The Examined Life - Tatu you! (The Boston Daily Globe)Time of publication: 18.03.2003 |
By Joshua Glenn, 3/9/2003
RUSSIANS HAVE ENJOYED a reputation for poor manners at least since Tolstoy's Pierre Bezukhov tied a policeman to a bear and threw them both into a river in ''War and Peace.'' Today, the Muscovite pop duo Tatu are continuing the tradition. On the musical act's Web site, singer Lena Katina brags, ''In Russia, life is not polite. If we don't like something, we say we don't like it. If we don't agree, we say''-something unprintable.
Lena said it again late last month, when Tatu performed their smash Euro-hit ''All The Things She Said'' on ''The Tonight Show.'' She and partner Julia Volkova may dress like Britney Spears, but they're hardly nice, depoliticized American teens. (As their manager, a child psychologist-turned-ad exec who came up with the idea for the group after studying pornography, declares in The New Yorker this week, ''Tatu is the product of historical processes.'') Besides breaking a promise not to make out on camera, Tatu sported T-shirts telling President Bush where to stick his war-in Cyrillic lettering. After angry phone calls from Russian-speaking viewers flooded NBC's phone lines, a tearful record-label publicist reportedly complained, ''They're out of control!''
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