Life in Cartoon Motion

Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion

Life in Cartoon Motion
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Artist: Mika
Brand: Casablanca
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Music Label: Casablanca
Soundtracks:
  1. Grace Kelly
  2. Lollipop
  3. My Interpretation
  4. Love Today
  5. Relax (Take It Easy)
  6. Ring Ring
  7. Any Other World
  8. Billy Brown
  9. Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)
  10. Stuck In The Middle
  11. Erase
  12. Happy Ending

Free Music Notes for Life in Cartoon Motion

Free Music Review: This is a great lollipop to suck on
Hit: 5 Stars

Where as MIKA been all my life. This album is in a category all its own. Musically it's just impossible to describe the beautiful laid tracks that support MIKA's also talent as a vocalist.

This album is alternative in that it encompasses more than your average pop music. MIKA, who has declared his self bisexual, brings his sexuality to this album. Not in an overbearing way, but clearly when you hear the album you know this is an album by someone who is comfortable opening many doors and exposing themselves to be criticized by their musical talent.

Listen to the track "Bill Brown" to get a further understanding of MIKA's ability to encompass a world that usually stays behind closed doors. "Grace Kelly" is a pop hit, and falls in the lines of the other tracks on the album, but has a greater appeal to others who will only hear the one single. "Lollipop" is a fun track with a super catchy tune, this is playful and cute!

MIKA scores two thumbs up for this album. I look forward to listening to his follow up album which was recently released.

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`Historic', `sensational', `flamboyant' and `without-any-doubt original' are just some of the adjectives being thrown around by critics in praise of 22 year-old UK newcomer, Mika's eclectic debut album, Life In Cartoon Motion.

Fun, smart, musically adventurous and thematically provocative, the songs on Life In Cartoon Motion, all of them written and produced by Mika, combine euphoric rushes of melody with darker unexpected elements. They range from bright daytime melodramas to night-time tales of love, loss, abandonment, hope and happiness. Each is a splendid blend of fresh imagination and deft pop craftsmanship.

Album gems such as "Grace Kelly," "Lollipop," Billy Brown," and "Relax And Take It Easy," display Mika's innovative wordplay. `I've always respected people who make great records to their own vision,' writes the quixotic Mika. Mission accomplished!


The pop world might be all cooing 'n' cross-eyed over this flamboyant elfin with extended tail-feathers, as if it were shaken suddenly from a slumber, but the arrival of such a character was in fact always inevitable. He's an unlikely but traceable amalgamation of random pop culture explosions from the past few years--two parts Paulo Nutini, one part Kemal from Big Brother, a dash of Daphne & Celeste, a barrel measure of Scissor Sisters, and another pinch of post-ironic dancing to Elton John at the Students' Union gone midnight. It's no secret that the UK has a weakness for pretty-boy singer songwriters either--he fits in there too, in that he's about to stick its index finger in the socket and pour it a drink.

Give it 12 months and you might be taking out a restraining order--Mika will split opinion--but his quasi-soul falsetto is unbelievable, that much is immediately obvious. There are moments nearing syrupy Feeling-esque normalcy (take "My Interpretation"), but those aside it's high camp insatiability all the way. There's a hint of Freddie Mercury's theatricality in the voice, and in "Big Girl" he's even written a modern day "Fat Bottomed Girls". "Lollipop" is Jake Shears leading the Jackson 5, "Love Today" is the missing link between the Bee Gees and Village People and "Relax, Take It Easy" is a chilled Pet Shop Boys in gold lam?. Too cheesy to be a classic, perhaps, but this is just the brand of subversive eccentricity Robbie has failed miserably to achieve over his past few albums. --James Berry

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