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Mika: I am now a murderer

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Music - In a bizarre interview with The Times bouncy pop singer Mika talks ambiguously (how else?) about past relationships and overcoming demons.

Talking about 'Rain', a track from his new album, 'The Boy Who Knew Too Much', the article reads -

"How was I feeling the day I wrote that? I was furious with the person I was going out with." What had they done? "Nothing. That was the problem."

What did he want them to do? "Embarrass me. Make me happy at the risk of making me totally miserable ... So I wrote this nasty little nursery rhyme - and then I thought, wouldn't it be funny to put it to a dance beat, because that would empower it."

Mika and this partner are no longer together. "We went out for over 18 months," he says, with a curt smile. Their identity and gender is off-limits. In the past, he has said that "in order to survive", he has "shut up different parts of life, and that's one of them" but today he seems happy to talk about his sex life. Referring to the endorphin-surge disco of 2007's 'Love Today', he reveals that the song came fully formed "after the first time I had slept with somebody and actually loved it". Later, he cryptically says that he "emotionally killed a man". When, exactly? "It was three weeks ago." Someone who declared some kind of interest? He laughed. "It was complicated. Suffice to say that I am now a murderer."

On a lighter note he talks about his new live show -

"It's been fantastic," he says. "I'm an astronaut. I die at the beginning of the show. This is all explained by my family - which is my band - in this 1950s-style sitting room. They're watching 'I Love Lucy', and suddenly this news broadcast interrupts the show. It's Sir Ian McKellen reporting as my rocket advances towards the Moon, only to explode."

Mika also revealed on BBC Breakfast that he writes for other acts under pseudonyms, one of which is 'Alice'! He said that he wrote a track for Boyzone which may have been the last that Stephen Gately recorded.

'Rain' is out now; Mika's UK tour starts at Sheffield Academy on February 18.

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