Expert Opinion Concerning Kiper's LawsuitTime of publication: 13.09.2003 |
Maxim Kononenko
musical correspondent for "GAZETA" newspaper.
I think that this whole story will simply end up with nothing. It makes absolutely no difference whose position the court will take. The fact is that "Ya Soshla S Uma" and "Nas Ne Dagonyat" are two songs of group t.A.T.u. Of course it's possible to forbid the girls to perform them (they don't perform that often anyway). However, it is absolutely impossible to suspend the sales of "200 Po Vstrechnoy" all over the world.
Yelena's hopes to sell her rights (the ownership rights, not the author rights of course) to "a large record company" are absolutely laughable. Nobody is going to buy them. First of all, it's absolutely not clear what to do with them. Second, noone wants to argue with Universal, the world's largest record company.
It's very obvious that the whole process is there to drive some attention to Yelena and to revive the sails of her new record at least to some extent. It seems she simply lacks any other resourses. It's a pity though because the single is good althought it has two major flaws. The first flaw is in the fact that the the material is very similar to t.A.T.u,'s first hits. The second flaw is that this material has been out in the internet for almost a year now (the author is also refering to the ugly parody on t.A.T.u. called "Ne Glotat'" witch has the same music - elf) Therefore, there are no good reasons to buy the disk.
I also have doubts as to artistic abilities of Lena. I have a very high oppinion of her, however, it would be stupid not to notice that since she left t.A.T.u. she hasn't written anything new. So we should all relax - it's not going to be worse for t.A.T.u. nor any better for Yelena Kipper.
Translation by elf.
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