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Artist: t.A.T.u.

Date Released: December 10, 2002

Label: Interscope

Produced By: Trevor Horn, Martin Kierszenbaum, Robert Orton

Tracklisting[]

  1. Not Gonna Get Us
  2. All The Things She Said
  3. Show Me Love
  4. 30 Minutes
  5. How Soon Is Now?
  6. Clowns (Can You See Me Now?)
  7. Malchik Gay
  8. Stars
  9. Ya Soshla S Uma (I've Lost My Mind)
  10. Nas Ne Dagoniat (They're Not Gonna Get Us)
  11. Show Me Love (Extended Version)
  12. 30 Minutes (Remix)
  13. Malchick Gay (Remix)

Review[]

This is just an outstanding pop album. A lot of people were initally distrustful of it, as t.A.T.u are basically a gimmick band, being Russian teenaged lesbians and all (or, I suppose were a gimmick band, as they've shed the gimmick/lesbianism) -- however it really is a superb record. It's not necessarily going to change the world, but who aside from fools expect pop records to do so anyway? The production (by Trevor Horn) on this, the American version of the album is what gives a lot of this album its thrust. (Notably, though the followup, Dangerous And Moving featured many different producers (including Horn himself, but only one one track), the ghosts of his production carried through, as most of the songs on that record sounded like they were trying to pass themselves off as Trevor Horn productions. (The only exception was, oddly enough, Trevor Horn's own contribution to the record.) Of the two (to date) t.A.T.u. records, this is by far the superior one, though Dangerous And Moving is also very good as well, and you should get the both of them if you like really great pop music. The album is dancey and poppy and "All The Things She Said" was t.A.T.u.'s biggest hit for a reason—it truly is one of those handful of absolutely perfect pop singles. If you liked that track—check out the album; the entire album has a similar sound, and some of the other tracks even equal it in quality (their cover of The Smiths' How Soon Is Now?, "Show Me Love" or "Stars"; the latter of which, I find myself mentally replacing the Russian rap with mc chris' "DQ Blizzard" starting from the "Fraggle rock on the box/Froot Loops on my chin" verse.) There is no shame in liking really well-made pop records, and I wear my t.A.T.u. fandom on my sleeve. I hope they play Seattle soon, because I will be right there in the front row. - Rev. Syung Myung Me

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