Track Listing

1. We Are Golden
2. Blame It On The Girls
3. Rain
4. Dr. John
5. I See You
6. Blue Eyes
7. Good Gone Girl
8. Touches You
9. By The Time
10. One Foot Boy
11. Toy Boy
12. Pick Up Off The Floor
13. We Are Golden

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #141 in Music
• Released on: 2009-09-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 44 minutes

CD Description
BRIT Award-winning pop singer Mika's second album The Boy Who Knew Too Much follows up the enormous success of 2007's debut Life In Cartoon Motion. Produced once again by Greg Wells (Katy Perry, Rufus Wainwright), Mika continues to excel in bringing his own brand of fun and chaos to proceedings. The music on offer is undeniably catchy, although singing along will prove quite a task as the Beirut-born star has a superb vocal talent that is hard to match. Includes the single "We Are Golden".

Customer Reviews

No Bad
Mika's 1st album was my guilty pleasure and the 2nd is pretty much in the same vein without quite the same quality - great opening tracks but sadly followed by some blandness.

It's like he's never been away!
The other two reviews written for this (so far) are I believe either ridicoulously unfair on this new album or jumping to conclusions. Both haven't heard all the tracks so they don't really have a non biased view on the album.

Mika was being interviewed on a music channel and as part of the program, performed all the songs. Songs such as "Rain" stood out to me (as well as obvious "we are Golden"). But it is a slightly different take to his orignial debut album. The songs on this album all have darker meanings (in the interview I watched, he was quoted as saying "it's like ring a ring of roses"). Also, as with "we are golden" the choir-esk childen are shouting in the songs more this time around.

I'm sure it'll be a good album and there are some songs that you'll listen to and know immediately that they'll be released as singles, but don't except the happy feel good vibe that came from songs such as "Big Girl" and "love Today" and even "We Are Golden". For example, "Rain" is all about a girlfriend who dumped him via a letter, and it expresses his anger towards her for doing this.

We Are Golden is purist hell pop perfection
This is my issue with Mika: The songs always sound as if too much has been lifted from the most sugar-coated parts of the pop songbook... But so far the end product has been irresistible.

I have the same issue with "We Are Golden". I cannot decide whether the inspiration for the chorus comes from Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" or, even worse, from Jason Donovan's "Too Many Broken Hearts". But I cannot blame Mika because Jon Bon Jovi and Diane Warren have made a two-decade long career out of the same chorus principle.

In the case of Mika, again, the problem-blessing is that the end result is irresistible. And I give up and surrender to his magic. Overblown? check. Hystrionic? yes. Fantastic? You bet.

I hear reviews of the album so far are mixed. The reviews of his debut were horrific. So no worries. Go Mika! Outrage our purist hearts again with a heavy dose of pop perfection. I surrender