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Now I'm even more ashamed to have sent mine

Kick off to the European tour! Enjoy everyone

From Facebook We're introducing our Tweet Of The Week, each week we'll highlight one of our favourite tweets to @mikasounds who will get a retweet & a follow back from Mika! We're kicking this off with this lovely tweet from @malin_swe everyone go follow & say hi #MikaTOTW Hmm... I'd rather have Mika following whoever he wants to follow...

Just a minute before Mika tweets about it. Good work

I think a few of us have the same lights as your star shaped lights but heart shaped (from the Vienne gig) I guess we could bring it, the effect would be the same

TOOL #17 this week in France. Slowly falling down.. At the moment there is no sign of a 2nd single (airplay wise) even though Underwater is already released

He said it happened in the show Taratata last month: http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3812509&postcount=96

Thank you so much for your ideas! I'm happy we'll be able to make this gig even more special

It annoys me that they can't get the spelling of the Roubaix gig right.. I didn't mind that much about Facebook but this is his official site, they could at least check where's he's touring

http://www.ozap.com/actu/charts-uk-leona-lewis-decoit-mika-degringole/443694 It says TOOL fell to #90 on the 2nd week in the UK (73%) with only 1465 copies sold

Why is this thread called 'MFC Anthem?' This is our anthem, no doubt about it! Love it!

Thank you! Really enjoyable read Bad memories...

There are some gigs for which I get very excited even if I'm not going... this one is one of them! Enjoy everybody!

I think this is very good news! He hasn't done that much promo and maybe not on the main stations/channels as Marilyn often points out, but he did sell quite a lot in the first week to be able to get there in the charts. We can only hope that sales will increase even more with time and exposure

I agree it's a very good documentary, the kind that we don't get really often. I think at M6 they knew they wouldn't have the opportunity to get interviews with him live on TV in September (I can't think of any show on this channel where he could have appeared) so they chose this type of programme. For me it is really this show that kicked off the promo tour in France, being aired on the Sunday before the release. I'm already nostalgic

Down to #9 here in France..

Thank you so much Bere That's exactly the part I wanted to quote! (even if there are a lot of interesting things in there) And it's not even because apparently it's being discussed on MFC, I haven't been around enough these days, but because I relate to it and it made me smile how he worded it

I didn't know about this bonus page, so I've just tried, it works with Expat Shield

Thank you very much for finding and posting. I wish we could see what happens backstage more often

That made me laugh I don't think it's true though. Let's look at Celebrate for example, it only went to #33 in the French charts last week and it's down to 45 now. Ok it does get airplay but it doesn't mean this single is a success. I'm not sure that random people in the streets could tell you what Mika's current single is. They would probably answer Elle Me Dit , which by the way still gets a lot of airplay (I wouldn't say as much as Celebrate but not that far..) EMD was very special, I don't think anybody really knows how it became so successful. I mean; nobody ever sells so many singles anymore or it's very rare. And it sold more than Relax 5 years ago when singles used to be still a bit more successful. Anyway, I think Celebrate is probably a good single in terms of radio airplays, I think it fits what's being played in France nowadays, but it's not strong enough to make people want to buy it and it's not the best representative of the album or Mika's work in general. Which is a shame. We are lucky in France that radio stations/TV channels/the media in general support Mika and I'm sure it helped getting him to #1 with TOOL (which is after all much more important than a single). I really wonder what the future will bring us with the release of Underwater. This time it's the other way around. It doesn't fit the radio landscape in my opinion but I hope they will play it so that it can make more people aware of Mika's brilliant work. If it gets radio airplay I think TOOL will be a real success; if not I'm afraid it will sell less than the first 2 albums..

'I've heard a legend about it, we think that it's a very romantic song but the truth is that it's about a divorce. I like the idea that a song that everybody sees as romantic and beautiful is actually about a break up or the topic of jealousy. 'At every step I'll be watching you, to see what you're doing'. That's cool.'

Here is a review from a big music website in France, I don't think it's been posted before? http://www.chartsinfrance.net/MIKA/news-81836.html Translation Mika surprises and convinces with The Origin of Love Mika is back with The Origin of Love, a surprising new album at first listening, but which is nevertheless in line with the previous ones. This third piece of work is much calmer but not less intense in the strength of musical expression and lyrics. Mika tries out new ideas, still remaining the same. 3 years after TBWKTM, Mika has decided to talk about love. 'Love is a drug and you are my cigarette. You're the origin of love' he sings in the opening track, title of the album, with brilliant arrangements and a musical bridge sung in a majestic Latin. The British Lebanese singer, incredibly French at heart, is the writer of his 14 new songs (17 for the 2 CD Deluxe edition) and found some help from Doriand to write in our language 4 of his songs. We already knew Elle Me Dit, hit from the Summer of 2011, which by the way stands alongside her little English sister Emily, part of the first CD. Mika also cleared the language obstacle on 'Karen', 'L'Amour dans le Mauvais Temps' and 'Un Soleil Mal Luné'. 'Je ne demande pas la lune, pas la gloire ni la fortune. Juste du soleil dans ma vie' Mika sings in Un Soleil Mal Luné, piano and voice only with a lot of melancholy. This feeling of melancholy can be found again on some other songs like Underwater with which the artist states his need for love, and Heroes, in which he evokes death and beyond. Mika has nevertheless written a positive and energetic album, although not a dancing one. Because he is not here proposing a bis repetita placent of his first two albums. The Origin of Love is an album that needs more time to listen to in order to get all its subtleties. Of course, Mika continues evolving in a pop electro style with very produced songs like Overrated, mind blowing, and Love You When I'm Drunk, on which his high pitched voice is reaching the extreme on an insistent melody. Mika has found the right balance between pop, electro and dance music Generally, the tempo is quite slow. The album contains a bunch of midtempo songs. It wasn't cut up for dancefloors but allows Mika to tell nice little stories, his own stories, apart from the single Celebrate, unquestionably the most suitable song for radio. Stardust, produced by the Benassi cousins, also totally sounds like a hit! However, we cannot say that Mika absolutely tried to fit into a mould. Without talking about experimental music either, the artist mixes keyboards and chords, accompanied by very surprising electro sounds, and sparingly sprinkles bass parts. In fact, we are not so far from what the artist offered in the past. Influences are varied and referenced, they follow each other or pass each other on each track. If the 80s influences are well chosen, we are more surprised with Step With Me and Popular Song, in which Mika has a go at RnB. Very slightly though! Our opinion : 4/5 Mika has found the right balance between pop, electro and dance music on his 3rd album. Fantasy is still present but the artist leaves a big space to this love that he lives with and is completely comfortable with. A success!

It happens to me quite often to fall asleep with the radio on and wake up when they play a Mika song. I'm always impressed by whatever happens in my brain then But yes, it was particularly nice last night with this great live performance (I would have preferred not to fall asleep at all though )

I'm watching it here http://www.webactu-webtv.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=11

Yes thank you for uploading, same thing happened to me, I fell asleep 20 minutes before Mika arrived, I woke up to the sound of his voice but missed most of the song