“Tu” works; isn’t it just the short feminine accusative of “to”? “To” is seen declined in other cases, like “potomy shto”, so “tu” is definitely plausible.
I’d say now the source of the confusion is that the originator of the trivia used the term ‘acronym’ incorrectly.
So, the lesbian thing is just to get attention?
Could be, or it could be real. Either way, it gets attention, and buyers.
It got my attention…
Their video is crap, even if it has schoolgirl snogging. Pepperlandgirl makes better Spuffy videos on her home PC.
It still doesn’t make sense. Eta dyevochka lyubit tu dyevochku? Half of the word ‘this’ and the word ‘that’?
I’d go with the ‘random characters made up and then bizarre theories of wordplay thrown out to foment discussion’ theory first.
Got me right off the bat, Aspidistra. And it’s only been 3 years for me, I should be ashamed.
This will surprise anyone who knows me, but I haven’t actually seen this video yet. But I will…
As to the whole lesbian thing being a pose…can we not be charitable and say they are “playing a role” instead of “faking it”? After all, plenty of other singers have created personae different from their true selves. I’m sure Eminem hasn’t really done all the things he’s rapped about as “Slim Shady”.
As to this:
I ask in all seriousness, can anyone come up with an example of this outside of the porn industry? Certainly mainstream entertainment venues have exploited lesbianism to titillate straight men*. TV shows have had female main characters flirt with having a same sex relationship on a “very special episode” during sweeps. Then it’s forgotten.
But the idea of having two “Victoria’s Secret models…flitter around with each other before letting the Big Man in to show them how it’s done properly” strikes me as something that’s strictly a porn convention. And mediocre porn, at that.
*[sub]Not that I’m complaining about this. If nothing else, it would make me a hell of a hypocrite.[/sub]
It depends how loosely you define porn. It seems to me that there are increasing amounts of photoshoots in regular men’s mags (which some may categorise as soft porn admittedly) such as FHM, Loaded, which have frequently shown underwear/semi-nude poses of attractive young women together. Maybe not actually kissing, but in suggestively close poses.
That’s not to say straight women (and lesbians) don’t hug one another in a non-sexual way, but IMO these magazines’ portrayal is a sexually suggestive one. I don’t mean to sound like a librarian grandmarm here - no offence librarians! - I’m not criticising it, it doubtless makes excellent commercial sense for the publisher, but it just looks like “lipstick lesbianism” (ie fake lesbianism aimed at titillating men) cynically created by the media.
And yes - like you mention - TV shows have done just the same. Maybe more clothes on, but the same “playing a role” or “faking it.” If gay and lesbian people are happy with this, because at least it promotes a mainstream attractive image of homosexuality, fine, no real harm done. But that IMO is a side benefit, because IMO again, the main reason is a cynical one to provide titillation essentially to straight male viewers.
Ditto T.A.T.U.
What happened to me is not nearly as bad as this but … I’m a shoe company. There are people walking around this very moment with Osiris shoes and it annoys me to no end. I hope they go bankrupt very, very soon.
As for this group I’ve thinking they’ve just about …
wait …
there! They peaked. In 8 months they’ll be just as memorable as Hanson and the rest of us can go on as if they never existed.
What does the lowercase Cyrillic “Y” look like? In Greek (which Cyrillic borrows heavily from), the lowercase “Y” looks like a “u”.
I feel your pain.
My real name? Eliza. And I’m a Buffy fan. I do a lot of double takes, you can imagine.
You can see a T.A.T.U. clip right now on Mad TV.
I saw it live tonight. The kiss seemed forced. The whole thing disturbed me. I have yet to figure out why, aside from the whole exploitation thing. I suspect it has to do with the apparent level of intelligence that the promoters are assigned me.
Cute girls
Catchy tune
I think the lesbian role playing was to get them instant attention.
Seems to have worked.
All the Things She Said is a really fun song. I have it on one of my driving cds.
Every band has a gimmick. I’m not going to send them to hell for banking on the naughty catholic school girl fantasy.
You’d rather put them over your knee for a good spanking…right? 
FWIW, I don’t know any lesbians who are happy with this sort of media pinkface show. All who’ve expressed an opinion to me on the subject (in general, I never hear anyone talk about Tatu except on the Internet) feel that it’s offensive and exploitative, or at best something that should be ignored as it has nothing to do with real homosexuality at all.
Someday, everyone’s name will be a faux-lesbian Russian pop band
shade: Hey, Laadies.
faux-lesbian 1: Hi
s: I’m Shade, as in the faux-lesbian Russian pop band.
f-l 2: Wow, it’s shade!
f-l 1: Let’s show him some faux-lesbianism!
f-l 2: And entice him to can join in and show us how to do it properly!
s: let’s go!
f-l 1: Hold on. Shade’s not a faux-lesian Russian pop band.
s: Yes I am. I mean, there is. Ask Kantalooppi.
s: Er… Kantalooppi?
f-l 2: Grab him!
s: Yes!
s: I mean no!
s: HELP!
So, do we have a time limit on this everyone being a f-l R pop band? I’m in a hurry here, and my style’s getting cramped.
IANALesbian, which is why I figured I couldn’t comment for lesbians, but I can’t help feeling that if I were, I would find it just as exploitative and offensive.
The MAD TV performance was, well, kinda lame. It did look almost forced. Then again, for the past couple of weeks the standard pattern for their live-TV American TV appearances (except the Jimmy Kimmel Show) has been to EdSullivanize the making-out segment.
OTOH I did see them in a live European (Spanish TV) performance some months back, and that one looked like it had some real heat (no mere pecking, there was actual facial suction there). But I guess that the schtick is wearing thin even on themselves by now – specially as it has become an “expected” thing. Even if you’re a totally contrived prefab pop act, having the audience pay attention to nothing but just waiting for ATTSS to see you frenching each other on stage gets old fast.