converting them young?

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hey, do you know any little kids that are into t.A.T.u?

My brother Matthew, aka notgonnagetME is 12, and happens to be a huge t.A.T.u fan... especially of Lena.. lol

he broke his arm and look what he let me do to his cast... haha...
he is such a poser, look at him.. heehee...

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awwww

Amie, tell Matthew that I'm sorry that he broke his arm.
But, cool cast...

he's right here with me.. lol.. trying to bribe me,... not working!

Matthew's trying to bribe you, eh? And what does he want? What's he will to give for this favor that he wants from you?

A kiss from his big sister, AAaaaaaaawwwwwwwww so cute.

yeah,but still i wonder,if he has his hand broken,that means that now he can say to jis children that he had a wild childhood...of course if it heal compleatly then he can have a very good life with a big sister like u

ok...hmmm

nion you make no sense a lot of the time, did you know that?

I believe we all know that except him...he's a bit slow.

like a turtle? LMAO

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oops, yeah like a turtel, wat a fackass!!!

lenas-Slave, your brother looks a lot like my cousin, weird.

hmmmm

hey angel, dont be upset if i dont send those lovely-dovey emails back to you, i delete all that **** straight away. okies?

*looking around* I don't see her anywhere, hmmm.

Wat emails schmiggens...I send no emails today...um wait my cousin was probably doing all the email today, maybe he send this retarted chain letter to you. What a jacka$$. Sowwy about that.

okies, angel, just so you know i hate those things, i never pass them on.

what do u mean i'm a bit SLOW?

....okay okay...I'll shut up now.

ur insulting the wrong person,i am a very intlligent person u know

And I'm

that's good for u

thank you

anyway...i herd a 5 y old tryed to kiss her sister on national because she saw tatu....don't remember wich country

that didn't make sense nion. Well too me it didn't wanna give me a better translation.

hello? a 5 year old tryed to kiss her sister..hello?
isn't that a bit odd for a kid that age?

ohh...i forgot to say the kid is a she

who's sister???? :comfused: still

It’s easy to liken the queer-charged notoriety buzzing around the Russian female duo Tatu to the hubbub that surrounded Frankie Goes to Hollywood in the ’80s. Both laced cheeky homocentric imagery into otherwise harmless, if wildly infectious, pop music masterminded by über-producer Trevor Horn. Both enjoyed massive worldwide success, and both were censored by Britain’s BBC.

There’s just one glaring difference: Frankie Goes to Hollywood featured two members who were openly gay long before the band’s formation. Julia Volkova and Lena Katina, the teenage women of Tatu, have been playing a game of “maybe we are, maybe we aren’t” with the media.

And therein lies the problem—a big one. The rhetoric cranked out by the act’s marketing machine tells us that the lesbian imagery that underscores the hit single “All the Things She Said” is a warm embrace of homosexuality and an acknowledgement of our collective. Allegedly, it’s all designed to foster empathy and open-minded acceptance.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? Indeed, “All the Things She Said” is an audacious pop anthem, rife with aggressive, up-yours attitude. There’s just one thing missing—authenticity. The history of Tatu leaves plenty of room for doubt.

The act was born in 1999, coming from the mind of Ivan Shapovalov, a Russian filmmaker and former psychologist and advertising executive. Volkova and Katina, then both 14 years of age, were chosen from an audition pool of approximately 500 young hopefuls. From there, Volkova and Katina were rushed into a studio to record the controversial single “Ya Soshla S Uma” (“I’ve Lost My Mind”). The song told of a young girl’s excitement and emotional turmoil at being in love with another girl. The track was complemented by a video clip of the singers in schoolgirl outfits kissing in the rain. After garnering tons of media coverage and successful sales in Russia, the song was rewritten into the English-language “All the Things She Said” and featured on the album 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane.

An entrée into the European music scene followed in 2002, with “All the Things She Said” hitting number 1 on the U.K. singles chart after two weeks while also topping several other international charts and peaking in the U.S. top 20. A mostly English-language version of 200 km/h went out to U.S. record stores in late 2002.

With Tatu’s existence being the source of such careful calculation, it’s difficult not to second-guess the duo’s queer integrity. Volkova and Katina themselves have often given vague, even contradictory answers on the topic of their sexuality. Their official Web site calls their relationship “something more than just friendship towards each other.” Last year the singers were photographed in a Moscow nightclub with men who, as they first admitted to the U.K. press, were their boyfriends. They later said the men were bodyguards.

Even Shapovalov has been less than committal about the act’s sexual orientation. When quizzed directly in Billboard last year, he said, “It’s all about the maximalistic relationships of youth when the boundaries between friendship and love get blurred, driven by protest and the conflict of generations.”

In the end, the truth of Volkova and Katina’s sexuality is secondary to the marketing manipulation that accompanies them. If we’re to believe that they’re lesbians, then why such vagueness? And why must Tatu be served to the public as underage, porn-quality Lolitas? What are they really selling? With no clear answers, it all feels like a big, mechanical game. And it’s a game that leaves queer listeners—particularly kids starving for empathetic music and artists—on the losing end.

is it good?

it is old

very old...

what does it say?

the same crap every other old news does..

and what does it say?plz i don't want to read it,it's so boring if i would read it

How the group came together, the lesbian image, the crappy manager and blah blah blah...

that's all?it really is old

yeah thats all

nion didn't you read it before you posted it? silly.

He's

of course...i didn't read it..so what?

so you suk.

will u marry me?

I do

great...so when do we meet?

tomorrow

i can't believe u said yes to my marriage proposaul

WAT!!!!

read what i wrote

and what u answerd

DAM!!!! Um.... I ain't marrying you I'm taken already...sorry.

right after u said*so u suck*

but i said *i do*

hmmmmm... go read the fic I'm about to get to the battle between the love of my life and the love of my life... now that didn't make sense...TRanSLation: Yulia and Elena are about to kill eachother and NION has everything to do with it.

Nion, i don't know you but i really don't like you right now, you're breaking them up and that's a very evil thing to do... JC you should have Nion's character go sit in the corner and have her think about what she's done, and spankings! there had better be some spankings because what she did is very bad... you bad bad person, anywayz, thought i'd throw in my 2 cents.

orangejuice101, Nion is a boy. and spankings arn't good enough for him. he'd probably enjoy them

Nion I think you should interduce yourself?

ok..
hy,
i'm Nion,22 years old,i like Tatu and Linkin Park..and i'm MALE

nion: i'm MALE

ah.. i remember the time i thought you were a guy, then a girl, then a guy.. lol... the memory..
lol sorry never mind...

you also forgot... and so on and so forth oh and the most important on <---ladies and gentleman I give you NION!