Beth Johnson from Entertainment Weekly wrote that the song is "a Bee Gees-ish shout-out to Frankie Goes to Hollywood." Craig McLean from The Guardian somewhat echoed Griffith review, writing that the song "become the best song the Bee Gees never wrote." Christian John Mikane from PopMatters wrote that "the song is among the better songs on the album." He described the music as "gloriously synthetic, but the confidence in Mika's voice more than compensates for the artificiality of the music." The song received positive reviews from music critics. The song is an upbeat pop track with a disco-like bassline and a funky guitar riff in the background on the choruses, where he sings: "It's as if I'm scared/It's as if I'm terrified/It's as if I scared/It's as if I'm playing with fire". It uses the melody from " (I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight" by the Cutting Crew. Once home, he wrote the song in twenty minutes. He walked home and, still frightened, started singing. Outside there were police all around: it was 7 July 2005 London bombings. As lights came on again, passengers were told to leave the train. The lights went out, reminding him of his childhood fears. Many years later, he was aboard a Tube train travelling to a recording studio when the train suddenly stopped. In a 2017 episode of his show Stasera Casa Mika on the Italian TV channel Rai 2, Mika described that as a child he was scared of the London Underground, before becoming used to the noise and crowds as he grew up. So it was one of the harder tracks for me to produce, but also the most rewarding." The organic-ness gives a more classic field to it. It's really effective – you can't tell if it's a full dance track or really laid-back. And we picked up the strangest pedal combinations to get all these weird sounds. We used some great session musicians who had worked with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. So when I came into producing 'Relax' I made sure that most of the sounds we used were actually made by real instruments. "I always wanted to write a dance song that wasn't a really full dance track, that felt organic. Mika described the story behind the song in an interview with the Sun Newspaper, on 2 February 2007: The song was also featured prominently in the movie Were the World Mine. This single peaked at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was released as Mika's sixth single in the UK in stores on 31 December 2007, and for digital download on 24 December 2007 as a double A-side with " Lollipop". In North America, it was released as the third single from the album. The song makes use of a melody line from the Cutting Crew hit single " (I Just) Died in Your Arms". In the UK, it failed to chart upon its original release, but after " Grace Kelly" topped the charts in January 2007, it managed to peak at number 67 on the UK Downloads Chart because of download sales. This CHANNEL CLAIMS NO RIGHTS OR OWNERSHIP over the contents posted." Relax, Take It Easy" is the debut single by British singer-songwriter Mika, from his debut album Life in Cartoon Motion. Absolutely, NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. This channel is created to promote magnificent songs, and as well, producers. Take It Easy - Stars Tonight (Original Mix) Soul Of Void - You & Me (Original Mix)ġ0. Fading Soul - Distant Star (Original Mix) Ĩ. Himbrecht - Witness Happiness (Original Mix)ħ. Igor' Ivanov - Liztomaniya (Original Mix)Ħ. Miguel Garji, Javi Viana & Carlos Santana - Guitar Legend (Alt'n Beats Balearic Guitar Re-Work)ĥ. Archangel - Your Absence (Original Mix) Ĥ. Kollektiv SS - Nothing Lasts Forever (Original Mix) ģ. ☛ Track: Smoke Mood ' Relax And Take It Easy ġ.
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