MIKA Tells You Everything Will Be Fine and You Almost Believe Him

"Celebrate" arrived in 2012 as MIKA’s declaration that he was not, under any circumstances, going to stop being exactly what he was. Pulled from The Origin of Love, it does what every great MIKA single does: stacks euphoria on top of euphoria until the song feels physically larger than the speakers it’s playing through. He has this gift for writing pop music that sounds inflated just slightly past the breaking point, and "Celebrate" leans into that completely—a chorus you can’t stop singing, a video stuffed with color and bodies, the whole thing pitched about three degrees past sincerity into something that functions as armor. The world is difficult, MIKA seems to be saying, and the correct response is to turn it up.