Their manager/producer Ivan Shapovalov IS a dirty old man and that little fact is pretty well known in Russia
he was actually on the search for an act that would appeal to guys with fetishes for little schoolgirls and lesbians and tatu was the result of tryouts for that. Lena's bisexual and has a boyfriend and Yulia is VERY bisexual and extraordinarily kinky, and the two have a sisterly relationship behind the scenes, apparently. Good for them.
I first heard of them through a friend of mine who DL'd the song's video (as broadcast on MuchMusic WAAAYYY before they really hit it big)... he DL'd it cuz it was Victoria's theme on WWE (he's a big wrestling fan). Anyway, after that I was like "dude, they rock" and just downloaded EVERYTHING. They were still really obscure at the time, and I really didn't expect them to hit it big, but they did. Anyway, i have all their russian and english songs now as well as a whole lot of remixes.
I have most of their videos too, and the ones for "30 minut" (30 Minutes) and "Prostie Dvizhenia" ("Simple Movements") are NOT for young people, they're a bit risky as far as sexual content. Okay, "Prostie Dvizhenia" is REALLY risky. Likewise, even the videos for "Nas Ne Dagonjat" ("Not Gonna Get Us") and "Ya Soshla S Uma" ("All the Things She Said") had to be edited for content as well as lipsynch for the american audience. Kinda weird to watch the originals.
They have a russian song called "Doschitai Do Sta" ("Count to 100") that was really good but never got re-recorded in english, you guys should give it a DL. "Ya Tvoy Vrag" was never released in english either. "Klouny", the russian version of "Clowns", is far superior to the english version, as is "Malchik Gay" (cept there's a word in the russian version of Malchik Gay that's bleeped out and I SO want to know what they were saying there).
And did anyone else hear about when Tatu were gonna film their video in Tokyo in late june, and they got barred from doing it?[/color]