Tatyana Bulanova was intrigued by the duet: “My young man accepted it right away”

Overseas Madonna proves to us year after year that it is necessary to do duets with young people in order to keep the freshness of musical views and the consciousness unclouded by the mistakes of the past. Our, dear, Tatyana Bulanova, of course, is not as prudent and cold-blooded in choosing a microphone partner as the American show business goddess. It is all the more interesting to watch the choice of her heart and ear, which decide simply and honestly according to the “like – dislike” method, and does not work for the prospect of maintaining popularity.

Tatyana and Alexander met on the set of her duet video with psychic Mehdi Ebrahimi Vafa, which is extravagant in itself. By the way, for this duet, Tatyana mastered the art of rap performance and appropriate gestures, once again proving that any genre is subject to artists of the old pop school. Taking the opportunity of meeting the artist, Gonopolsky invited her to listen to her songs.

“I am a person who does not pay attention to concepts, if I liked it,” the singer recalls the moments of her first impressions of Alexander’s songs. – I said yes! Let’s write it down and that’s it! He was still dancing in parallel, but I was more impressed by the completely new music, although he danced well, – the artist did not forget to make fun of the situation during the meeting.

Inspired by happiness that suddenly fell on his head in the form of a stellar collaboration (after all, Tatyana Bulanova and Alexander Gonopolsky are, to some extent, a creative misalliance), Alexander now promises that a video will be shot for each of their joint songs, and perhaps even they will release a whole album clips. Such lightness of promises is due to the fact that he takes his own director’s vision of the situation as the basis of his creative activity – first he comes up with a clip, and only then, under the picture, he comes up with a song. Accordingly, to write a whole album of joint songs, he will need a whole album of clips-pictures. Bulanova is not embarrassed by such a volume of video work, and she tries to keep the pace of filming and sound recording up to date.

– I specially dangle to Moscow from St. Petersburg almost every three days to record something or shoot something, – the singer said. – So now I am so captured by this process that even my New Year’s Eve days will be busy with this.

Close people understand Tatyana’s creative passion and are very happy for her.

“The children were the first to support our duet with Alexander, and my boyfriend immediately accepted it too,” she clarifies.

Such an opportunity for creative freedom came to Tatiana when she decided to abandon big concerts in favor of corporate performances.

“In the nineties, I traveled around the country, didn’t get out of trains,” the artist recalls. – And when it became possible to work corporate parties for forty minutes, I switched to this format of work. There are also big concerts, for example, three years ago in St. Petersburg the anniversary concert went on for four hours, and even then not all popular songs were included. It was very sincere … one of my friends later said that she did not understand why everyone was crying at my concerts. But I really have something in my voice, I can sing even the most powerful hit song so that I want to cry, – the singer notes with good self-irony.

Tatyana Bulanova, like the Frenchwoman Mylène Farmer, has retained her personal style since the nineties. She still looks organically in the roles of fatal beauties, although she sounds just as organically in retro discos. Oddly enough, it is precisely falling into the “retro” category that makes Bulanova relevant for teenagers.

– At the beginning of the 2000s, it was somehow dumb to listen to even songs from the nineties. Only the new had to be listened to, – Gonopolsky recalls the times of his childhood. – The modern, new, generation is completely different, they have everything interspersed in the track lists, they already perceive the nineties as retro.

As if confirming her “analogue”, Bulanova, even on the set of clips, does everything in the old way, for real. The artists told how, in one of their joint clips, Tanya “flies out” of the time machine, secured with cables, and then dragged her by the leg along the corridor. Tanya performed these difficult tricks without an understudy.

– I was very scared! But if creativity captures, I am ready to forget about everything – and burn everything with a blue flame! Tatyana laughs, remembering that.

Yes, everything was real! When Tanya flies out of the car and her face flies into the distance, it’s real! – Alexander echoes her, amazed by such an unusual behavior of a famous artist who plunges headlong into the creative process.

Suddenly, Roman Ryabtsev appeared in the editorial office in the costume of Santa Claus, who brought his duet with our main ethno-rocker Helavisa as a gift to everyone. Contrary to the stereotypes that he only makes technological pop music, the leader of the cult group Tekhnologiya in the early nineties recalled that back in the last century, the French wrote about some of his songs as ethno-blues. And now he intends to surprise the audience with traditional Irish Celtic folk in his new album, which Ryabtsev describes as “the last”. But, most likely, this is only the last album in terms of chronology, and Roman does not draw a line under his work at all.

Helavisa also did not stay away from the conversation. By video link, she spoke out that she was very good at pop music and had a large selection of Western pop music, and from the domestic one she especially singled out Leonid Agutin, who, of course, according to the singer, “is difficult to limit the scope of pop music.”

— This duet opens up a number of other duets on my last album. I have already said before that I will not go on stage myself anymore. I never liked standing on stage, it was always a difficult test, – Roman shared. – I sometimes even have a nightmare that I have to go on stage, but the equipment is not connected and not minted! And then a terrible fear comes over me! No, that’s all … I left the stage, I’m tired, I can’t take it anymore, I’m tired, ”Roman grumbled into his artificial Dedmorozov beard. – I like to sit in the studio and write songs much more, and then listen to other artists sing my songs.

– But there was a similar case in your career? – recalled the host of the star party, journalist Ilya Legostaev.

– Yes, but not with “Technology”. It was 1989, I was a keyboardist in the duet “Farewell to youth”, we traveled to some Moldovan villages as an opening act for Zhanna Aguzarova, who had just left Bravo. Andryusha Derzhavin was there, and Yosya Prigozhin, who was hairy back in those days, sang the song “My Baby” …

… Meeting people whose careers have been going on for more than a decade is usually fraught with explosions of fireworks of nostalgic memories of the most unexpected and sweet details of the past. But our heroes this time tried more and more to talk about their plans for the future. This means that in thirty years there will be something to remember with a smile.