From ear to heart, Mika stole my attention through Lollipop which brought me to the Life in Cartoon Motion (2007). His music’s so danceable that you’d take as light and easy listening yet also stunned you with deep great lyrics. His amazing high-pitched voice and singing style were a fresh breakthrough from regular male singers that day. Mika’s not just sung but expressed his feeling through the songs. He sad when it’s sad, he knew when to scream and dance. He’s not just singing, he is performing and you’ll feel it though you don’t see him perform live. He’s album speaks. Pitchfork may gave this album 1,5 but what did they know? It’ll hypnotize your soul. Mika knew how to make us sing along with his everyday-life-experienced lyric, from Stuck in the Middle, Relax, Take It Easy, to My Interpretation. He made sensitive issue as an interesting story in Billy Brown. Through Love Today, he made you dance in the morning and for myself, he gave me the confidence in Big Girl (You Are Beautiful).
Mid 2009, he’s back with The Boy Who Knew Too Much. Good, this boy knew how to keep me on his charm. The album’s so lively and cheerful. We Are Golden brought the youth in your rotten soul and give youngsters the bright days because “we are not what you think we are, we are golden”. He gave us the melancholic feeling through I See You and By the Time, two tracks that have strong piano element mixed the deep feeling in his voice. We could hear that this album has bolder arrangement yet still give us his theatrical character.
Then last year The Origin of Love (2012) came out. Mika stated that this album will be “more simplistic pop, less layered than the last one” and it’s true. Not that it’s less good; it’s just calmer than two albums. One thing that you can see clearly that there is a grown up Mika in this album. Beside the calmer music, he write beautiful ode to God in The Origin of Love, on loving himself in Emily and grown up love like in Step with Me. Fun yet serious Mika found in Love You When I’m Drunk where you want to get out from lie relationship. This album pictured the responsibility and how it feels to grow up without scare you. He shows us what the real origin of love is. He picked up nowadays electronic arrangement and France influence here and there mixed up with his character bring us these damn good tracks.
Early this year, he announced that he’ll have concert in my city, Jakarta. I’ve been tweeted him for years so he could change his mind because rumor has it that he’s scared to come to my country for safety reason but it’s happening now! Finally the boy came to Jakarta on May 10th 2013 and will have his performance at Skeeno Hall Exhibition, Gandaria City.
See you soon, Mr. Penniman!
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