t.A.T.u. In Their Own Words. ("Cool" Magazine - Slovenia)Time of publication: 04.05.2003 |
Yulia: "We encountered music when we were 7 or 8 years old. We sang together for 4 years with very famous Russian child music group and became friends there. We sang same tone and were practically inseparable. Everybody spoke our names in one word: 'Yulia and Lena, Lena and Yulia.' Sometimes we hung together after practice because we wanted to sing by ourselves. At the same time we dreamed how we'll do something together in music after we'll leave the group."
Lena: "Yulia left first and we didn't see each other for about a year. Then casting happend on which more than 500 people came. They chose Yulia and me. But we didn't know we are taking part of the same selection. Yulia was chosen first and then Wania, that is Ivan Szapowalow (Hey, I didn't write his name like this, I'm only translating here so put your tomatoes back in your bags please. Thank you.), told me to go to the studio where the other girl is waiting. When I got there I saw Yulia. We were screaming and crying and surprised Iwan asked if we know each other."
So this is how t.A.T.u. was born?
Lena: "Yes, only thing missing was the name. At first we were called 'project'. When Vania noticed that we are more than friends he asked 'Why don't you make a song about this?'"
Yulia: "That was shock for us. 'Vania, but they won't understand us.' He said: 'Are you ashamed of your love?' And convinced us. That's out name: TATU, acronym of Russian words 'Ta liubit tu'. We made a video for song Ye Soschla s Uma and were spectaculary sucessful in Russia."
Who were you refering to when you said that they woun't understand you?
Yulia: "Parents, friends, teachers, people from the street..."
How did they react to your love?
Yulia: "Oh... there were some troubles."
Like what?
Lena: "Parents were shocked. 'Our daughter loves another girl?' They tried to keep us at home, we were prohibited from meeting each other."
When did they see you together?
Yulia: "In video on TV."
Lena: "When they saw the video they asked me if this is for real or is this just script. We had serious conversation at home: 'Mom, I love Yulia', I said. It was hard but they understood at the end. Now they help us a lot. We are their children. They want us to be happy."
How did your friends react to this?
Yulia: "Some saw us huging. They asked and we told them what's what."
Lena: "There were no troubles here. Only some guys took some time to finally understand. It was some sort of test for our friends."
How do people react when they see you on street, preferably together?
Lena: "Some people threatened to kill us: 'Your video and music made my daughter a lesbian' Huh? People acuse easily once they find a 'guilty' person."
Yulia: "At a concert at Petersburg there was a guy with a knife but luckily security grabed him in time."
Quite an experience for 17 year old girls!
Yulia: "I think we experienced quite a few things in these four years. We definetly became more mature."
Lena: "For me it's simple. You don't like? Then don't listen."
Fashion.
We don't follow fashion. Fashion doesn't mean that you have to buy everything that is in fashion at the moment. Specially elegant clothes can be uncomfortable. We only wear clothes which we really like and we don't care what others say. We don't care what all types of fashion magazines say either.
Beauty.
What does beauty mean to us? First, beauty isn't everything. Bauty can also be different. There is beauty outside and inside.I don't know what is ugly for people but we all carry something ugly inside. Character shows human soul. Therefore there are no pretty and ugly people.
Fame.
Fame doesn't afect us as does others. Of course we like the fact that we are famous and popular and that many people know and likes us. It's important for career. But personally we are still normal and regular girls. It doesn't matter what you are. What matter is that you are a good person.
Love.
Love is everything and there is no life without it. Who hasn't loved hasn't lived. But sadly there are people who never experienced love. Maybe they really don't need it but we couldn't live like that. But of course there is another form of love, e.g. love to your parents. We love them and it doesn't matter that there are good and bad days in every family. We are sure that love has positive efect on everybody.
Friendship
Friendhip has an important role in our life. Everybody should have friends. It can be just one but it has to be close one. If there were no friends life would be dificult because we wouldn't have anyody to talk to. There are things that you can't share with your parents. With whom you can share problems? With a friend that understands you. That is the person that is with you all your life, no matter if things are good or bad.
Culture and art
Education is base for everything. And to be culturally educated is important for young person. We like to visit a museum or theatre. These things give us a lot of knowledge. Culture used to be on higher lavel with people than is today and that is shame.
Me about her
Yulia: Why I love Lena? It's complicated question because it doesn't mean that because I'm with her I like everything about her. But peopel aren't perfect. But Lena is, in one word, original.
Lena: There are a lot of things that I could say I like on Yulia very much. But, as Yulia said, I can't pick a special thing. I like her the way she is. With all her flaws and good things because trully perfect person does not exist. We are together, we stay together and we match each other.
Translated by luxxi
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