Mika Is Golden, But Also Bright Green, Red, and Yellow
 
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The recording artist Mika named his first album Life In Cartoon Motion, a perfect name for a singer whose sound mimics, well, the Saturday morning broadcasts of the 1990s. The Lebanese act's second record is called We Are Golden, another appropriate title: A virtual nobody who's become something of an indie-hipster-gay music darling should certainly consider himself something of a 24 karat phenom. His video for the record's first single will do little to silence those "Is he gay? Is he bi?" questions, but it's completely in sync with the image Mika has manufactured for himself. And we quite like it.

(Is the above video unavailable? Another version on the next page.)

(via Popbytes)

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Comments (20)

No. 1 · spencer

i love mika… can't wait to hear his full new album

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 1:05 pm
No. 2 · Jhon

"A virtual nobody" ??? How pompous.

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 1:20 pm
No. 3 · Jay Pat

wtf was that? Are people still wondering if he's gay?…

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 1:35 pm
No. 4 · ousslander

beyond the gay blodosphere which seems to adore him, nobody really knows who he is. I must be getting old but having these marginal talents promomted like their the second coming is quite tiring. just another hipster doofus

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 1:54 pm
No. 5 · Julian

THIS IS A MESS. I LOVE IT.

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 2:17 pm
No. 6 · Billy Jack

Teen girls love him –
they also want him to remain a cuddly eunuch – in the same way Twilight's Vampire stud only wants to chat and lie next to his highschool sweetie.

Maybe when he gets to age 30 he will embrace manhood, sexuality
and leave the stuffed animals behind – then again, Michael Jackson didn't.

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 2:28 pm
No. 7 · Kasio Q

I'll never understand why the gay press keeps putting him on as the second coming of Judy Garland. He's got a nice voice, but Darren Hayes has been doing the falsetto stuff for years. And I can't stand how he plays up the stereotype, and yet refuses to come clean about his sexual orientation.
As for the video, Mika doesn't have the body to prance around, wearing only white shorts. I prefer to see him in genderless clothes. The song is too 80s to make an impression. There's nothing about it that stands out.

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 2:51 pm
No. 8 · Cam

A virtual nobody? His CD was gigantic in England, Canada, Australia, NZ etc… basically all over the world.

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 3:14 pm
No. 9 · Joe

he's not a virtual nobody. i'm in spain and he's played in every supermarket and shoestore. but i also wanted to say, that song SUCKS. and usually i can sort of tolerate him.

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 3:27 pm
No. 10 · edgyguy1426

Love me my Mika

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 4:18 pm
No. 11 · RS

Mika was a smash here in Canada.

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 7:05 pm
No. 12 · alejandro

agree, mika was a HUGE hit in Canada! i herd he wasnt in the states cuz he was too gay for radio.
love him :D

Posted: Jul 29, 2009 at 10:35 pm
No. 13 · dgz

looks like another promo for bruno.

Posted: Jul 30, 2009 at 12:37 am
No. 14 · Cameron Monagle

@Kasio Q: Skinny boys can jump around just as much as they please. Not everybody should look like Adonis.

Posted: Jul 30, 2009 at 2:45 am
No. 15 · dantalion

over here in singapore he was absolutely huge, he's definitely no "virtual nobody"

Posted: Jul 30, 2009 at 4:13 am
No. 16 · WestCanuck

Blue heaven is a place on earth. Paging Belinda Carlisle.

Posted: Jul 30, 2009 at 7:13 am
No. 17 · sal(the original)

wow he's hot.hello

Posted: Jul 30, 2009 at 9:32 am
No. 18 · ThatguyFromBoston

The thing is, if you're not famous in America you're not famous.

Posted: Jul 30, 2009 at 11:42 am
No. 19 · EgoCheck

Queerty just gets worse and worse. First off, he is not a virtual nobody. As @ThatGuyFromBoston says, queerty assumes one who is not famous in America is not famous anywhere. Second, your fact checking, if such a thing even occurs, is shit. Mika's first album was eponymous, titled 'Mika.' Life in cartoon motion is likely just the first album YOU personally, have heard of. Most people don't make the logical leap to believe that their perspective is actual reality.

Posted: Aug 3, 2009 at 12:45 pm
No. 20 · Thom

I can't help but think of Karma Chameleon everytime i see this video

Posted: Sep 22, 2009 at 5:13 pm
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