![]() I rarely care about remix versions but the Good Guys remix in the end of the album is a wonderful surprise. Good Guys has personal meaning for many people, it’s one of the songs that can give courage in finding a personal path. It’s a key moment in life to move on from searching role models to be one. However, after learning to know the song I see Good Guys as a beautiful and important part of Mika’s personal story and find the thought extremely touching. It took a while for this song to grow in me, I was never lucky to have role models or examples in my own life. In Good Guys I pay attention both to the poetic lyrics and the melody yet find the thought behind the song the most interesting. I love the vocals and even though I can’t know the full story my mind starts to create images and thoughts about the weird little cult I imagine hearing in the song. Oh Girl You’re The Devil reminds Dr John on the second album. Talk About You works live very well, I always enjoy seeing how that exact moment on stage Mika is the centre of everyone’s attention just like described in the lyrics. The first track on the album Talk About You introduces us the city we can see in the cover illustrations and describes the feeling we have when we are in the middle of people but see only the one we are in love with. Several details on No Place In Heaven make me smile. ![]() Here I stand, staring at the sun / distant land, staring at the sun / you’re not there, but we share / the same one / miles apart, staring at the sun / distant hearts, staring at the sun / one thing’s true, just like you / there’s only one Darkness is typical for Mika’s music and his songs are rarely how they look at first, there’s always a lot to discover in the story. The lyrics are sweet, almost cute “my love is blind from staring at the sun” but the story behind the song is touching and talks about staring at the sun and missing someone who is tragically far away. In Staring At The Sun the love is strong but the physical distance in it separates two people in a heart-breaking way. Maybe I will see Mika performing in Rio one day. The pandemic cancelled my travel plans to Rio the same way it cancelled many other plans but I still have that dream. Listening to Rio makes me literally think of going to Rio. ![]() Maybe living like someone else could make us somehow better persons. Rio is searching possibilities to take distance from our everyday life. In between us an ocean can be found / how long will I swim before I drown / and in between those words we dare not say / do you think that you could learn to love me anywayĭistance has an important role in several songs on the album. ![]() The title song refers mostly to God (the Father in Heaven) but talks also about distance between people and I find the lyrics in the song some of the saddest in Mika’s music. This complicated relationship is mentioned on the album several times in songs like All She Wants, Good Wife and No Place In Heaven. If you could look into the future would you / if you could see it would you even want to / I got a feeling that there’s bad news coming / but I don’t want to find it outĪs a child we want to meet the expectations set by our parents, as a parent we struggle not to set any. The simple black and white music video directed by photographer Peter Lindbergh is strong and intense and different symphony arrangements (officially released on the symphony edition of No Place In Heaven and later on the Versailles album) give the song extra character. The song that is based on Freddie Mercury’s story is my personal favourite on the album. The same way as Underwater on the previous album Last Party is the most powerful song on No Place In Heaven. Just loving life means accepting the fact it can end any day. The third album looked at love from every possible direction whereas the fourth album is focused on those emotions and phenomenons that will inevitably follow when we let us fall in love and are totally vulnerable in front of something or someone. No Place In Heaven (2015) shows the other side of something The Origin Of Love (2012) already described. ![]()
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