Lollipop

Lollipop

MIKA

The seventh track from Mika’s 2007 debut album “Life in Cartoon Motion”. Despite mixed critical reception, the album did very well sales-wise, ending up as the ninth-best-selling album of the year, and even appearing in adverts for Apple’s iPod touch range.

According to Mika’s comments in an interview, the song is about warning girls, specifically his sister, against having sex too early (but the lyrics can easily apply to boys, too).

The audio, both backing and Mika’s vocals, is as concentrated-syrup sickly-sweet as the title would suggest, which juxtaposes nicely against the lyrics which focus on a stern warning that love can “get you down”, and hard.