Mika
Publié le 12/03/2008 à 12:00 par lesanneesmusiques
Michael Holbrook Penniman (né le 18 août 1983 à Beyrouth, Liban) dit Mika, est un chanteur de pop anglaise de nationalité libano-américaine vivant à Londres
Né à Beyrouth d'une mère libanaise et d'un père américain, Mika est très jeune lorsque sa famille quitte le Liban pour Paris, où il va à l'école maternelle. Il vit dans la capitale française pendant environ 6 ans.
À neuf ans, son père est retenu à l'Ambassade des États-Unis au Koweït pour des raisons de sécurité, pendant sept mois, au tout début de la Guerre du Golfe[1]. Quand il déménage à Londres après huit ans passés en France, il passe d'un petit établissement scolaire à une énorme institution. C'est alors que Mika s'enferme dans le silence, qu'il brise en jouant du piano. Il se découvre alors une passion pour l'opéra et une capacité vocale hors normes.
Mika étudie par la suite au Lycée français Charles de Gaulle, à la Westminster School. À 19 ans il obtient une place à la London School of Economics qu'il choisit de ne jamais fréquenter. Il parvient alors à intégrer le Royal College of Music[2], qu'il quitte pour se lancer dans une carrière solo.
Son premier album sorti en janvier 2007, s'est écoulé à 500 000 exemplaires en France et 2 000 000 dans le monde.
Mika exerce son métier dans des domaines musicaux très différents : des concerts classiques au Royal Opera House de Londres, l'écriture d'une musique pour les vols de British Airways ou encore la composition de la musique d'une publicité pour des chewing-gums. Dès l'âge de 11 ans, il interprète un opéra de Richard Strauss.
Sa première apparition à la radio est sur BBC Radio 1 en septembre 2006, et à la télévision dans l'émission The Friday Night Project (Channel 4) le 20 janvier 2007.
En janvier 2007, il arrive en tête d'un sondage sur le site web de la BBC Sound of 2007 (Le son de 2007)[3].
Son premier single est Relax, Take It Easy (2006) sur lequel on retrouve la mélodie de (I Just) Died in Your Arms de Cutting Crew, ainsi que l'introduction et la mélodie du fameux Spacer de Sheila & B.Devotion. Ce single atteind la première place des téléchargements en France en février 2007.
Le single Grace Kelly sort en téléchargement numérique le 8 janvier 2007 et il atteint la première place des ventes de singles en Angleterre le 21 janvier 2007. Une semaine avant sa sortie dans les bacs, il devient le deuxième titre à atteindre la tête du Hit-parade uniquement grâce au téléchargement.
Le 5 février 2007, la sortie du premier album de Mika Life in Cartoon Motion, produit et mixé par Greg Wells à Los Angeles, suscite des comparaisons avec des artistes tels que Freddie Mercury, Robbie Williams, George Michael, Scissor Sisters, Rufus Wainwright et Elton John.[4]
De même, son site internet plonge dans un univers « années 1960 ». Ses textes décrivent les contraintes des maisons de disques (dans Grace Kelly), ou imposées par la société (Big Girl (You're Beautiful)).
Les membres de son groupe sont Martin Waugh (guitare, chant), Michael Choi (basse, chant), Cherisse Osei (batterie) et Luke Juby (clavier).
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Publié le 12/03/2008 à 12:00 par lesanneesmusiques
Walks in to the room
Feels like a big balloon
I said hey girl you are beautiful
Diet coke and a pizza please
Diet coke i'm on my knees
Screaming, big girl you are beautiful
You take your skinny girl
I feel like i'm gonna die
Coz a real woman needs a (real man has why)
You take your girl and multiply about four
Now a whole lot of woman needs a whole lot more
{Refrain:}
Get yourself to the butterfly lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy come on around
And there be gonna do baby
No need to fantasize
Seen some worse in my (faces)
A water in the whole
With girls all around
Curves in the right places
big girl you are beautiful {x4}
Walks in to the room
Feels like a big balloon
I said hey girl you are beautiful
Diet coke and a pizza please
Diet coke i'm on my knees
Screaming, big girl you are beautiful
You take your girl and multiply about four
Now a whole lot of woman needs a whole lot more
{au Refrain}
big girl you are beautiful {x4}
{au Refrain}
big girl you are beautiful {x4}
{au Refrain}
Publié le 12/03/2008 à 12:00 par lesanneesmusiques
Do I attract you?
Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?
Am I too dirty?
Am I too flirty?
Do I like what you like?
I could be wholesome
I could be loathsome
I guess I'm a little bit shy
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me without making me try?
I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
I've gone identity mad!
I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!
How can I help it
How can I help it
How can I help what you think?
Hello my baby
Hello my baby
Putting my life on the brink
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like yourself?
Should I bend over?
Should I look older just to be put on the shelf?
I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
I've gone identity mad!
I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!
Say what you want to satisfy yourself
But you only want what everybody else says you should want
I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!
Publié le 12/03/2008 à 12:00 par lesanneesmusiques
This is the way you left me.
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending.
This is the way that we love,
Like its forever.
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together.
Wake up in the morning,
Stumble on my life.
Can't get no love without sacrifice.
If anything should happen,
I guess I wish you well.
Mm A little bit of heaven,
With a little bit of hell.
This is the hardest story that I've ever told. (ooooo)
No hope, no love, no glory.
A happy ending gone forever more.
I feel as if I'm wasted,
And I'm wasted everyday.
This is the way you left me.
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending.
This is the way that we love,
Like its forever.
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together.
Two o'clock in the morning,
Something's on my mind.
Can't get no rest,
Keep walking around.
If I pretend that nothing ever went wrong
I can get to my sleep
I can think that we just carried on.
This is the hardest story that I've ever told. (ooooo)
No hope, no love, no glory.
A happy ending gone forever more.
I fell as if I'm wasted,
And I'm wasted everyday.
This is the way you left me, (Oh I fell as if I'm wasted)
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending.
This is the way that we love, (And I'm wasted everyday)
Like its forever.
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together.
Little bit of love {x26}
Little bit of love (I fell as if I'm wasted)
Little bit of love {x7}
Little bit of love (And I'm wasted everyday)
Little bit of love {x7}
This is the way you left me. (Little bit of love .. continues repeating)
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending.
This is the way that we love,
Like its forever.
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together.
This is the way you left me.
(Little bit of love .. {continues repeating})
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending.
This is the way that we love,
Like its forever.
Then live the rest of our life,
But not together.
This is the way you left me.
I'm not pretending.
No hope, no love, no glory,
No happy ending
Publié le 12/03/2008 à 12:00 par lesanneesmusiques
Hey, what's the big idea?
Yo Mika.
I said,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
I said,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
I went walking in with my mama one day,
when she warn me what people say,
live your life until love is found,
'cause love's gonna get you down.
Take a look at the girl next door,
she's a player and a down right whore,
Jesus slows up, she wants more,
oh bad girls get you down.
Singing,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
Mama told me what I should know,
too much candy gonna ride your soul,
if she loves you, let her go,
'cause love only gets you down.
Take a look at the boy like me,
never stood on my own two feet,
now I'm blue, as I can be,
oh love couldn't get me down.
Singing,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
I went walking with my mama one day,
when she warn me what people say,
live your life until love is found,
or love's gonna get you down.
Singing,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Say love (say love), say love (say love),
or love's gonna get you down.
say love (say love), say love (say love),
or love's gonna get you down.
Mama told me what I should know,
too much candy gonna ride your soul,
if she loves you, let her go,
'cause love only gets you down.
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop.
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop.
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
say,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down
Publié le 12/03/2008 à 12:00 par lesanneesmusiques
Doom dududu domm boom da da boom..
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today,
anyway you want to, anyway youv'e got to,
love love me, love love me, love love
I've been crying for so long,
fighting tears just to carry on,
but now, but now, its gone away,
Hey girl why can't you carry on,
Is it cos your'e just cloudin your mother,
little tight, like to taste for fun,
Well you aint gonna taste no other,
gonna make you a lover,
Everybody's gonna love today,love today,
love today, gonna love today,
anyway you want to, anyway youv'e got to,
love love me, love love me, love love
girl with a groove with the big bust on, big bust on,
Wait till your mother and your papa's gone, papa's gone ,
ohh mutha 4 her papa, shock shock me, shock shock me, shock shock,
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today,
anyway you want to, anyway youv'e got to,
love love me, love love me, love love
yeah she's a lover and she's mighty fine ,
give her a dollar and she'll make you smile,
Hooker, walk a looker, walk away!
Carry dresses like a kid for fun,
licks her lips like their something other,
tries to tell you life has just begun,
but you know she's gettin sumthing otha,
makes yiou a life from the mother,
Everybody's gonna love today,love today, love today, gonna love today,
anyway you want to, anyway youv'e got to,
love love me, love love me, love love
girl with a groove with the big bust on, big bust on,
Wait till your mother and your papa's gone, papa's gone ,
ohh mutha 4 her papa, shock shock me, shock shock me, shock shock,
I said everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today, gonna love today,
I said everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today,
anyway you want to dadadadadaddadadadaddaadd {fadding}
Publié le 12/03/2008 à 12:00 par lesanneesmusiques
Took a right to the end of the line
Where no one ever goes.
Ended up on a broken train with nobody I know.
But the pain and the (longings) the same.
(Where the dying
Now I'm lost and I'm screaming for help.)
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
It's as if I'm scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
It's as if I scared.
It's as if I'm playing with fire.
Scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?
Relax
There is an answer to the darkest times.
It's clear we don't understand but the last thing on my mind
Is to leave you.
I believe that we're in this together.
Don't scream – there are so many roads left.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
It's as if I'm scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
It's as if I scared.
It's as if I'm playing with fire.
Scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?
Relax
Relax