Big Girls: Hot or Not?
Last Friday, on Jezebel (a Gawker blog about Celebrity, Sex, Fashion, for women. Without Airbrushing), blogger Slut Machine posted a clip from the Today Show, where Mika performed his latest hit, Big Girls (You are Beautiful). " We love him for this shiny, happy performance," she gushed.

Now, as we all know, there's nothing more offensive than a skinny (possibly gay) man claiming that he likes big girls.

Reactions ranged from back-handed compliments:

I never understand why a man so effeminate turns me on.

sulking with a side-order of entitlement:
I always feel there's something vaguely patronising in a gay going onabout how great big girls are. Its like yes you are beautiful andhurray for you, but I won't fuck you anyways cos I like peen, so whothe hell cares?
I want Backstreet Boys to reform especially for a song about normal looking chicks. Then I'll rest in peace.

(The Backstreet Boys have broken up, hon, but maybe we can ask the Chinese Backstreet Boys?)

Exactly. I'm a big girl and I find this song so patronizing. Fuckyou, I know I'm beautiful, so stop trying to capitalize on fat chick'slow self esteem.

to outright bitchiness:

i'm thinking more george michael at most smarmy than freddie mercuryhere. but what do i know. also, he's gay. also, lay-day. ew. just ew.and now this shit's stuck in my head forever. ARGH. you're right in twomonths i'll be oh yeah 'big girls' -- the brilliantest thing since the'ignition' remix. i'm such a late adopter

Meanwhile, skinny women don't want to be left behind:

how dare any man tell us how we should look?! A real woman is onewith curves in all the right places ? Fuck you Mika. Am I not a realwoman if I happen to be pretty flat-chested and slim? I was sodisgusted the first time I heard this on British radio, this guy isjust playing upon women's insecurities to sell a record. And it worked.He got to no.9 in the charts last week....how could this irritatinglittle man make any larger woman feel good about herself?!?

Other people keep to comparing him to Freddy Mercury and agree that Fat-Bottomed Girls was much better and more appropriate (I don't know why Mika, as a gay skinny man, can't say he likes big girls, but Freddy Mercury can. Maybe it's the moustache?).
Me? I'll agree with the commenter who says " Mika's music can put a smile on my face and a bounce on my step in 2.5." Now if you'll excuse me, I want to watch that video again.