Oh Mika you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind!
If Rufus made you sigh, and Jake made you dance, Mika is gonna make you squeal! Pop’s new saviour has arrived in the form of a beautifully ebullient, brown-eyed boy: Mika.
The newest addition to a long and proud tradition of flamboyantly joyful musical geniuses originally hails from Lebanon. Raised in Paris and then in London, Mika spent an awkward childhood inevitably turning to music.
Even as a child he began writing songs “not because of grand ambitions but because it was an easy way to tell a story, a joke and often the truth,” he says in his Myspace profile.
Besides the obvious comparison to the Scissor Sisters, the enormously talented 23-year-old – most notably has been compared to late and great Freddie Mercury. Just as Elton has channelled attention and energy to Jake Shears - if Freddie were alive, he'd probably do the same with Mika.
To be entirely honest, his press pictures don’t really do him justice, making him look a bit more grown-up than he actually appears to be. Witness to a last night's acoustic gig at the ever-trendy The Reindeer, I can tell you that he’s a bit lanky, a bit clowny, definitely a bit gay, and unapologetically joyful.
His superfluous, charmingly juvenile energy is incredibly hard to resist. That, however, doesn't undermine his well-crafted, ironic songwriting - in particular, the noteworthy Billy Brown, a simple and sweet narrative of a married man "who falls in love with another man".
His first album Life in Cartoon Motion will be released by Casablanca Records in early 2007, and the word on the young musician – which probably owes itself greatly to the magic that is Myspace - is quickly snowballing.
After going to his recent gig, it was made abundantly clear that Mika is no passing trend. He already has a savage groupie following – which I now am proudly a part of (even to the point of nicking a Mika poster).
Refreshingly original, yet strikingly familiar, Mika is gonna be big.
Don't miss his biggest gig to date in Camden's Koko, on February 22nd.
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