[Palomine]

Personally, I find that sort of totally blatant sexuality in the cause of commerce (the music business) far easier to take than the likes of Brittany, Christina, etc... And that kneepad music couldn't possibly be any worse, right? I'd just like to hope that they really ARE lesbians and not just a couple of pop diva wannabes co-opting the badge of womynhood for publicity and airplay.

[Grayface]

Most anything is better than either of those two cookie cutter prefab pop princesses! Please lets not put down “that kneepad music” by comparing it to either of the two Pop Princesses (say the last two words with plenty of scorn!)  

[sheber]

That is the one where Joey knows about Monica and Chandler but can't tell anyone. Phoebe suspects and tries to seduce Chandler, who in trying to conceal his relationship with Mon, but finally confesses his love when Phoebe calls his bluff.

[Palomine]

You are correct sir! (in the voice of Phil Hartman doing Ed McMahon).

I don't know whether this was made before Lisa Kudrow's implant surgery (she had more than one to fix a botched job).

[thcbl]

I've read many interviews with T.A.T.U. and they have said openly that they are not real lesbians and just portray them to get the attention.

What wasn't said is the fact that they do that for the attention because the music really sucks.

[Palomine]

As suspected by my cold, cynical heart. Stil, they look awful cute in those damp white tshirts.

[thcbl]

They look damn cute no matter what they wear. I don't care if they pretend to be lesbians or homeless people . . . DAMN THAT RED HEAD IS SMOKIN'!

[Palomine]

Hey Munch! I see you!

[MunchWolf]

So you're saying Brittany and Christina would be more palatable if they were wearing wet, white clothes, kneepads, and were shagging each other on stage?

-Munch "I'ld prefer a private showing" Wolf

[Palomine]

I'm sort of saying that B & C (from what I gather) make a considerable pretense about being 'artists', 'vocalists', 'divas', etc.... in an attempt to play down their blatant use of soft-core porn/pop culture approaches to selling their product; all their posing as musical artists sort of makes me queasy (completely apart from their music itself which I detest, but that is separate from my critique of their self-marketing).

The TATU gals are just (it seems to me) a bit more honest and forthright about their use of sexuality to market themselves, even going so far as to admit that they're not really lesbians but just pretending in order to be popular. True, they're being honest about a deception, but there appears to be some convolouted sincerity in that nonetheless. I haven't heard any of their music (I imagine that it would be as unappetizing as B & C, but maybe slightly less so due to the fact that I don't speak Russian and therefore wouldn't understand the lyrics).  

Along these lines, I found Madonna's use of sexualtiy in the effort of self-promotion to be less objectionable (than B or C) too. Like Danni BTW, I think Madonna's sexier now than she was 10 years ago incidentally.

And the fact that either of the TATU girls is (IMHO) a dozen times easier on the eyes (especially the redhead) than B or C is something in and of itself.

 

[Goldeneye]

I'd fuck the redhead.

And while I agree that Madonna is hotter now than ever before, but I place the one exception in her performance in Dick Tracy.  Wow.

[Tux]

Real lesbians usually aren't so nice looking as those 2 (though I emphasize the word "usually", I believe that I met a couple of those who are the exception).

However, as Palomine stated, their more blatant sexuality in the name of selling music seems to be less annoying than the waffling double standard that Britney has and the distastefully skanky (in a strangely PG-13 to low R manner) sexual displays that Christina performs.

Another plus is the fact that they most likely won't start making movies for the U.S. market (well unless the movies are softcore or hardcore girl-on-girl porn) due to the fact that no one would know them here and that their image is too intense to be cast in any teen type movie.

[Palomine]

Just in case anyone's interested, a series of images of that Russian girl group "Tatu" have been posted over the past few days at the newsgoup dk.binaer.erotik ...lots of images, some like the recent more graphic pix we've seen and others that are older, more like fan pix. JFYI.

[thcbl]

Is that the same flood that was in the shaggablebabes NG the other day?

[Palomine]

I honestly don't know, though of course it's entirely possible: newsgroup crossposting is common. I do go to the shaggable... ngs but not recently.