Mika

Dua malam lalu, saya mendengar lagu yang seketika membuat saya mengalihkan pandangan dari layar komputer ke layar tv. Nama penyanyinya Mika, judul lagunya Grace Kelly. Beberapa waktu lalu saya pernah membaca tulisan tentang Mika dan albumnya: Life in Cartoon Motion di salah satu website, tapi baru sekarang saya mendengar lagunya. Saya dapat memahami mengapa ia dikatakan sebagai the new Freddie Mercury. Ia penyanyi yang baik, suaranya penuh energi dengan cara bernyanyi yang menarik. Mika menulis sendiri lagu-lagunya dan pandai memainkan piano. Hmmm, just like Freddie.
Berikut ini kutipan lirik dari dua lagunya. Yang pertama, Grace Kelly. Lagu ini ditulisnya untuk mengungkapkan kekesalannya terhadap industri musik yang dulu sulit menerimanya. Yang kedua, Lollipop. Lagu favorit saya sejak kemarin.

Grace Kelly

Do I attract you?
Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?
Am I too dirty?
Am I too flirty?
Do I like what you like?

I could be wholesome
I could be loathsome
I guess Im a little bit shy
Why dont you like me?
Why dont you like me without making me try?

I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
Ive gone identity mad!

I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why dont you like me?
Why dont you like me?
Why dont you walk out the door!

How can I help it
How can I help it
How can I help what you think?
Hello my baby
Hello my baby
Putting my life on the brink
Why dont yo like me
Why dont you like me
Why dont you like yourself?
Should I bend over?
Should I look older just to be put on the shelf?

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Say what you want to satisfy yourself
But you only want what everybody else says you should want

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Lollipop

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I went walking in with my mama one day,
when she warn me what people say,
live your life until love is found,
'cause love's gonna get you down.
Take a look at the girl next door,
she's a player and a down right whore,
Jesus slows up, she wants more,
oh bad girls get you down.

Singing,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down,
sucking too hard on your lollipop,
or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.
say love, say love,
or love's gonna get you down.

Mama told me what I should know,
too much candy gonna ride your soul,
if she loves you, let her go,
'cause love only gets you down.

Take a look at the boy like me,
never stood on my own two feet,
now I'm blue, as I can be,
oh love couldn't get me down.

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