Newsgroup: it.fan.musica.queen
Titolo: Tenete d'occhio Mika!

Mi sono imbattuto per caso nel singolo d'esordio di un nuovo artista, Mika, intitolato "Grace Kelly":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC9UzFhNlbA
   (qui in versione acustica solo piano e voce)
e ho notato che a un certo punto dice la parola "Freddie":
http://www.completealbumlyrics.com/lyric/131207/Mika+-+Grace+Kelly.html
e ho fatto qualche ricerca per capire se si trattasse del "nostro" Freddie!
In effetti leggendo qualche intervista in giro, si capisce che cita i Queen tra le sue ispirazioni:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds37640.html
"Queen - it's almost like a lot of the melodies that Freddie Mercury wrote were in me when I was 
born. That kind of melodic sensitivity, maybe it's just a problem, a disease or something I was born 
with. So, when I heard it, it was like BING, that was exactly what I'd been hearing in my head, you 
know, I couldn't imagine there being anything else, you know, it was quite incredible! It gave me 
confidence that you could make huge sounding pop records, rock records, whatever"
e che alcune recensioni lo paragonano proprio a Freddie:
"Fast-rising pop artiste Mika comes from a truly eclectic background, and it shows in his music. 
With influences from every genre possible, and a voice that reaches the dizzy heights of Freddie 
Mercury whilst still incorporating his own sarcastic asides" (link come sopra)
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/gig-23352077-details/Mika/gigReview.do?reviewId=23378106
"But even nearly naked, the new single Grace Kelly was an irresistible slice of sassy pop, with Mika 
name-checking one key influence in the lyrics: Freddie Mercury. Like the Queen singer, Mika was 
supremely confident on stage and his emergence as a fully formed frontman feels like a rare occurrence."
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2114940.ece
"The most important thing is that Mika is a poker-hot, bona fide superstar-to-be, and the world is 
about to take note. Chuck Elton John, Scissor Sisters and Queen into a blender, and Mika is what 
you'd get (except much, much better-looking)."
Nel suo sito ufficiale ci sono alcuni sample di altri brani, e qualcuno può ricordare alla lontana 
il pop dei Queen:
http://www.mikasounds.com/
(nel sito trovate anche il videoclip parziale di "Grace Kelly", in versione con band)
Quindi direi di tenerlo d'occhio...;)

 I'm saying nothing except ... he's obviously damn good ... 
LOL
-- 
Gnomo

>I'm saying nothing except ... he's obviously damn good ... 
Come dire: Mika male! :D
Andrea

Quindi direi di tenerlo d'occhio...;)
Ha raggiunto il 1° posto in UK! 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles.shtml
Prima i Darkness, poi gli Scissor Sisters e i My Chemical Romance, e tanti 
altri...
chissà perchè da un pò di tempo a questa parte
per essere n°1 bisogna per forza trarre ispirazione dai nostri ;-)
Ma non è che Roger (con la regia di Brian)
stia diventando il "Moggi" della musica britannica...
ha cercato pure di far sfondare Felix come Luciano ha fatto con 
Alessandro...
rrrabbbrividiaaaaaamo :-))))
cheers!!!
dejoh

 rrrabbbrividiaaaaaamo :-))))
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! :-D
-- 
Ian
"It's software, it's hardware, it's heartbeat is time-share
It's midwife's a disk drive, it's sex-life is quantised
It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised"