Blog: Idolator

The video for Mika's glamtastic "We Are Golden" has the singer trying on the old "shirtless guy dancing around his bedroom" routine, I guess so he can trick people in the States into liking him by thinking that he's actually the star of "Single Man Dances To 'Single Ladies' " ? The song's still pretty stompily great, don't get me wrong, but I can't help but think that there's a weird sort of reversal-of-fame trajectory going on here with Mika's attempt to show that despite his major-label backing, all he wants to be is a YouTube success [...]