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Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
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| Rollerblader- disco album of the year! London's Grammy-nominated divo has described his second disc, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, as a rock opera about his adolescence, and yep, there's enough transcendent drama-queeniness here to make Lady Gaga sound like Woody Guthrie. With Rock of Ages-style bombast (''Touches You''), classic-Disney-score playfulness (''Toy Boy''), tap-dance-routine cabaret (''Dr. John''), and stomp-your-Louboutins stadium rockers (''We Are Golden''), it's a Technicolor pop explosion designed for throwing your jazz hands into the air. A...full text |
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| Anyone convinced that Mika burned through his bag of outré art-pop tricks with 2007's action-packed "Life in Cartoon Motion" should prepare to be (pleasantly) surprised. On "The Boy Who Knew Too Much," this Beirut-born singer comes back strong with another set of over-the-top anthems that proves no one's more entitled to inherit Freddie Mercury's glam-god crown. The sound is the same, if perhaps a bit more finely honed. Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett and Madonna collaborator Stuart Price punch up the song "Rain" with loads of disco-folk detail, while Imogen Heap lends her trademark vocal acrobatics to "By the Time." Yet as he did on "Life in Cartoon Motion," Mika never allows the hyperactive arrangements to overpower his message of jubilant defiance. "We are not what you think we are!" he and a ragtag choir holler in the opening track, "We Are Golden." Duly noted.-Mikael Wood...full text |
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At a time when Mika's multi-platinum peers (David Gray, Coldplay, James Morrison) are frequently castigated for their beige-hued blandness, one might expect Mika's idiosyncrasies (looks funny, sings funny) to be greeted with at least a modicum of grudging respect from the indie press. But apparently not. It's fair to say that, much like Katie Price, Mika has his knockers. A cursory search of Mika-related pages on Facebook reveals a groundswell of animosity towards him. These anti-Mika pages encompass the straightforwardly negative (Mika Is Just Shit, Mika Can Fuck Off, We Hate Mika), those that threaten physical violence against the singer (Let's All Kill Mika, Somebody Should Shoot Mika, Mutilate Mika (?!)) and one vaguely militaristic-sounding group: The Anti-Mika Movement. There's even a page entitled - seemingly without irony - Mika Encourages Obesity, presumably in response to his 'don't worry chubsters, Mika still loves ya' single Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)....full text |
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