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The legendary band
that blew up the world
of show business
2022
t.A.T.u.
RUSSIAN
BAND
the MOST
SCANDALIOUS
BAND
HISTORY

It began even before the duo formed. Voytinsky and Shapovalov very carefully selected the girls who applied for a place in the group. After a careful selection, the men chose 15-year-old Lena Katina. When Lena Katina was the only participant of the project at that time, she recorded a song "Yugoslavia" condemning the NATO bombing in 1999. Later, the anti-war theme would still appear in Tatu's biography: performing on American TV, they would wear T-shirts with the inscription "*** war", referring to the United States invasion in Iraq

Shapovalov explained his appeal to the homosexuality topic by the fact that this image successfully combine outrageousness and protest, a rebellion against public order

In 1999 Ivan Shapavalov and Alexander Voitinskii decided to start a new gang "Tatu". Ivan Shapavalov wanted to promote the band as a PR manager, he actually wroked on a new advertising project. Producer learned the porno sites statistics and found out that Lolita's kind was the most popular one. So he decided to find youth girls for a future gang. Shapavalov's main strategy was continious provocation

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LENA KATINA
YULIA VOLKOVA
eyes
with big
hair
girl
Enchanting
and beautiful
hair
black
burning
with short
rebel
brave
Cocky
«Tatu» means «that loves this»
loves

It was Katina who insisted on taking Volkova into the group. Thet were together at auditions , but what's more they both were students of one of the most popular ensembles, Neposedy

Initially, Lena Katina recorded the first track of the band "Tatu" without Volkova's participation. Yulia Volkova joined the group a little bit later.

All The Things She Said She Said

The main hit of the group "Tatu" was the musical composition "I went crazy". This track "blew up" Russian radio stations. For a long time, the song remained in the leading positions of the charts

Later, a video for the track was released. In it, teenage girls told the audience about the love of two schoolgirls. The video for the song "I'm crazy" won gold on the channel "MTV Russia"

In 2001, the girls recorded another musical composition "Half an Hour". The track "Half an Hour" did not leave the 1st position of the charts for a long time

Later, their debut album "200 on the counter" was released, where there are even more LGBT-themed songs, and their clips are even more explicit. In a few weeks, the debut album was released with a circulation of over half a million

The collection has sold a significant circulation in the United States of America. The first album was highly appreciated by such American stars as Madonna and Michael Jackson

In 2002, the soloists of the Russian musical collective presented tracks in English to foreign fans. The work of All the Things She Said received "platinum" status

Tatu was the first in history among Russian artists to sign a contract with the Western major label Universal Music Group

During the first years of its existence, "Tatu" gained frenzied popularity not only in Russia, but also around the world

The main paradox

And although in the first months after the release of "I went crazy" the press began to doubt whether Lena and Yulia were really lovers, the group managed to create an image of honest, somewhat naive young girls who really love each other

Tattoos not only conquered the world with their music, but also became icons of the Russian LGBT community. Not only because they were the most famous band at that time, but also because no one had ever performed songs on this topic so sincerely before them

the fact that, despite this
the band was
exclusively
thought out from beginning
to end
The main paradox of "t.A.T.u."
project
a production
sincerity
Russian
pop group
The most

It was thanks to Shapavalov that the band became a phenomenon. He was very far from show business, so the authors of future hits were little-known poets and composers, in fact amateurs, who also did not belong to the establishment

Sergey Galoyan, at that time a schoolboy, wrote music and made arrangements. Elena Kiper, an NTV journalist, wrote the lyrics together with Shapovalov and Valery Polienko - probably the most experienced participant in the project: Polienko used to write lyrics for the singer Lilu

successful

However, the strong influence of the producer eventually played a cruel joke with the band. Disagreements began in the team. The girls decided to break off their relationship with Shapovalov. It seemed that there was a chance for a new life for the "t.A.T.u.": the girls could finally become themselves — and sing about whatever they wanted

But "t.A.T.u." could not exist without Shapovalov, his vision and ideas – instead of daring

The result of the collaboration of these four outsiders from the world of pop music was the track "I went crazy", which glorified both "t.A.T.u." as a whole and each of the authors. The debut album was also successful, the band began to perform all over the world, and millions of people bought its records

In other words, there was a resounding success, which neither before nor after was achieved by any Russian group

And it was the "t.A.T.u." that put an end to the history of Russian pop music of the 1990s — the next decade turned out to be much more modest, sleek, conformist

topical

group

«t.A.T.u.»

became

a group

without a face

Having freed themselves from Shapovalov's dictate, Katina and Volkova vied with each other to tell that they had never been in a relationship — but they could not offer listeners anything new. The number of fans was falling, the new two albums could not repeat the success of the debut, the contract with Universal was broken

era
came
never
the new

the band broke up

Julia performs at city festivals like "Journey to Christmas" and occasionally publishes new tracks

attempts
nothing
Reunion

Lena has managed to release albums in English, Spanish and Russian since 2014 — and a remix of one of her songs even managed to top the Billboard dance chart

Shapovalov continues to produce extravagant projects: the current one is called Podnebeses — in it more than 50 musicians perform songs in 16 different languages. The goal of the project, according to Shapovalov— is to understand the reason for the division of humanity according to the linguistic principle after the destruction of the Tower of Babel, described in the Old Testament

Former members of the band continue to make music

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