- 2025-10-31
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MUSIC
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MIKA Returns With New Song “Modern Times”
British singer-songwriter MIKA returned with a new song “Modern Times” on October 31, 2025.
This marks his first music in two years since the 2023 album “Que ta tête fleurisse toujours”.
Also, the song will appear on his upcoming seventh studio album, which will be announced the release date soon.
This time, he co-wrote the song Australian electronic music duo Empire of the Sun's Nick Littlemore, who also produced MIKA's new album.
The accompanying music video was directed by Rupert Höller.
MIKA said of the song, “The song for me is like a treadmill, and that treadmill is life, life in all its good and all its bad. As time goes on and life gets more confusing and sometimes overwhelming, we look further than the world around us, into the world of mythology, desire and dreams. Modern Times is a cathedral-like cry, for faith and spirit, resisting the grind and weight of life and the passing of time.”- On the new album, MIKA worked with Nick Littlemore in Los Angeles, New York, Vienna, Italy, and London.
MIKA said of the album, “I am so excited. I'm just wrapping up this new album. One that means so much to me, and we're getting ready to release a new single, and all the artwork and everything that goes into it and writing the credits for this record. I kind of realized all over again the amount of people that have come together. Amount of amazing, talented people that have come together all across the world to make this record that I really believe means so much to all of us.”
He continued, “This is two years worth of writing, mostly, almost 95% of it at the piano alone. And then it's this music went on this extraordinary journey. And it was completely by accident, but Nick Littlemore, who from Empire of the Sun, who I had previously worked with on 'Origin of love', heard these demos, and he decided that he was going to get his hands dirty and jump straight into making the record and producing it. And then he transformed these songs. I had one intention. I made a promise to myself that I would make an album that screamed freedom. That was artistically brave.” -
He added, “And honest, this record is made for you guys. It's made for the people just like you who have followed what I've done over this 20 year journey. And I just wanted you to know that I wanted to come back for you guys with something that was exciting and a little bit brave, and there's a lot of layers to it. Don't be afraid to pick it apart and to look into every single detail, because every single detail is there for a reason. It's eccentric. And it's made me very happy.”
Photo by Martin Morscher - source : Apple Music
