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We met in a chinese restaurant at the Kutusovskij prospekt. Yulya and Lena came by after an exhausting photosession and ordered chicken with cashews. Together with Yulya her lover Parviz. In two months they will have a child, and approximately at the end of December t.A.T.u. plan to release their third album \u201cUpravlenie otbrosami\u201d. Besides this OK! talked with the girls about much more.<\/p>\n
Q: Not long ago I saw there Valerij Polienko, author of the hits \u201cYa soshla s uma\u201d and \u201cNas ne dogonyat\u201d, and all the company, with whom you began. the conclusion that you were surrounded by not quite healthy people\u2026<\/p>\n
Y: Well, artistical people usually aren\u2019t healthy.<\/p>\n
Q: And how did you survive? At least you got not hooked on narcotics\u2026<\/p>\n
L: Oh, for me drugs were always a severe taboo. How often people told me: It’s all the same, sometime you will try – I was never going to do it.<\/p>\n
Y: We just bumped (chuckles). Show-business generally is an unhealthy matter. Who sniffs, breaks, hangs himself, jumps out the window. Because of one thing. But we only appear such weak girls who can easily be guided. We can, if anything, tell them to piss off.<\/p>\n
Q: But you never were frightened? I remember at \u201cPodnebesnaya\u201d even some bandits appeared, there was almost a shooting.<\/p>\n
Y: The bandits didn’t come to us but to Vanya (Ivan Shapovalov, first producer – remark OK!) What’s to do with us? We just sang, We came across noone. Though, as a whole, what has been created at \u201cPodnebesnaya\u201d, that’s complete scrap. In fact this was one of the reasons why we left Vanya.<\/p>\n
Q: And where is he now?<\/p>\n
L: Practically unknown. We didn\u2019t communicate with him for a long time.<\/p>\n
Q: But he\u2019s still alive?<\/p>\n
L: Indeed.<\/p>\n
Q: Your image the last years was less scandalous, but at the same time your popularity went down. Do you agree?<\/p>\n
Y: I wouldn\u2019t say so. People didn\u2019t hear less about us, we just consider us to be more calm, without noise and screams. At the beginning you throw yourself upon some artist, but then, when you got accustomed, the hystery leaves. That’s all. Though we ourselves became different too. Primarily many things about us were built on a scandalous image, but now we don\u2019t want to make up something, we want just sing and record songs. Then we were schoolgirls, but now we are 22-23 years and I\u2019m expecting my second child. We think we are more serious with everything.<\/p>\n
Q: Products rose almost to double prices in a month, do you know?<\/p>\n
L: Yes. My mom told me (laughes).<\/p>\n
Q: You don\u2019t go to the shop yourself?<\/p>\n
L: I do, but I never look on the prices. My mom asks to buy something and I buy it. The shop-assistent says, how much it costs and I pay. Probably it’s unusual.<\/p>\n
Y: You are too choosy, Lenok. (chuckles)<\/p>\n
Q: Well, if in the pocket are 1000 dollars, what’s the difference if the milk cost 20 or 40 rubles?<\/p>\n
Y: A big one. The milk is worth 20, and at the cash desk they pull out of you 40 – you’ll be a fool with your 1000 dollars. (laughs). In reality the most important thing, that you are near to your close and loved people. Everything else is not so important.<\/p>\n
Q: Take away the fame, the money – it seems to me, you will begin to talk differently.<\/p>\n
Y: Listen, I swear you, I don\u2019t fear this! I’m prepared to give birth and and bring it up together with a loved person at his home. And I will feel excellently. Another thing what I like now, I\u2019m singing. But when it stops to please me, I\u2019ll go away and nothing terrible will happen to me.<\/p>\n
Q: By the way, you are one of the few Russian pop-stars, who are not afraid to give birth frequently.<\/p>\n
Y: And what is it, that the others fear? It’s for nothing! Very pleasant sensation.<\/p>\n
Q: Really?<\/p>\n
Y: Well, at least pleasant during the time when you are pregnant (everybody laughs). You almost long for it.<\/p>\n
Q: I’m interested. I never could feel it myself.<\/p>\n
P: I’ll show you (everybody laughs)<\/p>\n
Y: I don’t understand what I should fear?<\/p>\n
Q: Well, you know, the rules of the show- business…many even put down the wedding ring on stage to preserve the aureole of independence.<\/p>\n
Y: When I marry Parviz I won\u2019t put down the ring! I am absolutely not ashamed of my love. Look, for the first time I walk so free with my beloved person, but not because I had different principles until then. Before I didn’t even want to be photographed with someone. Now it\u2019s as if I had no past.<\/p>\n
Q: How\u2019s that?<\/p>\n
Y: Yes, I\u2019m simply really in love for the first time! Of course, with all of the past there was some relationship, but for me it’s that serious the first time. I want to create a family. A real one.<\/p>\n
Q: Frankly speaking, I always thought that\u2026<\/p>\n
Y: (interrupts) That I\u2019m stupid, yes? (everybody laughs). Many people think so.<\/p>\n
Q: No, that Lena will be first to create a family. She always looked more home-loving to me.<\/p>\n
L: Well, with my previous guy I were together for two years. We lived together, without parents and were almost a family. But not long ago we parted company.<\/p>\n
Y: Thank God!<\/p>\n
L: Volkova, I’m with you\u2026<\/p>\n
Y: No, I don’t want to say anything – he\u2019s a nice boy, kind, but he\u2019s simply not for you.<\/p>\n
Q: How\u2019s that?<\/p>\n
L: We had different world-view. I didn\u2019t quite welcome his view of life, he didn\u2019t understand me much. Especially now that I\u2019m with another guy, who\u2019s really close to my soul. I caught myself with the thought that the first time I didn\u2019t want to change something of my partner. Up to this time I always wanted to educate, read lectures\u2026I was more a mom. Now there is nothing like that.<\/p>\n
Q: And where do you usually get acquainted?<\/p>\n
Y: We don\u2019t remember such things. Why?<\/p>\n
L: I know my current lover for eight years.<\/p>\n
Q: I say to that, you go only to a selected place. We sit in a restaurant, where there is no pleasant folks, in my view. The idiots at the adjacent table already point with the finger on you.<\/p>\n
Y: Well, if they approach, they are told to piss off at once. Here’s no difference, where we go. Everywhere enough idiots.<\/p>\n
Q: id you become acquainted with Parviz?<\/p>\n
Y: By our mutual friend. He told me all the time that he has a fiend since childhood whom he madly loves, for him he’ll tear off the head. He talked and talked and one day I couldn\u2019t stand it anymore: “Listen, how much is possible? Come on, bring your friend!” He brought him. So in fact, I got acquainted.<\/p>\n
Q: And you immediately fell in love?<\/p>\n
Y: Yes. Even that he had such a past\u2026Understandable that all women love him. But what to do now? He had a girl, I had a man\u2026Above all, now we are together<\/p>\n
Q: Just you have children\u2026<\/p>\n
P: Well and what? They live with us, we love them.<\/p>\n
Y: I never left my first child. Yes I accidentally got pregnant and what now? It\u2019s life. But I gathered experience, mind, went through fire and water. Maybe without this experience I wouldn’t be what I am. I see for example that there are other qualities in men which I didn\u2019t recognize earlier. The word “responsibility” is now not an empty sound.<\/p>\n
Q: But the Yellow Press writes about you any filth until now.<\/p>\n
Y: Writes total rubbish! But people believe it\u2026Yes, with whom I was a bit together, slept and so on? Who is a saint, show me! I even argue that this will not be,<\/p>\n
Q: Let\u2019s talk about your creative work. In summer you recorded in America the third album. You, Yulya, were already in that moment pregnant. Interesting, does pregnancy seriously influence the voice?<\/p>\n
Y: Of course. The voice gets more sympathical. Additionally, when within you lives a person, you cannot scream with full power, yell like a lunatic. You have to restrain yourself.<\/p>\n
Q: That is – your famous high-frequency yells won’t be on the album?<\/p>\n
Y: They will. Just this will be less yelling than wheezing. (chuckles)<\/p>\n
L: We joke already that we almost seize the guitars and start performing ballads.<\/p>\n
Q: By the way, I saw one of your live performances. The sound was more powerful, the guitars harder, but you were like all the same little girls.<\/p>\n
Y: So is the special thing in this, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
Q: Well, you move somehow not enough for this music. Held down, or something\u2026<\/p>\n
Y: Well, I don’t know. Personally I don\u2019t have such fear. But how should we move? Clap the hands and lift the leg? That all was already in the past, it’s not interesting for us. I behave on stage as it pushes me, and the rest, I don\u2019t care. I don\u2019t even care how much people are in the audience. If it happens that 50 people come, I perfectly well sing with pleasure all the same. I\u2019m in excitement, you understand? I give such concerts in karaoke-clubs – just for my company. I climb on the table and sing four hours without a break.<\/p>\n
Q: And what do you sing?<\/p>\n
Y: Everything, what our Russian stars howl. Some “Lobe like in a dream” (laughs). And it\u2019s unimportant who is beside me and what they think about me.<\/p>\n
Q: Len, you have such relation to singing?<\/p>\n
L: Honestly I am nervous until now before walking on stage. I don\u2019t know why. Yulya always talks to me: “I’m with you, calm down, everything is normal!” But I can\u2019t. Of course I\u2019m not so nervous as before the first concert when I couldn\u2019t hold a glass of water, it was shaking in my hands. Now it’s not like this. But I suffer nevertheless. Generally I am a terribly self-critical person nagging myself permanently.<\/p>\n
Y: This is the most frightening quality of Lenka! Even if everything goes well with her, she will say that it\u2019s not so completely. She traveled around the whole world with 23 years – no, nevertheless everything\u2019s bad! (laughs)<\/p>\n
Q: By the way, I never was beyond the borders, can you imagine?<\/p>\n
P: I’ll take you with me (everybody laughs)<\/p>\n
Y: Holy Christmas, I lose a husband!<\/p>\n
Q: You travel through the world, live in Los Angeles for months, but later you return to Russia, where many things, in principle have to bring you to horror. How\u2019s your return?<\/p>\n
L: You know, in comparison to Europe you don’t feel so much difference. But America and especially Japan – that’s of course another world in comparison with us.<\/p>\n
Y: The whole disrespect of the people to each other – that\u2019s the first you notice here after America. They push you, you yourself apologize and nevertheless you will be coated with foul language from head to toe. At first you are indignant, but then you get accustomed and become the same. But what other choice you have?<\/p>\n
L: Completely uncomprehensible, from where such cruelty in people.<\/p>\n
Y: Let\u2019s take such an example. Lena and I came to this Gay-parade. Lord, what a difference how your orientation is. What\u2019s their business? There come in crowds such boxers, skinheads, bark at these guys, hit their heads, though these are all Russians! The own people kill each other! In the west it\u2019s impossible that such things occur. There, if you don\u2019t interfere with somebody, you can be who you want and go where you want. You go to a club to relax, and nobody cares how you are dressed. But here, if you are not “en vogue” then you are a fool and can go home to dance.<\/p>\n
Q: Where is it this severe?<\/p>\n
Y: It begins with “Dyaghilev” and ends\u2026 Oh, everwhere!<\/p>\n
Q: I never was in “Dyaghilev”.<\/p>\n
P: I’ll take you with me. (everybody laughs).<\/p>\n
L: Not long ago I had an amusing incident. I came to some clothes shop and looked at a dress. But I was dressed rather modestly – jeans and sweater and I had no make-up, overall a common person…<\/p>\n
Y: Like a tramp.(chuckles)<\/p>\n
L: The consultant comes to me and asks: “Girl, did you see the price?” Well, how is that possible?! In Los Angeles you can go in a boutique in your sweat suit and everybody will greet you and begin to ask what they can do for you and the like. There people can even go to the restaurant with jersey and jogging shoes and can feel comfortable! Here they usually don’t let you in.<\/p>\n
Q: It seems that in the west you are more respected than here.<\/p>\n
L: This is really like this and it\u2019s very offensive. Here hardly somebody says: “Such young girls – they have made their way in the west and opened everybody the road!” Here they will only envy you and get mad.<\/p>\n
Y: Lesha Mitrofanov wanted us to get the Order Of Friendship. The whole council gathered for this occasion, And Kobzon said: \u201cI think that the girls are unworthy for this, who are they?\u201d And I sit there and think: \u201cDo they even know a single song of yours beyond the countries borders? And do you know, how much work it costs to be recognized in the west?” Unfortunately I hear often: \u201cNow, what did they achieve there? They kissed each other a few times, and that\u2019s all!\u201d<\/p>\n
P: I think like in 2001, when I was in London, I sat in a very serious company in a restaurant and the girls turned around to MTV almost every hour, at the same time as Mariah Carey – everyday. All the english people said: “Wow, fuck! We thought you have just Matryoshkas with balalaikas, but you are obviously so moving!” In Russia they don’t quite appreciate it.<\/p>\n
Y: Offensive, of course. Especially as we never asked to spread the red carpet and carry us on their hands. We just want that they respect us.<\/p>\n
Q: Interesting, how is your rider?<\/p>\n
Y: Hotel, shower and food – personally we don\u2019t need more. We have hard demands for equipment, so far as we play live. But so\u2026We have no personal stylist – we do the make-up ourselves before the concert, no costumer – we dress ourselves. Is it important? Wash oneself, eat a bit, sleep a bit after the performance. Everything else, bullshit.<\/p>\n
Sergej Anisimov
\nOK!-Journal
\n1. November 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> We met in a chinese restaurant at the Kutusovskij prospekt. Yulya and Lena came by after an exhausting photosession and ordered chicken with cashews. Together with Yulya her lover Parviz. In two months they will have a child, and approximately at the end of December t.A.T.u. plan to release their third album \u201cUpravlenie otbrosami\u201d. Besides this OK! talked with the girls about much more\u2026<\/p>\n