The Mike Haddad Show: This is relevant to my interests.

Let's talk about Mika, the new UK artist who's trying really hard to make it big here. Nancy's already heard most of what I have to say about Mika, but a few things that happened to day have lead me to decide to try and formulate these thoughts into something solid.

Now you may or may not know that I read Towleroad regularly. So odds are I heard about Mika long before any of you did. I should say read about Mika, instead of heard. I listened to about ten seconds of a clip before realising I hated it and turning it off. I can't even tell you if it was Grace Kelly. I can tell you that what felt like more than a few months later, I recognised his obnoxious voice coming out of Joey's iTunes.

From the beginning I was negatively biased towards Mika. As much as Andy at Towleroad might love Mika because he got this label with a song about how he was rejected by a first label for not being willing to change, I just see a second record label who sees a market for people with image issues who want to see Mika as their saviour. I.e. most of the people I know in Sheridan's Music Theatre Program who don't sound the way they look and then don't have an instantly marketable image. Or, more simply, fags.

The other day I went shopping with Nancy. I cracked and bought Mika's first album out here, something about gay whatever homo rainbow. I might have made that up. But 'Grace Kelly' was an extremely catchy song as much as I hated to admit it. It will randomly pop into my head every once and a while and I'll be stuck with it for a good chunk of the day. Let's just say the album was not like that.

Actually, let's just say that album was a piece of crap. I wish I hadn't bought it. I really wanted the Timbaland CD too, but when I got to HMV I couldn't remember that so I bought Mika instead. I regret it. And today, my regret was solidified.

Tonight, I was listening to the radio as I drove downtown with my mom to pick up my math books from my place. For those of you that don't know Z103, it's southern Ontario's biggest top-40 pop station. It has more than one tower set to 103.5 with a huge broadcasting range. It also runs a show weekdays from 7:00p to 7:30p called Pump It Or Dump It, where they play a song and then listeners vote on it.

Tonight's song was Mika's Love Today. And it was dumped by 97%.