Mika - 'Grace Kelly' (Island) Released 15/01/07

Oh, to be Grace Kelly would be quite something. Being Freddie Mercury wouldn’t be too bad either. Well, apart from the death and all that business. We all wouldn’t mind being someone much more glamorous and perfect than ourselves, but unlike Mika we don’t all make such a song and dance about it.

In anticipation to his upcoming album ‘Life In Cartoon Motion’, Mika releases uber camp single ‘Grace Kelly’. This Queen influenced affair is a colourful contribution to the flagging dull pop scene of late, but its paranoid self-obsessed lyrics contradict the song’s strong confident vocals. “Why don’t you like me?” it wails, just like one of those drunken people at a party who insist on cornering you with their self-confidence issues. ‘Grace Kelly’ celebrates this kind of character and provides an anthem for the annoying, whilst even Miss Kelly herself seems to have the right idea at the end of the track when she announces, “Humphrey, we’re leaving”. Perhaps this is one to excuse yourself from.