The song was inspired by a well-dressed, good-looking man Mika and his sister saw walking down a street in London shouting down his phone.

He performed the song on So You Think You Can Dance on 30 January, as well as on Alan Carr: Chatty Man on the 11th, and on The Album Chart Show on Channel 4 on the 12th.

He further performed the song on ITV1 three times in February: On the 5th he sang "Blame It on the Girls" and an operatic rendition of his other single "Rain" on Popstar to Operastar.

On 18 February, Mika performed the song live on GMTV and made a final appearance on Movie Toons on the 27th to end his promotion of the single.

[10] The video starts in black and white with Mika sitting on a chair, wearing a bowler hat and holding a cane whilst speaking a prologue to the song.

It is only the second international single to reach the top of the Japan Hot 100 after Leona Lewis's 2008 hit, "Bleeding Love".