holy shit!
January 10, 2003 3:28 PM   Subscribe

"We have a different view, maybe deeper, because life is more difficult in Russia." t.A.T.u is short for Ta ljubit etu - she loves her. " t.A.T.u: Russian 'lesbian' teenage pop phenomenon (and marketing geniuses)."[NOT WORK SAFE] {VIA SASNB}
posted by JohnR (2 comments total)

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This is one of those occasions were it doesn't matter what you are doing, you suddenly drop everything, run to the screen and sit slack jawed. The last time this happened was at college, when one night, in a packed student union, the interminable Robert Altman film 'Pret a Porter' was being shown on the big screen. The night was OK, not brilliant. Then suddenly all of the men in the room put their pints down, almost in union, and glared at the screen. As a friend described, 'There was a catwalk, an' all these girls 'an they were naked.' Scene finished and half the room looked embarrassingly back into their girlfriend's faces.

So I'm minding my own business, tidying my room ready for Christmas, and I've got 'The Music Factory' (Freeview UK version of Mtv) playing in the background. It's 2:30 in the afternoon. It was one of those rare occasions when five promos had been played and neither Nellyville or Blue hadn't appeared. This song appears which is catchy in a sub-Groovejet sort of way. I glance at the screen to see the video, and two over aged school girls are being stared at through some fencing in the rain. And then they start to kiss. Now this isn't some peck on the cheek; whatever the motives this is full on passion, that scene in 'Cruel Intentions' with other things on their mind. I'm old enough to remember the uproar which surrounded the antics of Beth Jordache on 'Brookside'. Which was the most surprisingly aspect -- this was on during the afternoon, pre-watershed. Over and over. Russian lesbianism is suddenly acceptable for TV. And I thought this sort of thing only happened on Buffy.
posted by feelinglistless at 3:31 PM on January 10, 2003


[this is good]
posted by Pretty_Generic at 3:32 PM on January 10, 2003


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