Mika is Zany

I have loved Mika in the past, but this music video is quite frus­trat­ing. From the very first frame this was aggra­vat­ing. The cas­sette player was crude and extremely off putting for me. It just comes off as “Hey look at this zany piece of older tech­nol­ogy that I use instead of an ipod as a way to con­vey that I am deep and all alter­na­tive,” The video then pro­gressed into a bunch of zany danc­ing in a zany room. The issue is that it was was weird, but not really weird enough. It has a safe weird coat­ing. A coat­ing that lets the artist appear deep and really hip and cool, but at the same time lets the song be some main­stream noise to be bought up on Itunes.

In com­par­i­son to pre­vi­ous Mika songs We are Golden is mediocre. It has a generic feel and doesn’t quite res­onate beyond any of the other poppy noise going around. The tune feels a bit repet­i­tive, and the breaks in the song are over­pow­ered by the cho­rus mak­ing the song seem overly blar­ing. I have lis­tened to a few other songs from his upcom­ing album and they sound a lot more promis­ing than this zany mess.

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July 29th, 2009 Reply