Can someone explain T.A.T.U. to me?

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I live in a cave and I don't understand all these newfangled cultural monstrosities. I tried to do a net search after someone mentioned them to me and it made my brain malfunction. What is the deal? They're Russian teenage lesbians? Huh?

I didn't know what Avril Lavigne was until maybe 3 months ago, so I'm really slow.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

if you need tatu explained to you then perhaps you are unfamiliar with the concept of sex

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

(yes, yes, teenage russian lesbians who perform gloopy eurotrance/pop covers of 80s new wave hits and their own "material"...its fairly basic stuff really...they freaked out leno the other night during the breakdown of their hit when suddenly the guitarist became very interesting, etc.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"unfamiliar with the concept of sex"

or the commercial appeal of hot, barely legal lesbians.

― Charles McCain, Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Can someone explain T.A.T.U. to me?
Sure. The words you are looking for are "Publicity" and "Stunt"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i read that as 'Pubic' and 'Stunted'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"they freaked out leno the other night..."
Bah. Leno is so square he's almost cube-shaped.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i read that as 'Pubic' and 'Stunted'
Hmmm. Thats works too...

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Leno's head is certainly cube-shaped.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

leno's head is much more like an angry quarter moon

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

What happened on Leno?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Conan O'Brian and Letter both ganged up on him, beat him up, killed him, fed his corpse to dogs....and replaced him with a less talented duplicate.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"!!" = "i've been quoted!"

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

how old are the girls? because i'm afraid i'll end up in jail w/pete townshend after some of the pictures i've seen online

― i don't want the feds to get me (JasonD), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

How old do you want them to be?

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

All the explanation of TATU you need...

http://www.universalmusic.it/tatu/images/tatu.jpg

― mmmmmm (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

they make electronic pop music which is really quite good.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"Letter from Russia" in current New Yorker mag is about t.A.T.u or however you're supposed to style it here. Author quotes friends of his in Williamsburg who said that they sound like chipmunks.

― Jess Hill (jesshill), Thursday, 13 March 2003 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

they are caucasion jpop. they even flash panty in the video for a split second.

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

What happened on Leno?

Bill Hicks' dream finally came true? (They had Joey Lawrence AND Patrick Duffy on!!)

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 14 March 2003 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Leno's cubic head made me think of this old chestnut:
Did you hear about the guy with square balls ?
He had cubic hair.

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Friday, 14 March 2003 07:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Conan O'Brian and Letter both ganged up on him, beat him up, killed him, fed his corpse to dogs....and replaced him with a less talented duplicate.

Oh come on, that can't be true...they found someone w/less talent?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 March 2003 07:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Will I get beaten up if I say that I prefered the Cheeky Girls?

― kate (suzy), Friday, 14 March 2003 07:49 (twenty-three years ago)

not by me you won't ;-)

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 14 March 2003 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Aha... well, I am a few steps closer to figuring out this mystery. Very curious.

I guess it's natural to be horribly cynical about the dubious celebration of 'alternative' sexuality in this culture.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Friday, 14 March 2003 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

the anime rendition found at http://www.tatu.us/
was what triggered by accident my realization of the true nature of t.a.t.u. =
they are (perfect) pop puppets. you can dig some good info on their forum like their manager happen to call every shots and everything they do is staged. In anycase their songs are great especially in russian.

btw the video of the "cheeky song" is a total meaningless rip-off of the "jenny is in a bad mood" video by hi-posi so they are dud in my book.

― the hegemon, Friday, 14 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry if I bursted the tatu bubble for anyone...

― the hegemon, Friday, 14 March 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

the Russian version sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 14 March 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

they are caucasion jpop

YES!!! It is the rare J-pop album that can be listened to from start to finish. Now, will Trevor Horn follow Troussier to Japan? Please?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 06:17 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

This album sounds dated already but in the most awesome possible way. Those turntables on "Show Me Love" are like, "whatup it's 2k2 and scratching is on the wane!"

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

I really, really love this album.

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

Their first one, the second was a real letdown.

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

http://youthoughtso.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/blog8-tatu.jpg

― and Susan Gucci as Erica Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

Whoa NSFW why didnt you guys tell me about this
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/music/article1181262.ece

― and Susan Gucci as Erica Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

holy shit

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

<3 these skanks

― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

Her voice is all auto-tuned. Wow. The sun article fails to note they execute the underwear-clad pregnant chick at the end.

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:51 (sixteen years ago)

i stopped watching after the b00bs tbh

― and Susan Gucci as Erica Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

All the Things She Said is still huge. I wish it'd spurred a trend of gloomy gothic teen pop.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:06 (sixteen years ago)

it sort of did!

― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:16 (sixteen years ago)

i mean i don't think tatu were specifically responsible for this decade's teenpop aesthetic, but teenpop did get pretty gloomy and gothic

― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:17 (sixteen years ago)

pfft, no beave shots

someone needs to make a gif out of the part where she flips the bird w/both hands

― farting irl (cankles), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:22 (sixteen years ago)

teenpop did get pretty gloomy and gothic

Nothing I've heard subsequently conjured images of bleak frozen wastelands quite as effectively as ATTSS...

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

that's a pretty specific thing to ask a whole genre to do, and isn't what i mean by gloomy and gothic - meant on more of an emotional tip

― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:28 (sixteen years ago)

Haha, I can dream...

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:28 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

yeah, first album is great!

― avatar brothers (Tape Store), Sunday, 20 December 2009 07:23 (sixteen years ago)

anyone heard the new one?

― avatar brothers (Tape Store), Sunday, 20 December 2009 07:24 (sixteen years ago)

I just d/l'ed it a couple days ago, but haven't listened to it yet. The first single is kind of meh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwfuaJdlJHU

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 20 December 2009 10:27 (sixteen years ago)

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