Pamette Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I'm listening to "Les noces de Figaro" and I can't find the extract!!! If someone on the MFC knows something about opera and Figaro... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tantastic Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I knew that 'Relax' was erm.. made out of 'I just died in your arms tonight'.. Heard about it on the radio, lol Didn't he said in some interview, that he used that Figaro thing in 'Grace Kelly'? XD Sorry. I'm slow and I really can't explain myself in English Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nailia Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 If someone on the MFC knows something about opera and Figaro... Ha! I think I've found it...not sure though...try Largo Al Factotum from the Barber Of Seville, it's towards the end I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grace Ally Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Ha! I think I've found it...not sure though...try Largo Al Factotum from the Barber Of Seville, it's towards the end I think... Yes! I also think that it's going about this fragment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamette Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Ha! I think I've found it...not sure though...try Largo Al Factotum from the Barber Of Seville, it's towards the end I think... You're right!!! I was listening "Le nozze di Figaro" as Nagui said in Taratata that it was that opera but it's wrong. It's "Largo Al Factotum" from the Barber Of Seville with an another Figaro. Thank you Nailia!!! Listen after 4:00 minutes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UDCmFG8OpM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikamyloveexx Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Most definately a Mika original:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CazGirl Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 well, if it WAS a cover, other people than your parents would have also recognised it, and it would be all over the papers lol. besides, it says in the booklet it was done by him. They have to tell the truth otherwise he'd get sued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Hey guys, I was wondering, my friends sad that 'Grace Kelly' was not Mika's own work, and that their parents had heard it before, ages ago, and that he was a fraud!xx Maybe your friends are just trying to wind you up, especially if you're talking about more than one set of parents here. Maybe one person might get it confused with something else, but not everyone's parents. I've been around music for almost 40 years and I've never heard anything like Grace Kelly. Even comparisons with Freddie Mercury, et al...they're just talking about his voice and the sort of operatic feel, not the lyrics and the melody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lollipop_monkey Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 well, if it WAS a cover, other people than your parents would have also recognised it, and it would be all over the papers lol. besides, it says in the booklet it was done by him. They have to tell the truth otherwise he'd get sued. Precisely. In the album credits Mika is listed as the author of Grace Kelly, with a few others garnering a credit as well (including Jodi Marr, who he worked with in Miami). The intro to Relax (Take it Easy) incorporates the intro to (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight, but that's not a ripoff - more of a homage. It's noted in the album credits. And another thing - remember how he said a while back that someone pranked him by pretending to be a descendent of Grace Kelly, who maintained that they were offended by the song? Um...if he didn't write it, why would he care if someone was offended? Sigh. People. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lollipop_monkey Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 well, if it WAS a cover, other people than your parents would have also recognised it, and it would be all over the papers lol. besides, it says in the booklet it was done by him. They have to tell the truth otherwise he'd get sued. Precisely. In the album credits Mika is listed as the author of Grace Kelly, with a few others garnering a credit as well (including Jodi Marr, who he worked with in Miami). The intro to Relax (Take it Easy) incorporates the intro to (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight, but that's not a ripoff - more of a homage. It's noted in the album credits. And another thing - remember how he said a while back that someone pranked him by pretending to be a descendent of Grace Kelly, who maintained that they were offended by the song? Um...if he didn't write it, why would he care if someone was offended? Sigh. People. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamette Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 well, if it WAS a cover, other people than your parents would have also recognised it, and it would be all over the papers lol. besides, it says in the booklet it was done by him. They have to tell the truth otherwise he'd get sued. For "Relax", it's written on the booklet that he took some parts of "Died in your arms tonight". He must have asked the authorisation to do it. For "Grace Kelly", he can take some parts of "Largo Al Factotum" without asking any authorisation because this song is very old (in France, you can do what you want with a song if his author is died more than 70 years ago). No ambiguity at all!!! He won't have problems! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnFa Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 You know what? That part in Take Thats song, Shine, sounds very much like a this part in Any Other World So come on, so come on, get it on Don't know what you're waiting for Your time is coming don't be late, hey hey So come on ... Cos it's all in the hands of a bitter, bitter man Say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in Take a bow, play the part of a lonely lonely heart ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Mewissa<33 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 i think this is Mika's...100% if your parents have heard it....wouldnt it kind of like been a big song??? like...people today will hear it.......like some of Queen's songs!?? uggh! im bad at explaining x] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 And another thing - remember how he said a while back that someone pranked him by pretending to be a descendent of Grace Kelly, who maintained that they were offended by the song? Um...if he didn't write it, why would he care if someone was offended? Because they threatened to bar him from Monaco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosprincess Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 What happened to me was that after listening to it once, GK got so stuck in my head that I thought I must have listened to it before, just because it's such a good song. Do you get me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngievV Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 It's totally Mika's song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nailia Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 What happened to me was that after listening to it once, GK got so stuck in my head that I thought I must have listened to it before, just because it's such a good song. Do you get me? Ooooh yeah I get it haha! It happened to me several times too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 your friends are just jealous.... he referenced somewhat recent pop culture in the song, and not to mention it's personalised to Mika. no brainer, it's all him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplegrape Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 lies! its all lies!!!! they are just jelous!! (sorry for the bad spelling) grace kelly is mika's own creation!!!! mika's mika's mika's!!! his and only his! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasabi_tea Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Mika, a fraud? Hahahaha, people are funny! However, the beginning of 'Over My Shoulder' does sound almost exactly like the beginning of Martin Grech's 'Open Heart Zoo'... I suspect that this is just an interesting coinky-dink, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdlp Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 find out anymore info on this 'fraud'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathaliiexx Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Well... some people said that to me too..... But..if it isnt his work...he was lying... AND THAT IS IMPOSSIBLEEEE!!! soo..i think that it sounds like another song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdlp Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Well...some people said that to me too..... But..if it isnt his work...he was lying... AND THAT IS IMPOSSIBLEEEE!!! soo..i think that it sounds like another song mika would never lie right? even though once he said he made up a few things but that was about other celebs, and as a joke .. he would never lie to us.. or would he ooooooh hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamette Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Stop the contreverse! Mika has never lied about his songs. I'm sure that if you tell him that some of his songs look like anothers songs, he would listen to these another songs and would tell truly what he thinks about the resemblance. Has Mika already tried to mislead his fans? NEVER!! I'm sure if you ask him, he would tell the truth! He seems to be an honest person and never treats people bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violet_sky Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 I think the point is that Grace Kelly is just sooo ingenious, awesome and catchy, amazing and great, that it might seem impossible to people that it has not been there before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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