Amy Winehouse & Mika Album A Horrible Possibility

Husband in jail, painful cold turkey crack rehabilitation, funny haircut - things are just about as bad as possible for Amy Winehouse at the moment, right?

Nope. Because Mika wants to get in on Amy's plans for a Christmas album.

Mika seems to be under the impression that an Amy Winehouse Christmas album would be much better with him in it because she's Jewish and he's partly related to someone who's been to Lebanon once, or something. But, hey, anything that exposes Mika to a career-threatening hard drug addiction is fine with us.

It's been a year since Mika got to number one with that Grace Kelly song of his, and what a year it's been. Not only did he release Grace Kelly, but he also released a bunch of other songs that not even Mika's biggest fans could hum if you held a gun to their heads. True, Mika helped stall a Boyzone reunion - so fair play to that - but unless he gets his act together sharpish, there's a good chance that Mika will become another quickly forgotten, funny-haired one hit wonder.

So what can Mika do? Piggyback around on someone much more famous to remind everyone that he's still alive? OK!

Mika has caught word that Amy Winehouse is going to temporarily switch smoking crack for singing soon, to record an album of Christmas and Hanukkah standard. Now, yes, we know that the Christmas album is basically an admission of creative bankruptcy, but ask yourself this - would you rather listen to a recovering crack addict singing Little Donkey or a double concept emo-jazz album entitled Requiem For My Blakey? Quite, so shut up.

Anyway, that's not the point. Mika's heard about Amy Winehouse's Christmas album and now he's so desperate to join in that he probably let a little bit of wee come out. You see, Mika doesn't just think that combining his camp gonk-pop and Amy Winehouse's thousand-year-old roar would make a perfect Christmas present - he thinks that it'll bring peace to the Middle East forever. The Sun reports:

The flamboyant singer revealed: "I heard Amy will be recording an album of Jewish music once she gets well and I’d like to make a contribution to it. I really like her music. Think about this - me, a part-Lebanese artist working on a Jewish album. I think that’s a nice statement. I’d like to make a statement some day."

Unless that statement is along the lines of "I'm giving up music forever to become a penniless hermit, plus I'm sewing my mouth up," then we expect that there's going to be a lot of profoundly disappointed people around. 

Although maybe there is something to Mika's comment. Perhaps world peace can only be achieved by a hokey cash-in carol-singing album by a drug addict and a gay-looking man with a Freddy Mercury complex. After all, if painstaking negotiation and flat-out violence hasn't worked, then it's probably worth trying to unite the Arabs and the Jews through a united sense of crippling shame.

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Mika makes Amy a kosher offer - The Sun