We'll talk about that in 26 minutes, after Ilia Rezinov's documentary.
They are still in the age when girls lose their mind because of popular singers.
Their contemporaries are mad about them
They screaming "they are not gonna get us" and swearing that they have lost their mind
They are shocking the public
We will tell you the ultra-modern fairytale about children and adults
By becoming successful these children brought fame and a lot of money to an adult person
who created this pop duo.
Hello-her
Hello-you
Ivan Shapovalov in a movie
Imagine Tatu. Yulia and Lena. One is singing how hard it is being a boy when you're a girl
and the other one is singing it's hard being a girl when you're a boy.
The most dramatic thing is that the only way is... if you'll be a girl then i'll be a bunny
This movie is dedicated to those who haven't lost their mind
They are not gonna get us
Kiss for real, like Lena and I just did. Come on, come on!
They are kissing for real!
Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
It's a conception. Did you get it?
This conception...I'm afraid that it might ...
vanish and fade away.
Kazahstan
Their debut album sold 1 million copies in Eastern Europe
Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria. Their new generation doesn't know much about Russia these days.
...but they know "nas ne dogonyat". For teenagers from Sahalin to the Balkans the 4 letters TATU are magical.
Everyone says they're lesbians but I think it's not true.
I have an article about them that proves they are not lesbians.
They even have boyfriends.
The love they have...
... It's stronger than anything, they were able to make its because they went through this holding each other's hand Alexander Voitinsky/songwriter
We have many male friends in Moscow but they are only friends.
I have lost my mind, I need her, I need her
This isn't the last step
I mean their sexual orientation
I heard screaming, a barking dog... right over there.
They were standing right there. They handcuffed themselves.
They said they won't leave until we start making a project with them
There was a god. That dog bit Yulia's leg. It was a nightmare!
I found something unique Ivan Shapovalov. Producer
I found two girls, I thought this is what the audience wanted. No one could say for sure.
Though the ratings of internet porn sites are pretty high
They said they wanted to sing. They had a romantic relationship that no one could understand.
They were persecuted and they had to sing about it!
When I was young such things didn't exist. We had no idea about it. Even though I studied in the Medical Institute, we didn't know about this. Olga Kondaurova - pediatrician, I.Shapovalov's classmate
Can you take your clothes off?
We want you to take your clothes off.
We were shy but because of the music... Marina Kuznetsova - MGU Student
you know, there were so many girls out there and none of them were embarassed.
Kissing and hugging...
What's your name?
The way they were communicating with the audience, they made everyone forget about their complexes Irina Korshushkina - MGU student
Your hands! Come on!
The public trusted them
Eveyone could do what they were doing
Come on!
Yes, why not?
We had boys when the project started and then we realized that girls are better than guys
besides we are girls too
Usually girls like Tatu, not boys Elena Egorova - Teacher
I don't know...lesbian love...this is so scary
it's abnormal!
Only heterosexuals can have sex.
Sex is about reproduction
Immitation of sex is possible with a same sex person or a column
a sheep or other animal
I can think anything about the way it should be but there are 2 girls in love who will die if they get separated
in this case they should sing about it
I wrote the song "ya soshla s uma"
"Ya soshla s uma" , that's when the doors opened from their emotions
"Ya soshla s uma" was emotional
Everything was said clearly
Where is honesty, where people open up their hearts,
they get a powerful response back
When I was hospitalized, I woke up in the morning and thinking of the dream I had, I thought "I have lost my mind" Elena Kiper - Ex-producer
and only later the lines "I need her" were added.
These were the lines necessary for the scandalous image, business
So, the real lyrics were about something else
The main idea of the video was separating the girls from the crowd with the fence.
To make it look more dramatic I added the rain.
All this is mathematics
Ivan Shapovalov studied in Saratov Medical Institute Saratov
He gave up the profession of teen-psychiatrist to dedicate 10 years of his life studying mass mind-control
He made commercials for politics, mineral water, computers and american cars
But he gained fame from a show with underage girls, singing under the rain about forbidden feelings
I was a good psychotherapist
I had many appointments. People were waiting behind my door.
We never thought he would work as a doctor... Olga Kondaurova - pediatrist
because this wasn't for him.
Stuttering, nervosis, fears and stuff like that if it's related to the nerves
...enuresis and so on
I couldn't imagine him being a doctor, someone who heals souls
Vanya was interested in Freid when we were studying in the university Igor Lopatin - reanimatologist, studied with I. Shapovalov
He's wearing a mask and it's difficult to understand what's really going on inside
When I decided to become a politician, because I couldn't go anywhere else
I met him on my way Dmitri Dyatskov Governor of Saratov reg.
my first impression was that he was an ordinary guy from a village, who would have guessed he was so talented?
And I tell him "what are you doing?". His office was filled with crests and authority attributes
and I was just a student yesterday
We talked a lot and sometimes I wouldn't understand what he was talking about
The argument is so accurate...
that you get it immediately
When he made the clip, God knows, it was so good that nothing should have been added or removed. It was just perfect
I took the cameraman and made a video that showed the whole conception of the company.
The storyline was related to football. One of the players is passing the ball...
and the goalkeeper couldn't catch it
It symbolized me as that ball that no-one can stop
And he won the elections
It's like a shot. Like an arrow hitting the target, this story!
I'm upset that our paths have separated
I decided to move to moscow and I never used the credit I gained on the elections
My heart is open for our friendship
Hello
Why Tatu?
Because "this girl loves that girl"
Everybody things we are married. We are gonna get married in the future. Kazahstan.
Yes, we sleep together in one bed.
I don't know why the producer chose us. Maybe we have something others don't have.
Lena and I are gonna be together until the end of time
Until the end of time
Our songs have very deep meaning, then the producer creates a theme
Then the musicians develope it, they create music arrangement
In the meantime when Vanya is choosing the best arrangement, we are recording several versions of the song.
Universal gave us the Golden Disk for the sales of our album
We travel all time time. We sleep on the train. Usually 5-6 hours a day
Radio interviews, TV shows. Of course it tiring but we realized that we there is nothing we can do without it.
When we were in America, we weren't nervous at all. It was like in Moscow. We went to the stage and..
Like on tour. We asked if anyone in the audience speaks russian. No - we left the stage.
Why treating us badly? What have we done?
I'll keep that in mind
What I have is what I take
We know everything about us, even more
and people dear to us,
mom, dad and people who work with us. And we absolutely don't care what other people think!
Why aren't you saying anything?
Moscow. Music video premiere
If the food that Vanya is cooking
is eaten by so many people, then he is a good cook
We don't want to upset Lena of course but our favourite is Yulia Bulgaria
For us Yulia is like a manly hand
Honestly, no
Bulgarian
This is a poster from a magazine
It's called .... here
Yulia!!! I'm Lena
Bulgarian
Bulgaria loves their hearts and
their kind souls
Look, they write on their desks Kazahstan
You are an idiot
If Tatu didn't exist we wouldn't be into anything
Now only 2 girls have to be friends, Anya and Veronika Elena Egorova - Teacher
They are always together though they are from different classes
This one is the newest
This friendship can only explained by love for Tatu
We like rap. Tatu sucks!
They have a very good producer
It's the meaning of my life to be like them, to look like them
They pay for honesty
Honesty is more expensive than anything else
There was one incident. A boy called me on the phone and said that his girlfriend
became a lesbian after watching our video and he will avenge us.
Bulgaria
I will kill you! I know where you live! I'll cut off your tongue! Just don't sing anymore!
When people start making money on other people's feelings,I...I don't like it. Elena Kiper - ex producer
For me it was better to leave and work somewhere else.
And what? Only taking part in profit sharing? Aleksandr Voitinsky - songwriter
No.
I repeat, everyone who worked on this project didn't care about money.
If everyone wants to cry, that's money anyway...it's good to cry!
and that's what people pay money for!
Please welcome live on stage Tatu Bulgaria
They are still having concerts because of the honesty from their first album. They don't have anything else!
I like it, the rhythm, high speed
I like high speed
Now it's business, but in the beginning it was a challenge 2 girls were taking. They were in love and the whole world wouldn't understand
This is interesting for everyone, i think
The girls had the choice. They could choose the "golden middle"(russian expression meaning "between good and bad")
They didn't , that's why they didn't grow up as artists
Showbiz is so strange to me
when it was honest they said we were pretending...
and when money is involved,it's not the same
Moscow
I never thought that I created something genious
I'm signing for Yulia too!
We all speak russian but no-one feels the language the way i do
I choose one line and say this will be the chorus, like "nas ne dagonyat"
These are not mistakes.."Ya soshla s uma"
People don't have the time to get the long chorus. Club mixes have like one word..that's because..
When someone is dancing they can only catch one word
Try it!
Bulgaria
That's red pepper. Very tasty
Half of Europe voted with money for it,
the other's wont stay away too.
Boys and girls
Verka...
Yulia
Being a hostage
being a hostage or both fair and unfair games
Now for the first time
we are presenting this video, other TV channels haven't premiered it yet
Everyone I worked with were honest people, if they weren't I'd simply say no
I was saying I wouldn't work and they would lose
If you are honest with yourself you can't work in political PR for a long time
Commercials - Just a step to something bigger
You can't spend your life making commercials. As soon as you learnt everything there you have to move on.
All my ideas were too extreme for commercials Ivan Shapovalov, Producer
Most brands, especially big ones were afraid
Playing with the content in the commercial is not interesting.
You need to play with the format...but they are afraid...
as a result.. the commercial...
the commercial business
I was a stranger there
Showbiz is dishonest
Showbiz as entertainment isn't interesting for me.
You should be the one being honest with yourself...
not helping others to be honest, if you're honest with yourself, right?
We can't be on stage just by ourselves. We need a show, energy..
I never wanted to waste my life by making commercials
I got the feeling of mass communication and that was enough
And I decided to create something
Kazahstan
The first line...
What have we done? White nights, white nights
The sky is filled with....what have we done? This is definitely dramatic
Bulgaria
Tatu are easily getting back the money invested by the managers (producers) in former USSR countries.
Thehy prepared a new commercial project for the USA.
A huge record company is going to promote them.
What will be the reaction to this new russian project?
Get it? This is an element of mental disorder. I'm sure Ivan will find other...
...clinical cases from real life
Epilogue
Three years ago
This movie is dedicated to those who haven't lost their mind and to those who didn't get it.
Translation by Anna 87111 ... Subtitled by franb for tatu.ru and tatysite.net 2010.