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Wednesday, February 26, 2003

Scandalous TV

So I actually caught the last bit of Leno last night on TV (which I rarely ever turn on) and this band called "t.A.T.u." is playing this kinda catchy poppy disco-y club song about forlorn lesbian love and the two cute barely-young-adult girl singers are being quite friendly with other during the song. Yup, I'm paying very close attention. They get to a non-vocal part of the song and they are close to each other, touching each other's faces, backs, hands, etc and I'm pretty darn sure they're gonna make-out on camera but NO! the camera suddenly switches over to the guitar player (boring!) for a non-standard (ie: looooong) amount of time and they don't cut back to the girls until they start singing again. Oh man, I missed something! I just know it! Leno closes up the show quickly, or tries to, and Arsenio Hall is there and he comes over, giggling, and tries to kiss Jay. Confirmed in my mind - they were kissing and they wouldn't show us. Ok, guess I need to get out more and maybe date or something... but what was really cool is that they were wearing white T-shirts scrawled in Russian that said "ХУИ ВОЙНЕ" which basically means "Fuck War" -- sweet.
UPDATE: they were on Jimmy Kimmel tonight and they had ATTITUDE, uh huh, about last night's show on Leno. ABC/Disney was braver (or more likely just making a play for the most viewers of something "controversial") and let them do what they wanted. Nice crotch grab.


posted by jeremy at 10:48 PM


visitor chattering

I too saw this last night, I thought the song was quite catchy, I swear I have heard it before.. I thought they made out as well, I wonder why the cut away shot.. and it was a very very long cut away...I was wondering what their shirts said. now if I could only find that video of Don Ho singing Sabatoge..

posted by: bill on February 26, 2003 11:54 PM

a friend of mine in the UK was telling me about these girls a couple weeks ago -- about the irony of these hypersexualized young girls that are kind of popular in the UK while at the same time some schools weren't allowing parents to videotape their kids' school productions for fear the videos would end up in the hands of child pornographers.

hm.

posted by: irish-girl on February 27, 2003 1:30 PM

Tatu Girls Snog on Stage! (Driving Euro Frat Boys Wild in the Front Row)

http://www.mtv.co.uk/mtv.co.uk/en/dynamo/features.jhtml?id=30023989&headline=Tatu%20Girls%20Snog%20Onstage

Is it just me, or does their kiss seems about as "real" as Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie's?

posted by: irish-girl on February 27, 2003 5:47 PM

Yup, you are right Irish-girl, there is absolutely no intention in those "snogs".
Great marketing idea though...

posted by: jack on February 27, 2003 7:36 PM

Yea snogging..

sing... sing and Snog...sing out loud.. sing out strong..don't worry if its not good enough for Jay Leno to Air.. Just sing...sing and Snog

posted by: bill on February 27, 2003 9:16 PM

Have you seen the video for 'All The Things She Said'?
http://www.studentmax.co.uk/board/show_topic.asp?TID=1024

posted by: nikky on March 3, 2003 10:26 AM