the sleaziest moment of the t.A.t.y nouveau rich bandit and a woman who was gotten rid of with $500
05.23.05 (10:52 pm) [edit]When you listen to the band of question, НИЧЬЯ （Nichiya）, you might be struck by how it reminds you of t.A.T.y, the very first commercial band launched from Russia and made it world wide. There is no mystery about it; the main member of Nichiya, Lena Kiper, was an original member of the t.A.t.y project who contributed all the hit tunes and the conceptual theme to the whole project (t.A.T.y.). The very problem of Kiper was that she contributed those creative assets that initiated and actualized the project to her then lover Ivan Nikolaevich Shapovalov, the notorious sleaze ball producer of t.A.t.y. Lena Kiper and Ivan Shapovalov were involved as a creative team for the band tatu while they were involved romantically as well.
As a common result of the entertwinded business and romance, they now are mudslinging. Kiper filed a lawsuit against Shapovalov for his ripping off her regarding for the whole tatu project that did not bring any reward or copyright to her after all the success only Shapovalov monopoliz ed. She was actually cut off the whole project of which she composed as the indispensable elemen t when their romance got soured. The total she got for all the contribution was in fact $500.
I hope this case at least serves some good and teaches some moral lesson such as below;
a) don't mix business with sex
b) don't trust a man who is, well, too shady to begin with (yeah, what did you expect, Kiper?)
The rumor says that the reason they broke off was that the scandalization Shapovalov played up to present the two youth as the suggestive borderline kiddy porn did not gain favor with more artistic and uncompromising Kiper.
The flimsy project never exhausts its ultimately scandalous gossip. The bio they presented in the beginning turned out to be total fibbing; Shapovalov was never a child psychologist or never got involved with music business before. The two girls who claimed to be childhood friends that developped into lesbian lovers were actually just hired people randomly by enterprising Shapovalov who had some scheme of 'underage sex' theme to sell out using the notoriety the country had already earned for providing child porn all over the world. This kiddy porn peddler actually puts Malcom McLaren into shame.
There is no doubt or mistake about how much success of tatu project actually owed to Kiper; you can trace and locate the origin of the voice of t.A.T.y actually in Kiper's fiery voice in Nichiya. Kiper's cool but intensely passionate vocal proves tatu was originated nowhere but here in her chilly fire. The saddest thing was that she gaveall her talent away to her then boy friend in the name of love. The title tune Nichiya (nobody's in Russian) was originally written as a tribute to Shapovalov for his birthday gift (oy,vey). This wound have been one of those hit singles of tatu project if two in love would never split.
Now Kiper is struggling to get her bounty of tatu project back from Shapovalov while she is working on her own project Nichiya with, this time, very lackluster band mate Oleg Borshevski. Can we interprete this as a sign of her having learned, at least one lesson? To pick someone less imposing? Before I do wish her luck, though, there are a couple of things that all of us who want to benefit from this moral tale should examine.
Why can't Kiper go solo? It seems, no, not even 'seems' but obvious, that she has got another man who is romantically involved as well as business wise, this time again. She sounds too good and talented to get discouraged by the con man who drew the whole picture of sleaze and shame. I might not the only one, though, who detects some hint of a pattern she's fallen into: the dependency of Kiper as a woman and as an artist. It is such a shame for she has got enough talent to step out of the zone where the majority of Russian women still dwell in;they are very desperate, servile and dependent on men to the extent that they appear goddemn deplorable and pathetic.
I would agree if you suggest that they cannot afford to spare dignity over survival just as anybody in the tough condition. There is nothing surprising to see women offer themselves when they have nothing more to offer.
This is not the characteristic only attributed to women themselves but to Russian men as well; they are as they are as the reactionary state of what Russian men are to them. Remember how Russian men are power hungry as if they try to overcompensate their dignity deprived by the loss in the cold war with the West, precisely w/ the US of A. I can't deny how primitive ideas they still have about women and relationships with them. Doesn't our Ivan fit into this category?
The real struggle of women in Russia is that current law is not necessarily favorable to them. You can scarecely expect to get something when you devorce from a Russian man even when it happens due to HIS fault instead of hers; strangely, the man who cheats get the best part of everything under the current law. They are so eager to set women back to keep them remain helplessn so that women still count on them. Oh, this has begun to sound like an introductory feminis m theory that could go back to Chaucer's days. However, the backwardness and prefeminism-ness that I observe in women's condition in Russia always throws me off and makes me feel queasy.
I was discussing this matter with one of my Russian Jew mates the other day and he laughed it off.
"Ny, you can't just throw some ideas of doctrinal feminism invented&nb sp;here into those starving people and expect some thing similar happen to them. They will even eat the doctrine up by cooking it into something edible," he said.
I knew what he was driving at; the sophistication of any thought is too extravagant for them right now. The spiritual development comes hand in hand with physical back-up/proofs; as a human gradually grows into maturity with involving so many paradoxes and complexities, a society can't develop merely with philosophy. Oh, wasn't that what USSR had proved after the experiment of the whole communism? When people are too busy with struggling, making living or literally surviving to keep one's own body intact, anything more than concrete couldn't mean much.
However, women woud not get anywhere when all they can do is to cling to men just because they are men. Only education can free them from the predicament, if it only happens slowly. They can never count on men to change the society into any better shape for women.
Russian women are extremely dependent, partly because feminism is pending for the social turbulance they have been through. Well, then, what do you attribute the difficulty for certain women to digest and practice feminism in places where most people are more than stuffed, like wealthy Asian countries?