Mika - Q Magazine - June 2009 - Exclusive

[forevermika]

Off topic- but where is your siggie pic from?

 

Off topic? i'm afraid of being disappointed by the EP and the new music.

My siggie pic is just from the mika pic section.

[Soaring Simpson]

If he's a liar- and obviously he is- I'm fast losing interest in any further interviews.

[Daisuke]

Can this be purchased in the US?

[Christine]

If he's a liar- and obviously he is- I'm fast losing interest in any further interviews.

 

Come on now, that's the fun of it. Catching Mika out is great sport and learning to read between the lines is an artform I think some of us have learned to master after two years. That's why I'm sure I wouldn't find Mika anywhere near as entertaining if I wasn't an English speaker.

 

Mika's really not all that inherently interesting and I find some of the nonsense he tries to project even less interesting than he seems to believe people will find it. But I am fascinated by the fact that he does it and that he is so adept at masking the truth and telling contradictory stories without actually lying in the strictest sense of the word.

 

I find it all a part of his charm.

[veroMica]

Exactly . That's one thing that us "oldies" (fans) know very well

 

And we also know what I'm going to say at the bottom of this post.

 

If he's a liar- and obviously he is- I'm fast losing interest in any further interviews.

 

 

 

Hasn't said that himself?

[laura*]

Come on now, that's the fun of it. Catching Mika out is great sport and learning to read between the lines is an artform I think some of us have learned to master after two years. That's why I'm sure I wouldn't find Mika anywhere near as entertaining if I wasn't an English speaker.

 

Mika's really not all that inherently interesting and I find some of the nonsense he tries to project even less interesting than he seems to believe people will find it. But I am fascinated by the fact that he does it and that he is so adept at masking the truth and telling contradictory stories without actually lying in the strictest sense of the word.

 

I find it all a part of his charm.

 

 

:insane:

[Soaring Simpson]

Come on now, that's the fun of it. Catching Mika out is great sport and learning to read between the lines is an artform I think some of us have learned to master after two years. That's why I'm sure I wouldn't find Mika anywhere near as entertaining if I wasn't an English speaker.

 

Mika's really not all that inherently interesting and I find some of the nonsense he tries to project even less interesting than he seems to believe people will find it. But I am fascinated by the fact that he does it and that he is so adept at masking the truth and telling contradictory stories without actually lying in the strictest sense of the word.

 

I find it all a part of his charm.

 

I imagine most of us can read between the lines- I've been reading interviews much longer than I've been active on here. And you get an interesting double perspective, obviously. But in this case it's a clumsy lie- either now or then.

 

Quite seriously, if he has to lie to make himself interesting (which I don't believe) I'll read someone else's interviews.

[Soaring Simpson]

And we also know what I'm going to say at the bottom of this post.

 

Hasn't said that himself?

 

Making up JOhn Travolta stories is different.

[willywonka]

There are a couple of small pics - one of him in studio and one of printed lyrics

 

 

Thanks S!

I scrolled back and missed it, then someone quoted and i saw it, tnx anyway

 

ahh, great news about the EP!

 

willywonka, your sig made me LOL!

 

Oh thank you, it's my TOYBOY cat!

[Christine]

I imagine most of us can read between the lines- I've been reading interviews much longer than I've been active on here. And you get an interesting double perspective, obviously. But in this case it's a clumsy lie- either now or then.

 

Quite seriously, if he has to lie to make himself interesting (which I don't believe) I'll read someone else's interviews.

 

Well you're quicker than me then because it took me awhile to figure out you can't take some of what he says at face value.

 

And I don't think it's a clumsy lie necessarily. I think if you confronted him with it he may have a reasonable explanation for the disparity. You have to be careful with print interviews because you can't trust the context or even the accuracy of the quote anyway.

[daisylou]

 

I bet you'd swap that Mikafied birthday cake for a gig in the Northeast somewhere though wouldn't you?

 

Maybey....

 

Again?? how many do you have a year man! Your Like The Queen !

Not a Queen only a Pink Princess!..I had one as thought would be getting my spine operated on like..NOW but postponed it for 3 months...The lengths I go to for MIKA....(didn't tell the Surgeon that is why tho!)

 

Come on now, that's the fun of it. Catching Mika out is great sport and learning to read between the lines is an artform.

But I am fascinated by the fact that he does it and that he is so adept at masking the truth and telling contradictory stories without actually lying in the strictest sense of the word.

 

I find it all a part of his charm.

 

OMGosh! I can't believe nobody has brought up the whole ...The CD will be finished in a week and 4 weeks or so later he is still tweaking it....the guy says things as a smoke screen. The MFC all stopped mentioning and moaning you hadn't heard any news so he told you some...maybey wasn't the complete truth but it worked didn't it? you were then talking about the CD actually happening and not When???

 

He never lies fully ...just white ones and merges things together...how do you think he has managed to keep his private life private? Eg. that person he was with could have been a lover, sister, brother, cousin....you will never find out the truth and that is how he likes it.

He is a major tease and I adore that trait in him...it is not meant with malice just fun that is the difference.

xx

[guylainem123]

Come on now, that's the fun of it. Catching Mika out is great sport and learning to read between the lines is an artform I think some of us have learned to master after two years. That's why I'm sure I wouldn't find Mika anywhere near as entertaining if I wasn't an English speaker.

 

Mika's really not all that inherently interesting and I find some of the nonsense he tries to project even less interesting than he seems to believe people will find it. But I am fascinated by the fact that he does it and that he is so adept at masking the truth and telling contradictory stories without actually lying in the strictest sense of the word.

 

I find it all a part of his charm.

 

i can't help but to think he must have been a hard teenager to handle

 

Well you're quicker than me then because it took me awhile to figure out you can't take some of what he says at face value.

 

And I don't think it's a clumsy lie necessarily. I think if you confronted him with it he may have a reasonable explanation for the disparity. You have to be careful with print interviews because you can't trust the context or even the accuracy of the quote anyway.

 

i'm thinking that also. the interviewer may have the story wrong.

he says the complete opposite on the interview in his first DVD.

[Christine]

i can't help but to think he must have been a hard teenager to handle

 

Or maybe an easy one. I think most people learn to do this to keep themselves out of trouble with those that can't handle the truth. And Mika seems to have a lot of fans who are quite happy with what he wants them to see.

 

i'm thinking that also. the interviewer may have the story wrong.

he says the complete opposite on the interview in his first DVD.

 

I remember something he said about the album at the Capital FM awards and it ended up in several variations of a twisted quote in publications all over the world. It was all rubbish.

[Wendi]

Not a Queen only a Pink Princess!..I had one as thought would be getting my spine operated on like..NOW but postponed it for 3 months...The lengths I go to for MIKA....(didn't tell the Surgeon that is why tho!)

 

You postponed your spine op?

I hope that was a wise decision and that things don't get even worse!!

[Sabine64]

I imagine most of us can read between the lines- I've been reading interviews much longer than I've been active on here. And you get an interesting double perspective, obviously. But in this case it's a clumsy lie- either now or then.

 

Quite seriously, if he has to lie to make himself interesting (which I don't believe) I'll read someone else's interviews.

 

I don´t think he was lieing, when he told that old stuff on the DVD. He had time enough to change his mind. You can see it how he changed his shows.

[guylainem123]

Or maybe an easy one. I think most people learn to do this to keep themselves out of trouble with those that can't handle the truth. And Mika seems to have a lot of fans who are quite happy with what he wants them to see.

 

I remember something he said about the album at the Capital FM awards and it ended up in several variations of a twisted quote in publications all over the world. It was all rubbish.

 

what i mean by a difficult teenager is like... when his mom said i don't want you walking to the mall, he'd say... no mom! so instead, he had someone drive him to the mall

he listened to his mom, but the end result is the same. i used to do that to my parents

[laura*]

i can't help but to think he must have been a hard teenager to handle

 

:naughty:

 

 

Or maybe an easy one. I think most people learn to do this to keep themselves out of trouble with those that can't handle the truth. And Mika seems to have a lot of fans who are quite happy with what he wants them to see.

 

 

[Soaring Simpson]

Well you're quicker than me then because it took me awhile to figure out you can't take some of what he says at face value.

 

And I don't think it's a clumsy lie necessarily. I think if you confronted him with it he may have a reasonable explanation for the disparity. You have to be careful with print interviews because you can't trust the context or even the accuracy of the quote anyway.

 

Well- I read a lot of interviews in a very short time! I doubt there's many I haven't read. And it's my day job to spot contradicitons/avoidances. And all of us might be completely wrong anyway. Despite this, I think he's pretty genuine in his way. BUT this has made me doubt.

 

As to context etc- I think you're being patronising. I repeat- I can read a magazine. The thread was talking about that quote- there's no more reason for me to start saying "if he said it" than anyone else.

[mandilambi]

Exclusive - Mika's Second Coming

 

A new EP this month and album in September aim to reveal the pop peacock's bleak side. But there is still room for sex-crazed furry animals....

 

Mika is preparing the follow-up to 2007's platinum-selling Life In Cartoon Motion, promising a "coming-of-age" album that marries eclectic, flamboyant pop with "dark" lyrical themes. As yet untitled, it's scheduled for release in September and will be prepared with a four track EP.

 

"The first record dealt with childhood", he says between sessions in Rocket Carousel Studios in Los Angeles. "This time I decided to age the world and characters I'd been writing about by 10 years. I wanted this record to sound like how I felt when I was 16 to 17 - sometimes it sounds big and out of control, other times it feels like a comfortable hug".

 

Having finished his world tour with a show in Lebanon, the singer songwriter began work on the album in London's Olympic Studios in June 2008, and began sketching a selection of "bleak fairy tales", some of which will be released on 25th May as the Songs For Sorrow EP.

 

"The lyrics are dark and emotional. There's a track called Toy Boy, which is about a toy that gets used and abused by different owners. I guess these songs are the antidote to my first album."

 

Despite the despondent lyrics, Mika's music remains decidedly flamboyant, inspired as it is by Disney soundtracks, '50s country starlet Patti Page and the hefty pop anthems of '80s artists such as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

 

"I wanted to make an unashamed pop record," he says. "I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own."

 

Mika moved into Rocket Carousel in September 2008, turning an album's worth of demos into polished tracks with Life In Cartoon Motion producer Greg Wells. The duo clearly had grand designs: Blame It On The Girls has Cuban pianos and a swaggering, hip-hop production, while We Are Golden bolts the Andrae Crouch choir (who sang Madonna's Like A Prayer) to a Pink Floyd-inspired groove.

 

With a world tour planned to promote the Songs For Sorrow EP this summer and a number of festival appearances already pencilled in, 2009 looks to be another busy year. However, the gimmicks and dancing bears that marked his first world tour are due for an overhaul.

 

"People thought I was putting on a kid's show," he says. "But really, the animals were inspired by a sexual craze called plushing - people getting dressed up in furry animal costumes and having sex with one another. My animals came on stage, hung out and started drinking. Then they had an orgy. But I don't care whether people get it or not. I'm a Marmite artist - people love me or hate me."

 

Track By Track

 

Blame It On The Girls

 

This sounds like No Doubt. It's about a wealthy, handsome boy who has everything, yet pretends to be miserable.

 

We are Golden

 

It's big sounding and aggressive, but in a good way. It's got a gospel choir on it and a kids choir, but unlike the first record, they are not singing sweetly, they're screaming on top of their lungs.

 

Rain

 

This is an unapologetic '80s pop record. I bumped into producer Stuart Prince while he was working with the Killers at Olympic Studios. He helped me program this. It reminded him of ABBA and Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

 

Toy Boy

 

This has a full orchestra, like a Disney soundtrack, but the lyrics are intense and dark. Toy Boy is full of twiddling flutes and lush strings, but the melody is very mechanic, like a music box.

 

 

Eh? Erm...I don't hear that at all...

 

Other than that, love the new news. Can't wait!

[willywonka]

 

 

 

Us, the Portuguese fans appreciated it very much as Q mags will get here in a week or even a fourtnight, so THANK YOU MR. FRANCISCO DOUBLO!

[sparkly1]

Below are my reactions to just reading 40 pages from start to finish.

 

yipeee new EP

still yippee new EP

even MORE yippee new EP

 

phew will I ever get to the end of this thread and the acoustic yaaddda discussions

 

doh did I fall asleep half way through this thread

 

ah well while I wait patiently for the NEW EP I shall keep calm and chill maaaan.

[superstar]

Anyone wanna, uh, send me over a copy of that Q Magazine? :rolls_eyes:

[lily]

Omg, finally!! I'm soooo excited!!!

 

So, where can I get the CD when it comes out and

where can I get tour dates???????????????!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I CAN"T WAIT!!!!!!!!!

[Fmbm]

Anyone wanna, uh, send me over a copy of that Q Magazine? :rolls_eyes:

 

They sell Q magazine here too

[superstar]

They sell Q magazine here too

 

WHAT!?

 

OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS!