{"id":486533,"date":"2019-05-31T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=842886"},"modified":"2019-05-31T13:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:44:22","slug":"mikas-new-song-ice-cream-is-summer-anthem-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/mikas-new-song-ice-cream-is-summer-anthem-bait\/","title":{"rendered":"Mika\u2019s New Song \u2018Ice Cream\u2019 Is Summer-Anthem Bait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-533132542.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mika\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mika\" data-tag=\"mika\">Mika<\/a> has unveiled the lyric video for his new summer-ready anthem \u201cIce Cream,\u201d the first single off the Lebanese-English singer\u2019s upcoming fifth record, <em>My Name Is Michael Holbrook<\/em>. The album, due out October 4th, marks Mika\u2019s first LP since 2015\u2019s <em>No Place in Heaven<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the lead single \u201cIce Cream,\u201d Mika told <em>Rolling Stone&nbsp;<\/em>via email, \u201c\u2018Ice Cream\u2019 was <span class=\"s2\">written on a day of extreme heat. It was the last few weeks of writing for the album; a writing period that lasted two years. Through the writing I had confronted personal, serious and at times painful issues, now I felt lighter and freer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mika added that the song came about during an August trip to Italy, and was partially inspired by \u201c<span class=\"s1\">the irreverent attitude of the music of the 90s,\u201d including the music made by George Michael during that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cDare to be the more proud version of yourself,\u201d he says. \u201cDare to be a sensual man, dare to express out loud the desires you always keep inside your head. That\u2019s why and how I wrote it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mika-ice-cream-lyric-video-842886\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mika has unveiled the lyric video for his new summer-ready anthem \u201cIce Cream,\u201d the first single off the Lebanese-English singer\u2019s upcoming fifth record, My Name Is Michael Holbrook. The album, due out October 4th, marks Mika\u2019s first LP since 2015\u2019s No Place in Heaven. On the lead single \u201cIce Cream,\u201d Mika told Rolling Stone&nbsp;via email, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 08:47:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}