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t.A.T.u. (Russian: Тату, pronounced ⓘ) were a Russian pop duo consisting of Lena Katina and Julia Volkova.The two started out as part of the children's musical group Neposedy before being managed by producer and director Ivan Shapovalov and signing with Russian record label Neformat. t.A.T.u.'s debut album 200 Po Vstrechnoy (2001) was a commercial success in Eastern Europe, and that ...
t.A.T.u.'s fifth studio album Vesyolye Ulybki was released in 2008. It spawned three singles—"Beliy Plaschik", "220", and "You and I"—, all of which charted in the Russian top 100. The album's English-language counterpart Waste Management followed in 2009.
According to the president of the show, Craig Halket said "We felt that it didn't oversexualize them and they looked of age, (they were 15 at the time) I can see the controversy. It's like many videos, including the Christina Aguilera video-- it pushes buttons." [87] The music video was the subject of much criticism throughout t.A.T.u.'s career.
Dangerous and Moving is the second English-language (third overall) studio album by Russian musical group t.A.T.u. and the English-language equivalent of the album Lyudi Invalidy. The album was first released on 5 October 2005 in Japan then on 10 October in the UK, 11 October in North America, and in Europe and Latin America, on 14 October.
"30 Minutes" is a song by Russian recording duo t.A.T.u., taken from their debut English language studio album 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane (2002). It was released in 2001 in Russian as 30 Minut (Cyrillic: 30 минут, also known as "Полчаса" (Polchasa), meaning half-an-hour) from the album 200 Po Vstrechnoy.
In 2014, Volkova held a series of performances with her former bandmate Lena Katina under their previous name, t.A.T.u., which culminated in a television performance for the Olympic Games in Russia. However, shortly after, Katina accused Volkova of blackmailing her, putting an end to t.A.T.u. as a band. Volkova denied the accusations.
In 2007, both girls appeared in the US–Russian drama film You and I, which starred Mischa Barton in the lead role and was based on the 2006 Aleksey Mitrofanov novel t.A.T.u. Come Back, itself inspired by the story of the pop duo. t.A.T.u. went on hiatus in 2009, and the duo officially disbanded in March 2011. [9]
"Not Gonna Get Us" received mixed reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic highlighted the track on the album saying it was an "exhausting offering hit" but continued saying; "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 ...