
Lena and Yulia talks to BBC RadioOn a windy rooftop somewhere in London, cduk.com greets t.A.T.u with trepidation. Their reputation as diminutive divas certainly precedes them. If rumours are to be believed, Yulia and Lena are monosyllabic, media manipulators, who relish every opportunity not only to play on people's fantasies, but also to rub people up the wrong way.
We'd just about forgotten about t.A.T.u. - written off their career as a titillating flash in the pan - but, actually, their new record, Dangerous And Moving, is as fierce a pop record as you're likely to hear this year. It leaves behind the shrill euro-disco and bristles with the sort of pop hooks and rebellious anger Rachel Stevens would give her famous gloves for.
Yulia Volkova (20) and Lena Katina (21) say hello warily, with a weak handshake. If you can get past the impenetrable layers of foundation and the cheekbones sculpted out of two inches of lurid rouge (Yulia, for instance, is a Jordan-esque shade of tango), you can see they are both extremely pretty girls. And sweet, once you crack their icy veneer. But even then, getting to the core of what the most infamous girl duo in the world are really like, is a contradictory and troublesome task... Read full interview
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