I am so over his horrible banshee screeching. It's so 2007 and makes Mariah Carey's wailing listenable in comparison.

This is a pretty good track though that extra-high note he does on the chorus makes me cringe, the rest of it is pretty bearable.

Does anybody know if he is re-releasing his album?

 

What for :naughty: ? I think it will be better to end with this one andmake a new one better as trying to improve this one with a re-release....

 

How much did this album sell anyway?

Barely anything I'd have thought, given it peaked at #4 and spent 4 weeks in the top 40...

 

Anyway, this should extend his career at least enough to get him given another album.

I expect he'll keep on going regardless, he strikes me as the sort of artist that would get picked up by a smaller label anyway even if he was dropped by his current label, he still has a fair amount of European success. The Boy Who Knew Too Much was just a weaker Life In Cartoon Motion, he obviously still has potential, he just needs to stop releasing pretentious crap and not be afraid to do something different. Far be it from me to compare him to Salem Al Fakir (especially when NEO is far more similar), but he could have just as easily pulled off Backseat, which is the sort of direction he could well move into if he really wanted to, i.e. featuring on electro or dance collaborations.

 

I was a HUGE fan of his debut and saw him live in 2007 where he was fantastic so I will always have some interest in him, but not whilst he releases banal songs like Blame It On The Girls and the majority of The Boy Who Knew Too Much...I actually loved We Are Golden, although not the video :lol:

I love it, especially those growly high notes during the verses!

 

If only he'd added a huge falsetto "redoooooone" in the intro then it'd be perfect :D

I was a HUGE fan of his debut and saw him live in 2007 where he was fantastic so I will always have some interest in him, but not whilst he releases banal songs like Blame It On The Girls and the majority of The Boy Who Knew Too Much...I actually loved We Are Golden, although not the video :lol:

 

I really liked 'Blame It On The Girls' :cry: As a non-Mika fan...

I really liked 'Blame It On The Girls' :cry: As a non-Mika fan...

 

Really? it came off as a 'let's try and recreate Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)' or something, which was always my least favourite song on Life In Cartoon Motion anyway

 

Happy Ending, My Interpretation and Grace Kelly were close to pop perfection for me :wub:

Really? it came off as a 'let's try and recreate Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)' or something, which was always my least favourite song on Life In Cartoon Motion anyway

 

Happy Ending, My Interpretation and Grace Kelly were close to pop perfection for me :wub:

 

To be fair, the only two I've REALLY disliked are 'Love Today' (my worst song of 2007) and 'We Are Golden'. I did think 'Rain' and 'Blame It On The Girls' were easily up there with some of the first album's singles but not quite 'Relax, Take It Easy'.

Happy Ending is the best thing Mika has ever done and always will be :wub: Relax does come close however...

Oh, and Love Today is truly dire. I was always dumbfounded as to why they put such a horrific track on the album, let alone why they released it as second single over Relax or Happy Ending!

Love Today was a truly awful choice of single, and as I said, I wasn't a fan of Big Girl as a single either. Paritcularly not when they could have gone for My Interpretation, or more sensbily Relax Take It Easy a lot sooner than they eventually did. I would have gone

 

1) Grace Kelly

2) Relax Take It Easy

3) Happy Ending

4) My Interpretation/Lollipop

 

but there we go...

 

as for the second album, he probably did pick the best singles to release but that didn't make me think they were anything special :(

What's with all this 'Relax (Take It Easy)' love? :puke2:

 

'Happy Ending' is his best to date though :wub: 'Lollipop' really should have followed 'Grace Kelly' instead of the dire 'Love Today'. It would have been huge had he gave it the promotion that he gave 'Love Today'! It deserved better than a low-key 5th single release :drama:

 

01. 'Grace Kelly'

02. 'Lollipop'

03. 'Happy Ending'

04. 'Billy Brown'/'My Interpretation'

 

Would have been, quite possibly the best era for him (well for me personally really HAHA) but he would have had much more success with the singles that followed 'Grace Kelly'. 'Life In Cartoon Motion' as an album though, is pop at it's best (one of my fave ever albums)

For me he should have released

 

1) Grace Kelly ovc.

2) Relax (Take It Easy)

3) My Interpretation

4) Lollipop

5) Happy Ending

 

1) Rain

2) We Are Golden

 

1) Kick Ass

 

That would be the ultimate Mika line-up for me. ;)

I like both his albums but the first is a stronger album. I think the 2nd album suffered due to the poor choice of 1st single.

Never though i'd say this about a Mika song not called Happy Ending but this is actually quite good! What is the world coming too...

Relax Take It Easy is amazing :wub: Perfect Europop. I didn't realise it was Mika for a long time, especially since I hated Grace Kelly :lol:

lol, at the reply to my latest blog post;

 

http://poplovedance.blogspot.com/2010/03/n...m-and-some.html

 

A #4 with a brick attached to it and two #72 smashes off an album that's sold 200k (?) probably aren't comparable to four top ten hits in a row coming from a 1.5 million selling debut :heehee:

Does he sing Red One?

Does he sing Red One?

A cursory listen (and read of the thread, for that matter) would indicate that he does not.

lol, at the reply to my latest blog post;

 

http://poplovedance.blogspot.com/2010/03/n...m-and-some.html

 

A #4 with a brick attached to it and two #72 smashes off an album that's sold 200k (?) probably aren't comparable to four top ten hits in a row coming from a 1.5 million selling debut :heehee:

It managed to do quite well in Europe didn't it? I know it was huge in France...obv nowhere near as much of a success as the debut, but I think the UK are the odd ones out in backlashing against him so much.