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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Mar 29, 2007 15:06:03 GMT -5
Lance Bass cozies up to Mika at the release party for the British musician's debut CD, Life in Cartoon Motion, at West Hollywood's Mondrian Hotel Sky Bar on Tuesday. They look cute together! Hot nu couple!
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Post by oscillations. on Mar 30, 2007 2:00:57 GMT -5
FUCK BUDDIES! I hope they had wild gay sex following that photo op.
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Post by reception on Apr 3, 2007 16:02:03 GMT -5
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Post by busyboy on Apr 3, 2007 17:01:21 GMT -5
I can't stop thinking about the fact that he's on Casablanca Records, the disco powerhouse of the 70's AKA the house of camp. LOL!
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 4, 2007 9:33:51 GMT -5
Billboard.com:
New pop artist Mika makes a splash at No. 29 with "Life in Cartoon Motion" selling 30,000.
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Post by polly on Apr 4, 2007 9:38:12 GMT -5
Is he gay? Not that it matters but I'm just wondering.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2007 9:48:53 GMT -5
Is he gay? Not that it matters but I'm just wondering. Yes. I'm kind of over his album already.
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Post by Felicia on Apr 4, 2007 12:20:19 GMT -5
His album is alright. It doesn't make me want to listen to it over and over again. Some tracks are excellent though, my favorite is 'Relax Take It Easy'.
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Post by derek on Apr 4, 2007 14:06:26 GMT -5
Hollywood Performing his hit single "Grace Kelly" live at the Virgin Megastore on Hollywood and Highland, Brit singer Mika celebrated the midnight release of his new disc Life In Cartoon Motion on March 27. I love this pic!
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 6, 2007 15:35:34 GMT -5
4/14/07 chart:
NEW 29 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 32 29,511 92121.9% 29,555
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 11, 2007 15:25:49 GMT -5
PerezHilton.com:
That means that our beloved Mika is doing better than J. Lo!
His brazilliant debut album, Life in Cartoon Motion, moved 25,970 units - good enough to come in at #44 this week.
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Post by TeddyR on Apr 12, 2007 23:20:50 GMT -5
I burned a few tracks from this album onto a mixed CD to play at work and people are loving the quirkiness of the songs. It is a strangely good collection Mika has put together.
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 13, 2007 1:48:15 GMT -5
His album held up well in week #2; only a -12% decrease.
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Post by busyboy on Apr 18, 2007 2:22:15 GMT -5
Pitchfork...Mika Life in Cartoon Motion [Universal/Island; 2007] Rating: 1.5 There are a lot of children involved in UK chart-topper Mika's debut album, Life in Cartoon Motion. His flashy video for the British No. 1 "Grace Kelly" features a young girl in a gauzy yellow dress atop a piano, mouthing the words of a certain captivating Hollywood princess. The implication-- although nothing on this album is so much implied as flamboyantly howled-- is that this pint-sized Grace is a cute stand-in for a heartbreaker his own age. In "Lollipop", a chorus of children scream emotive truisms about how "love always gets you down." And in "Any Other World", a group of churchy teens cry themselves to sleep singing, "Say goodbye/ To the world you thought you lived in." The whole album reeks of wide-eyed youth, Mika appearing not so much an inquisitive elder as a peer, comfortable among his backup vocalists, advice-givers, and child actors. It's in this cushy setting that Mika wastes classical training to borrow respectful (Freddie Mercury) and cheap (Robbie Williams) pop tricks that depreciate exponentially in his hands. There's virtually zero worth to this album, a combination of zealous experiments with Garage Band and would-be Music and Lyrics soundtrack cuts, but to a regenerative surplus of hypnotized young souls, this is brilliant stuff. It's as if Mika and his over-production team knew-- despite the lack of confidence that torments the album-- that songs like coming-out party and high school musical tribute "Billy Brown" were just what a million people bedazzled by staid British pop music would pay money for. Turn the dial just a few degrees in either direction of the Scissor Sisters-- the UK's most successful act of 2005-- and you get the odious "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)", a pumping, chorus-infested jam session complete with gospel backup singers that tragically feels the need to reassure "big girls" they can be beautiful. "Erase", in another life, might find itself on an "American Idol" winner's album as one of the filler tracks, and here the hybrid of lugubrious, wispy piano verse and Avril Lavigne-lite chorus is a fitting U.S. bonus track. "Any Other World" starts with a foolhardy piano line, but soon transcends to more breathless melodrama about relinquishing innocence for experience or something. There's a hollow quality to much of the music and its lyrical content, insulting our intelligence and slandering Fiona Apple's dozy adage that pop's subjects must be "broad enough that everyone can relate to them." In effect, the only perfectly not broad moment on this album is the only one of merit: An aging female relative, I assume, sharing the anecdote of being jilted by a man who ran off and married someone else. For his part, Mika seems as if he's banking on the belief that listeners too lazy to replay their 90s favorites will hold a lighter to anyone who can resuscitate a formula, regardless of how dead it looks. Taking basic AAA chord progressions, dramatic string sections, backup vocalists, and his own virtuosic but easily satisfied voice, he creates a world of relatable montages. The album mildly undulates in tempo and mood, but is altogether uniform in its money-hungry quest to transport music lovers to a horrific place where pop songs double as cruise-ship entertainment. -Liz Colville, April 17, 2007
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Post by busyboy on Apr 18, 2007 2:26:59 GMT -5
^ I hate it when Pitchfork does that, taking an album that falls out of their radar just to slaughter it in a review. Is this an easy way to reaffirm indie cred?
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Post by derek on Apr 18, 2007 3:19:20 GMT -5
Album currently #3 on Itunes (was #2 a short time ago)! :O I heard a girl in my history class sing Grace Kelly today!
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Post by roentgenizdat on Apr 18, 2007 17:15:29 GMT -5
04/28: 44 43 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 16,507 -36.4% 25,970 72,032
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Post by roentgenizdat on Apr 26, 2007 6:05:29 GMT -5
05/05: 43 54 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 11,525 16,507 83,557
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 28, 2007 15:13:42 GMT -5
5/5/07 chart
54 43 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 11,525 83,557
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Post by roentgenizdat on May 2, 2007 15:39:25 GMT -5
05/12: 54 70 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 9,627 -16 11,525 93,184
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 7, 2007 19:45:48 GMT -5
MIKA announces a major exhibition of the art created around the release of his number one debut album ‘Life in Cartoon Motion’, showing at the Blink Gallery, Poland Street in London from 11-14th July 2007. It will include original paintings, sketches and drawings that went into his artwork as well as other art pieces he has created over the years. The style of MIKA’s art is a riot of colour and ideas referencing pop art, 60’s pysch art and illustrators/comic artistes such as Tony Millionaire and Jim Woodring, It will be co-curated by Mika, the artist Da Wack (MIKA’s sister who painstakingly hand-paints his designs) and the design company Airside (Lemon Jelly, Pet Shop Boys etc) who help turn MIKA’s art into sleeve designs. The exhibition will be an exciting immersive environment, with everything from walls, windows and doors painted in abstract psychedelic murals, the embodiment of ‘Mika-world’. Colourful and irreverent, this will be the antithesis of the traditional art gallery concept with an opportunity to get up close to the creations that have won over thousands of fans and critics including Billy Brown, Big Girl and Lollipop Girl. MIKA says: “I created a world for my music to exist within and we wanted to allow people to immerse themselves in this via this exhibition. It is important to create an exiting environment. I want it to feel like you are walking into the "world of Mika". Colourful, psychedelic and irreverent, not serious and stuffy like a boring gallery." Source
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Post by derek on May 7, 2007 21:28:17 GMT -5
I finally got the CD today! Lollipop is CRAZY!
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Post by roentgenizdat on May 10, 2007 4:27:56 GMT -5
05/19: 70 86 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 8,373 -13 9,627 101,557
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Post by polly on May 10, 2007 4:41:10 GMT -5
Does he have a new single out yet and a new video?
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Post by roentgenizdat on May 17, 2007 6:02:03 GMT -5
05/26: 86 107 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 7,804 -7 8,373 109,361
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Post by roentgenizdat on May 24, 2007 6:34:13 GMT -5
06/02: 107 101 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 7,014 -10 7,804 116,375
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Post by roentgenizdat on May 31, 2007 6:43:48 GMT -5
06/09: 101 112 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 6,505 7,014 122,880
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Post by roentgenizdat on Jun 7, 2007 6:56:54 GMT -5
06/16: 112 104 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 6,888 6 6,505 129,768
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Post by roentgenizdat on Jun 14, 2007 7:38:40 GMT -5
06/23: 104 141 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 5,571 6,888 135,339
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Post by roentgenizdat on Jun 21, 2007 5:50:08 GMT -5
06/30: 141 134 MIKA LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION 6,022 5,571 8 141,361
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