I'm not here to talk about trumpets today...but more like..a duo
I'm talking about t.A.T.u.
What is about them that makes you wanna run away yet stay and listen at the same time? The simple hooks and badly pronounced English makes you wanna hit your head against the wall doesn't it?
I wish I could say that, but I'm a sucker for them. A big sucker. They came out when I was coming out when they hit American shores with 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane. I was up late one night and saw a commerical for the song "All The Things She Said" and immediately was taken by the ploy of girl on girl kissing...in school girl uniforms. "Finally! Someone who understands me!" I ran around the house screaming as I got ready to go to bed so I could be ready for my next day at a Catholic school.
I begged my mom for the cd...she knew I was a lesbian. I just wanted to listen to "my people's" music. I got it and blasted that thing from dawn til dusk...screaming the lyrics to "All the things she said" and "Not gonna get us" for ages.
I recall dancing to those songs non stop with my ex girlfriend (which now places me...in 2003?).
Who else sat through the MTV awards glued to the screen as t.A.T.u and hundreds of other young girls came tearing out of the audience and strip and make out?
Then...the dream came to a end when it was bluntly stated that the two girls were pretending to be lesbians and were actually dating men.
Was I angry? Maybe...but I looked on the bright side...we had an anthem. Regardless of the fact that they are dating men now...we have an anthem that sums up a lot of lesbian angst into a 3:34 song.
After that "scandal" they sotra disappeared off the face of the earth...but in 2005 they came back with "Dangerous and Moving". I don't actually...own the album per say, but I do enough a few tracks especially "All About Us".
I blasted that track numerous of times as me and my current girlfriend dated under a tremendous amount of pressure wanting to tear us apart. Hints of lesbianism lingered through the track, and in the video...keeping the hope alive?
From what I hear, there's a new album...and a movie that is slated to come out in September 2008...starring Mischa Barton, friend of the lezzies and not a lezzie herself.
*side note* Just come out all ready! You've played how many lesbian characters? (Katie Singer of Once and Again, played Mary Mouse, the friend to psycho lesbian Paulie of Lost and Delirious, played a bi curious chick on the OC, and now you will be playing the lead lesbian in a film...about tatu...based off a book of lesbian erotica...due to tatu?)
Whatever the deal is people have with these two girls...I actually like them. Sure their videos may be brutally dark, and their songs you can get sick of because it sounds like a strobe light going at 1,000 mph. I think some of the songs are ok, and some of them are really open minded. I have a song to listen to and NOT change pronouns....
