From THIS PHOTO you might think that the Dixie Chicks are the hottest lesbo act going in the music business.
Not so fast, say the girls of Tatu. Even just the casual photo with this news story makes me feel all funny.
No, but that's not all. They're actively publicly recruiting the youngest legal girls they can, as young as 14, for a nude photo shoot for their next album cover. Holy spine-tingling publicity stunt, Batman!
Now how exactly are the Dixie Chicks going to top this?
Wait, wait. Ladies. There's no need to argue. Maybe you could work together, a win-win cross-marketing sensation. You could all get together for a big pay-per-view special that would surely break box-office records.
Grrl power!
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— go to most recent comments1 - SlackMFer
TATU are the most retarded act i've ever heard of. they're what is truly wrong with america these days. some stupid no-talent broads (that aren't even that attractive) can pretend they're lesbians and suddenly be played all over MTV. that photo and their video that consists of them making out as the whole concept, prove that they're only trying to make money, and they knew that lesbians sell, especially on MTV which tries as hard as it can to make gays acceptable by showing guys or girls making out all the time. i'm just sad that it keeps working.
2 - Robert Crawford
"they're what is truly wrong with america these days."
That's hard to believe, considering they're from Russia.
3 - Eric Olsen
Should have read, "what is truly wrong with the world today" - aliens are looking down and frowning, at least the ones with faces.
4 - rosignol
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-Mark Twain
The recent war (and the worldwide occurences of mass nudity trying to prevent it) are good evidence that he was right.
5 - Simon Hawkin
Tatu are as phony as the Chicks. They were selected by a producer who decided to bet on the chic of a lezbo duo. (They are a pretend lezbo couple too, if it makes any difference.)
What's important is the music. It's not bad for the Russian pop scene. I cannot judge the Chicks music.
6 - Eric Olsen
I wouldn't call the Chix "phony": they are superior players, singers and (to a lesser extent) songwriters. They may be politically naive and any number of other things but they aren't musically phony in any way.
7 - filchyboy
Considering that the Dixie Chicks had a single out at the time this was said which was an anti-war song and it was playing on the radio at the time I'd say that everyone who had a problem with the London speechifying is a blooming idiot. Clear channel and all those idjuts who destroyed the products they bought really need to try that whole sticking their heads back in the sand routine because political engagement is obviously too much to ask for from these people.
8 - Jabba the Nutt
Dixie Chicks: Wide Open Spaces??? Is that the area between their ears?
9 - Dave
I think its a pretty large stretch to describe "Traveling Soldier" as an anti-war song; it's anti-war in the sense that "Dead Man's Curve" or "Oh Where Could My Baby Be" are anti-car songs. Its much more a tragic lovesong than a statement against war.
And yeah, the Chicks are significantly better at being musicians than they are policy wonks.
10 - Al Barger
Thing is that I was totally unimpressed with the Dixie Chicks even before they started getting silly. Politics totally aside, I'm at a loss to understand why anyone would even consider buying a Dixie Chicks record when there are still records by, for starters, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris that they don't own. Why?
Specifically, I'll take "All the Things She Said" over any recording by the Dixie Chicks. They may be a producers group, but there was SOMEBODY with some vision there.
11 - M
I used to think the Chix were homogenized Nashville product (I'm a punk rocker who used to work in country radio). "Home" changed all that - they're an excellent group; great singers, good instrumentalists, decent writers, good rebels against the Nashville scene. I won't jump on the anti-Chix bandwagon, even thought their politics are puerile.
I mean, as a conservative and a rocker, if I limited myself to artists that were also conservative, I'd be stuck with Ted Nugent, Marky and the late Dee Dee Ramone, Lee Greenwood and Trisha Yearwood.
12 - taty
Dixie chicks suck! t.A.t.u is waay better than dixie chicks - not only is their music better but their looks are waay better too! oh yeah and ......NUDITY ROCKS!...heck we we're born naked! So who the hell say's clothes make the man!?
Take a quick listen to some of tatu's songs and then tell me what you think http://www.bandbuilder.com/tatu/index.php?ref_code=D16712
13 - Tasha
T.A.T.U Rules! Dixie chiks are jest hores that jump on any thing. T.a.t.u makes there own way. Who cares if there not lesbians or are there music is the stuff that conts. The dixie chiks change there stilles so much who the hell are they. T.a.t.u goes with there own flow not with other bands flow.
Any ways its the music conts. America is great I'm prowed of it if you dont like it dell or kill your self. There the great thing about america and russia there the only ones who left there home and cokerd.
14 - TAcoBriConJa
TAtu rulezzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!! they're were really the best!!!! I have nothing to say about them, 'cause ou know im speechless!!!! They were so amazing!!! Look If they were really not popular now, HOW SOON IS NOW for them to be popular enough to satisfy the whole world. Guys dont worry, If our friends hate them, ignore them, if you...we like to listen to their songs lets go... 'cause as they said THEY'RE NOT GONNA GET US!!! And if you guys inlove with your same sex, and it seems that ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID KEEPS RUNNING THROUGH YOUR HEAD, what's the deal? Love each other more right?!!
15 - Anastasia
T.A.T.U THAAAAAAA BESTTTTT!
16 - Natalie Davis
I'm all for loving one another more, for sure. But what is the deal with TATU. What makes this duo so great? Sorry... I can't see or hear it.
17 - Al Barger
Hardly anyone is claiming that Tatu are the greatest thing since sliced bread, but they did come up with at least one outstanding pop single.
18 - Joe
Tatu? I loved him on Fantasy Island. In a purely manly way, of course.
19 - jeffreybradshaw
i am a trisha yearwood fan i love trisha but i also want to see her nudeor totally naked just for one time cause she is sexy
20 - Al Barger
Perhaps Ms Yearwood could get together with the Dixie Chicks next time they want to pose for the cover of Entertainment Weekly.
21 - zèle zailes
Pfff...Tatu's nothing else than a product. The Dixie Chicks have proved with their last album called Home that they were REAL musicians, and not only dolls (as we could think listening to their other cds...). The Dixies are not changing their style, they're just leaving the commercial part to do MUSIC. That's evolution ! The photo was to protest against the boycott from which they had been victims, an not only to choke and make money. Now that Yulia is pregnant, Tatu are dead, and as far as I'm concerned, this is not a tragedy...
22 - BRICKLAYER
How dare you besmirch the name of these fine and talented Eastern European musicians! You show the ugliness of your very own soul when you make such rude and inconsiderate statements! I don't know who this "Yulia" person is, but I, for one congratulate her on the forthcoming birth of her child!
23 - Eric Olsen
I think Trisha Yearwood is pregnant also. No, you say? She just looks that way?
Tatu were lesbians the way David Bowie was gay: as a fashion/marketing statement.
24 - Al Barger
It's been kind of slow and dreary what with nothing but feeding tubes and dead popes in the news. I sure wish the Dixie Chicks would start talking crazy and putting out nekkid pictures again.
25 - The Theory
heck, i'd settle for another tatu explosion.
i actually pulled out their cd yesterday. didn't actually go as far as putting it in, but I did reminisce.