"Relax (Take It Easy)" Mika

[backintime]

The final single from Life In Cartoon Motion is out on December 31.

The dreadful "Lollipop" is already a huge SMASH on gay chav mobile phones everywhere (yes, they exist) and got to #59 on the UK Singles Chart in February.

The fantastic "Relax (Take It Easy)" samples "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight" and was his debut single peaking at #78 in the UK last summer. It was released in Europe earlier this year and got to number one in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.


Lollipop
youtube.com/watch?v=_J0if88fq1Q

Relax (Official music video)
youtube.com/watch?v=Be6jlCuMvVQ

[AFRO SAMURAI]

NICE!!! I am really excited to get another single. If people aren't tired of Mika, I think "Lollipop" should do well.

[Franck]

"Relax (take it easy)" was so overplayed here. It's one of his less annoying singles.

[backintime]

Having spent the best part of the year hating it, "Lollipop" has really grown on me now

It's video's out, standard cartoon/lyrics-on-screen-as-sung affair.

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

Weirdly the same thing has happened to me recently, I like "Lollipop" now.

[backintime]

As expected, Lollipop seems to be the one that's getting video play with "Relax" getting radio play. It's been C-Listed on Radio 1.

[I'M ON ONE]

Relax (the bootleg uptempo dance remix version) is one of the biggest songs of the year here, it was HUGE all summer and is still played in the clubs.

[cactus tree]

I love "Relax". I also love "Lollipop" but his voice gets kind of annoying on it so it could wear on me if i listened to it too much.

[I'M ON ONE]

the original version of 'Relax' is so boring. Well maybe I just think that because Im so used to the remix, but it makes it a trillion times better.

[backintime]

Where can I hear the remix?

[I'M ON ONE]

I have it on my computer at home, I can send it to you then

[backintime]

Thanks!

[backintime]

[AFRO SAMURAI]

So, "Relax" is now #5 in airplay and the album is back in the Top 10 (mostly because of holiday sales, I'm sure). Is "Lollipop" getting much videoplay or airplay?

At any rate, it doesn't really seem like people are growing sick of him. I wonder would it be pushing things to release another single in 2008. I wouldn't mind a release of "Stuck In The Middle."

[backintime]

I haven't heard "Lollipop" on the radio ever and I haven't seen the video since 26 November.

I'm not even sure it's a double-A-side anymore.

[backintime]

Billboard Review:

Relax, Take It Easy
MIKA
Producer(s): Greg Wells, Mika
Genre: POP
Label: Casablanca/Universal Republic

For all the grumbling about record labels' misplaced priorities, you've got to give credit to Casablanca/ Universal Republic's fortitude in knowing a good thing when they've got it . . . even as radio programmers react with a collective "Wizard of Oz" mentality: no courage and reasoning faculties befitting a bale of straw. It's just not that tough to understand the mass-appeal charms of Mika, with his campy, crush-velvet grooves; madcap, singalong choruses; and clear-cut image as a guy who just wants to bring mirth back to the art of making music. In nearly two dozen other nations, "Relax, Take It Easy" was the sixth—count 'em, sixth—top 10 hit from Mika's shimmering full-length "Life in Cartoon Motion." In the States, it managed to reach the top five on the Dance Airplay chart—garnering a Grammy Award nod for best dance recording—but that's simply not enough: Top 40 should be luxuriating in the charms of Mika, starting with last year's ace launch single "Grace Kelly." Fortunately, new media and satellite radio have opened the floodgates, as he continues to sell out stateside venues. Mika is a keepsake and "Relax" an easy, breezy, obvious smash. If corporate-commanded FM wonders why it continues to lose listener momentum, start right here. —Chuck Taylor