#russian pop music

[karamelise]

Promotional material for the canceled 2004 anime film "t.A.T.u Paragate", a film centered on the Russian pop duo t.A.T.u. Newtype Magazine, 2003

[thermodynamic-comedian]

"i haven't met a single lesbian who doesn't listen to girl in red" you clearly have not met a lot of lesbians.

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Tracklist:

Come In Brazil • ГЛАЗ • Ding Dong! • Ravioli • Be Your Own Dentist

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[queerica]

my marmalade: some of the cuntiest 2000s fashion moments by katya lel, mother of russian tiktok

[rain-13s-blog]

In honour of Dracula daily starting soon here’s a playlist to get you in the spooky spirit!

[ims0scared]

t.A.T.u (Russian: Тату) — Russian music duo formed in 1999 that consist Julia Volkova and Lena Katina. Lena Katina first music steps were taken in children's music pop band Avenue, in 1997 she joined Neposedy, later on, Julia Volkova also joined the formation (They were part of the band along with members like Sergey Lazarev and Vlad Tapalov). In 1998 Julia got kicked out of the band for bad behaviour, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and getting in arguments with other band members, but Neposedy denied it and said that Julia left the band because of her age (Neposedy were children formation while Julia was 12 when joined the band) Lena left the band in 1999. Same year Ivan Shapovalov and his business partner Aleksander Voitinskiy planned to start a music project in Russia. They started organizing auditions in Moscow in early 1999 for teenage female vocalist. By the end of auditioning, the partners narrowed their search down to ten girls, including Lena and Julia that finally became the members of t.A.T.u. Lena and Julia knew each other before the auditions. Both girls stood out among the others because of their appearance and vocal experience, but the producers decided to start working with Lena. Katina began recording demos, including "Yugoslavia", a protest song about NATO boming of Yugoslavia, when the demos were cut, Shapovalov insisted that the project needs another girl, that will be a complete opposite of Lena. In late 1999 Julia Volkova was added to the project to complete the duo. Shapalov after adding Volkova to the project, noticed how close the girls are, he decided to use it and gave the band lesbian image, which made Voitinsky left the band because he said that the idea was immoral and he doesn't want to be part lf it.

"Ivan said, that we need second girl in a band, and that the band needs to be famous, He just said, that we need another girl, because if we will have two it will be happier and more interesting, we can take someone new, someone different, and then they will be singing together. Now i am working in a new project, not in Ivan project, he was a horrible collaborator (...)"

- Aleksander Voitinskiy for programme "Show-Business", 2000

According to Katina, Shapovalov was inspired to create the duo after the release of the Swedish film "Show me love" about romance between two school girls. After completing the duo producers decided to name the group word Тату (Tatu) It is a shortened version of russian phrase "Та любит Ту" (Ta lyubit tu — eng. This [girl] loves that [girl]) For the whole year girls were recording songs for their first album collaborating with Elena Kiper.

Debuted in 2000 with their single "Ya soshla s uma" The song describes the pain in a girl's soul because she is in love with another girl, but is afraid. It became a big hit in Central-Eastern Europe just like their next singles — "Nas ne dogoniat" and "30 minut". Their debut album "200 po Vstrechnoy" came out in May 2001, the english version of the album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" came out in 2002, the album was certified platinium by IFPI for over 1 milion copies sold in Europe and become the first foreign group to reach number 1 in Japan, it was also certified gold in United States. "All the thing she said" (english version of their song "Ya soshla s uma") have made it to first place of top songs in over 20 countries, and have been sold in 6 milion copies, it became one of the most succesful singles of XXI century. The controversial music video showing Julia Volkova and Lena Katina passionately kissing in rain infront of a crowd dressed in Catholic school uniforms was supposed to show — Created by their Manager Iwan Shapovalov — "love" between singers. Later on, t.A.T.u relased 3 english albums and 3 russian albums.

t.A.T.u scene image was controversial since beggining. They are most known from their first album, which was revolving around homosexual relations between Julia and Lena. During the promotion of second album they admitted that it all was just a marketing strategy, and they are not lesbians. Even after that they didn't give up on their homosexual characters. Lena Katina spoke up about it in one of their interviews in 2009

"Julia had some lesbian experiences before t.A.T.u, and i didn't, so it was obvious i was quite embarrased, it was foreign to me, but i agreed because i knew this topic is really important. I was on a meeting with fans in Los Angeles and alot of people are still greatful for us. One girl told me that t.A.T.u is the reason why she survived. It's a horrible feeling when you're a teenager and you know that you aren't like others. All your best friends are falling for boys, and you want a girl. You feel alone, and no one understands you, and then a band shows up and tells you that everything can happend in life and you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. When people are saying, we saved them from suicide, i feel like it wasn't pointless. (....) We are also actors somehow. We created a story of two girls in love, and we played it."

Their second album was about interpersonal problems, the russian title (Ludi Invalidy) itself was already controversial around organisations fighting for rights of disabled people. In their opinion the title was suggesting thath disables people don't live, they funcionate, and their only personality traits is stupidity, brutality and greed. Lena and Julia disagreed with organisations and said that they don't understans the point of singles name and the meaning behind it.

Their last pair of albums "Vesyolye Ubylki" and "Wasted Managment" was relased between 2008 and 2009. T.A.T.u oficially broke up in 2011, but they reunited to preform at special ocassions as The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

(It's my first longer post in here, sometimes inbetween of weird images i want to be posting some more productive stuff about topics that i find interesting, i will be posting more about my fav bands, i wanted to make more posts today but this one took me waaaayyy too much time. If u know anything else that you would like to add to this post, or correct me on my mistakes, feel free to comment :P)

[tatugirls]

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[thisisrealy2kok]

Demo - До Свидания, Лето (2002)

[weaversweek]

"Those were the days", Mary Hopkin

1968 Written by Boris Fomin and Gene Raskin

One of fifty posts in Let's Do It, my personal favourite singles from 1954-76.

Take the tune from a Russian romance song, and discard the words. Add a fresh lyric written by an architecture lecturer. Have it sung by a gamine nymphet from OpKnox, and get top pop star HRH Sir Paul McCartney in to produce it. Release it through Paul's label, and watch the royalties roll in.

OK, we're being a bit snarky. "Those were the days" works because it's a bit exotic, the trills and arrangement in the introduction tell us how the song isn't foursquare rock 'n' roll. It works because Mary Hopkin is a tremendous singer, uses her voice to conjure up a spell, a vision of the scene. And it works because the lyric fits, tells a story and meshes perfectly with the tune.

Perhaps the only dissonant note: Mary is young, and she's singing an old woman's song. She later reflected, "Maybe that's what worked with the song, the fact that I was almost a child, singing an older woman's song. That's what people liked about it. But I felt privileged to have been given that song by Paul." She revisited "Those were the days" in 2018, worth a listen.

[simcardiac-arrested]

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[soviet-amateurs]

Alla Pugachova, the first recording at the Moscow radio, 1965

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Tracklist:

Елки (Yolki) • Новогодняя (Novogodnyaya) • Чита Дрита (Chita-drita) • Гулянка (Gulyanka) • Тук, Тук, Тук (Tuk, tuk, tuk) • Ты Ушел (Ty ushyol...) • Поезд киев-Одесса (Poyezd "Kiyev-Odessa) • Полоса (Оптимистическая) (Polosa (Optimisticheskaya)) • Я Попала На Любовь (Ya popala na lyubov) • Ты - На Север, Я - На Юг (Ty - na sever, ya - na yug) • Всем Надо (Vsem nado) • Мы Фестивалем (My festivalim)

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[makeyoumine69]

This Russian song perfectly describes how I feel about Patrick *crying* 😭😭😭

Not Enough of You

Without unlocking the locks, I will remember How the lights were burning, and dying from love Maybe it was good next to you Something behind me burned me so much Gently 'hug me', gently I again Take my hand to fall together And in your embrace, I want to breathe I can't be without you and I can't wait

I'm going crazy, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I know myself, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I'm going crazy, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I know myself, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you

And I'll whisper to you, close your eyes now And quietly sing to my ear in rhythm This quiet tremor, but I'm not alone Even if everything is a lie, it won't always be like this Gently 'hug me', gently I again Take my hand to fall together And in your embrace, I want to breathe I can't be without you and I can't wait

I'm going crazy, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I know myself, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I'm going crazy, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I know myself, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I want more-more-more of you

I'm going crazy I'm going crazy

I want more-more-more, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more, I want more-more-more of you I'm going crazy, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I know myself, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I'm going crazy, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you I know myself, I want more-more-more I want more-more-more of you

[aroacehanzawa]

we need to do this but with classical music. what's YOUR shostakovich piece. mine is piano concerto no. 2 op. 102 in F major mov. ii andante

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

how the heck did my music taste go from Cool Men Norwegian Heavy Metal to Soviet Village Grandma Accordion Chansons 🐜 within three weeks :0