Ruffly blue underpants.
August 15th, 2007 | by TJ |Ok, so, Mika?
I don’t know how familiar all y’all are with Mika. Personally, I was reading some forum or something or other, I don’t recall, about Queen, and someone posted a link to Mika’s Grace Kelly video on YouTube, saying that he seemed to be channeling a bit of Freddie Mercury, even referenced him in the song.
I checked it out and it was super catchy in a really obnoxious way, and quickly ended up on my MP3 player, and I listened to it every morning on my way to work. Little while later, I had my MP3 player plugged in to the computer, charging, and had Rhapsody open to move a couple of things around and fix a play list or two, since I had suddenly decided that a song that had been placed on there when I downloaded a 90s playlist needed to never be played again. Natalie Merchant, if I had known you were going to sneak onto the player buried deep within that playlist, I never would have allowed such a thing to happen.
Anyway, so I was playing around on Rhapsody and was getting ready to go to work, and since I liked Grace Kelly so much, I dragged over a whole bunch more Mika songs. On my way to work that morning, I played through what I had downloaded, and really did like it a lot. Whoever said that Mika was a like a trainwreck you can’t look away from was right. Except it’s not so much a trainwreck as a convoy of awesome crashing into a Rockette-style kickline of spectacular.
Person: What are you listening to?
TJ: Mika!
Person: What do you want to hear?
TJ: Mika!
Person: Put on something good.
TJ: Mika??
Everyone I have forced Mika upon, when I can trick them into getting into my car (not that they let me drive, but still, my car, my music) comes to the disturbing realization that while they seem to feel like they should be horrified, they can’t help enjoying it. It’s true. You can’t help but love Mika.
Anyway, so, right. I had been listening to Mika every morning on my way to work (I go through weeks at a time where I put the same song on as soon as I get in the car every morning), and one night I was playing around on YouTube and saw the “official” video for Mika’s new single, Big Girls.
And I made a decision.
Not only was the song all kinds of unspeakably awesome, in the “I’m going to sing this to myself all day and I don’t even care if it ends up driving me insane to the point that someone needs to lock me in the basement and feed me yogurt til the men in white coats come to take me away” kind of way, but I decided I need to be those women.
I’m not too sure if I need to gain 20 lbs, or lose 20 lbs. I know I need 6 to 8 more inches of leg. Both of those, well, I’ll figure it out eventually. I’ve also got to learn to make my hips wiggle like that when I walk, without looking like a scorpion has crawled up my pants. But do you see that redhead? I can see that the first thing I’m going to need is those blue ruffly underpants. Blue ruffly underpants are my first step.
Really, you think this is a post about underpants, and that’s why you’re reading it, but I really just want to infect the entire world with Mika.
Suckers.
By Yaja on Aug 15, 2007
Told ya! ;-)
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By For The Pie on Aug 15, 2007
That is…sad.
Those underpants won’t work. They will attack you from behind and not be comfortable at all. They are only good for dancing in the streets doing a music video or working the streets..looking for “love”
Please, for the love of all that is holy and right, don’t.
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By kakalaki on Aug 15, 2007
It does have a torturous addictive beat to it. Mika could be cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter if they remade Rocky Horror Picture Show, at least thats what I thought when I watched it. I will donate to the ruffly blue underpants cause… do you accept WoW gold? I’ve seen a lot of getups in my day, so if wearing ruffly blue underpants makes you feel more like the woman you want to be, wear them!
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By Xeln on Aug 15, 2007
Did anyone else have to go fetch their brain from the bar across the street after they saw that? Not to mention the $85 dollar bar tab for Jager shots (at five bucks a pop, that’s a lot of Jager). Sadly though, I have to admit that my co-workers kept asking me what I was singing to myself all morning after I watched it.
As for finding blue ruffled panties there are TONS of websites you can find that have some by typing Ruffled Panties into google. Apparently curiosity kills everything but its self.
Xeln
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By Ego on Aug 16, 2007
Okay, you’ve now thoroughly infected me. I stayed up too late last night watching Mika youtube videos.
What would you consider to be the “essential” Mika? I need to download it now.
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By Lance on Aug 30, 2007
I convinced my wife to download the big girls song onto her Ipod and I love it.
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