Mika opens the doors to his Tuscany villa: 'Throw us anywhere, and we'll make poetry'
Mika, in Montreal (Canada), January 2025. SACHA COHEN To reach Mika's villa, located 16 kilometers southeast of Florence, we had to cross a fairy tale landscape – rolling hills dotted with cypress and olive trees, bumpy roads, erratic power lines and half-abandoned properties. We rang the intercom. A woman's voice greeted us warmly, speaking Italian with a strong Romanian accent. After passing through the unassuming gate, we came face to face – or rather, snout to nose – with two winged pigs painted on a wooden sign. "Pigs can fly," reads the sign above the two animals. For a moment, the scene felt hallucinatory. But the sign was a playful nod to the English expression "when pigs fly," the equivalent of the French saying quand les poules auront des dents – "when hens have teeth." In other words: something that will never happen. Mika stands apart in a pop landscape often accused of uniformity. Defying marketing logic, his world tour – which stops at Paris's Accor Arena on Monday, February 16 – was announced well before the release of his seventh album, Hyperlove, at the end of January. This album tackles what most of his peers avoid like the plague: politics, a notoriously risky subject where there is so much to lose and so little to gain. You have 88.92% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.
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