Mika

That would make me happy.

Like, like you, you have the ability to write your own, to write your own medicine.

yeah why not just do it it sold millions of albums didn't it yeah but it's it's the whole the whole time that that i i guess the the promise i made it was like okay and then when that destabilized me a little bit the the success of that album which was really made in my bedroom and it wasn't a creation it wasn't a construction that afterwards was like okay how do i actually wait a minute

it's about my own altitude.

It's about where I am in my thing.

And it's about finding a way to write things that engage me and to constantly kind of develop my story and tell stories that I find interesting and challenge myself in that way.

And that's what I've always tried to do.

And that's why I believe fundamentally in alternative pop writing.

I think alternative pop is glorious because alternative pop, even though it sounds like a contradiction in itself, something has to be popular.

And alternative, how is that possible?

But I think it can be.

Yes, it was with Universal.

I was signed by Lucien Grange after auditioning in a hotel lobby in front of people who were drinking their tea.

Yeah.

And one lady complained.

So by this point of, you know, being forced to go into really, you know, crazy places and, and try and get someone to sign me, which is my mother's obsession.

I mean, everything from like, she made me, I shouldn't even be saying this.

She made me a gate crash, a party in America, in New York.

Where, because she found out that this guy who lived not far away from my aunt, he was the head of RCA.

I gate crashed that party and found my way at the piano and sang for the people, get out of here.