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209 / INTERVIEW Interview / Mika “Nowadays, there’s a less generalized opinion when it comes to identity and sexuality, and that’s brilliant” On reection, of course he wouldn’t do Versace. Ever since he rst appeared on the pop scene, people have lazily labeled Mika as “camp”, but he’s not exactly that; there’s something more fantastical and strange going on. Just don’t call him the Peter Pan of pop. “I’m not that at all”, he insists. “I think people who don’t know much about me would say that, but if you spoke to anyone who knows anything about me, they’d laugh. But, whatever. People see it as different things. I don’t really care.” I’m not sure he doesn’t really care, but I get the whateverness. He has form in fending off assumptions. Mika didn’t initially come out; with time, though, he has gradually engaged more explicitly with gay culture. In a song on the new album, ‘Good Guys’, the title is at rst changed to “gay guys” — he wonders ruefully, “Where have all the gay guys gone?”, before reeling off a list of his own queer faves of the past: Wilde, Cocteau and so on. The lyrics are a mixed bag: is he saying there’s a great gay tradition, or has it all gone down the pan? “It’s a homage, not a put-down,” he says. For him it reects a welcome evolution. It has been a gradual growing-up, then, but there have also been dramatic jolts. He suffered a huge trauma in 2010 when one of his sisters, Paloma, who then worked as his stylist, had a freak accident — she was impaled on railings after she fell out of her fourth-oor at window and was hospitalized for a year. Now she is better and is a “young mother”, says Mika happily. “That accident was a bizarre rite of passage,” he says. “It was brutal, violent. I could have let it hurt me a lot, and reacted in terms of isolating myself or hiding from it,” he says. “But instead, it made me realize that things are fragile. If that’s the worst that can happen, then... get on with it!” I leave him to the dogs and the designers and the Mayan icons; happy to just get on with it, waiting for us to get a bit more daring again. “The culture of label-chasing, and the outing contest that was so pervasive, so common, 10 years ago, is over now. It’s seen as dated, because I think there’s a less generalized opinion when it comes to identity and sexuality, and that’s brilliant.” Nowadays, pop stars such as Frank Ocean or St Vincent can refuse labels, and people seem to care less. For him it’s a particular relief. “I got so much ak for taking that stance for all those many years.” 016 209
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