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So T.a.t.u. then?

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15:43 / 10.02.03

Missed it on TOTP's but did any read the interview with their manager in the ever reliable Sun today, doesn't seem like the nicest of people in the world. Basically he says he did research and found that most men like underage girls (like him) so that's why he created Tatu the way he has.

18:06 / 10.02.03

I read the same article. Mmmm - he allegedly shagged Julia when she was around 14 (which she denies). I liked the way The Sun then avoided using a photo of Julia aged 14 - and used one of her when she was 11, just to get that old paedo meme a-cooking in the minds of the readers (apparently the age of consent in Russia is 14). Plus there's a more recent pic of Julia with her norks out.

Funnily enough, The Sun had been championing TATU up to this point. Or is this all part of the PR excercise? Are they really lesbians? Is Greg Feely really a secret agent of The Hand or just a delusional middle-aged man? Mail your answers to Stuart "I'm best mates with New Order" Maconie for possible anecdote material that can be used for retro TV shows in 10 years time.

18:24 / 11.02.03

Julia T.a.t.u.:

"Everyone seems so sure we are lesbianki, but maybe we are bisexualki. Why not?"

Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn. Looking slightly wanki now...

Brigade du jour

21:28 / 11.02.03

Still haven't heard the record or seen the video.

I think you're all making this up. I think Tatu exists only in the tabloids, sort of like in 'Wag The Dog' where they invent a war just for the television.

Or maybe I'm not just watching the right programmes!

23:52 / 11.02.03

Felicia: If you really want proof of their existence nme.com have fixed it so you can download the video from their site. Woo-hoo.

So, it looks like the whole lesbian-thing has merely been set up to produce shock/publicity/titillation. Disappointing but unsurprising, I guess. But y'know, won't they still have genuine fans, young girls who will still be inspired in a positive way by this? Surely that would still be a *good* thing? And who knows - perhaps the world *is* ready for a male equivalent to follow next year - it seems the next logical progression and there have been enough male stars who have found their sexually ambiguous status with the public to be a positive thing.

Nah, I'm just talking shite aren't I? What am I thinking? If TOTP wouldn't show two girls kissing their hardly going to show two boys doing the same. Pffh. Never mind, there's always boxing, eh? Let's go watch the infinitely preferable and socially acceptable sight of two boys pummelling each other bloody instead.

A

10:03 / 12.02.03

Bisexualki? Wasn't he on that TV show Perfect Strangers?

"And now we do the dance of joy, cousin Larry."

12:30 / 12.02.03

No, Bisexualki was the character Andy Kaufman played on Taxi

As for TATU - Try visiting the www.tatugirls.com website.

12:53 / 12.02.03

Yeah, it's definitely worth a visit to the forums on there. That's kinda why I was mainly thinking about their young fans - there's obviously a lot of genuine love for them from kids from across the world - and that is what I can't help thinking is a good thing. Did it matter that the Sex Pistols were constructed to those that loved 'em?

(Answer: Well, yeah. But it didn't stop the ideals from still being important.)

14:52 / 16.02.03

THEY ONLY CAME OUT TO GET IN THE PAPERS

16:48 / 16.02.03

Who the Sex Pistols? Christ you don't buy NME for a coupla weeks and the world turns upside down.

Nah but seriously folks, I noticed earlier on someone reckoned Tatu won't do shit in America. I dunno - shiny Trevor Horn-produced pop doesn't tend to, and I'd imagine all sorts of Bigot Belt boycotts of any company associating itself with them. But the song does rock like fuck so I reckon they'll have one big hit.

Brigade du jour

20:32 / 16.02.03

Ah, but will the Bigot Belt really object? They don't even believe lesbianism exists do they? Or was that Queen Victoria? Whoah, too many question marks! (?)

Besides which, I wonder if the male members (oops sorry unintentional pun) will mysteriously lose sight of their Christian fundamentalist objectives when confronted with the sight of pretty young girls fondling each other's breasts ... "Come on Reverend, at least they ain't tryin' ta sodomise nobody"

10:16 / 17.02.03

I seem to remember Jerry Falwell saying September 11th was all the fault of lesbians. Pretty mad, although it did lead to a good joke about Bush pledging regime change in Lesbania.

03:52 / 26.02.03

Just saw them on Leno wearing shirts that said "Fuck War" in Russian.

Actually the direct translation would be "Dick To War" but that's not important.

Good thing nobody on Leno's show reads Russian.

09:06 / 26.02.03

There was a great piece on the Radio 4 PM programme a couple of weeks ago. They had a Russian music journo on the line and the interviewer asked him: "So, I believe the literal translation of t.A.T.u is 'this girl likes that other girl'."

Russian journo: "Erm, no. It means like a painting you put on your skin with ink and a needle."

Radio 4: "So not a lesbian reference, then?"

Russian journo: "No."

Radio 4: "Ah."

11:56 / 26.02.03

I guess the question is: if two Russian girls in school uniforms snog in a forest but no one's there to video it and put it to music, are they really lesbian pop stars?

16:58 / 26.02.03

You know, i have no idea why they're called T.a.t.u. in the U.S. and England and stuff. In Russia they're called "tattoo" except that it's spelled in Russian. So basically, in Cyrillic, it's spelled "Taty".

19:16 / 26.02.03

Their manager groomed them from the age of 14, sleeping with one of them. Someone ought to go after him.

The Sun has simply demonstrated (once again) what a hypocritical and ridiculous paper it is.

20:02 / 26.02.03

Frankie say relax :-)

16:25 / 11.12.03

Hey, threadbump!

I don't read Japanese, myself, but this website seems to indicate that the world's favorite prefab ambiguosexual Ukrainian singing sensations will be starring in their own anime series!

What's better than teenaged lesbianki schoolgirl popstars? Teenage lesbianki schoolgirl popstars who fight giant death robots!!

Gold.

Matthew Fluxington

17:38 / 11.12.03

Let's go back to this.

I told you people that Tatu weren't going to be massive in the US, and they weren't. So THERE!

00:06 / 12.12.03

But is the dark-haired one secretly Magneto?

00:11 / 12.12.03

That's what I love about you, Matthew--ever humble in victory and gracious in defeat.

16:57 / 20.01.04

But wait--you'll be laughing out the other side of your face when TATU are the President of Russia!

What's better than teenaged lesbianki schoolgirl popstars? What's even better than teenage lesbianki schoolgirl popstars who fight giant death robots? Teenage lesbianki schoolgirl popstars with their fingers on the button of the world's second-largest remaining nuclear arsenal!!

Our Lady Has Left the Building

18:33 / 20.01.04

"They're not gonna get us! Not gonna get us! They're not gonna get us when I can launch a load of nuclear annihilation up their homophobic arses!"

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