Hyperlove

Zzzzzz…

I’m sorry, but why are we still doing this in 2026? How many of these dance-pop slop albums have we already heard by now? It feels like this take on the genre has been copy-pasted a thousand times, and this new MIKA album sadly does absolutely nothing to change that.

Look, dance-pop can be great. There are plenty of artists who prove that you can make exciting, creative, fun dance-pop without it sounding cheap or lazy. But way too often, artists take this lane as the easy route. Radio-friendly, happy, upbeat background music that people can vibe to without actually listening. And that’s exactly what Hyperlove feels like.

The production is painfully generic. These beats sound like they could’ve been pulled from any random playlist from the past ten years. There’s nothing distinctive here at all. No interesting ideas, no surprising moments, nothing that makes you stop and think it’s good. It’s just the same happy dance-pop formula on repeat.

The lyrics and performances don’t help either. They’re fine, I guess, but completely forgettable. Nothing hits and nothing feels sincere or exciting. It just feels thin, very thin. Like the album exists purely to exist. It's just such a very middle-of-the-road record.

And that’s what frustrates me the most. MIKA is a big name (or at least was), especially here in Europe, and yet this album feels so uninspired. Like the bare minimum effort was put into it, and not more than that. Same type of production over and over, easy happy lyrics, predictable choruses, done.

Overall, Hyperlove is a really lacklustre record. It’s not always offensively bad, and most of the tracks are listenable to some extent, but it’s so dull and redundant that it becomes annoying. This could’ve been background music in a store and I wouldn’t notice it. For an artist with MIKA’s status, this just feels disappointing. Shame, honestly.