Mika

And then I started singing just to kind of, that's why I didn't go to school.

It wasn't, you know, that's, that's the reason why my mom was like, yes, there's no point sending you back into school.

Start again.

Are you excited?

Yeah, I think because it's quite a euphoric album.

I wrote the entire thing at the piano.

I wanted to write an album alone again.

And it was really important to find a way to make something bold.

And by going back to the piano, I found that friend again.

And I found that permission as well to make something really bold.

So then, you know, it was produced and completely reinterpreted as well by a guy called Nick Littlemore from a band called Empire of the Sun and Pineal.

And so I just didn't want to water down his work.

I was like, it might please some people, it might not please others.

Some of it's a bit edgy.

But it's fearlessly joyous.

It's joyful and joyous.

And it takes no prisoners.

Do you write about love in it?

It is...

very strange that you're talking about that because I just had to do an interview with a, with an author who was like a novelist and he was writing a piece on the thing.