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Yes! I am going! Thanks to the lovely vixenbbw. Good cure for the post holiday blues, I tell you. What's this about gold hats?? Haven't worn a hat for years but I do like them. Oooh can't wait now!

Interesting article, thanks for posting. It really is all guns blazing for the US breakthrough attempt then. Not that I'm surprised by that. Good luck to him!

Keep voting everyone! Even if WAG doesn't really move much up the chart, it doesn't matter, the important thing is to try and keep it in the Top Ten if possible, to give it that extra bit of exposure. I think the song is a real grower. It's certainly grown on me. So who knows, by getting these two extra plays per day on TMF we might be doing our bit towards helping its sales once it's released. From little acorns, great oak trees grow.. I haven't much time to vote loads today, and tomorrow I'm off on holiday so I duly hand over the oversee of this MFC mission to ewokwicket. She'll keep prodding you all to vote.

Thanks girls for the recording/clipping Downloading and looking forward to listening later.

I am a maybe for this at the moment. I might be persuaded. If I do go though it will be seriously on the cheap as I am on holiday next two weeks and don't expect to bring many Euros back home . (Remind me not to book a holiday in the Euro Zone next year..) So expensive rides and dinner in restaurants would be out as far as I am concerned, but could still meet up with you lot nonetheless..for a drink, and rendez-vous at the back door of the Empress Ballroom for example .

The video gets played a couple of times a day as part of the TMF playlist, I've seen it a few times too. Us voting en masse to keep it in the Top Ten Most Wanted ensures it gets another two plays per day.

btw did my ears deceive me or did Mika rap a bit in the bridge part of Rain at the iTunes thing? Rap in a talky Pet Shop Boys kind of way, I mean. That kind of rapping I could just about forgive on a Mika song.

Did anyone in the UK get up at 8am to watch the chart on TMF?? Unfortunately I didn't , I was still asleep...had a v. late night trying to spot meteorites (saw NONE ). The chart is on at 3pm again this afternoon

A week or so ago my husband came home from the shops with a pink t-shirt he had bought for our holidays. As long as I have known him, I have never known him wear pink, but I like pink on men and he knows that, and he said he just fancied it! (Or perhaps he though I would fancy him in it ) Well, he showed the t-shirt to our 7 year old son, whose immediate reaction was.."Dad, that is so gaaay!" What a strong association he made..not just that pink was 'girly', but that it was 'gay'. Children pick up all sorts of messages about what kind of behaviour or dress is perceived in their culture as 'gay', even at this young age. In a way, the fact my heterosexual husband will be wearing a pink shirt is a very strong positive message to our son about not judging a book by its cover. And in a way, Mika, through his flamboyance and perceived 'gayness', is also challenging stereotypes. He may be gay, he may not, but we shouldn't necessarily assume he is just because he wears a cupcake scarf in a video. The stereotypes exist, and that's reality, as Christine (I think it was?) rightly said. So when some of us say 'the WAG video is the gayest thing ever' (and I myself have said it, though not in front of my son I should add! ), we are referring to the stereotype and acknowledging it. That's not the same as believing it, although we may choose to draw our own conclusions from it.

Icecream at 8am?? What kind of mother do you think I am???? Then again... it's Mika...*checks icecream supplies*

It may be that the chart only updates once or twice a day. Next time it updates he might be further up the chart. Keep voting everyone! I am going to make sure I'm up early tomorrow to watch the chart at 8 am and see where he is That's if I can wrestle the remote control from the kids

Yeah Kanye is ok. I don't mind him.

I would record it if I knew how to! That's one thing I haven't mastered yet...

I just put the name of the worst rap/RnB type artist I could think of. No offence to Akon fans (he must have some). And no offence to Mika...I'm sure it'll sound better in the full version

You need to sort out your priorities , woman

Thanks Lena! I'm looking forward to watching the countdown tomorrow, if he's there in the top ten we know it's all down to MFC Power.

Impressed! I'd love to learn Japanese. I learnt a bit from reading Shogun a few years ago. I love that book It took me two years to read it though But I did have a baby in the middle of it, which probably explains it.

No. It sounds like it should have Akon rapping over it to me But maybe it's just the chorus and the rest is super duper .

Thanks for the advice..unfortunately, too late for us Manchester people I don't want to meet Mika anyway

I wonder when he recorded it? Sneaky Mika...coming to Manchester and not telling us

T4P! Not the biggest fan of BIOTG..but this news (if true) doesn't surprise me. And maybe the album version will grow on me .

We are not what you think we are, we are AWESOME we are AWESOME!!

I liked those tweets. It made me happy to know that he isn't an airhead pop tart, and he cares about stuff like that. I wouldn't want him going on and on about serious stuff all the time, but you like to think your idols () are balanced people, with brains, and opinions on stuff other than just what shirt goes with what pants. Or doesn't, as the case may be . So yeah, I was a ittle bit 'wow' too .

The chart has just refreshed on the page..and Mika is now NUMBER 7 !!!!!! That's just with the few votes we've all submitted in the last hour. Amazing! Keep going guys!