Michael Holbrook Penniman, Jr., better known by the stage name MIKA, is a star known for his theatrical and energetic approach to dance-pop, especially with viral hits including “Grace Kelly,” “Relax, Take It Easy” and “Popular Song.”
The British singer-songwriter and producer has been writing music since the age of 7, and it shows in his open, vulnerable lyricism, often paired with danceable, glam-rock aesthetics and sounds to create a powerful contrast that makes the song further soar. Last week, he released his seventh studio album album, Hyperlove, exploring themes of love and togetherness, despite the challenges of navigating a modern world. To celebrate, we’ve collected 50 of his most iconic and unforgettable lyrics below for you to use as Instagram captions.
For appreciating that unconditional, everyday kind of love:
“It’s not the outline of your face drawn in the stars. It’s a ‘still-there-Monday-morning’ kind of love.”
-“Tiny Love”
For the breakup that’s the toughest thing you’ve ever done:
“This is the hardest story that I’ve ever told. No hope or love or glory, happy endings gone forever more.”
-“Happy Ending”
For knowing you just have to stick with it:
“Like it or not, every day we get a little better.”
-“Dear Jealousy”
For seeking fun and excitement over the things others value:
“Like a magpie, I live for glitter, not you.”
-“We Are Golden”
For seeing that the tables have turned:
“You were the popular one, the popular chick. It is what it is, now I’m popular-ish.”
-“Popular Song”
For when your life only needs to make sense to you:
“This is my interpretation and it don’t, don’t make sense.”
-“My Interpretation”
For wondering why they’re playing games:
“If this isn’t what you wanted, then why’d you put a smiley in your message then?”
-“Tomorrow”
For understanding you’re in it together, no matter what:
“The last thing on my mind is to leave you, I believe that we’re in this together.”
-“Relax, Take It Easy”
For when love has you feeling superhuman:
“‘Cause all I need is the love you breathe. Put your lips on me and I can live underwater.”
-“Underwater”
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For knowing you can’t hurry love:
“Live your life until love is found, ’cause love’s gonna get you down.”
-“Lollipop”
For the small, quiet love that’s destined to last:
“This tiny love has spoken, and bigger hearts get broken.”
-“Tiny Love’
For dealing with your choices:
“It’s your life, and you can’t live it twice.”
-“Emily”
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For when you just can’t move on:
“I could be staring at somebody new, but stuck in my head is a picture of you.”
-“Stardust”
For choosing a positive perspective instead:
“Dude, your perspective on life sucks.”
-“Blame It on the Girls”
For calling out someone who’s fallen way behind in life:
“So catch up, ’cause you got an awful long way to go.”
-“Popular Song”
For falling for someone and having no say in it:
“I get this feeling I can’t miss. You’re getting harder to resist.”
-“Beautiful Disaster”
For faking it until you make it:
“Smile like you mean it and let yourself let go.”
-“Any Other World”
For spreading a message of love:
“Everybody’s gonna love today! Anyway, you want to. Anyway, you’ve got to.”
-“Love Today”
For wondering if the relationship will endure:
“Could we make it better, stormy weather? It’s so hard to know.”
-“Stuck in Your Middle”
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For when it feels impossible to please people:
“Why don’t you like me? Why don’t you like me without makin’ me try?”
-“Grace Kelly”
For celebrating a long, happy relationship together:
“Our kind of love, it gets better every day.”
-“Tiny Love”
For when insomnia has you down:
“Two o’clock in the mornin’, something’s on my mind. Can’t get no rest, keep walkin’ around.”
-“Happy Ending”
For hoping you’ll reunite someday:
“You were the thunder, I was the rain. I wanna know if I’ll see you again.”
-“Stardust”
For when someone is their own biggest problem:
“Life could be simple but you never fail to complicate it every single time.”
-“Blame In on the Girls”
For when stressing will only make things worse:
“Relax, take it easy, for there is nothing that we can do.”
-“Relax, Take It Easy”
For knowing nothing can take your girlhood away:
“Spinning, jumping, messing up her hair, but it doesn’t matter, ’cause that don’t make her less of a girl.”
-“Platform Ballerinas”
For not letting worries about the future ruin today:
“Oh, tomorrow worry ’bout tomorrow.”
-“Tomorrow”
For loving yourself at any size:
“Big girl, you are beautiful…”
-“Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”
For feeling stuck in the past while yearning for the future:
“Jealous of the man I used to be and the man I could become.”
-“Dead Jealousy”
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For doing what you can to stay cool and collected:
“Getting angry doesn’t solve anything.”
-“Grace Kelly”
For when everything seems to go wrong all at once:
“When it rain and rain and rain and rains.”
-“Rain”
For the confidence and bravado of youth:
“Teenage dreams in a teenage circus, running around like a clown on purpose.”
-“We Are Golden”
For needing them to know how much you love them:
“Want you to know what you mean to me. What will it take, take you to see?”
-“Stardust”
For when someone refuses to take responsibility for anything at all:
“Blame it on the girls, blame it on the boys.”
-“Blame It on the Girls”
For getting where you are by being true to yourself:
“Popular, I know about popular, and all that you have to do is be true to you. That’s all you ever need to know.”
-“Popular Song”
For when your only choice is to be yourself:
“Better be yourself, you’ll make it, ’cause every other girl out there is taken.”
-“Platform Ballerinas”
For struggling with solitude:
“I tried to live alone, but lonely is so lonely, alone.”
-“Any Other World”
For feeling like you give more than you get back:
“Wake up in the mornin’, stumble on my life. Can’t get no love without sacrifice.”
-“Happy Ending”
For looking for someone who’ll embrace the realest version of you:
“Is there anybody home? Who will believe me, won’t deceive me? Won’t try to change me?”
-“Stuck in the Middle”
For when too much of a sweet thing is bad for you:
“Mamma told me what I should know. Too much candy gonna rot your soul.”
-“Lollipop”
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For when love makes you want to dance:
“My life was dull. I used to walk in a different way. But now I’m dancin’, dancin’, dancin’, dancin’, don’t care who can see me dancin’.”
-“Tiny Love”
For the person who represents all of the love in your life:
“The origin is you. You’re the origin of love.”
-“Origin of Love”
For showing just how loving and devoted you’d be:
“I could put a little stardust in your eyes, put a little sunshine in your life.”
-“Stardust”
For knowing you’re more than what people expect of you:
“We are not what you think we are, we are golden, we are golden.”
-“We Are Golden”
For feeling way more anxious than the situation calls for:
“It’s as if I’m scared. It’s as if I’m terrified. It’s as if I’m scared .It’s as if I’m playing with fire.”
-“Relax, Take It Easy”
For making the only right choice for yourself:
“Don’t care what anybody sees. I know I’m doing this for me.”
-“Beautiful Disaster”
For when you both have pasts to own up to:
“You and I, we’re really, really not so innocent.”
-“Tomorrow”
For finally feeling like yourself again:
“I’ve been crying for so long, fighting tears just to carry on, but now, but now it’s gone away.”
-“Love Today”
For hoping that jealousy can inspire you:
“Jealousy, bring the music back to me.”
-“Dear Jealousy”
For just wanting to be what you need to be to catch their attention:
“Do I attract you? Do I repulse you with my queasy smile? Am I too dirty? Am I too flirty? Do I like what you like?”
-“Grace Kelly”
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