Pounding The Keyboard

       I heard a Mika song ("Grace Kelly") this morning and I was reminded that he wrote some ear candy pop gems, and I also remembered that he caught my attention then when I read that he sounded like Freddie Mercury. I love Freddie's voice, who doesn't? And yes, Mika does indeed sound like Freddie (listen to "Grace Kelly," where he seems to mimic the great Queen's frontman's voice and Freddie's even mentioned in the lyrics.)         Here's "I See You," my favorite Mika song, and definitely one of his best.            I'm sitting across from you        And dreaming of the things I'd do        I don't speak, you don't know me at all        For fear of what you might do        I say nothing but stare at you        And I'm dreaming        I'm trippin' over you       Truth be told, my problems solved       You mean the world to me...

      Yesterday, we were at the Mall of Asia when our vehicle was slowed down by the traffic and we stopped in front of a throng of people (mostly giddy-looking teenage girls and there’s more than a hundred of them) who suddenly screamed happily at the top of their lungs. We thought a celebrity was about to come out from a bus nearby, but it turned out that they were screaming at the giant screen in front of MOA Arena where a promotional video of a group was being shown. People screaming at a video clip? That’s something, I thought. I didn’t know if people then did that at the Beatles.        The group, it turned out, was BTS, a boy band from South Korea, which had a show that day at the MOA Arena. That’s the first time I heard about the group. (Okay, I am quite clueless when it comes to K-pop). I turned to my companions inside the vehicle, which included a nineteen year old girl, a fourteen year old boy and a twelve year old girl, all pop culture enthusiasts,   and asked