Mar 22, 2007, 12:16pm
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Track: Love Today Artist/Band: Mika Label: Cassablanca Duration: 3:21 Description: Official music video for Mika's second single "Love Today" Formats available: Flash(.flv) | MP3 Mika - "Love Today (Switch Remix)"

...Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me?... Introducing the man who sang the orbit chewing gum jingle (for which he got paid £45) With the weight of Music industry hype weighing heavy on his shoulders Mika is destined to be the voice of 2007. A songwriter, performer, [...]
If I had to compare Mika to any one singer, it would be Queen's late and great frontman, Freddie Mercury. Evidently, Mika agrees and sings about "[trying] a little Freddie" in his song "Grace Kelly." Whether this line further implies anything about a shared sexual orientation with Mr. Mercury, I can't say. Many swear by Mika's homosexuality, but he's been mum about it. But it don't matter -- Mika's so much more than his sexuality. His songs "Grace Kelly" and "Love Today" have graced the waves of MTV many a time and for good reason. [...]

A os amigos e anônimos... Ando numa fase de novos planos, projetos, de mudança de região, de cidade e certamente ficará difícil em me dedicar com esmero, devoção, ao 'Aluado' . Por isso essa 'meio que' despedida silenciosa na ausência de atualizações, na falta de novas postagens em quase três meses decorridos... E saindo assim de fininho, meio passado, em início de festa, sem protocolos... Derradeiras Aluadices!!! Nem bem saído de 2006 e uma enxurrada de novos discos, de trabalhos interessantes, gritando na rede, suplicando que os baixemos (como disse meu velho 'Zhumar' em [...]

Alright, alright. So I'm not sure what the reaction is going to be like to this post. I want to tell y'all about another singer/songwriter who is huge-to say the least-in the UK. It always seems like any UK artist I hear about is always "huge overseas". But that's beside the point. Mika's debut Life in Cartoon Motion (release date: March 27 in the US) has gotten mixed reviews so far on this side of the pond, and I figured I'd give my two cents. The first thing [...]
This is intended to be a Valentine's Day post, but since I have other plans for tomorrow, you get his one day early. Erasure "Victim of Love (Live in Nashville, 2006)" - This is ostensibly a country version of "Victim of Love," but in actuality it is a glorious totem pole of kitsch. The country and western signifiers are in full force, but there's also a vague Hawaiian luau theme, some Elvis Presley inflections, a twee female back-up singer, a general lounge vibe, and well, let's not skip over the [...]

Wading through the endless Myspace friend requests from bands, the promo cds and recommendations received, there is an overwhelming surplus of new music. I've heard some really great material, some filler, some stuff I'll never listen to again. This Friday 8-Track includes a collection of artists who have hit the new music bin and made their way to the iPod - (a very illustrious position, indeed). You can expect to hear plenty more from these artists this year. Enjoy! Program 1: 1. Little Man Tate - "Sexy In Latin" [...]
J'aurais fait un très mauvais prospecteur pour maisons de disques. Je suis rigoureusement incapable de prédire le succès d'un artiste. Lorsque j'ai commencé à entendre parler de Mika l'été dernier et à entendre quelques-unes de ses chansons, je l'ai bien vite rangé dans la case "disco-pop sophistiquée pour obsédés du genre". Je lui prédisais de bonnes critiques sur Popjustice, Playlouder et dans le Guardian ou le NME, un petit buzz sur les mp3-blogs pop anglo-saxons et un succès commercial confidentiel en (...)

Okay. I had an internal debate on whether or not to call this the song of the week, let along post it in the first place. There are some people I know that vehemently dislike this song. And there are others (okay me) that have listened to this song at least 100 times in the past 24 hours. I've come to the conclusion that most lie in the middle, and so therefore I'm allowed to post, without getting eggs thrown at me. Right? I missed out on seeing Mika when he came [...]

It's only a matter of time before Mika becomes the next pop star you love to hate. Of course, such feelings are primarily spurred by jealousy. However, unlike most rising pop stars, this Beirut native writes the majority of his impressively catchy songs. He has quite a voice too, comparable to the likes of Freddie Mercury and Barry Gibb, though that judgement call of comparison is obviously too premature considering the early state of Mika's career. His vocal training came early and harshly. "After I started singing as a boy, I started to get jobs everywhere", Mika said, [...]
Can't get rid of this cough and clubbers hate coughers so we stayed home most of this week to catch up on episodes of "Maui Fever" on our free cable glitch. But don't be surprised if you hear suppressed coughing at these fine shows... Jon Brion's legendary Fridays have turned into monthlies and tonight is the first of the new year and you know he's itching to flex that poor left hand of his. E,

Granted, I haven't heard much (well alright, maybe just the single 'Grace Kelly') but so far, so good for this supposed Pop Idol reject. Mika's first single has bumped Britain's X-Factor winner , Leona Lewis, out of the number one slot. Leona's song (Kelly Clarkson's? Does Simon Cowell just get every other female winner on his shows to sing this song?) 'A Moment like this' spent 4 weeks as the number one song, amazing. Sidenote: The Music Slut's favourite group of wee Dundonians, The View, is number 3 on that chart with 'Same Jeans'- [...]
Seemingly in a bid to keep his career options in the US, Mika is being tiresome about "keeping his sexuality private": "I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality. I just don't think I need to. People ask me all the time. But I just don't see the point," he said, according to contactmusic.com "In order to survive I've kind of shut up different parts of my life, and that's one of them, especially this early in my career. "I don't really feel that it's necessary to know [...]
THIS IS HOT: The Coach and Four, The Great Escape Off of Makeshift Music , I am totally loving this band. The Coach and Four—Hello Destroyer The Coach and Four—Tiger High 85 The Coach and Four—Girls Arms Redux Covers! Communication Breakdown.New York.Shakedown on 9th Street-Ryan Adams (Led Zeppelin cover) . [...]
Further evidence that Simon Cowell's field of expertise is selling music to people who don't buy records, rather than actually knowing about music: he knocked back Mika : "I managed to get a demo to him before he became a household name. He hadn't done any of the POP IDOL stuff. When I walked in and played my song, he said, 'You've got a good voice but your songwriting... you may as well not bother.'" Cowell, of course, tends to need his acts to have had six or [...]

Point your finger to the future and peer into the crystal ball and uncover what the musicscene will be like in 2007 - or something. Metacritic has compiled that long releaselist with bands. Quite some interessting ones there. But also much bands as Arcade Fire, Of Montreal, The Shins, etc. etc. These bands always gain lots of bloghype, so we don't wanna add to much there. BBC has done the crystal ball thingy and put their money on ten new bands to watch in 2007. Some of these already has a blogosphere folilowing and [...]
Good old auntie (the BBC for those not from the UK) have released their top ten list of bands and artists to watch in 2007. This is my take on their pickings: 10. The Rumble Strips [MySpace] It is about time these guys get huge! I first saw their promo video for Motorcycle at the end of [...]
It's always well worth paying attention to the BBC's annual list of 'who to look out for in the forthcoming year'. Which in 2007 went as follows: 1. Mika 2. The Twang 3. Klaxons 4. Sadie Ama 5. Enter Shikari 6. Air Traffic 7. Cold War Kids 8. Just Jack 9. Ghosts 10. The Rumble Strips I was fully expecting Mika to be there at #1... I mentioned a few weeks ago that he's clearly destined for

Happy New Year to you all! A new year, which always brings with it the promise of more exciting new music. For the first time I'm joining in with the annual who's-going-to-be-big-this-yea r predictions. The answer to the question "who's going to make it big this year" always has the same answer. It's "the artist that has a major label with a huge pile of money behind them to promote them endlessly, book them into the highest profile TV and radio slots and put ads on TV". Sure, there are indie bands that break through each year, some of [...]