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Old 15-03-2004, 23:46   #41
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well... I don't think this last episode really meant anything. It's not like Mansky showed anything new here. Only things we knew already. This his last phrase “Today, group t.A.T.u. stopped their performances and the recording of their second album. Old songs remain with us.” Is a total bullshit. It sounded like a funeral speech. But 14th wasn't the day when everything stopped. It happened much earlier and we know it. The reason of this last title is pretty obvious. Mansky was working on this documentary and RS for how long already? 1-2 years? Quite a lot. It's something he devoted so much time and effort. But he realises that it's a film. Iven if a documentary one. But still a film... movie... whatever you call it. It should have the final point. And several month ago Mansky promissed this point will be set on the 14th March 2004. Sure that time he believed it was going to end with a second album. Alas! Things went the way they went and although nothing is clear now, Mansky just needed this final point. He's chosen the tragic one. He could say it all was going to change to the best and it would be as true as the claim 'TATU is over' at the moment. Just movies where main hero dies leave more emotions in viewers' hearts. So the guy decided to play this card. I won't write a full report this time as the whole episode consisted of videos mostly. But the last scenes are worth attention I think. Thing looked really touchy and could make a true fan really cry. But it's still was just a montage. Mansky used the phragment from Bonn concert where Yulia and Lena were saying a long good bye. It's was just good-bye for the ppl at concert but put in the contest of everything that goes on now, it sounded like a final good-bye from TATU. After girls said they were going to perform their very last song (for the concert), 'Ya budu' video appeared on the screen as that 'very last TATU song'. And the video for it seemed to suit the whole situation perfectly. Footage from their moments of fame mixed with Lena in metro and Yulia in the bus... and finally those few seconds without any background music where Yulia was standing in some dirty yard looking like a homeless kid. Everything staged and montaged perfectly to cause fans' tears. Look... they were TATU and now just 2 usuall girls... It's was just for the show, guys. Mansky's work is over, more likely, and he just needed to make an interesting ending for his work.

As for his words about TATU having no future... I see where his ideas come from. He said 'TATU have no future without Ivan'. But he didn't say TATU had any future WITH him. The point was 'the girls grew up. they are not those cute tiny schoolgirls that conquired the world claiming they love each other'. This is something that is gone forever. And no producer (Ivan included) can bring those times back. They can record new songs, do whatever they want. But it was THAT trick that worked. TATU weren't just about music and we all know it.

Edit: and staringelf... Mansky is not the only one who believes Ivan was the ONLY producer in Russia. He was the only one to breakthrough to the west and he is one of really few who's work doesn't make one sick. Shap is not the only one? Who else?