http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/08/31/109.html
In the Spotlight
Legalize put it succinctly, saying, "We need hot chicks with tits and
ass."
By Anna Malpas
Published: August 31, 2007
This week, MTV Russia launched a new reality show, "R&B Girls," which
brings in a handful of musical gurus to transform some leggy raw material into
a group that will be Russia's answer to the Pussycat Dolls.
The show, which started on Monday, hired the real-life music producer
Alexander Tolmatsky, best known as the father and former producer of
over-privileged rapper Detsl, to preside over the process. Meanwhile Moscow
rapper Legalize is the musical adviser and former television presenter Otar
Kushanashvili is supposed to teach the girls how to talk to the media.
Unlike the talent show formats aired on Channel One and Rossia, "Star
Factory" and "People's Artist," this show doesn't spend lots of time
eliminating no-hopers, but narrows down the field to 10 contestants almost
immediately, out of which six will form the eventual group.
In the first episode, Tolmatsky announced that he is looking for "cute
girls who sing not badly." He went into more detail, explaining that he wanted
"to see breasts" and mentioning a desire to inspire viewers to masturbate.
Which was nice. Legalize put it succinctly, saying, "We need hot chicks with
tits and ass."
Once the exhausting search for an artistic identity was over, the gurus
got down to brass tacks and wheeled in the girls, who had to do a spot of
singing and dancing. There was a blonde one who could sing and a blonde one who
couldn't sing, but had a strap that kept falling down. Don't worry, they both
got through.
The girls also had to answer some searching questions about themselves to
the camera. And it was useful to find out that one "only wears thongs" while
another prefers "pink with black lace." One girl had come prepared and had a
little bikini to wear for the dancing that put the other girls in the shade.
Although she'd better watch her back from now on -- I hear there are things you
can do with nail extensions that would make your hair stand on end.
In some very staged-looking scenes, the girls were shown gossiping on the
stairs about the chances of their fellow contestants. A couple picked a girl
with a slightly unfortunate hair-do as the one most likely to be eliminated.
"She'll get axed first," one said, giggling. The other agreed: "Unless the
stylist works magic."
In another difference from the "Star Factory" and "People's Artist"
formats, the girls don't live together in a Big Brother-style house but have to
arrange their own accommodation in Moscow. It's clearly not a live show, but I
guess it's being shown without a big time-lapse, which makes you wonder about
the contestants watching each other on MTV and sharpening their nail extensions.
Still, they will all be in for a bit of a shock when they hear what the
stylist, Tanya, said about them. Blonde and wearing pearls and a pink-and-white
dress that was more of a stage-set for her cleavage, she complained that the
girls were "cute, but they are all uncared for." The girls were all wearing
makeup, but their "more is more" attitude didn't impress her. "What is going on
with their eyes is an absolute nightmare," she complained.
In the next shows, the girls will go to dance classes and get makeovers
at a beauty salon where "they will do with you whatever I want," Tolmatsky
explained to the contestants. Oh, and there's some singing involved as well.
"You'll learn that being a star is very hard work," he promised, before
sending the girls off home with an ironic military command, "Now you're free."
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