life had changed.