Mika - 'Love Today'
Having gone all-out for attention with 'Grace Kelly' - a song which veers from salt-in-a-paper-cut irritating to total pop joy depending on how many times you hear it in a 24-hour period - Mika's people are clearly concerned about demanding too much from his new audience too soon. You could reasonably have expected a single release for 'Lollipop' - the second best song on the album - or 'Big Girl, You Are Beautiful'. But these are songs which have the power to appall and delight in equal measure. What Mika needs now is a song which won't drive hordes of people to conclude that they've had enough of his genetically-modified confections, are are now feeling a bit sick.
Enter 'Love Today', a song which has a disco heartbeat, lashings of falsetto harmonies, and that trademark Mika self-regard, but isn't extreme enough to make anyone change their minds about him and start bandying around the phrase which must be keeping him up nights at the moment...'one-hit wonder'.
Of course, this being a place-holder sort of song, there's not a right lot to say about it beyond the fact that it's alright. You can't even claim that it reveals a new, hidden flamboyant side to the man, cos we all know he's read the Freddie Mercury Book Of Big Rock Postures from cover to cover and back again.
As far as Mika is concerned, modesty is just a word people use to describe who is the bigger mod out of Paul Weller and...er...OK, so it's just Paul Weller. Paul Weller is the most mod-esty person EVER! But he doesn't like to go on about it.
Download: Out now
CD Released: April 23rd
(Fraser McAlpine)
Comments
posted 11:02pm on 15 apr 2007 (take note of date and time) - '...talking about some one hit wonder's (no offnece meant mika) hair'....this is taken form the linkin park - what iv done blog, written by me.
posted 11:05am on 16 Apr 07 (again take note of date and time) - '...keeping him up nights at the moment...'one-hit wonder''....this is taken from this blog, written by you.
now compare both dates and times, and then the quotes. my friends recon you stole that, soz if you didnt.
:P xx
[I wrote the review last week. Are you READING MY MIND AND STEALING MY THOUGHTS? ;-) - Fraser]
yeah, i thought as much, i believe you, really i do ;) *cough* (nasty flu there) if you had just asked first....
and oh yes, my mystic powers....reading minds and stealing thoughts are my speciality....be scared, very scared, im in your head!
mwahahaha xx
ps soz in a random mood
hmm... if you wrote this last week why did you wait until this morning to post it? (forgive me but im suspicious)
[I put one review a day up, and Linkin Park and Akon seemed a higher priority. Any more questions before the defence rests? PS: The expression 'one-hit-wonder' is really old. - Fraser]
like ur hair style
i absolutely LOVE mikas new song...i think it's loads beta than grace kelly and is already my tune of the summer!!!
rock on!
What?? Lollipops the second best song on the album??? Well there's no accounting for taste I suppose....
ohhhhh, mr/mrs/miss anonymous you should read this....
posted by fraser in reply to a comment i made on the linkin park - what iv done blog: '[PS: This is a great row, isn't it? Much more fun than "OMG I TOTALLY LOVE Mika's hair. EEK!" - Fraser (again) ] '
ps im sorry if iv got you into trouble fraser :S xx
i hate your music
I'm in LOVE LOVE LOVE with Mika and his music. he says what he thinks and I LOVE it. I wish they played his music more here in the us. I've only heard Grace Kelly on the radio about 4 times.
but I really love all of his songs. he's real neat.♥