Incomparable Alla I consider Pugacheva the greatest artist in the world of pop of all times and peoples. I don't see her as equal. She's a playing singer. Not a singing actress, but a playing singer. It's a fundamental difference. There are a lot of singing actresses. These are Gurchenko, Alice Freundlikh, Andrei Mironov, Karachentsov and others - singing actors. And Pugacheva is the only playing singer who creates an image through a combination of vocal and acting techniques. It's very difficult. In her most complex and top works, she uses a lot of vocal and acting techniques. In Harlequino, we hear laughter from the notes. It would seem that this is incompatible: laughter is an acting technique, it can no longer a priori be on notes! But that's laughter, not just notes. This is a combination of different techniques, recitatives, pectoral, laryngeal notes, head register. Therefore, it is always very difficult to sing Pugachev. You can't just take it off the record. You need to be able to change from technology to technology. This is an absolutely fantastic phenomenon in the world of music.
In essence, I am a tragicomic person: I can sing both tragedy and comedy. I can play like an actress. And when I realized this, I immediately developed a certain plan, and it became so easy on my soul that I found myself first.
I don't know of any other artist equal to Pugacheva. Everyone works in some narrow genres: someone soul, someone funk, ballads, romances. I don't see an artist who could take the range from farce to tragedy, from pathetic to lyrics, from romance to heavy metal. I don’t know any artists like that, except Pugacheva! So her work inspires me incredibly. Alla Pugacheva and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are the people who save me from depression and frustration, although I do not suffer from such conditions.
On stage I play, but in life I do not play. A lot of people think I'm playing.
What Pugacheva does is a vocal-dramatic stage. Her natural, unstressed laugh at the notes in Harlequino is impossible to repeat. I still don't know how it's done. How can you laugh at notes? Or "White Snow." She sings it in a chilling voice, drawing the image of a "desert white beach" where it was summer, happiness and everything cooled down. About Pugacheva in general, you can write whole serious art history articles, she is a real find for a person writing. I don’t know a single singer in the world who paints a song. Yes, they show a magnificent voice, timbre, many luxurious singers in the soul genre, but what Pugacheva does, no one else does.
Why should I be completely accessible to everyone? I'm available to good people. First, I need to know what kind of person you are. I’ve noticed that bad people think I’m bad and good people think I’m good.
I do not believe when they say that Pugacheva is hindering someone, not letting someone on the stage. On the contrary, I know that she has allowed many to move forward. Even those singers who say that she did not let them, it was because of her, or, so to speak, her participation in some projects that sparkled. For example, Tatiana Antsiferova. This name became known only when Pugacheva quarreled with Alexander Zatsepin and refused to perform songs from the film “June 31”. All those songs that Antsiferova later sang were to be sung by Pugachev. Imagine if everything was normal and Pugacheva would sing these songs. She would have recorded them from the first take. Without a Loved One, Looking for You, Star Bridge, etc. Would we recognize the singer Tatiana Antsiferova? Very doubtful, because apart from those brilliant songs Zatsepin (which was supposed to sing Pugachev), she has nothing in the repertoire.
I can see my top pretty clearly. And then, if I reach the top, all I have to do is ascend. The audience is the same all over the world. They make their idol and with the same pleasure will watch him fall, and even help him in this.
Enough of what she's already done. A creative person is revealed as much as possible only in his youth, youth, on the wave of impulse, courage, when adrenaline boils. And then he already works on skill, enthusiasm, like all actors, masters, there are no exceptions. If Pugacheva wanted to, she could be in every program. But how many programs, awards, chic songs she refused. She could have done 10 or 20 times more than she did. She was friends with Mark Fradkin and did not sing any of his songs. It was only after his death that she made a cover version of “On That Big Crossroads” and dedicated the song to her mother, as she loved her very much. This song was sung by Shulzhenko in the film A Simple Story, and Alla made her version, a new work. With amazing vocalisms, acting charisma, tear. But she could sing something new, could sing some things that he would like to write to her, but she refused them, said that it was not her song.
In general, friends, as you tune in to the perception of today’s Pugacheva, you will get it. It gives you pleasure to criticize the legendary singer, you want to take her off the pedestal - for God's sake. But if you want to admire her, admire her creative feat - you are happy, your life was not in vain. And that's wonderful. As one sage said, happiness is hard to find in oneself and impossible to find out. It's in us. Life is as it is and more... Nothing.