Mika - 'Grace Kelly' (Island) Released 15/01/07

by Lauren Tones
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

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Oh, to be Grace Kelly would be quite something. Being Freddie Mercury wouldn’t be too bad either. Well, apart from the death and all that business. We all wouldn’t mind being someone much more glamorous and perfect than ourselves, but unlike Mika we don’t all make such a song and dance about it.

In anticipation to his upcoming album ‘Life In Cartoon Motion’, Mika releases uber camp single ‘Grace Kelly’. This Queen influenced affair is a colourful contribution to the flagging dull pop scene of late, but its paranoid self-obsessed lyrics contradict the song’s strong confident vocals. “Why don’t you like me?” it wails, just like one of those drunken people at a party who insist on cornering you with their self-confidence issues. ‘Grace Kelly’ celebrates this kind of character and provides an anthem for the annoying, whilst even Miss Kelly herself seems to have the right idea at the end of the track when she announces, “Humphrey, we’re leaving”. Perhaps this is one to excuse yourself from.

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The song was designed to be a mocking satire of musicians who try and reinvent themselves to be popular. Mika claims the song was inspired after a bad experience with a record company executive. (Wikipedia) The company wouldn’t sign Mika cos he woudn’t conform to what they wanted, hence the :Why dont you like me? Why don’t you walk out the door?” Personally I love it! Good on him for sticking to his guns...its so much better than mainstream crap!
~ by Kate 3/15/2007
This song is incredibly catchy. It is alot better than some of the rubbish coming out at the moment and the album altogether is brilliant. Well done to Mika for this unique, colorful song!
~ by Saffy and Meg 4/5/2007
Worst single of 2007
~ by pitchforkdisney 3/6/2008
me gusta mucho esta kancion espero k estes bien bye besitos ze kuidan
~ by wendy alejandra 10/10/2008