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  • Hi, I'm Mika, and we are at a studio in London at Hoxton Square.

  • And this is my engineer Angie,

  • who's gonna help me...

  • kind of go through each song of this album,and...

  • talk about each song,

  • how I wrote it, why I wrote it,

  • and also how I recorded it, and...

  • what I like about each song.

  • This song's called Lola.

  • It's started off as a chorus,

  • and the chorus was "Lola, I've made up my mind."

  • "I'm not gonna fall in love this time."

  • And that was it. There was nothing else.

  • I like the idea that I'm having a conversation with this...

  • friend called Lola, and I'm saying, you know,

  • "I've had it. I've decided. You're right. I'm gonna fall in love this time."

  • And there wasn't really much else to it.

  • We kind of wrote and produce this in the space of four hours, um...

  • in a hotel room in Miami,

  • in a studio and a hotel room in Miami.

  • And it started with this.

  • And the idea of that groove is simply because...

  • it sounded like Fleetwood Mac with a little bit of Billy Jean in it.

  • And then the bass line, we programmed in

  • because we tried to used a real bass but it didn't really sound very good.

  • The reason why the bass didn't sound good when we tried to play was because

  • we didn't have a bass player, and we didn't have a budget for a bass player, so...

  • ...really we tried to play it, and it's crap.

  • So we ended up using a plug-in in...in...

  • ...like, able to do something, which is like...

  • playing like this.

  • That's like a garage band record, but it doesn't sound like it. It sounds...

  • it sounds kind of slick and vintage.

  • Maybe 'cause it's so badly done.

  • Badly but well.

  • And then the piano on it...

  • is similar to the piano that's on "Origin", and it's all about just...

  • I guess with me, everyone always assumes that I'm playing all the time, which I do,

  • so with this album, I was like,

  • how about just playing when we need to?

  • And the effect was kind of cool.

  • For some reason when I was writing this, I kept on telling...and producing it,

  • again, it happened at the same time.

  • I kept on telling everyone this feels like...

  • I feel like I did when I wrote "Love Today". I don't know why,

  • but there was just this...thing about it that made it feel that way.

  • And I guess it was when I was working on this section

  • particularly that I felt like that.

  • (You can stop it if you try) (Love makes you laugh and makes you cry)

  • (The oldest game in the history repeating)

  • (You can stop it if you try) (Love makes you laugh and makes you cry)

  • (The oldest game in the history repeating)

  • (Lola)

  • (Lola baby it's just another love song)

  • (Lola)

  • (Lola baby it's just another love song)

  • (Lola, I've made up my mind)

  • (Lola baby it's just another love song)

  • (Lola, I've made up my mind)

  • (Lola baby it's just another love song)

  • That's "Lola".

Hi, I'm Mika, and we are at a studio in London at Hoxton Square.

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