City crazy: Plazma. Plazma group about scandals, women, star disease and Azerbaijan Maxim Valentinovich bed
The Plazma group broke into radio stations in 2000 almost instantly. Hits Take My Love, The Sweetest Surrender, Lonely, You "ll Never Meet An Angel, One Life - an amazing combination for Russia English text and European quality sound. Meanwhile, the authors of these energetic melodies - Maxim Postelny and Roman Chernitsin - are simple guys from Volgograd. Now they are going to turn their duet into a trio.
You are looking for a girl in the team. For what?
Maksim: We have long wanted to have a couple of moving girls in the team. Well, or one girl who will play the keys, the tambourine or the harmonica. In a word, something bright, scenic. And then suddenly it became interesting how female vocals would sound within the framework of the Plazma group. Why not? There are a lot of girls who sing! Unlike us, she could sing in Russian.
What should this girl look like?
Roman: Well, we do not have strict requirements for appearance: blonde or brunette. The most important thing is that she was a person, a special energy emanated from her. What our final choice will depend on, we don't know yet... Maybe it's the vocal abilities or the ability to present oneself. Or maybe it will be something special on the outside.
Maksim: If she is a truly charismatic person, I am even ready to give her my place in the team. Is it true! The alignment will be as follows: in front - Roman, slightly approaching him on the line - a girl. Well, behind me, your obedient servant. And already behind me - the whole armada of musicians.
Was it difficult in Moscow when you arrived?
Roman: Yes, the first year. When we left for Moscow, we were very popular group in Volgograd. And in the capital no one knew us, in the subway, of course, they did not recognize us.
Maksim: The most cruel thing was that the girls did not throw themselves on the neck!
Probably over your stage images conjured metropolitan stylists?
Roman: We've never had a stylist do something drastic with us against our wishes. We always try to listen to the stylist, but so that it does not contradict our inner feelings.
Maksim: I generally let go, let go of my hair, and when I got married, my wife immediately cut it off. Then another girl appeared, her hair became even shorter. When I become bald, know: I have achieved what I dreamed of! Girls - a lot!
Roman is married to singer Irina Dubtsova. And what about your personal life, Maxim?
Maxim: I'm free. I'm on a creative quest. I have no special requirements for a potential companion. Like the fact that the blonde, height 180, 90-60-90, the nose is such and such, the shape of the eyes is such and such. Only stupid girls rage.
How do you like to relax?
Roman: As a rule, we gather in a narrow circle of close friends and leave for quiet places. When there is little time, we go to Volgograd, if there is a lot of time, we fly abroad. Lying for hours on the beach is the dumbest thing you can think of doing. If we are abroad, then we rent a car and drive to the sights, climb mountains and waterfalls.
Maksim: Yeah, tell us how we got lost in Malaysia.
Novel: We were at the waterfall and decided to take a walk along the tourist route. But they made a mistake and went to the path that led to the top of the mountain. We walked, walked, naively thought that it was about to end, and we would return to the same place. In short, we climbed this mountain for three hours.
Maksim: And four hours later descended! Without water, under the scorching sun, through the jungle, in sandals. When they went down, they met a Russian. He looked up at the top and asked, "Were you there?" We nodded. The tourist looked at us like we were idiots. This is rest! And on the beach...
Do you actually do crazy things like this?
Maxim: Only by mistake! We've taken the wrong path! No, we are not very extreme people. We are not skydivers, surfers, or divers. Where we allow ourselves a light extreme is on the road. We love active driving style. Thank God, the quality of the coverage of Moscow roads allows this.
What about traffic jams?
Maxim: Oh! I rage in traffic jams, I start hitting the steering wheel, you know, as they show in films, honking. Then it passes, and I stupidly drive in a traffic jam. Well, how can you get used to sitting on a hot stove? I can't do that!
Novel: I am more tolerant. I often sing in the car, compose songs.
Remember the act of a fan that surprised you?
Maxim: Roman's shirt was torn.
Novel: Once journalists wrote that one fan tore my shirt, and I fastened it with pins, on this basis I felt like a designer and decided to model clothes. One girl took this information at face value. At one of the concerts, I decided that if she tears my shirt, then I will be very happy and will again accomplish a design feat. When I got close to the edge of the stage, she frantically began pulling on my sleeve. And successfully tore it off! I was very upset, it was my favorite shirt.
But communication with fans is also pleasant?
Maxim: Recently, a fan girl gave me an encyclopedia about dragons. I'm such a seasoned Tolkienist. An amazing book, all in stones. Inside - all the types of dragons, samples of their skin ... Stunned! I will remember this gift for the rest of my life.
Have you been musically talented since childhood?
Roman: I didn't go to music school, unlike Max. His parents sent him there by force, he was a very undisciplined child. Is not it?
Maksim: Well, at first I wanted to go to the music school, and then I lost interest. Parents at that moment supported the undertaking: “What? The piano has been bought, go!” That's why I didn't quit.
Novel: In deep childhood, from the point of view of parents, I did not show any signs of craving for music. But the parents still asked: “Do you want to go to a music school?” I thrashed in hysterics, fell to the floor, pounded with my feet ... My parents came to the conclusion: for sure, I don’t gravitate towards music. At school he had a B in singing. I drew cars in class and chatted with my neighbor.
Maksim: And I had a triple in singing!
Novel: In the last class of the school, we were in the same ensemble. After graduation, everyone wandered off somewhere. And Max and I were obsessed with the idea of writing our own songs, singing in our own band. We thought it was very romantic.
If only there were a few more hours in the day. What would you spend them on?
Maksim: On even - sleep, on odd - sex!
Could you go to a monastery?
Novel: No!
Maksim: Well, if for a couple of months ...
In a female?
Maksim: Yes! Great idea!
The group's first two albums sold over one million copies. Not every artist of the national scene can boast of such achievements. Roman Chernitsyn and Maksim Postelny in the regular column "Urban Crazies".
- You started performing in the 90s, more than one generation has grown up on your songs. Not tired?
Maksim: No, not tired. At that time, everything was quite simple for us, because we did not have to invent anything. We did what we felt. It was easy, pleasant and even exciting. Now it is much harder for us, because times are changing and no one is given to be a trendsetter for a long time. We try to experiment and come up with something new, sometimes we succeed. When you find some simple solution, you win, but it is very difficult to be simple. More complex things are worse perceived by listeners.
How old are your fans now?
Maksim: Judging by the club audience, this is the public different ages. I often notice with surprise and joy that the majority of listeners in the hall are active young people who believe that we really did a lot of good and we should be appreciated for this, despite the fact that there are a lot of other contemporary artists. This cannot but rejoice. It is difficult for us to be aware that we have done something epoch-making. It's amazing because we always did what we wanted and loved. 15 years have passed, at concerts we are announced as legendary band- it's just incredible!
You can be called veterans Russian show business. What can you say about him, is the devil as terrible as he is painted?
Novel: Depends on the context in which it is viewed. If from the point of view of the creativity that it brings to the world, yes, it is scary. From the position of a society of people, the public is as diverse as any other. It cannot be said that all are exceptionally spiritualized or exceptionally bad people.
- Is there a difference between Western and Russian artists?
Novel: Of course, it's different, because our show business has grown from Soviet stage, where everyone obeyed other laws than the world music industry. Everything is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people. Our producers can be counted on the fingers, they are on the central channels and they do all this show business. A huge number of interesting and talented people stays behind the scenes. Our people are already poorly educated in music, and this is also fueled by the media, which do not raise the bar for the people, but follow their lead, offering a product of not the highest quality.
- What do you think is the secret of success?
Maksim: It is very difficult to say what the secret is. Creativity must be honest, you need to do what you can. We are often asked why we sing on English language because we sincerely believe that we can sing honestly in this language. We've always liked European music, but that doesn't mean we don't like Russian music. We even sang in Russian several times and, they say, it worked out well, but we don't feel that it's ours. But I love Russia very much and I am proud that I was born in this country.
- Are there now fans and critics who complain that the groupPlasmais not the same, the sound is different?
Maksim: Those who truly love accept everything we do. And critics are very mysterious people, their task is to distribute everything according to shelves and formats. When we are asked what style of music we have, we cannot answer unequivocally, so we advise you to ask the critics, they know better (smiles).
- Were there moments in the band's life when you wanted to quit everything?
Maksim: Of course, more than once. When what you do and what you sincerely believe in is accepted with skepticism, you start to get a little offended, because it seems to you that you did everything cool, and people react very coldly ... You are at a loss. Over time, this feeling passes, because we live and work to please people. To be understood, you need to try, and if you were received badly, it means that you did not try hard enough.
Some artists say that due to the current situation in the world, people are not up to music now, so there is a decline in the professional field. Do you agree with this observation?
Maksim: I completely disagree with this. Despite what's going on in the world, people make really cool music. Now young people have other needs, other musical thoughts. If you're not catching up, then that's your problem. You have to be open and try to understand how people think. If you could not understand this, then you are unlikely to be successful in creativity. It is foolish to hope that after 20 years you will be as popular. People need new geniuses. I really like what young and modern guys are doing. The main problem is that there are so many talented musicians for every musical taste, so the interests of the listeners were dispersed. Every person in modern world can find his artist, exactly according to his taste. For every demand there is an offer.
- Recently you filmed a video, tell us about it?
Novel: We filmed a video for new song"Tame your ghosts". We are not talking about the plot yet, the video is not very typical for us.
- Are there any global plans?
Novel: An album should be released next year.
Maksim: There were some cool things done by the fans. In the early 2000s, it was fashionable to wear ripped clothes with pins and studs, and once in an interview we joked that we ourselves ripped our own clothes, although everything was very designer and expensive. After the interview was released, we had a concert at which Roma extended his hand to auditorium, and some girl pulled his sleeve with incredible strength and tore off the sleeve of an expensive shirt. She thought that she would help her favorite artist to make a designer thing (laughs).
- Our traditional question What is your outlook on everyday life?
Novel: I have some ideas about how to do it, but this does not mean that I live like that. I would like to appreciate every hour of life given to us, not to waste it and live every day as if it were the last. But, apparently, in order for such a worldview to appear, you first need to experience serious stress. I admit, I have days when I spend my time completely mediocre and watch low-quality TV shows (smiles).
Maksim: You need to be as honest as possible, including to yourself, responsive, try to help when people really need help. I would like people to understand their belonging to the state and begin to unite in order to develop great country. Stop measuring your worth by the amount you eat and buy. I want there to be no war.
The Plasma group is unique for the domestic show business. Its participants dared to sing in English for a Russian-speaking audience and at the same time gained all-Russian fame. The group's first two albums sold over a million copies, and the songs regularly topped the charts. Since the release of the debut album in 2000, Plasma has won almost all possible national music awards and was even awarded the prize for the largest number of radio broadcasts. With the members of the group Maxim Postelny and Roman Chernitsyn, the Cleo correspondent discussed the news of their work and personal life.
Something about the Plasma group already for a long time nothing is heard, and even your official website has not been updated since spring. What is it connected with?
Blitz-poll "Cleo"
Are you friends with the Internet?
Maksim: I've been friends not so long ago, but quite actively. For example, I am a big fan of the so-called " social networks».
Novel: I'm friends.
Do you have a talisman?
Maksim: There is, and more than one, but I don't like to say which ones.
Novel: No.
Did you have a nickname as a child?
Maksim: Yes, Chekist. I got it because at school I easily solved the "ciphers" of secret notes that my classmates passed on in class.
Novel: For the most part, there was no nickname.
What turns you on?
Maksim: Women. Especially smart women.
Novel: Love, creativity. Child.
Maxim Bed: Well, our official website is a separate issue, we just have it in a long process of processing. Well, as it happens: they paid people, and they only promise “Now, now, we will do everything ...” - and they do nothing. So the site will soon be new, active ... And in fact, we have a lot of events going on. Due to the fact that we travel a lot, we rarely visit Moscow. And in order to “shine”, you need to be here, in the capital, so that you are constantly shown, called for shooting, interviews. And if you go to the studio to work, then you put on what is comfortable for you. And if you are going after that to some kind of party, then you need to go home and dress "in a secular way." Yeah well, nafig.
Novel: Right now we have a couple of days off, and we can get to some shooting. If we regularly get up at eight in the morning, of course ... In general, we travel a lot, and we simply do not have time to shine on the screen.
It's clear. In this case, tell us about the news of Plasma.
Maksim: We are working! We write songs, we are going to shoot videos. We have got new project Telegram, which includes all the members of the "Plasma" plus two people - bassist and drummer. And even those Plasma songs that we perform in this project sound completely different.
Maksim: I go to a resort in Volgograd. And if you go to Volgograd and do not start a romance, or even two, or even three, it means losing the trip.
Novel: As for me, I did not start.
Maksim: Well, Roman leads a family lifestyle with us.
By the way, Roman, how are your relations with Diana Eunice developing?
Novel: Well developed. By the way, we met in this cafe (“De Marco” - ed.), where we are now sitting. Diana was then the soloist of the VIP group, and it so happened that we had a common PR director with this group, and she very often pulled me and Diana up for all sorts of social events. So we got along with her.
Do you live together?
Novel: Yes.
Are you thinking about having a child together?
Novel: Happening, but not yet specific plans we don't build.
How often do you see your son Artem? Do you consider yourself a good father?
Novel: As often as possible. I just broke up with him half an hour ago. I try to take all possible part in his upbringing, and there are no barriers and problems in this sense. As for whether I'm a good father - I would like to refuse to comment here. I believe that a child should ideally live with two parents, including the father. I don't have the opportunity to be with him for as long as I would like, so there will certainly be some gaps in my father's upbringing, as well as in my mother's. After all, the child lives here and there ...
Maxim Postelny, what is going on with you on the personal front? I remember that there were many reports in the press about your affair with Alena Vodonaeva, what kind of relationship do you have now?
Maksim: Alena I loved, love and will love, of course. Well, what kind of relationship can we have after she got married ... Friendly. Like a man who is married.
Do you have any permanent relationship?
Maksim: Eat. Some. And all are permanent. Put somewhere the remark “joking”, otherwise not all of my permanent relationships know about each other, and I can get “on the horns”. (Laughs).
Maxim, once in an interview you said that the institution of marriage has long outlived its usefulness. So you're not going to get married again? Never ever?
Maksim: So let's say it can happen if only everything happens very quickly and I lose control of the situation. Like: today we met, and tomorrow at the registry office. If I have time to think for at least two days, then never!
How do you take care of yourself? Do you go, say, to fitness?
Maxim Bed: I believe that any person in great shape can keep sex. Many hours. It takes both strength and energy much more than on any simulator. For example, I haven’t been going to fitness for six months ...
Novel: I would like to state that I strongly condemn this position. And it turns out that he carries all this, and I sort of agree. It is clear that a sane person cannot take this seriously.
Maksim: And now the remark is more traditional, because what I said before is unlikely to pass into the interview. You need to lose weight not in the gym, but at the table. People, learn how to eat properly. Give up mayonnaise, ketchup, Coca-Cola, fast food of all ...
Has your group been affected by the economic crisis?
Maksim: No, not touched. It's just that the work schedule has changed a little: they began to perform less at corporate parties, we perform more in clubs. It's just that the type of activity has changed a little.
Novel: For me, it makes me happy. Because people come to the clubs who came to listen to us, unlike corporate parties, where one person ordered us, and everyone else has to endure. These changes are welcome. In addition, we are pleased with the number of people who come to listen to us.
Who writes the lyrics in your band and who writes the music? Or is it a collective work?
Maksim: The texts are written by Roman, and the music is a collective work. True, I am more engaged in producing in the future - mixing and other things. Even though we do this together.
Not so long ago, there were reports in the press that when you were in Kyiv, you sang a duet with Andrei Yushchenko, the son of the Ukrainian president, and in general became very good friends. Tell about it.
Maxim Bed: Yeah, I read that crazy post too. In fact, we just sat in the same club where there was karaoke. There, Roman sang his songs, and Andrei sang his. There is something duet in this, of course, but we did not sing together. And then, leaving the club, we said goodbye to him. This, perhaps, can be considered for "befriended."
Novel: By the way, we congratulate him on his marriage to a beautiful girl who will surely be a kind, good wife to him.
Members of the Plazma group Roman Chernitsyn and Maxim Postelny had a terrible accident on the highway in the Ostrogozhsky district Voronezh region. The musicians were heading to the city of Alekseevka on tour, but a snowstorm began on the highway on the way. In conditions of poor visibility at the turn, another car flew into the car of the artists, because of which the singers abruptly turned onto the side of the road and flew away near a deep ditch. Bedelny's car, a Toyota Land Cruiser 100, cannot be recovered after falling from a height of two meters, but the group members escaped with minor bruises.
We were going to a concert in the city of Alekseevka when we got into this accident, Maxim Bedtelny told Life. - We didn't get any injuries, because we were fastened, if it wasn't, everything would have ended much worse. However, the car was badly damaged.
The musicians had to hitchhike to their destination and leave the car at the scene of the accident. Bedelny and Chernitsyn were able to evacuate the car only upon returning back to Moscow.
Maxim Postelny: “Eight people can sleep in my bed”
Exclusive photo report by KM.RU special correspondent Kiril Zykov
"Plasma" is the first Russian pop group that decided to perform their songs exclusively in English. The success turned out to be simply phenomenal, already the first album of the group was sold with a circulation of more than 1 million copies. Today, the backing vocalist of this group, Max, decided to invite us to visit him.
Max: Hello! Come in. Welcome to visit.
Max invited us to a newly purchased apartment, which he only started redecorating three weeks ago. The singer warned our film crew in advance that he had nothing to show except for the bare walls. But that didn't stop us.
Max: Let's go to the back room, let's start from the back room, because I like to start from the tail.
Max began his tour of the apartment from the place where new musical creations are born.
Max: In this room we will have a rehearsal base, there are drums somewhere in the corner. Roman will probably sit here, I will be here, there will be a bass player, a guitarist. In general, we will all rehearse here.
I would like to note that this studio is very well located. Max may not be afraid that the neighbors will complain about him to the police, demanding to stop rehearsals.
Max: There are no neighbors below, neighbors are constantly absent from above, there is a wall, and there is a hall. Therefore, we can play as much as we like, as long as we like, and as noisily as we like.
By the way, the ideological inspirer of this repair is the soloist of the group Roman. He literally gushes with ideas. The rest of the group helps make his dreams come true. This process is especially captivating for Plasma guitarist Nikolai.
Max: He so entered the role of a person who (I'll show you later) brings everything here to life, all the most daring plans of Roman, and it turns out absolutely amazing.
The guys are trying so actively not only out of friendly motives, there are other reasons for that.
Max: We will all live together here as soon as we repair it.
From the studio, we smoothly moved into the bedroom, in which Max plans to put an incredible size bed.
Max: There will be a common bedroom, the bed will stand. She will be somewhere from here, we measure about 190 in height, and that's all, right down to the battery. We'll make some kind of trestle bed, and in stacks of 8 people, I think they'll fit in here.
On the opposite wall, the owner plans to hang a large plasma TV.
Max: Here, of course, we will hang the plasma, that is, we will hang the plasma panel, it will be large. From now to now, 1m 80cm wide plasma panel. We will hang speakers here, some kind of VCR will stand here, I have a wonderful rare VCR, a whole collection, I like to collect them. I will arrange them all in a row here, and before going to bed we will compare which one shows better. So we had a great time in the 90s.
Now the main discussion in the group is the color of the walls. The musicians can not decide which color scheme suits them best, but it seems that they are already close to a compromise..
Max: And since we argue about color all the time, I suggested to everyone, we have just the number of people in the team is approximately equal to the number of walls in the rooms. Well, a little more, we will give Roman two walls, let him paint them in his favorite color. I am for red, just like a Ferrari, radically red, Roman, of course, will have something blue, we have people who want to paint it black. I won't give you a ceiling, the ceiling will be white.
Despite the fact that the guys have not yet decided on the color of the walls, Max already knows exactly which border tape they will stick.
Max: I'll go to Volgograd, bring my favorite collection of match labels, and, I think, two rows will go like this.
It is quite possible that soon the answer to the old Russian riddle “no windows, no doors full of people” will not be a cucumber, but Max’s bedroom. At least the idea of making a windowless bedroom is now visiting Roman.
Max: Roman is a very bright person, but he offers to close up the windows, just make them with plasterboard so that there are no windows, because he loves darkness very much.
If Max still manages to defend the windows, then he will not hang blinds or curtains on them.
Max: And as for me, I would leave it like that, I would not even rip off these stickers, I love extreme.
By the way, as a legacy from the previous owners, Max got a good parquet, which needs only a little restoration..
Max: Roman called these masters, I showed them everything here. They said that this is a wonderful parquet, despite the fact that it is 40 years old. In general, the work of the master is afraid, we believed them.
Here, Max is going to place a lot of household appliances.
Max: This will be the kitchen. Since it has a very strange shape, we will not live here, as they live in large kitchens. No, we will arrange everything that we have here, each one will put an electric stove for himself, each one will put a small refrigerator for himself. I’m lying, of course, there will be one large stove and, of course, there will be one stove, and we will cook here, the girls will cook something, and we will consume it. We will consume, of course, not here.
The process of eating will take place in a room that will combine a dining room and a cinema, in which everything will be done in the spirit of minimalism.
Max: There will be a TV here, I have a wonderful TV, I will bring it from home. Here we will put a sofa, speakers in the corners, and here the entire wall will be occupied by a film library, lockers, shelves will simply lie on the floor, I think, because I probably already have about 1000 DVDs and about 500 cassettes.
At the end of the tour of the apartment, Max nevertheless admitted that he was going to live here alone, and not arrange a commune, but at the same time the doors of his house would always be open to friends.
Max: In principle, I will live here for the most part, and everyone who will somehow have a crisis will come here and live too. Thank you very much for coming, goodbye.
Rosa January 10, 2013 |
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