- Love, what do you think, if Zhenya Belousov lived today, was a novice singer and got, say, to the Star Factory, could he become an idol of today's youth?
I don’t know… Maybe I could… But the heart of Zhenya Belousov’s project then was precisely our union. So, if we produced "Factory" with his participation, then we could for sure!
- What kind of book are you writing? Will it be entirely dedicated to Zhenya Belousov? When do you plan to finish and publish?
I am writing a book about how I got into show business and what I did there. There will be several chapters about Zhenya Belousov in this book, of course ... The book is very difficult to write. I planned to finish it in December of this year, but it didn’t work out ... All year I was brought into some other business and projects: there was little time and emotional strength left for the book. So now I can’t say when I will finish the book… I will try to finish the work on the manuscript as soon as possible.
What is the difference between good poetry and bad poetry? Except for the obvious, extreme examples. By what criteria can you evaluate your work?
By no means. Creativity is subjective. I evaluate it like this: if I get goosebumps from poetry, then they are real ...
- Is there a book or movie that made you cry?
I cry only from the poems of Joseph Brodsky ... And the film that broke me into tears is “Once Upon a Time in America” ...
Best of the day
- Love, you are friends with many women, including famous ones (Maria Arbatova). Do you believe in female friendship, free from envy, gossip, rivalry? Do you think true friendship is possible only between “equals” (people of the same social status with approximately the same financial position)?
Actually, I don't really believe in female friendship. Almost all my friends betrayed me in my youth ... As they say, “female friendship, it is up to the first man” ... But Masha and I have 30 years of our acquaintance behind us. Yes, and we are both strong women ... And it so happened that both of us are not envious and do not like to gossip. That’s why they never quarreled, probably ... Well, social status, education and all that is very important, I think ... Because it’s better to be friends without envy, on an equal footing.
- Comparing yourself with Maria, in your LiveJournal you wrote that you would never go into politics. Why?
Because I personally don't care.
- There is an opinion that behind a successful woman there is always a man who helps and supports her. There is also another, more famous, wisdom: behind every great man is a great woman. At the same time, in one of your interviews, you say that loneliness is a companion of a successful person. What is closer to the truth anyway?
How many people, so many opinions. It happens in every way in life ... But most of the great men definitely had great wives, yes ... But for some reason, husbands rarely supported great women. Paradox.
- Love, if you had the opportunity to choose where to be born in your next life, which country would you choose? You lived in the States in the past, why did you return?
I lived in the States for a short time. I wanted to stay there, but my ex-husband yearned for Russia ... As for the next life ... Yes, I would probably be born in Russia again ... It’s interesting to live here.
- Why did the "iron lady of show business" suddenly decide to make contact with a huge number of strangers? I mean LJ (livejournal.com).
I'm generally interested in people. Communication is an energy exchange, mutual enrichment. I left Moscow for the city a year and a half ago. I live in the forest, I rarely communicate with people in real life now ... Therefore, I probably value communication with people in LiveJournal very much ...
- Lyubov, you are a well-known culinary specialist, the creator of the culinary show "Cold Ten" ... Does your family have any culinary traditions associated with the celebration of the New Year, Christmas? What will definitely be present in the upcoming holidays on your table?
Fried poultry, pies, two or three of my favorite salads, homemade boiled pork ... Here is a New Year's recipe from my LiveJournal:
Personally, I love cabbage pie. from any test. From yeast or puff. Recently, by the way, I have used store-bought puff pastry rolled out in a thin layer several times. I cook this cake in a deep pan. It turns out amazing! Because it's all about the stuffing. I do it like this: Pour chopped cabbage with boiling water and boil for 10 minutes over high heat, then put it in a colander, add a lot of onions fried in vegetable oil until pink, greens (dill or parsley or both), 3- 4 finely chopped hard-boiled eggs, 100 grams of butter - while the cabbage is hot, salt. Top the pie with a layer of grated cheese, and then pour a mixture of 2 beaten eggs and 2 tablespoons of sour cream. Well, in the oven it, and that's it!
- Tell us, please, about the most memorable meeting of the New Year in your life. And how do you plan to celebrate New Year 2008?
Once we celebrated the New Year with the composer Yura Antonov in his country house ... Yura bought so many firecrackers and fireworks that we stirred up the whole neighborhood ... A decorated Christmas tree grew right in the yard, and we danced around this Christmas tree ... And all Yuria's dogs danced with us and cats… It was a great New Year! And this year we will celebrate the holiday in our country house. The guests will arrive, and all that... I will cook, of course, I... We already have illumination hanging on the gazebo in the yard. Soon I’ll start decorating the house too ... As for the Christmas tree, we have a forest all around here - choose any ... True, I planted a small blue spruce in our yard, but it won’t grow soon yet ...
- Love, let's finish this interview with your poems? What would you like to dedicate to our readers?
NEW YEAR'S NIGHT (from the series "Childhood")
Standing on tiptoe, stretch
To the riches of the Christmas tree:
Now, immediately, today
Try! And tomorrow let
They scold and deprive of fun,
And in the corridor in a dark corner
Put, and rag dolls
In the closet they are executed with oblivion -
That will be tomorrow!
I timidly tilt the branches
And I freeze with delight
And in the darkness the door turns white...
Behind this door mother's laughter
Father's newspaper crunches,
There is tart tea, there is a festival of light
And the tablecloth is as new as snow...
And the heart - a squirrel in a wheel -
To the top of the Christmas tree blazes!
And now the hand is already taking off
All the "bears" and all the nuts ...
Everything is in chocolate: hands, mouth...
And I fall asleep in bliss
And for some reason I know for sure
That Santa Claus is about to enter.
1983, from my second book of poems "Dictionary of Love".
You don’t have to ask Lyubov Voropaeva how many years she has been in show business, because it was thanks to her that this very business appeared in our country. Despite the fact that since then many changes have taken place in Russia, the poetess and producer in one person is still very much in demand. However, first things first.
-During the times of socialism, the word "show business" was a dirty word and was used exclusively in relation to the Americans. At that time, we had Soviet variety art and Soviet songs. And my late husband Viktor Dorokhin and I became pioneers in the USSR. It was us in show business who created the first production project - Zhenya Belousova - and did it in accordance with Western canons. We created this project in front of the whole country. Literally breathing down our necks, Igor Krutoy came after us with Sasha Serov.
- And what about the example of the group "Tender May"?
This band was more of a social phenomenon than a musical one. She began to develop into a show business phenomenon only after the appearance of Zhenya Belousov.
- What difficulties did you have to face at the beginning of your production activity?
“With everything you could imagine, from accusations that everything we did was complete vulgarity, to racketeering. But the times were interesting and even funny, it was quite possible to make a film in the spirit of Once Upon a Time in America.
We took, literally, a girl from the street, met her when she was finishing school. We trained her, improved the well-being of her family - without going into details, I will say that the situation there was very difficult. And the project ended in failure, because at that moment the girl was rapidly going through puberty
Or write a book. Are you finishing yours yet?
Unfortunately, I write very slowly. I started writing when my husband was very ill, then he died. These memories hold me by the throat so much that, having started writing actively some time ago, I realized that it was causing me a lot of pain, and I paused.
- And now what is it, this show business? It seems to me that it has become somehow stamped and formal.
- Against. People who are actively involved in this field of activity call themselves show businessmen with a measure of pride. Now he has become more professional compared to the time when we started. In those years, the country was closed, and Victor and I were extremely lucky that we had an American friend, he worked in the American embassy. Especially for us, he subscribed to all music publications and constantly brought us all MTV releases on cassettes. We were very knowledgeable people. And Victor was one of the first musicians who learned to work on a computer. There were real universities and educational programs in our house. Tukhmanov and Garanyan came to study with us, a lot of people constantly called with questions, and Viktor advised everyone. We were just lucky, we had access to information.
- Why did you move out of town from Moscow?
- I'm very tired. Until 2009, for 13 years, I did a lot of club events, and besides, I became one of the founders of the event industry in Russia, produced the show, and constantly lived in Moscow night life. These hangouts greatly crippled my health and even my creative state. When you make five or six author's programs a month, you work for wear and tear. My nerves began to fail. Life has become rest days between shows. And I bought myself a country house. It allowed me to calm down, look at my life differently and change it. I joined the online community, immediately opened my blog on LiveJournal and started writing a book. Now the rhythm of my life has changed. Although everything can happen again if I meet people with burning eyes. Only with such people, with talented like-minded people, I could work. If I meet such people, I will return to the event industry without hesitation. I don't rule it out.
On this topic
- And the money will not be able to return you to this activity?
- Money does not turn me on, I have long known the value of myself and my business in this life. I treat them normally, but I do not put earnings in the first place.
I am a creative person, in the first place for me is the realization of my creative ideas, and I am happy only when they are embodied.
Why did you only work with men? Zhenya Belousov, Herr Anton, Andrey Vertuzaev with the Kartush group...
- We once had a wonderful project "Barbie" with Viktor Dorokhin. But this experience was bitter for me. , and we could not keep her from the vicissitudes of life. And when she was two and a half hours late for her solo concert at the most fashionable in those years, the Karusel nightclub on Tverskaya, we terminated the contract with her. There were few nightclubs at that time, and people gathered for it, all the places were sold out. And our girl came right out of bed, all disheveled, and she had to go on stage and work for two hours ... After she sang the whole program with grief in half, Victor and I took her home and said that our contract was no more. So… Work with girls goes fruitfully until the first man. Who loves the girl and dances. That's why I don't like working with girls. I prefer working with men. Although, if the singers turn to us with my new permanent co-author - composer and music producer Nikolai Arkhipov - with a request to write a song, we do not refuse, another thing is that I will never take on a women's project. Although there were a lot of offers. I do not want to waste my nerves on other people's sexual instincts.
- At the very beginning of your production activities, there was romance in your songs, just remember the song “My blue-eyed girl”, and now other themes, more cynical, come to the fore. Is romance really only retro?
- It all depends on the artist with whom you work. Nikolai Arkhipov and I are still writing wonderful lyrical songs for the finest lyricist Leusz Lubich, and our joint song “I'm Alone, You're Alone” with him even aroused the admiration of Didier Marouani, the founder of the legendary Space group, who unexpectedly left me the warmest comments to this song, posted by me in my LiveJournal, and even sent me a letter with an offer to work on the Russian texts of his works. If you are referring to the Lonely Man project by Gerr Anton, a Russian artist from Hamburg, then I can say that Lyubov Voropaeva is no stranger to ironic poetry. Back in the 80s, in the heading “Ironic Poetry of the 12 Chairs Club” in the “Literaturnaya Gazeta” there was a permanent author - Lyubov Voropaeva, and this author wrote a huge number of ironic and humorous poems. Recently, a person asked me: “Love, you write such wonderful lyrical poems, where did you get “Lonely Man” from? How so?" And I answered him: “Do you know all the work of the author Lyubov Voropaeva? I also work with three rock bands that play in the styles of new alternative and new punk. So Lyubov Voropaeva calmly writes punk texts, sometimes even with a mother!” "As! he was horrified. - Can't be!" - “Go to the Yandex search engine on the Internet, find the Stinger, Reactor or Spray groups there, listen to the songs, read the lyrics. And understand that Lyubov Voropaeva is a multifaceted person. And in the same Herr Anton project, of course, there is an element of punk somewhere!
- How did Anton appear in your life?
- Through the Internet. In general, he knew both my name and my projects for a very long time. He was associated with music and TV. I can't tell you more about this yet. Then he left for Germany and decided, by communicating with me via the Internet, to fulfill his old dream. He just tried to sing, and our first joint song “A Lonely Man” immediately became a hit that blew up the discos in Germany, Russia, and now Ukraine ..
- Do you go to discos yourself?
- At the moment, of course, I don’t go, but I constantly watch them on YouTube on the Web. In general, I really like dance music and in the car I listen exclusively to dance radio stations. So I follow all the news happening in this musical direction, very carefully, I collect and analyze all the information. In our tandem with Nikolai Arkhipov, who not only writes music, but also arranges all our songs himself and records them in our studio, working also as a music producer, we get today, in my opinion, a very high quality musical product.
- Isn't it a shame that now songs are called, like everything else in a consumer society, products?
- I spoke about the product as the result of labor. But this doesn’t hurt me, because I am an Internet person, I live in the spirit with time and nothing breaks me in this time. My LJ blog has a huge number of young friends, 18-19-year-old readers of mine. It means that something in me attracts them, if they read me, write letters to me, consult with me. Sometimes I even suggest where it is better for them to enter, which institute, I give someone advice in their personal lives, they do not run to their parents, but to me. This means that they trust me and feel that I understand them, that we are contemporaries with them.
LOVE VOROPAEV
Poems from the book "Dictionary of Love"
LIVED - JOKING, BUT STILL IS WHITE:
HANDWRITTEN LETTERS...
MY RIVER WAS FULL, FULL,
DID NOT LEAK INTO DRAFTS.
I DON'T REMEMBER A SINGLE CASE
TO - TOTALLY, TO - FOR A THIRD ...
... OH, THIS IS GENE, DENSE:
FALL IN LOVE TO DEATH AND BURN!
ONCE MY DOLL WAS LOST...
WE WERE SEARCHING FOR HER, AND SHE STAYED
TO LIE IN THE AUTUMN PARK ON THE BENCH.
HER OTHER CHILDREN PICKED UP.
ONCE MY CHILDHOOD LOST.
IT PROBABLY WAS THIS DOLL,
AND HERE IS REMAINED IN THE PARK ON A BENCH.
HIS OTHER CHILDREN PICKED UP.
AH, THINGS! WHY ABOUT THIS DOLL?
YES THE THING IS THAT I LOVE IT
AND ONCE I FORGOT IT,
ACCIDENTALLY THROWING IN THE PARK ON A BENCH...
I FORGOT IT AND I STILL REMEMBER.
ME OF YOUR SPEECHES -
WHAT BURDIN IN THE MEADOW...
PREVIOUSLY BELIEVE IN SINCERE,
NOW I CAN'T.
I used to run around the yard,
PLAYED WITH WORDS...
NOW I STOMP IN THE WORLD,
LIVE BARELY.
TWO DAWNS
THE WINNERS CLEARED THE SNOW.
TRENKALA OF THE LANTERN HORSESHOOTING.
GIRL I LOVE EVERYONE
HAPPY AND AWESOME.
WIPERS KILL SNOW.
HORSESHING LAMP HAS CRACKED.
I LOVE ONE OF ALL
GREAT AND AWESOME.
HUNDRED WOMEN LET THEM GO FOR YOU
AND THE HYMNS OF LOVE ARE SINGING!
LET THE BURDEN OF FATE BE CARRIED FOR YOU
AND THE HYMNS OF LOVE ARE SINGING!
HUNDRED WOMEN LET THEM GO FOR YOU,
ALL LIFE ARE COMING FOR YOU!
ONE HUNDRED WOMEN LET DIE FOR YOU.
HUNDRED WOMEN - IN ME ONE.
CHILD WALKS UNDER AN UMBRELLA
AND IS TALKING ABOUT ICE CREAM,
AND THE RAIN FLYS AND JOYS,
AND THE WORLD IS FILLED WITH MISSNESS.
THE CHILD WALKS UNDER THE UMBRELLA,
THE SILVER BABY LAUGHS:
HE DOESN'T SUCCESS
FROM UNDER THE UMBRELLA TO SEE THE HOUSE.
THE CHILD WALKS UNDER THE UMBRELLA,
MY CURLY LOOK,
MY FUNNY TOMBSTONE
FROM WARM BLOOD WITH MILK.
THE CHILD WALKS UNDER THE UMBRELLA,
AND I'M WALKING UNDER THE RAIN...
“KNOW, SON, THAT THE WORLD IS HARD.
THERE ARE NO AVAILABLE PLACES ANYWHERE.
EVERY CRICKET - ON YOUR WHITE.
EVERY COCK - TO YOUR ROCK”
SON ROTATS HEAD
METER NINETY-FIVE:
“HOW TO KNOW WHICH IS YOURS?”
... MY GOD, HOW TO KNOW?!
LOST ALL THE WORDS THAT I WANTED TO SAY.
THOUGHTS RACED AROUND AND AGAINST.
A BODY ASCENTED AS AN IMPOSTER TO THE THRONONE.
OH, HOW SHORT YOUR AGE, IMPOSTER THIEF!
IN the meantime, GIVE OUT YAKHONT AND GOLD,
DRINK FROM THE ROYAL LAKE BRAGA DOPIANA,
THAT THE BLIND IN FURY, WHEN PAYING COMES,
JUMP FROM THE WINDOW WITHOUT REGRETING ABOUT ANYTHING.
INTO THE BLOOD OF THE SOLE ON THE ICE BROKEN,
EVERYTHING WAS - LIKE A FURIOUS SQUARE.
“YOU ARE DEAR TO ME”, - SCREAMING TO THE WHEEZING.
JUST HE DID NOT SAY ANYTHING.
GRAPEVINE ENVELOPED,
RIPE JUICE DROPPED ON THE FELLOW.
“YOU ARE DEAR TO ME”, - SLEEPLESSLY WHISPERED.
JUST HE DID NOT SAY ANYTHING.
ON THE LIFEless ZINC SLOPE
STRIPED HER NUDE.
HE SAID, “REMOVE YOUR HANDS.
THIS WOMAN IS DEAR TO ME.”
CONSTELLATION OF APPLES
WHERE TO GO? BEHIND THESE? FOR THEME?
KNOWING YOURSELF IS MORE DIFFICULT THAN LIE...
SHOULD YOU SPIDE IN A CROWDED SMALL TEMPLE?
SHOULD I GO WITH A LIGHT INTO THE RAVINE?
EVERYTHING IS AT ME AND AT ALL, AND AT ANYWAY, AND ON THE SIDE ...
And - STOP THINKING ABOUT CRAFTS!
SEPTEMBER BLOWED OUT THE CONSTELLATION OF APPLES.
AND MY PAIN - IN THE SINGULAR NUMBER.
FRIENDS GO. WHO - TO OTHERS. WHO - TO THE GRAVE.
A TEAR - NOT TO MY FACE. TO THE FACE - HAM.
FRIENDS, THROUGH YOU I PROCESSED MYSELF
AND A DROP OF HEAVY IS DANGING AT THE BOTTOM
PARTING.
AND YOU WON'T COME BACK TO ME.
I'm empty without you. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME WITHOUT YOU.
I TRADE YOU FOR THE SMELL OF HOUSING.
THE SIGN OF FRIENDSHIP WILL SHINE FOR A MOMENT, LIKE A KNIFE, BUT
FALSE WILL BE STARTED IN OVERGROWED LAWNS...
YOU WILL NOT COME BACK TO ME, FRIENDS.
I SHOULD NOT SIGNAL YOU FROM THE CAPE WITH A HANDKERCHIEF,
LET WATER COME TO YOUR KNEES...
I AM TOO COMMON SENSE
SO EVEN IN LONGING NOT TO BURN WITH SHAME.
... AND YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK TO ME...
* * *
THE BREATH OF LIFE IN THE GOLDEN WEATHER
FLYING YEARS BECOMES EQUAL.
I LOOK INTO MYSELF MORE
THAN IN THE MIRRORS... I HEAR THE MUSIC MORE.
BITTERING SPIRIT OF MOWED MEADOW
HIT IN THE NOSTRILS, BUT FEAR PASSED.
ONLY SAVE FROM Idle Leisure
AND FROM THE SNAKE TENDERNESS OF FRIENDS.
FAREWELL, YOUTH! YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL IF
I'M DRIVING YOU AWAY BEFORE THE TIME...
BUT THE RIGHT TO BE IN AUTUMN IN THE REGISTER
THE BEAUTY I CAN'T COMPARE TO ANYTHING.
I WAS YOUNG AND EVIL...
ALL DOUBTS CUT OFF THE SHOULDER,
DIFFICULT WORLD BY SPARKING TO KNOW
OF YOUR BATTLE SWORD.
THE WORLD WAS FULL OF MYSTERIES AND PAIN,
POUSED A COLORLESS SPEECH INTO MY LAUNCH...
DECREASING IN VALUE IS I, WHAT?! -
THE SWORD BECOMES INCREASABLE.
EVERY EVENING I CUT CLOTHES,
WITHOUT A PATTERN, AND SO, BY THE EYE:
THEN I WILL CUT MY HOPE,
THAT OUT OF PAIN I WILL MAKE A BELT.
THERE ARE NO CLOTHES, YOU ARE MY GOD,
TO - Whack! - AND FOR ALL TIMES!
YOU CREATE THEM FROM LIFE YOURSELF,
AND THERE IS NO SERIOUS FABRIC!
I DREAMED THAT THE TRUTH IS LIGHT.
IT turned out that the truth is terrifying.
BEFORE HER I AM LITTLE SMALL,
AND SHE CRUSHED ME.
GREATLY BLOWED WITH A CONCRETE PLATE,
LIKE ARROW, EXCLAMATION POINT:
- IF YOU CAN NOT SING, THEN DON'T SING,
IF YOU CAN'T, TRY THIS!
I WRITTEN AND WRITTEN EVIL,
SILK - IN RAGS, AND NAILS - IN THE EARTH ...
BUT THE SMILE WAS LIGHT
BY MY SHREDDED CHICKONE.
THE SHADY FLAME BURNED OUT,
THREATING A BRUTAL OVERNIGHT.
OLD PEOPLE FUCKED US
AND LEFT WITH AX AND ROPE.
FIREWOOD LEFT - ON THE SMALLEST,
AND WIND WOLVES HOWLING.
WE DID NOT SLEEP THAT NIGHT. WE FEEL LIKE -
UNTIL DAWN WE WILL MAKE SURE.
THIS IS ALL ... BLACKED LOGS,
GRAY ASH CRASHED BROWN...
... BUT - WE ARE A LIVING GENERATION,
DESPITE YOUR INFANTITY!..
AND IT'S NOT IN vain that we SUDDENLY HAVE THIS:
EVIL TEARS TO SWALLOW WITH FEAR
AND TEETH KNOCKING UNTIL DAWN,
CLOSELY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER.
* * *
MY PERSONAL ACCOUNT, ACCORDING TO THE ADDITION RULES,
INCREASES THE PAIN OF SAVINGS,
AND I AM NOT THE ONE, BELIEVE ME, I AM NOT ALREADY
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY THAT THE DAY WAS AGO...
WITH THE PLUS SIGN I ACCEPT ANY MINUS,
NOT EVERYTHING IS EQUAL - WHAT IS COSINUS, WHAT IS SINE?!
TO THE HYPOTENUSE OF ETERNITY THEY HAVE US
AT SOME POINT THEY ARE NAILED.
MY PERSONAL ACCOUNT HAS ALREADY BEEN OPENED FOR LOSSES...
I ENTER THE DAY AS IF IN THE MORNING, THERE,
WHERE THE NIGHT WALKS THROUGH THE DARK SQUARES
OF MY SOUL LAUNCHED IN HOUSEHOLD...
AND THE GRAY STRANDS ALREADY CROWNED ON THE TEMPLE,
SCOUTS FROM A THIN NOTEBOOK,
WHICH I DO NOT SLEEP AT NIGHTS FOR THE SAKE,
I SWEAR ON THE BITTER IN THE MOUTH!
TATIANA BEK
FURNACE POETERS - NOT PANCAKES ROUGH FURNACE...
THE SPIRIT - PIERCES, AND THE SMELL - HAVES.
PANCAKE WILL BURN - THE HUSBAND FORGIVES,
A NATIVE SPEECH
WILL NOT FORGIVE WHAT IS NOT ENOUGH ...
ONLY - PAIN, ONLY - SALT ...
NOT THAT FROM THE CEILING
LEAVE LIKE A DAMNED FLY.
ANY FLOUR IS SUITABLE ON PANCAKES,
FOR POEMS - ONLY BLACK FLOUR.
FOR SOMETHING YOUR FATE CURSES
IT'S EASIER THAN FIGHTING HER...
MORE PULLING TO FALL AND ACCESS,
MORE LONGER PULLS TO SUGGEST...
ACCEPT MY CHALLENGE, FATE
BELORUCHKI, OPENING THE VEINS!
I DO NOT SIT FOR A BEAUTIFUL FOREHEAD,
TO BREAK ON THE WALLS.
NIGHT COMES. A GROVE THINKS THOUGHTS.
AND AGAIN THE FORMER Crawls in tatters
NOT AS WELL AS I WANT TO REMEMBER,
A- DAMN IT! - TOTALLY THE OVERSEAS.
IT SEEMED: I WALKED THROUGH LIFE AS ON A CLOUD,
HANGED - ALL - ON THE TIP OF THE PEN...
AH, DON'T GO, VINA, HANDLE WITH ME,
AH, DON'T DESTROY REST UNTIL THE MORNING!..
BUT THERE IS NO, A SURPRISING LIFE!
LEAD ME, WHERE - DRY, WHERE - SWIMMING,
TO THE RELIGIOUS LAND, WHERE THE CLOUDS ARE INSTEAD OF A MONTH,
AND INSTEAD OF DREAMS - A TALENTED REALITY.
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She is a poetess, songwriter, producer, winner of the Song of the Year award - and she succeeds in everything.
Love knows how to combine the incompatible. These terms form her unique personality and charisma. She is a romantic hooligan, stylish and attractive.
Lyubov Grigorievna, how can you successfully combine the tender, quivering soul of a poetess and the business acumen of an iron lady of show business?
My grip is not business, but professional. Outside the profession, I am a poet and a woman. And in general, if to speak seriously, life is not easy for me. However, like all of us!
- Have you already written your book about Russian show business? How did you get into it?
I haven’t written the book yet, I just started and abandoned it due to personal circumstances, and most likely I won’t finish it in the near future. It’s just that work distracts all the time - orders for songs, and I plow, I need to live on something! And I got into show business by accident: my late husband Viktor Dorokhin and I were the first to start professionally doing it in our country, becoming the first producers to make a real show business product according to the Western model - the Zhenya Belousov project. That's how I got into show business, and even the word "producer" was the first to install in our society, in one of my interviews with the MK newspaper, and everyone else followed us!
- Is it really a "ball of kissing snakes"?
In the form in which our show business exists now, it is worse than this very tangle of kissing bastards. However, I have precisely determined for myself a place in the modern system of relationships in this very show business: I am out of them!
- You were supported when your husband was seriously ill - composer and producer Viktor Dorokhin. Has anyone helped?
When I once turned to my colleagues for help, and Victor began to get seriously ill back in the 90s, everyone helped me! Victor then lay in the hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he underwent a serious operation on the spine. The New Year was approaching, and the head of the hospital asked me to arrange a small New Year's "sponsorship" concert for the medical staff of this hospital. At first I was a little scared, because all the artists in those days were already in full swing with the so-called New Year's Eve, but when I started calling, everyone immediately agreed. And what do you think - the whole color of the then show business of the country came to the concert in this hospital! We didn’t have a concert in the hospital, but just the finale of “Song of the Year”! Artists came right in concert costumes from other venues and left for other concerts in them. I remember that Anzhelika Varum then threw a fur coat right on a light translucent dress and drove off to the airport! But Viktor Dorokhin was ill for many years, and I never abused the kindness of my colleagues again ...
Lyubov Voropaeva and Joseph Kobzon
- What kind of lifestyle do you need to lead to be successful in this world of show business?
You have to be natural and sincere, love yourself and your neighbors, do what you love. We must rejoice at every new day, life itself, and smile at the world right in the morning! However, this is consistent only with my personal concept of success. Many today think differently: they are more important than set-ups and loot, they climb this heap to their “success”!
- Lyuba, is it true that you can start a general cleaning or grand cooking at night?
I'm an owl, and that says it all! At night I have a lot of strength and energy, I can "move mountains"! But most often, as I noticed after myself, I begin to work in the field of household chores with increased attention before I sit down for creative work. I seem to be delaying the main thing, what it is intended for - apparently, I am gathering strength and charging in this way for the flight!
- What culinary dishes did you invent?
When I cook, I always invent, not a single dish I have prepared sins without improvisation! Even if I take a recipe from the Web, I always cook with my own nuances and digressions. Cooking is also creativity, only inspiration rules here! Today I cooked eggplant on the grill and immediately posted my recipe on social networks.
3 medium-sized eggplants, cut lengthwise and put in salted water for an hour to get rid of bitterness. Remove the eggplant from the water, wipe dry with a paper towel and place on the top rack in the oven. Grill mode, that is, “strong heat” - fry for 10 minutes on each side. Put the eggplants in a salad bowl, and while they are hot, sprinkle with finely chopped cilantro, parsley, garlic from the garlic press, finely chopped walnuts and pour over the sauce of white wine vinegar and olive oil (1 table spoon + 1 table spoon). Cover with a lid and let it brew for 1 hour.
Did you impress your current spouse Nikolai Arkhipov, also a composer and producer, with culinary art or unique feminine charm?
He treats my culinary art with respect, but coolly, as he still eats food “like in childhood”. His favorite dish is naval pasta with beef stew! Kissel loves more. Often indulges in fast food. And now, I don’t have a grateful taster in his face - my culinary masterpieces are appreciated by everyone around, except for him. So, the point, apparently, is in my female charms, and of course, in the fact that from the very beginning we are united by a common cause. We write songs together, which means it's also about my talent!
- For what actions do you especially appreciate him?
My current husband has done a lot of valuable things in relation to me: starting with the fact that he introduced me to the Internet, teaching me all the basics and nuances of the relationship with the computer, and ending with the fact that he makes me coffee every morning! I have low blood pressure, and without morning coffee, I would have a hard time. In addition, I am a complete felt boots in all domestic matters, with the exception of cooking, I don’t even drive a car, and my husband takes on all these difficulties.
Your mother is many years old, but she has retained her attractive appearance and youthful energy. How did she do it?
This is love and the extraordinary power of the Spirit! She and dad have lived together for more than 60 years, and still walk by the hand, hug and kiss. And they coo like with each other - put out the light! My parents are one! Their generation learned all the hardships and horrors of the history of our country and did not break. All of them should be given the lifetime title of heroes. As for proper nutrition, yes, my parents eat eco-friendly food all their lives, and get out into nature, and read good books, and watch TV a little, walk every day ... Well done!
You will have time to do projects, housework, pay attention to your spouse ... What is the secret of the "perpetual motion machine"?
Genes and character!
Photo from personal LJ
- Maintained a slim figure. Is it also genetics?
Work on yourself and diet. In this sense, like most women, I either get better, indulging my little weaknesses, or I take on myself and lose weight!
- How do you relieve stress, why are you crying?
I have already seen so much grief in my life that I almost never cry “about”. Tears in my eyes can suddenly appear from the wind or from some work of art that will pierce me. And in a situation of pain and stress, I can suddenly smile, my defense works like that! A couple of times in serious situations, psychologists even worked with me, for which I thank them very much, otherwise I set myself up and sleep a lot under stress. I get out of conflicts simply: I try not to get into them. I just move away from the conflicting side and stop the energy exchange.
- What do you advise people who cry into your vest?
Think good! After all, our thoughts materialize.
- By virtue of your position, you simply must always be stylish. Where do you buy clothes, do you know how to sew?
I don’t know how to sew, I dress “for going out” in boutiques abroad and at home. I have a friend who owns a multi-brand boutique in Moscow, so it’s easier for me in this sense - Karina knows my taste and has been ordering things for me in Paris and Milan for many years. However, at home and in everyday life, I prefer a sporty style: jeans, T-shirts, sweaters - it's more convenient for me!
- How do you create comfort in your country house near Moscow? What is his feature?
The feature of my home is myself, with all my impulses! I furnished the first floor of the house with heavy handmade Thai furniture with bronze studs, in the style of a kind of castle ... Such an impulse I once had! I ordered a kitchen suddenly expensive, with built-in Siemens appliances. When I spend the winter in a Moscow apartment, I think: well, why did I throw so much money down the drain, well, what the hell is all this worth the whole winter in an unheated house ?! In short, these are my chips and troubles! Plus fuss with all sorts of flowers in the yard.
- How do you take care of your face?
I'm thinking about a roundabout. So far, I'm just thinking ... I did blepharoplasty in 2004. I use the services of a specialist cosmetologist - in the sense of Botox injections. I'm not hiding this from anyone! I am smeared with the most modern creams and serums for the skin on a natural basis. I agree that you need to grow old with dignity, but it seems to me that this phrase has a slightly different meaning: you need to draw conclusions from the past years, first of all, and develop your soul! As for appearance, you should be a charming woman to the last breath!
Are you friends with sports?
I am not friends with sports. I'm a homebody, I'm too lazy to even walk. I can’t learn to walk “for the sake of health”, I usually have to set some goal for myself, then I go. But if picking mushrooms is considered some kind of sport, then here I am an ace - a passionate mushroom picker! I can run for mushrooms in the forest at least all day long and not get tired.
- What secrets should a true woman have in order to always have a comrade-in-arms, a faithful companion?
I don't know... I think that one should love the person who is near. Just love is all. And if there is no love, then at least respect, because respect is sometimes even more important than intimate relationships! And one more thing: sometimes it seems to me that a woman who cannot live alone always finds a mate. And a woman who is emancipated or plays the role of such a person does not find it. Everything is in us!
- What words should a wife use to calm her husband when he is angry?
It's better to be silent! After all, there are men who lack energy, and they vampire their wives, yell at them in order to feed on their reciprocal energy flow. Here it is better to be silent, not to start, even to leave the room. Because in this case, the "aggressor" is quickly blown away, and he no longer has the strength to "bazaar"!
- How do you remove aggression from people?
I put on a protective shell, I am silent, I often smile.
Lyubov Voropaeva and Irina Miroshnichenko
- Do you have favorite celebrity friends?
Masha Arbatova, Volodya Vishnevsky, the Presnyakov family...
- Is the real image of the "star" in life very different from her virtual image in life?
Someone like. Those who flirt "in the star" in real life often fall out of this reality, and some fall out for good, God rest them!
You are engaged in various musical projects. Who are your favorite artists among those who have already been promoted?
My husband and I loved only Zhenya Belousov as our own. All the rest, in terms of their human qualities, turned out to be on the wrong wave and height. I am not promoting talent in the sense of transferring my experience in show business, "cultivating" an artist and promoting him - there is no one to transfer experience to yet. Although I do not rule out that a person may appear who will trust me recklessly and unconditionally, which means that he will become a superstar under my leadership! In general, of course, I help all the artists, without exception, who record our songs with Nikolai Arkhipov.
- Can you remember the saddest day of your life?
Sad ... Terrible: the death of my husband Viktor Dorokhin. The ambulance was late due to traffic jams for forty-something minutes, Vitya died in my arms ...
- And the most joyful?
Oh, how many there were! Actually, I’m still a comedian ... We are sitting somehow with a friend in a Yalta restaurant at a table, joking. I put on luminous rabbit ears for fun, and the whole restaurant stares at them - the place was a respectable one. I go up to the musicians, give them money and order “A Song About Hares” for myself, my beloved, for “our dear Lyubov Voropaeva”. The musicians ask me: “Are you the same Lyubov Voropaeva?” I say: “Yes, but today I am a bunny” ... I went out to dance to this very song. The musicians played and sang, dying with laughter. Then, as a bonus, they decided to play the “Song about Hares” for me again ... Then I got emotional, climbed onto the stage, and sang this song with them from beginning to end to the stormy applause of the audience ...
Stars protect their personal lives from prying eyes, and come up with virtual engagements and weddings for PR. So?
The personal and sexual lives of our stars are always interested in the yellow press. Some publications even pay celebrities good royalties for this kind of "exclusives", for supposedly "leaking information". Do not believe the indignant exclamations of the "exposed" in this kind of "events", and even their endless trials and other lawsuits with the tabloids - this is all PR. And without this, nowhere, stars without scandals will not be stars, and tabloids will close, and the rating of most news sites will collapse, and at work people will have nothing to discuss with each other ... Demand creates supply!
Photo from newsmuz.com
After all, wherever you go, to any office or to a store, you will always hear a heated argument out of the corner of your ear about whether Pugacheva lives with Galkin and “why does he need all this, because he is rich ...” they forget to tell the paparazzi where and what time they will appear together! And the paparazzi swear through their teeth, but they go to photograph them - in the cold and in the heat, both early in the morning and late in the evening ... Because the "social order" - the people want to know!
Alla Borisovna is a unique person in this regard. As she was the number one newsmaker under Brezhnev, she remained under Putin, and even, God bless her, and it will continue ... Because she is a folk singer, she knows what her beloved people want from her.
By the way, if Galkin becomes familiar, then Palkin or someone else will appear. Would you consider a photo of Alla Borisovna watering dill in the garden or sniffing dahlias in the country? Well, they would look once and, yawning, put it aside ... And when Maxim kisses her, meeting her at the station, and even with flowers in her hands - it rolls! I was terribly scared for Pugacheva when she started touring with Zverev. The journalists then perked up, timidly tried to concoct rumors about their great love, and I thought: “Is Alla really digging her own grave ?!” But no, it passed ... Galkin appeared just in time!
- What do you wish to losers-losers so that wings grow behind their backs?
Losers don't grow wings behind their backs. They grow only in those who are tuned to their growth and scope! Therefore, I advise those who have "lowered their paws" to quickly begin to reshape themselves.
- Love, do you still have dreams that you have not fulfilled?
Full-full! And every day there are new ones. I line them up according to their importance for this or that segment of my life. And they stand in this line meekly and patiently waiting. And always come true, thank God!
- What kind of quatrain will you give us so that the soul rejoices?
If I give you a lyrical quatrain, then I may not coincide with one of you in mood, my dears! And so I’ll tell you a quatrain about myself, my beloved:
From the right family, speak languages
I didn’t take merits and friends from the ceiling ...
And also not with a gun, but with bare hands
Went - and more than once! - one per man!
The name of Lyubov Voropaeva has already entered the history of Russian music. A talented poet, songwriter, producer, she raised many stars of Russian show business. It was thanks to her that the country recognized Zhenya Belousov. Songs based on Lyubov's verses were performed by Leontiev, Semyonova, Lolita, Dolina, Ponarovskaya, Presnyakov Jr., VIA Vesyolye Rebyata, Aria group, Nadzhiev, Ukupnik, Kemerovsky and many others. Especially for MyJane.ru readers, Lyubov shared her thoughts on poetry, loneliness, female friendship, as well as her signature New Year's recipe.
- Love, what do you think, if Zhenya Belousov lived today, was a novice singer and got, say, to the Star Factory, could he become an idol of today's youth?
I don’t know… Maybe I could… But the heart of Zhenya Belousov’s project then was precisely our union. So, if we produced "Factory" with his participation, then we could for sure!
- What kind of book are you writing? Will it be entirely dedicated to Zhenya Belousov? When do you plan to finish and publish?
I am writing a book about how I got into show business and what I did there. There will be several chapters about Zhenya Belousov in this book, of course ... The book is very difficult to write. I planned to finish it in December of this year, but it didn’t work out ... All year I was brought into some other business and projects: there was little time and emotional strength left for the book. So now I can’t say when I will finish the book… I will try to finish the work on the manuscript as soon as possible.
What is the difference between good poetry and bad poetry? Except for the obvious, extreme examples. By what criteria can you evaluate your work?
By no means. Creativity is subjective. I evaluate it like this: if I get goosebumps from poetry, then they are real ...
- Is there a book or movie that made you cry?
I cry only from the poems of Joseph Brodsky ... And the film that broke me into tears is “Once Upon a Time in America” ...
- Love, you are friends with many women, including famous ones (Maria Arbatova). Do you believe in female friendship, free from envy, gossip, rivalry? Do you think true friendship is possible only between “equals” (people of the same
social status with approximately the same financial position)?
Actually, I don't really believe in female friendship. Almost all my friends betrayed me in my youth ... As they say, “female friendship, it is up to the first man” ... But Masha and I have 30 years of our acquaintance behind us. Yes, and we are both strong women ... And it so happened that both of us are not envious and do not like to gossip. That’s why they never quarreled, probably ... Well, social status, education and all that is very important, I think ... Because it’s better to be friends without envy, on an equal footing.
- Comparing yourself with Maria, in your LiveJournal you wrote that you would never go into politics. Why?
Because I personally don't care.
- There is an opinion that behind a successful woman there is always a man who helps and supports her. There is also another, more famous, wisdom: behind every great man is a great woman. At the same time, in one of your interviews, you say that loneliness is a companion of a successful person. What is closer to the truth anyway?
How many people, so many opinions. It happens in every way in life ... But most of the great men definitely had great wives, yes ... But for some reason, husbands rarely supported great women. Paradox.
- Love, if you had the opportunity to choose where to be born in your next life, which country would you choose? You lived in the States in the past, why did you return?
I lived in the States for a short time. I wanted to stay there, but my ex-husband yearned for Russia ... As for the next life ... Yes, I would probably be born in Russia again ... It’s interesting to live here.
- Why is the "iron lady of show business
suddenly decided to make contact with a huge number of strangers? I mean LJ (livejournal.com).
I'm generally interested in people. Communication is an energy exchange, mutual enrichment. I left Moscow for the city a year and a half ago. I live in the forest, I rarely communicate with people in real life now ... Therefore, I probably value communication with people in LiveJournal very much ...
- Lyubov, you are a well-known culinary specialist, the creator of the culinary show "Cold Ten" ... Does your family have any culinary traditions associated with the celebration of the New Year, Christmas? What will definitely be present in the upcoming holidays on your table?
Fried poultry, pies, two or three of my favorite salads, homemade boiled pork ... Here is a New Year's recipe from my LiveJournal:
Personally, I love cabbage pie. from any test. From yeast or puff. Recently, by the way, I have used store-bought puff pastry rolled out in a thin layer several times. I cook this cake in a deep pan. It turns out amazing! Because it's all about the stuffing. I do it like this: Pour chopped cabbage with boiling water and boil for 10 minutes over high heat, then put it in a colander, add a lot of onions fried in vegetable oil until pink, greens (dill or parsley or both), 3- 4 finely chopped hard-boiled eggs, 100 grams of butter - while the cabbage is hot, salt. Top the pie with a layer of grated cheese, and then pour a mixture of 2 beaten eggs and 2 tablespoons of sour cream. Well, in the oven it, and that's it!
- Tell us, please, about the most memorable meeting of the New Year in your life. And how do you plan to meet But
you 2008?
Once we celebrated the New Year with the composer Yura Antonov in his country house ... Yura bought so many firecrackers and fireworks that we stirred up the whole neighborhood ... A decorated Christmas tree grew right in the yard, and we danced around this Christmas tree ... And all Yuria's dogs danced with us and cats… It was a great New Year! And this year we will celebrate the holiday in our country house. The guests will arrive, and all that... I will cook, of course, I... We already have illumination hanging on the gazebo in the yard. Soon I’ll start decorating the house too ... As for the Christmas tree, we have a forest all around here - choose any ... True, I planted a small blue spruce in our yard, but it won’t grow soon yet ...
- Love, let's finish this interview with your poems? What would you like to dedicate to our readers?
NEW YEAR'S NIGHT (from the series "Childhood")
Standing on tiptoe, stretch
To the riches of the Christmas tree:
Now, immediately, today
Try! And tomorrow let
They scold and deprive of fun,
And in the corridor in a dark corner
Put, and rag dolls
In the closet they are executed with oblivion -
That will be tomorrow!
I timidly tilt the branches
And I freeze with delight
And in the darkness the door turns white...
Behind this door mother's laughter
Father's newspaper crunches,
There is tart tea, there is a festival of light
And the tablecloth is as new as snow...
And the heart - a squirrel in a wheel -
To the top of the Christmas tree blazes!
And now the hand is already taking off
All the "bears" and all the nuts ...
Everything is in chocolate: hands, mouth...
And I fall asleep in bliss
And for some reason I know for sure
That Santa Claus is about to enter.
1983, from my second book of poems "Dictionary of Love".
