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t.A.T.u.: 200 Km/h in the Wrong Lane

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Label: Interscope Records
Released: 2002.09.17
Time:
 48:11
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *......... (1/10)
Media type: Enhanced CD
Web address: www.tatu.ru
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2003.01.15
Price in €: 8,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[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 get drazy]
[10] Nas ne dogoniat [We can't be overtaken]
[11] Show Me Love
[12] All the Things She Said

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


JULIA VOLKOVA - Vocals
LENA KATINA - Vocals

SVEN MARTIN - Keyboard, Musical director
TROY MACCUBBIN - Guitars
ROMAN RATEJ - Drums

TREVOR HORN - Arranger, Producer
MARTIN KIERSZENBAUM - Arranger, Producer, A&R
ROBERT ORTON - Arranger, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
IVAN SHAPOVALOV - Executive Producer
BOB LUDWIG - Mastering
ROBERT HEYES - Management
CINDY COOPER - Production Coordination
SHERYL NIELDS - Photography

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


It makes no sense to discuss 200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane, the first album by Russian dance-pop duo Tatu, without focusing on the gimmick, since that gimmick is the band. Of course, gimmicks have always been central to pop music, including much of the greatest pop music, but few have felt as tawdry as Tatu. Which is, of course, that the girls are teenage lesbians. Or to shoddily paraphrase Charlie Sheen in Being John Malkovich, "they're hot teenage lesbians, and how can you not be into that?" Well, it's easy not to be into it when Julia and Lena appear to have been run through a marketing processor so they could become two Sapphic tarts who sing songs with suggestive titles like "Not Gonna Get Us," "Show Me Love," and "All the Things She Said" (it's likely a coincidence that the latter two share titles with songs by Robyn and Simple Minds, respectively, but perhaps not), while covering that perennial anthem of tortured unrequited love and lust, the Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?" (it was strong enough to withstand Love Spit Love's cover; it's strong enough to weather this). Perhaps this would have been fun if the music were fizzy, trashy, and disposable, the way Brit-pop novelty Shampoo was on its lark We Are Shampoo. Instead, it's heavy, portentous Europop, often helmed by Trevor Horn, and badly sung by two cute girls with annoying squawks for voices. With those relentless, gloomy beats and those voices that cut against the grain, it's easy to concentrate on nothing but the gimmick, because it's more fun to talk about Russian teenage lesbians than listen to this noisy, oppressive murk. Even then, you'll feel unclean, given the shamelessness of the exploitation in this whole crass, commercial enterprise.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All-Music Guide
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Russian pop sensation T.A.T.U. - comprised of 18-year-olds Julia Olegovna Volkova and Elena Sergeevna Katina - have snagged the spotlight as much for their promotional antics as for their beat-driven Europop. They take Britney Spears' early schoolgirl incarnation to the next level, magnifying their sexually charged image with Sapphic overtones. Musically, T.A.T.U. are more conventional, singing soaring melodies atop beat-driven rhythms and taking occasional breathers for melancholy ballads. Still, their first European smash single, "All the Things She Said," details a love affair between two teenage girls and comes with a provocative video (named MTV Russia's Video of the Year). The disc also includes a cover of the Smiths' lament "How Soon Is Now?"

Barnes and Noble



They pout and strut on stage. They strip and kiss between songs. They are Russia's biggest musical export since Shostakovich, and surely its most controversial.

Sabrina Tavernise - The New York Times



T.A.T.U. stand as a liberating refreshment of the naughty schoolgirl formula.

Edward Helmore - Blender
 

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