When I lived in Siberia in the early 90’s, Western pop music and music videos invaded Russia, saturating radio and television with sounds and sights that many Russians considered vulgar. What a difference a decade makes.
Now a Russian girl group is invading the West. The band’s name, tATu, is a clever combination of pronouns ‘ta’ and ‘tu’, which translate into she and her, respectively, if not so respectfully. The verb that she is doing to her is left up to your imagination to fill in, though their pseudo-lesbian onstage antics leave little to the imagination.
It's hard not to appreciate the irony of the US, home of Britney Spears (retired at 18), complaining that the tATu gals are too young, and England, land of the Spice Girls, trying to censor these little Russkies for being pedophilic.
Another Russian band, Bering Strait, is trying to establish a beachhead in Nashville in an improbable bid to invade the bluegrass and country music scene. Their story of getting to the US should provide plenty of cry-in-your-beer (vodka?) lyrics.
Estas dos chicas me caen super bien , por que a ellas no les da miedo decir lo que verdaderamente son , y eso es lo que me gusta su sinceridad, y sobre todo sus locuras , asi somos las chicas ...
Posted by: liana russo on July 25, 2003 07:56 AM