![]() Beth Johnson from Entertainment Weekly wrote that the song is "a Bee Gees-ish shout-out to Frankie Goes to Hollywood." Craig McLean from The Guardian somewhat echoed Griffith review, writing that the song "become the best song the Bee Gees never wrote." Christian John Mikane from PopMatters wrote that "the song is among the better songs on the album." He described the music as "gloriously synthetic, but the confidence in Mika's voice more than compensates for the artificiality of the music." The song received positive reviews from music critics. The song is an upbeat pop track with a disco-like bassline and a funky guitar riff in the background on the choruses, where he sings: "It's as if I'm scared/It's as if I'm terrified/It's as if I scared/It's as if I'm playing with fire". It uses the melody from " (I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight" by the Cutting Crew. Once home, he wrote the song in twenty minutes. He walked home and, still frightened, started singing. Outside there were police all around: it was 7 July 2005 London bombings. As lights came on again, passengers were told to leave the train. ![]() The lights went out, reminding him of his childhood fears. ![]() Many years later, he was aboard a Tube train travelling to a recording studio when the train suddenly stopped. In a 2017 episode of his show Stasera Casa Mika on the Italian TV channel Rai 2, Mika described that as a child he was scared of the London Underground, before becoming used to the noise and crowds as he grew up. So it was one of the harder tracks for me to produce, but also the most rewarding." The organic-ness gives a more classic field to it. It's really effective – you can't tell if it's a full dance track or really laid-back. And we picked up the strangest pedal combinations to get all these weird sounds. We used some great session musicians who had worked with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. So when I came into producing 'Relax' I made sure that most of the sounds we used were actually made by real instruments. "I always wanted to write a dance song that wasn't a really full dance track, that felt organic. After a first single Grace Kelly which ranks N ° 1 in the English Charts, during five weeks, Mika leaves before Summer Relax, Take It Easy, which ranks at the top of all European rankings and undeniably becomes one of the hits of this summer 2007.įor its launch in France, Relax Take It Easy is used for 10 days, as the opening credits of the Canal + program, the Grand Journal, and also serves as the opening song for the Village-Départ program broadcast daily on France 3, before each stage of the Tour de France during the summer of 2007.Mika described the story behind the song in an interview with the Sun Newspaper, on 2 February 2007: This disc entitled Life in Cartoon Motion, comprising eleven titles, appears in France and throughout Europe on February 5, 2007. Relax Take It Easy, featured on Mika's debut album. > Gastronomy, music, tourism: discover all our summer topics here!Ī song broadcast in several French programs And later, arrived at the studio, he completes the writing of this song on which he composes a music inspired by the title I Just Died In Your Arms, by the English group Cutting Crew, released in 1986 and for the intro, a Sheila's disco hit, Spacer. Faced with the movement of panic, he then thinks back to the sentence of his sister's friend: "Relax, take it easy". Mika, who was then in a subway to go to the recording studio, is evacuated to the exits with the other passengers without initially knowing the reason for this sudden interruption. On that day, four explosions caused by British Islamists hit London public transport, leaving 56 dead and 784 injured. The rest of the story takes place in London, July 7, 2005. It amuses Mika a lot, who thinks it would make a good song title. : "Relax, take it easy" this Chinese friend often repeats to her to de-stress her. Having gone to visit one of his sisters in Shanghai, Mika is challenged by a reflection very often made by a friend of the young woman. The painful memory of the London bombingsīefore that, the starting point of the song by the Lebanese-British artist Mika comes from a trip to China. > Find the summer hits in replay and podcast here A real call for calm, this title was born in a painful context of terrorist attacks, in the heart of London. Number 1 in sales during the summer of 2007 in France but also in many countries, Relax, Take It Easy launched the career of the young Pop artist, Mika. UN JOUR UN TUBE (19/32) - All summer long, Europe 1 invites you to discover a song that marked the summer every day.
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