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Pixelante posted:Enjoy! He's got some absolute bangers out. He always seems to find a way to do something unexpectedly beautiful on a track. you/DC/Volcano have done me quite the solid, this day  hamilton leithauser to top the page, since i've been obsessively listening to him in recent weeks and MIKA's about to derail that train (sorry hammy). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izlomj2EM-k LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Nov 6, 2025 |
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Mika's Love EP from I think 2 years ago was great and Talk About Love was probably his best song in a while.
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With no disrespect to Adam Lambert (who I have followed since his Idol days and still love a lot of his music), Mika has always felt like the most natural successor to Freddie Mercury because he’s got that weird Euro-Lebanese artistry that very few Americans are able to harness that fits right in with Freddie’s oeuvre, even though they harnessed it to very different ends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF_w7oaBHNo This one is my favorite, it’s remarkable (read: incredibly depressing) how relevant it is in our current climate
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First time I've thought of Mika in over a decade, that was a moment huh
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DC Murderverse posted:With no disrespect to Adam Lambert (who I have followed since his Idol days and still love a lot of his music), Mika has always felt like the most natural successor to Freddie Mercury because he’s got that weird Euro-Lebanese artistry that very few Americans are able to harness that fits right in with Freddie’s oeuvre, even though they harnessed it to very different ends. straight bangers from this person itt my opinion on starting a new artist's albums is often LITERALLY A BIRD posted:you should start in the middle actually so i've put on "no place in heaven" and yes: it's true: the verdict: obsessed njsykora posted:Mika's Love EP from I think 2 years ago was great and Talk About Love was probably his best song in a while. this one will be next
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Nov 6, 2025 22:04
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I think Life In Cartoon Motion was the first album I ever bought myself. I spent a long time being embarrassed about it but today I'm vindicated.
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Nov 6, 2025 22:12
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Deformed Church posted:I think Life In Cartoon Motion was the first album I ever bought myself. I spent a long time being embarrassed about it but today I'm vindicated. Mine was Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth. I immediately got so much buyer's remorse that I didn't listen to it for a year. It eventually paid off when I saw them for free in like 2019 and could sing along to every song while all the Smash Mouth casuals had to wait for "All Star". I'm not sure exactly counts as vindication though
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Nov 6, 2025 22:23
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I absolutely despised Grace Kelly through raw overplay (I think it was #1 in the UK chart for 2 months) but Love Today got into my head enough to get me to buy the album and so I heard stuff like Any Other World and Relax (Take It Easy) and realised oh this guy is more than an irritating falsetto. I think you could release Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) today and it'd be a megahit. Also if we're doing first albums, mine was Who Killed The Zutons by The Zutons. Their latest album was pretty decent too.
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njsykora posted:I absolutely despised Grace Kelly through raw overplay (I think it was #1 in the UK chart for 2 months) but Love Today got into my head enough to get me to buy the album and so I heard stuff like Any Other World and Relax (Take It Easy) and realised oh this guy is more than an irritating falsetto. I think you could release Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) today and it'd be a megahit. Hah yeah I was working retail when "Grace Kelly" came out and it definitely wore out its welcome after hearing it that many times a day. I think it's been long enough now that I can enjoy it though. Who Killed The Zutons is a respectable choice. I ran that album into the ground.
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Nov 6, 2025 22:33
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Yeah so did I, I think it's the only album I have where the case notches to hold the disc in have all been completely worn away. Also being on the Zutons bandwagon early meant I could do cool things like get increasingly irritated whenever people called Valerie an Amy Winehouse song.
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njsykora posted:Yeah so did I, I think it's the only album I have where the case notches to hold the disc in have all been completely worn away. Also being on the Zutons bandwagon early meant I could do cool things like get increasingly irritated whenever people called Valerie an Amy Winehouse song. I was very annoying about the "Valerie" thing but I have since made peace with it. This is unrelated but I was halfway through writing the post anyway so – I watched a BBC programme about 90s/00s UK girl groups recently and I've basically just had "Pure Shores" by All Saints on loop ever since: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNdTXEJv1A One of the best pop songs ever??? That William Orbit dreampop production is just 
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Nov 6, 2025 22:46
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Pure Shores is one of the best songs ever for sure. RE UK girls I have a soft spot for that and early Sugababes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZMWzFPQHQ I think Mel C was easily the best solo spice girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nEzfa43VF8
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Nov 6, 2025 22:57
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My favourite Mika track is probably Relax. First time I heard it I was standing on a freezing cold ferry dock watching the world slip away from me. My life was in utter freefall after my mom unexpectedly died and left me to take care my father and brother. Don't scream! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmG_d3HKBA
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Nov 6, 2025 23:06
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The funniest thing about the Sugababes (besides all the jokes Simon Amstell made about them when presenting Never Mind The Buzzcocks) is that they wrote their own songs and didn't know this wasn't common in pop music until they started getting asked about it in interviews.
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