It's probably not news to anybody in the States, but it's news to me! This Tatu thing has me floored. The joke is that they are Russia's No. 2 exporter after Gazprom. You should see all the Tatu lookalikes on the streets of Moscow.
> THE EXAMINED LIFE
> Tatu you
> By Joshua Glenn, 3/9/2003
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RUSSIANS HAVE ENJOYED a reputation for poor manners at least since Tolstoy's
Pierre Bezukhov tied a policeman to a bear and threw them both into a river
in ''War and Peace.'' Today, the Muscovite pop duo Tatu are continuing the
tradition. On the musical act's Web site, singer Lena Katina brags, ''In
Russia, life is not polite. If we don't like something, we say we don't like
it. If we don't agree, we say''-something unprintable.
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> Lena said it again late last month, when Tatu performed their smash
> Euro-hit ''All The Things She Said'' on ''The Tonight Show.'' She and
> partner Julia Volkova may dress like Britney Spears, but they're hardly
> nice, depoliticized American teens. (As their manager, a child
> psychologist-turned-ad exec who came up with the idea for the group after
> studying pornography, declares in The New Yorker this week, ''Tatu is the
> product of historical processes.'') Besides breaking a promise not to make
> out on camera, Tatu sported T-shirts telling President Bush where to stick
> his war-in Cyrillic lettering. After angry phone calls from
> Russian-speaking viewers flooded NBC's phone lines, a tearful record-label
> publicist reportedly complained, ''They're out of control!''
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