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No idea if theres a thread on this but what do you all think of tatu's cover of 'How Soon is Now'? I ahve yet to hear it.

― Tim B.D., Friday, 7 February 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

We haven't got an official TATU thread yet, have we?

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 7 February 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I just meant a thread on the smiths cover. I knew there was plenty of tatu threads(or assumed)

― Tim B.D., Friday, 7 February 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

what's the t.A.T.u. version like, then? I'd like to hear it, but am not sure I want a whole album of t.A.T.u.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 7 February 2003 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

it's great

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 7 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Any album with 'Ja Soshla S Uma' on it is worth owning. I prefer their version to The Smiths one (but then it was never one of my favorite songs of theirs.)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I second Mark S and I think they should have their own TV show like DARK ANGEL. I'm not Alix. I'm Sarah, she's logged in and I can't be arsed to logout. FYI.

― alix (alix), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

yay sarah!! i second you too!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

It's pretty excellent, I think; the charging synths, the plaintive yowling vocals, the addition of key piano riffs... the whole thing is simultaneously poppier and gothier than the original, to the point where you kind of don't want to compare them anymore but just revel in the different facets displayed by each.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i have a friend burning the album for me. i look forward to hearing the charging synths!

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It's great! TATU rule!

Don't really know the original that well though.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't much like the music and production on it, but the vocals are absolutely terrific.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 7 February 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

This T.A.T.U ?
http://members.fortunecity.com/oops103/oops_tatu181.html

― francine, Friday, 7 February 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Two thumbs up -- the Smith's version sounded like a forlorn diary entry whereas this sounds like they're threatening to jump from the 13th floor. Suspect all their stuff might sound like that though, but it works just dandy in this instance.

― Lord Marmite (Lord Marmite), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

there is a thread on it - This one's for the Smiths fans

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Instrumentally? Fine, whatever. Vocally? Sorry, Morrissey is hard to sing ESL. When she says "and you want to die" (or the way she clips the word "loved") I kinda don't believe it at all. Also, the LAST thing tATu sounds like they inherited was a shyness. They make out while people watch in the rain!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 7 February 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

tatu go about this song at a hundred miles an hour, full of girlish energy... it works great on 'all the things she said' but i feel it doesn't do justice to HSIN compared to morisseys slow deliberate croon (despite any problems with the original)

― Laney, Saturday, 8 February 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

too faithful.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 8 February 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, the LAST thing tATu sounds like they inherited was a shyness.

But I always thought the same thing about the Morrissey vocal persona. He doesn't sound like a shy person. Whether he is or he isn't, that's irrelevant to me because I know very little about Morrissey besides what I've read in a handful of interviews. He just doesn't sound like a shy person. Forlorn, maybe, but he definitely has the sound of a self-confident person, maybe even too self-confident to me. The way the girls in Tatu sing it, they sound like teenage girls who all pretend they are something fucked up and weird, regardless of reality, so it works.

Mind you, I like the original as well, it's one of the few Smiths songs I like.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 9 February 2003 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

So what do people think of Love Spit Love's version? It's pretty samey IMHO.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 9 February 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

is that one in charmed? i like it

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 9 February 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Embarrasing moment: took me forever to realise it was the singer from the Psychedelic Furs.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 9 February 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

But I always thought the same thing about the Morrissey vocal persona. He doesn't sound like a shy person. Whether he is or he isn't, that's irrelevant to me because I know very little about Morrissey besides what I've read in a handful of interviews. He just doesn't sound like a shy person. Forlorn, maybe, but he definitely has the sound of a self-confident person, maybe even too self-confident to me. The way the girls in Tatu sing it, they sound like teenage girls who all pretend they are something fucked up and weird, regardless of reality, so it works.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 9 February 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i originally read Lucretius as Ludacris

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 9 February 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Good point, Ally. Might be my male bias talkin' on that line (no seriously, being a pompous-yet-thinks-he's-shy guy may make me little more sympathetic to the Mozzer). Though I still think Morrissey's angst fits the other lines (he sounds like he wrote them) and tATu sounds like they learned them phonetically. Which is odd, since they sound just fine on "All The Things She Said" and the other songs. I'm curious what I'd think if I hadn't already heard the Smiths version. And yeah, the tATu version is nowhere as redundant as Love Spit Love's.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 9 February 2003 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

a.W.f.U.l.

― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 26 August 2011 15:51 (fourteen years ago)

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