Tanja Mihhailova's blog: Exclusive Interview to Tanja (Estonia Eurovision 2014)

March 18, 2014: Tanja has been giving us this little interview for all your fans in an important moment for her career. The next 6 May she defend her song "Amazing" for Estonia in the first semifinal of Eurovision 2014 in Copenhagen. All the best to Tanja!.

 

  

Tanja what entirety you have demonstrated all these years up to managing to go to Eurovision... I know it was more work for you and you were not obsessed with going to the show... but finally you go!... you have a medal to the regularity!

TM: Thanks :) I am patient.
 

I remind myself of the unjust NOT classification of the hit "Falling Star" in 2011.... From "I can b the 1" How many times have you presented song to Eurolaul or Eesti laul without luck? Often we do not know if you had taken a song... only know the 20 finalists!.

TM: Yes, we sent our songs 5 years in a row and only this year got to the semi-final :) But now i can understand why we didn't get in last times, i wasn't ready :) Now i am :)

  

The life can change very rapidly true? Will you have to adapt quite your activities to this show? surely Timo Vendt will be in the same situation... you can already congratulate from my part!.

TM: Thanks, i will. Yes, life is crazy at the moment … so many interviews, my first ever video is ready and out :) a lot of work has been done and there's a lot of work ahead. I love it :)

It seems as if already you had a futurist vision: Of your last album "Gemini" 11 songs already were in English... did you saw nearby your international career? ;)

TM: Well :) no … i hoped that some day somebody would buy my album from outside Estonia as well but … now it actually can happen and i'm very happy :)

I thought I understood (March 11) you're doing a video for the song "Amazing". I can not believe it... From the far "Vihmane päev”... You know the time I'm waiting for this moment? Force you Eurovision to do video for the song? or Are you preparing for a successful international marketing campaign?

TM: Yes, we decided to do a video for Amazing. It felt like the right moment to do it:)

 

An example of the power of Eurovision and your Eurofans: 2 days after gaining the national final, in a forum of opinion about Eurovision in Spain there were 17 pages of comments relating to your song “Amazing”... bads and goods, comments jokers of idiotic people and some comment also suitable and sincere. Are you prepared for this international critique of people who does not know anything about you? Or well you will not lose the time in reading anything of this...

 

TM: Well… it's a good thing that they're talking about me at all. As far as critisism goes… there will be people who like you and people who don't. It's easy… i'm doing my thing, i've been doing dance music for a looong time now, i've been dancing for a loooong time and i've had this hair cut for almost 10 years now :) I don't see why i should change myself or my music or my personality, so that people who don't like me now would change their minds. Well… no, i'm me and i'm gonna do my thing for people who want to listen to me or watch me perform.
 

Related to the previous question, you know that there are criticisms concerning the dance that accompanies the song. What do you think? Yes, it may be that we remember previous performances, but without doubt, was the best Estonian song and I would like to see people who can dance like you or Argo!. Only Sandra’song was good but Sandra has gone to Eurovision and Sven often...

TM: It's a good thing that artists start to use contemporary more and more. It's pretty rare at the moment, because people are used to seeing hip hop, show, brake dance but not contemporary. Nobody is screaming that Justing Timberlake and Chris Brown or Usher are copying each other… because it's the same dance style they're using, so lets give it some time for people to get used to "strange" dance style as well. And i can tell for sure that those lifts and balance stuff that we are doing never've been done by a singer on Eurovision stage before :)

I believe that now the most difficult thing already is made. Denmark is placed well between Baltic countries that often are voted between them.... I see a good classification ;) Do you imagine -for a moment, let’s dream!- that you win the show? I would have a friend of world famous!

TM: For me the ultimate thing is to do our absolute best… and to give everything we could give :) of course it would be absolutely AMAZING for us to win but i cannot predict the future so let's just see what future holds for us :)

 

Well, shortly they you will come an avalanche of interview, we already make you calm... and how always you have this simple blog for you, if you want any thing only you have to say it, if you want you can use this interview... all for you! If you lived closer to me I would give you a big hug... :P I will wish you good luck (and I wish you luck) but you no longer need it... you're on top of your career.

 

TM: Thank you for your kind words. Big hug to you as well.

Interview to Tanja... coming!

We have sent a short interview to Tanja for her to us her latest impressions after qualifying for the Eurovision Song Contest and future plans.

Among a lot of work, I think she will have a few words for us. Meanwhile, I remind you that in the right sidebar you can see the interviews she has given us.

Tanja Mihhailova's blog: Exclusive interview "Gemini" album

January 27, 2013: We had many questions to do Tanja relating to her new and brilliant album "Gemini"... and she has had the amiability to grant an interview to us and in english. I hope that you enjoy it!.

Thanks Tanja for your nice answers!.

- How much time you were going preparing this album? It has taken us many people for surprise... I do not know wherefrom you extract the time!.

TM: Yeah, it took us around 6 years to finally make an album ;0) It’s not that easy to do it on your own. This is the first time we did everything by ourselves, because at the moment i’m not under any management, so... i don’t get paid for writing songs and i still need to pay the bills, so i had to dedicate my time to other projects/concerts/musicals as well, that’s why it took so long.

 - We know that many of the songs are written and inspired by you with your experiences, feelings and sensations. Also there are 2 mix of 2 songs and that your great friend and composer Timo Vendt intervenes in several songs. There are other authors or composers in the album?

 

TM: Timo is the other half of this album, we did everything together...invested our time/soul/money in this project. We wrote all the songs (some of them with another great people, such as: Fred Krieger, Mikk Saar, Owe Petersell, Sean Pollock, Roberto Lauterio and Vitali Vassiljev), we paid for the print, we did this great album launch party etc. So Timo is my partner in crime on this one ;0)

 - The album has a marked pop style and electronic in some song. Also Sinine collaborates in a song. Do you believe that you have evolved towards other styles more trance after Jz Belle and Sunday Mood? In Sunday Mood they were all the much softer songs... 

TM: Actually there are some soft songs on this album as well... “Broken” and “Sind ootan ikka veel”. Gemini does not include only dance music...it’s everything i like to sing... a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

 

 - With what song do you feel more satisfied? It is sure that there is one that stands out over all...

TM: I like all of them ;0) This is really funny, because usually i have songs i don’t wanna listen to, but on this album i like them all.
 

 - We have surprised much that the album is full of songs written in English. It does it want to say that Tanja is preparing himself for a more international projection? Already you know that little by little already they know you out of Estonia... today for example in your blog you have received visits from USA, Belgium and Slovenia...

TM: Well, i do dream about going abroad or trying to... ;0) Now we have something to show, something to offer and we do have some meetings with some people ...so lets see.

 

- Why in this new album you have not used "Tanja M" since already had you done previously with 2 singles already a few years ago? Also we know that as "Tanja" you had made "Over"...
 

TM: It seems like it was easier for other people to say Tanja without M.... In Estonia they know me under my real name and if they want to use my full name they say Tanja Mihhailova, but never Tanja M, so we just let it be ;0)

- You have not thought that probably to change name with your bands or works frequently can harm you... That is to say, do you believe that someone who wants to follow your professional career can do it without difficulties? If you live in Estonia it seems that yes... but if you live abroad the people can manage to know that Jz Belle, Tanja M, Sunday Mood now Tanja... is principal singer the same?
 

TM: Well... JZ Belle was a long time ago and i don’t mind to start fresh. All the other project were done under some managements and i did not have a lot to say about stuff, now i’m on my own and i’m using my real name and i don’t think that i’m gonna change it any day soon.
 

- There will be no video clip in any song? I refer to videos that explain a history not to medley of performances... already you know that it is very important for the projection of a song. I believe that as protagonist only you appear in "Vihmane päev". Do not you believe that already it is the moment of another video clip?
 

TM: Well...we’re thinking of doing video as well. You really don’t need to have it in Estonia, but everywhere else ... sure. So we’re looking for people to work with and it’s a little bit slow, because again.. we’re doing it alone and we have to fund it by ourselves. But we’re working on that :0)

 - We know that you have gone to different discotheques and radios for the promotion of the album. There will be continuation or it will be more difficult to make compatible the promotion with your roles in the theatres?

 

TM: No...all the places i’ve gone so far (radioshows, newspapers etc) took me in without any problems...they like to talk about creative stuff and new music and diferent things i do, so i’m really happy that at the moment it’s all good ;0)

- I see that normally the same dancers accompany you in your performances of the "Gemini". With his choreography they make illuminate more the perform in the scene. Explain to us a bit those who are your nice dancers, where you knew them and the one who designs his movements.

TM: Yes... i have 4 dancers i work with at the moment: Triin, Kristel, Diana and Sigbrid. They don’t perform all together all the time, sometimes we don’t have enough space for 4 dancers, so i take 2 ;0) I met them at the dance school i worked at...we become friends and now we perform together. It so great to travel with your friends, to share the stage, to prepare for the show etc... We have a lot of fun! I Love them ;0) Usually we meet, we listen to the tracks, we devide songs between us (who want to do choreography for what song), then we rehearse, design our costumes, rehearse some more and we’re ready to go on. So we do everything together ;0)

- We know that there are certain problems sometimes to buy from outside Estonia in some store online... but in the blog there are two links of 2 shops to buy your disc without problems. Well... finally only you have to do advertising of the album to us. Why have we to buy "Gemini"? What can we find in this CD? Thanks for your words and a lot of luck with this album!.
 

TM: Thanks for the good words ;0) And the hard work you do ;0) Really really soon you can buy my album on Itunes...this is exiting!

As for “why you have to buy my CD”....well you don’t have to... but if you want to see some beautiful pictures of me....you will have to buy my album to see them ;0D I’m just kidding ;0)

It’s all about quality dance music, beautiful songs and a small piece of my world in my words ;0) My“Gemini” and i ... thank you and wish you best of luck ;0*