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| Artist: Mika
Label: Barclay
Category: Music
Buy New: £14.19
New (21) Used (5) from £2.72
Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 112649
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 602517233829
EAN: 0602517233829
ASIN: B000MG1YBG
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Try not to resist... it'll get you in the end! February 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Anyone just interested in serious, mature music should perhaps skip to the next review. In fact, I wanted so much to consider this album as too low brow for my tastes, but I'm afraid that the majority of this album is just bl**dy good to be ignored or dismissed. Track-by-track, Mika's debut album just worked it's way into my psyche and became too tempting a collection to ignore. Most of it is catchy as hell, more infectious than MRSA and puts a massive grin on your face everytime you hear it... so how exactly are you supposed to ignore an album like that in an end of year list? Simple answer - you can't.
The best tracks on this album are 'Grace Kelly', three minutes of pop genius, 'Love Today', in which Mika instructs us to love today and also love Mika, and 'Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)' a fantastic, positive song which hits back at our image-concious society in a totally fabulous way. 'Billy Brown', a song about a sexually confused guy is also a great song, managing to be both simultaneously camp and touching. That's essentially the key to Mika's success on this album - it's camp, it's fun, it's pop, but it's not mindless fluff. It has life-affirming greatness running through it, but is perhaps half-a-dozen classic songs short of a truly great album. What Life In Cartoon Motion is, however, is an album with a handful of extremely good, exceptionally enjoyable songs which are more than worth the price of the CD alone. I get the impression that you'll either love this or hate it - I'm with the former camp.
 Mika=brilliant February 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My faves are #=best
Grace Kelly#
Lollipop
Love Today
Relax (Take it easy)#
Big girl (you are beautiful)#
Happy Ending#
Ring Ring
 Have you listened to it? February 7, 2008
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
I heard a couple of Mika songs on the radio and happily bought the album for my wife when she put it on her birthday list, but seriously folks, take a moment to listen to the tracks. The words are chosen because they rhyme, and that's the only reason. Forget deeper meaning, songs written from the heart, poetry set to melody, this is doggerel wrapped in a voice that'll irritate after the fourth play through. Maybe you're one of those folks who says "Oh, I never listen to the words, I just let it flow over me..." and if you are, I say I hope you have a big supply of your medication and they're keeping sharp objects away from you. This album is a novelty for a guy with a funny voice and a shot at fame on a tv show. You don't have to be angry with me if you disagree, but do me a favour - write out the words to "Billy Brown" and read them aloud to someone. Do they make sense? They do not. I rest my case.
If u dont like it u shouldn't have bought it! January 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mika is a real singer, unlike most of the wannabes in the charts nowadays. he has an unbelievable vocal range and his songs dont avoid the modern taboos or conform to the strict form of a souless pop song. He is pretty much the only thing stopping the impending tide of wannabe rappers singing about how the found a pretty girl, got off with her and then never called, beardie guitarists singing about love lost and other equally soppy things and women who are old enough to know better dancing like strippers and wailing in lament about the wannabe rapper who never called them! who cares if he's dyslexic or a little camp! He has energy, spirit and does what he wants and what few singers have the guts to do- HAVE FUN!! Isn't that what music is all about????
If You Like Fresh, Innovating Pop Songs, This Is A Must-Have December 30, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
MIKA is one of the worlds brightest new stars because:
a) He's dyslexic, so he's done very well for himself and
b) He came from a war-torn country so,
GOOD ON MIKA!
1. Grace Kelly. 10/10
2. Lollipop. 10/10
3. My Interpritation. 9/10
4. Love Today. 10/10
5. Relax (Take It Easy). Easily a disco-dazzler! 10/10
6. Any Other World. 8/10
7. Billy Brown. 10/10
8. Big Girl (You Are Beautiful). 10/10
9. Stuck In The Middle. 10/10
10. Happy Ending. 10/10
And if you keep listening
11. Over My Shoulder. 1/10
12. Ring Ring. (Bonus). 9/10
This year has been exceptionally good for MIKA and he is one of the best artists in the world! 10/10
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