I acctually saw MIka's first response tweet (that he immediatley deleted) about this and I tweeted him back in FULL support since I have seen him live about 12 times and been either IN or very near the front row on 3/4's of those gigs, and I was totally indignant for Mika for this guy to accuse him of mimming, because when I have seen him live he most certainly has NOT mimmed. I am afraid I went and tweeted this stupid man and hurled a bit of abuse his way:blush-anim-cl: (he deserved it), he does appear a bit full of his own self importance.
I take what you say on board Sari, I have yet to see the new songs live, but the ones I saw live off the SFS ep all sounded real enough to me, and as you know I was front row for those too. I can understand him having to use some backing vocals if it's his own voice cos he can't do it all at the same time, and like you I would rather see him carry on as he has done so successfully so far by doing as much as he can without it incuding any cute little imperfections.
( I did wonder if he would do that when I heard how he starts the begining of Relax when he gets changed out of the spacesuit etc, but I havnt read that he has yet so I hope not).
I'm glad though that his ppl went to his defence (like we did too).