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Mika: 'Happy Ending'
Released on Monday, Oct 15 2007
Published Wednesday, Oct 10 2007, 12:59 BST | By Nick Levine | 3 comments
Mika's crowd-pleasing disco stompers, which somehow manage to bridge the gap between late-morning Radio 2 and Friday night at Jumpin' Jaks, have made him one of the success stories of 2007, propelling his debut album Life in Cartoon Motion towards UK sales of nearly 800,000. And the Lebanese-born Londoner isn't done yet. After telling us how he tried to be like 'Grace Kelly', furiously encouraging us to 'Love Today' (and him in the process), and assuring every 'Big Girl' in the land that, yes, she really is beautiful, he's decided to go all earnest for a second.
'Happy Ending' is a surprisingly melancholic piano ballad with a pleasing whiff of the man-child about it. Dropping his usual fondness for tic-laden vocal showboating, Mika croons in a restrained – yes, really! - falsetto, ushering the song towards a pretty chorus sung by an ingenuous all-female choir. It just goes to show that when he gives up gurning, pops his jazz-hands in his pockets and stops trying so goddamn hard for a second, Mika can be really quite affecting.
'Happy Ending' is a surprisingly melancholic piano ballad with a pleasing whiff of the man-child about it. Dropping his usual fondness for tic-laden vocal showboating, Mika croons in a restrained – yes, really! - falsetto, ushering the song towards a pretty chorus sung by an ingenuous all-female choir. It just goes to show that when he gives up gurning, pops his jazz-hands in his pockets and stops trying so goddamn hard for a second, Mika can be really quite affecting.
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I don't know. You see, Mika is just the latest popular act to be subjected to the juvenile bashing by those deluded enough to think music is actually important rather than disposable entertainment. Wake up call people. Nobody will remember Oasis in 30 years' time except as a mediocre Beatles Tribute act. Time levels all and the fragile conceit that some music is more valid that any other will wash away the NME crowd's delusions of self-importance.
Yes, he's definitley the most successfull lebanese-born londoner with a debut alum called "life in cartoon motion" in 2007. As for everything else I disagree there has been no commotion in any ocean about Mika, he remains to be unable to follow up Grace Kelly with anything just as neutral and un cringeworthy..happy ending being no exception. Mika remains a total not entity who forces what should come naturally.
I think on the whole of Mika's album, this song is the best. You may disagree but it's the sort of song that makes the whole party-like feel be worth it. The song is meaningful, yet liberating. It makes me feel whole for some reason. Its a great track, though I was a bit disappointed with the video because I didn't think it reflected the meaning it gave me. I will still give it a five-star rating because it's amazing.