British pop star Mika does not want to talk about his sexuality, but he’s definitely jonesing for the gays. Or, at the very least, their dollar.
The 23-year old singer recently griped that he’s not as popular with the gays as he’d like:
I don’t understand it. I’ve never taken sides on any gender. I like to confuse people but it would appear that the gay scene hasn’t embraced my sound, or indeed, my look. I just hope all that can change in the future.
Maybe fag folk aren’t down with an alleged closet-case. Or maybe it’s because they just don’t like his sound.
ben
He shouldn’t take us for granted.
Qjersey
“the gay scene hasn’t embraced my sound, or indeed, my look”
See Scissor Sisters.
The uptight gay scene is not going to fall all over falsetto singing shaggy haired ‘fem’ guys (no offense intended). Sorry but the scene is just that shallow, it really is.
Qjersey
Before I get flamed, did buy Mika’s CD and do listen to it regularly (while cooking and cleaning, lol)
mozzer13
It really is quite a good CD. That being coy business is such bullshit, though. I mean, give us a break…no one is that blind.
Paul Raposo
I enjoy his album as well. I also think the coyness was cute at first, but a little nauseating now.
Rufus Wainwright has found an audience with “teh gays”, so I don’t think it’s Mika’s look, or sound that isn’t resonating with us.
Maybe he’d be more popular is he adamently denied being gay. Then all the self-loathing types would be frothing at the mouth for his sound, kinda like we do with porn stars who claim to be straight.
jesse_gill
I avoid him like the plague, not that his music is really my cup of tea to begin with but i cant stand it when media types with agendas try and force feed us artists cuz they suposedly have artistic cred, so shut up already (im talking to you perez) nobody cares about mika or lily allen get over it
Mr. B
I think he could only qualify as closeted if he actually said he wasn’t gay, which he has never done. Part of his schtick is the “Maybe I am, maybe I’m not” attempt at ambiguity.
I bought Life in Cartoon Motion and like it, for the most part. It’s catchy, and I think he does a decent job of blending an indie sound with homage to glam and britpop of the past. With that said, though, you can tell he’s a very amateur puppetmaster. He tries to be mysterious and cutting-edge (Ooh, a song about a married guy who has a gay affair, how shocking! A perfect Freddie Mercury falsetto and a near rip-off of “Fat Bottomed Girls,” way to keep the people guessing!), and though he’s catchy at times he definitely has some songs I have to skip over or risk a headache. Kid’s got a bit of talent but he’s not going to be much more than a flash in the pan, no matter that Perez(ite) Hilton has become his personal promoter.
Eminent Victorian
We have a copy of this guy’s CD, and I’ve listened to it, and I still don’t see what all the fuss is about–you have to endure an awful lot of frankly grating schtick to get maybe two or three actually well-made songs. What self respecting big girl is going to get up and dance to his fat girls song? Maybe it’s aimed more at a passel of liquored-up transvestites? I love my liquored-up transvestites, but they’re not worth this kid’s irritating songwriting, either. Cartoon in Life Motion seems more apt to me.
bloomsburyboy
I LOVE Mika and his CD.
His songs aren’t meant only to shock, they’re meant to rock. (OK, cheesy rhyme). “Billy Brown” is acts as an homage to the Beatles’ “Ob la di” (whether or not it is intended). The whole CD is amazing.
There are plenty of people who say homophobic things and who adamantly deny the obvious as if being queer is bad. In my opinion, it’s a positive thing to have one’s sexuality be something that doesn’t need to be front page news.
Mr. B
See, to me he throws the little nods to gayness into his songs so often and so blatantly that I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t gay after all. Not that it matters, but I guess what annoys me most about Mika (And again, I do like some of his songs!) is that many of the “gay” elements of his songs really come off to me as self-back-patting for being so hip and aware (and then calling that art). It kind of reminds me of Details magazine’s obsession with the gays, minus the insecurity.