Really Cool Review on Tatu From The SLC TribuneTime of publication: 12.03.2003 |
NEW YORK -- The music industry may be shakier than a drunkard walking a balance beam, but at least one new act is rocking steady.
That would be T.A.T.U., aka Russian exports Lena Katina and Julia Volkova, whose tinny electro-pop is winning over fans faster than you can say Milli Vanilli. So irresistible is their sound that their first American single, "All the Things She Said," has risen to No. 8 on Top 40 radio and landed them a slew of high-profile TV gigs.
Oh. Did we mention that they're 18-year-old lesbians who like to make out in public?
Well, sort of. "We love each other, and we don't give a fuck what people think about our private lives," says Katina, who met Volkova when both performed in a children's group and was later paired with her by the child psychologist-turned-show-biz Svengali, Ivan Shapovalov.
When pressed to define that love, though, Katina becomes coy"Maybe we are having sex every night, but maybe not," she says. "We're still trying to figure things out, and we're not telling anyone about it. There are different kinds of love. You can love your mom, dad, girls, boys, friends, nature. I can't understand why everyone thinks we're lesbians." Perhaps it has something to do with the video for "All the Things," which shows the young women in naughty-schoolgirl outfits that get wet as they kiss and cavort in the rain.
T.A.T.U. got more flak recently for improvising another smooch-fest while performing on "The Tonight Show." When the live-to-tape program aired, the camera cut away from the scene.
She was less surprised, she admits, by the shocked reaction to the Russian messages emblazoned on T.A.T.U.'s T-shirts, which denounced the prospect of war against Iraq in terms far more colorful than Vladimir Putin has used. "People are afraid of truth," Katina says. "People were like, 'You're not afraid that people will cancel your visas, and you'll never go to America again?' But we are provocative. That's our nature."
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