02/18/2008: "Radio Mayak interview translation"
Source: Tatu.ru/forum
A small part of t.A.T.u.’s interview with Radio Mayak from today (see here) was translated by KaiDarkBlue (tatu.ru forum). The girls discuss their newest video “Beliy Plaschik” and its reactions in the translation. A full translation will be posted if and when available.
Interviewer: But what were their argument, why, what don’t they like about the video?
Yulia: Because they shoot me and I am pregnant and this is very brutal. Our first idea was “against abortions.”
Lena: Our second… or generally speaking, our idea was “against violence.”
Yulia: Yes, against cruelty.
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Radio Mayak Interviewer: Friends, our guests are t.A.T.u., Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova. Well, hello!
Both: Hi!
Interviewer-2: Congratulations on your second child.
Yulia: Thank you!
Interviewer: Is everything ok(with the baby)?
Yulia: Yes, everything is ok. My mother, grandmother everybody(are taking care of the baby)
Interviewer-2: So now let’s speak about art.
Interviewer-1: Yes, your second album is going to be released soon. The first single is already out.
Yulia: Yes, it is.
Interviewer-1: And we can already watch the video.
Yulia: Yes
Interviewer-1: They say that the video hadn’t been accepted everywhere.
Yulia: You know, the Russian mentality is very “interesting” because they says that this is not right, it is too brutal and so on and so on.
Interviewer-1: The video is not right?
Both: Yes
Interviewer-1: Some time ago they used to say that your music was not right.
Lena: The music, too.
Yulia: The music too, yes, according to some radio stations because it is like this, sad. It is not like “for me and you”, “I can live without you” and so on. – Everywhere in the western world… in Australia, in Italy and in Japan and what happened on youtube the song Beliy Plaschik was topping the chart there and the world accepts this and it is an insult that only our Russian nation don’t understand it, but let’s hope that, fortunately, the western world will come to Moscow.
Interviewer: But what were their argument, why, what don’t they like about the video?
Yulia: Because they shoot me and I am pregnant and this is very brutal. Our first idea was “against abortions.”
Lena: Our second… or generally speaking, our idea was “against violence.”
Yulia: Yes, against cruelty.
Lena: The whole situation was driven to an absurdity, the whole killing of children and the principles of people…. Of course that this is absurd, a pregnant woman executed – this is not going to happen, but if you remember those soldiers…
Interviewer: You accept the video as a social(problem)?
Yulia: Of course, there is a big meaning in it!
Interviewer: I watched the video once and I didn’t understand why they shot you.
Yulia: In this video, it is…
Lena: It is not her and this is not me…
Interviewer: A collective character?
Yulia: This is like cinema, yes.
Interviewer: No, I don’t mean why they shot you in particular, but why did they shoot the character you play there?
Yulia: Why they shot me… To tell you the truth, this is just cinema, I honestly don’t know what could be the reason.
Interviewer: You mean “her.”
Lena: They shot her simply for some reason(unknown).
Interviewer: And didn’t you have any reservations about deciding to do this? You know, even actors are afraid to take part in such scenes in which their characters get killed.
Yulia: This is superstition.
Both: (laugh)
Yulia: Especially when there they say ONE TWO THREE.
Lena: They said “Girls, don’t laugh! Be serious.”