Mika is out with the music video to his new single ‘We Are Golden’, the first single from the London based pop singer’s forthcoming album of the same name, out September 22nd via Casablanca Records. The fun clip finds Mika singing and dancing in his bedroom along to his boombox dressed only in his underwear. The singer-songwriter calls the video a tribute to all the years he spent dancing around his bedroom as a teenager. Watch the Jonas Akerlund directed video below.
Mika and Perez Hilton announced a one off not so secret gig on April 13th at The Roxy to celebrate the completion of the 25-year-old’s second album and ‘Songs for Sorrow’ EP.
A mini-doc telling the story of the event at YouTube has since been removed.
Lady Gaga and Mika spent the night out at Hakkasan in Hanway Place on Monday (April 20) in London, England. There wasn’t any signs of rain, but the ‘Poker Face’ singer seemed to insist on having a large checkered umbrella with her at all times. Check out pictures from celebrity-gossip.net.
Mika checked in with fans on his YouTube channel with an update from the studio in Los Angeles, joined by his engineer Luke. The British pop star showed highlights of his recording session with a gospel choir at Capitol Records, as well as violinist Owen Pallett. “It’s really fun making this record, because it’s building, like Lego,” Mika explained. “I said this about the first record as well, but it’s like Lego. You build all these pieces, then it kind of comes together.” Watch the webisode below.
Mika checked in with fans on his blog at MySpace on Wednesday (October 22), discussing progress on his new album and the release of his new DVD ‘Live At Parc Des Princes’, out November 10th. The British singer songwriter tells readers:
Hey guys, I write from a studio in a nondescript concrete building in Los Angeles. The recording is three weeks in and it feels great to be out of demo phase. As many of you know we’ve been working on the DVD for the Paris show and its now finished. I’ve had a blast making this and hope you like it too.
Mxx
Check out more details on the DVD here.
A trailer for Mika’s new DVD ‘Live from Parc Des Prince’ has been posted at Island Records’ YouTube channel ahead of the disc’s November 10th release. “I didn’t want to do anything normal,” Mika said of the Paris gig before a crowd of 60,000. “I didn’t want to cut any corners. If anything I wanted to make life as difficult for everyone including myself as possible.” Mika added, “So we’re taking an existing gig and making it digitally delicious.” Watch the trailer below.
Footage of Mika and Christian Louboutin partying in Arcachon, France, set to the music of MGMT’s ‘Time to Pretend’ and Of Montreal’s ‘Gronlandic Edit’, has been posted at Mika’s YouTube channel. Also featured was highlights from Mika’s concert at The Velodrome on July 14th. Watch the clip via YouTube below.
Mika and Kylie Minogue performed ‘Relax, Take It Easy’ and ’2 Hearts’ respectively on the German ZDF TV show ‘Wetten, dass..?’ in Graz, Austria on Saturday (December 8), each talking afterwards with host Thomas Gottschalk. Check out pictures from GettyImages. Watch footage from YouTube (Mika / Kylie).