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davidt
on Friday June 13 2003, @12:00AM
Karl Napp writes:
Believe it or not, the new single of the Russian (pseudo-lesbian) pop-catastrophe tatu is "How Soon Is Now?" Heard it this morning in a German radio-station called "Das Ding". It will be released in about four weeks and sounds pretty awful... --- Arleenco also sends the post on tatugirls.com: Morissey Calls t.A.T.u.'s Version of 'How Soon Is Now?' "Magnificent" Morissey, former singer of The Smiths, who originally wrote and performed the song "How Soon Is Now?" in 1984 had this to say about t.A.T.u. in the U.K.'s Word Magazine: Word: Did you hear t.A.T.u.'s version of "How Soon Is Now?" Morissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them. Word: They are teenage Russian lesbians. Morissey: Well, aren't we all? [posted 5/21/2003 U.S.A.]
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How soon is now...... (Score:1)
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He had this to say in ID-magazine (Score:2, Funny)
I love it. I like the way they sing 'I am yeoman and I need to be loved'. A yeoman is a small farmer from the 1700's, isn't it? I had no idea that song was all about small farmers.
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Magnificent?? (Score:1)
Next thing we know is Justin Timberlake doing "The boy with the thorn".....
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Re:Oh yeah? (Score:2, Insightful)
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If you believe that they're sincere lesbians.... (Score:1, Funny)
The song is awful, especially when they hit the "When you say it's gonna happen now..." part.
They sound like Yakov Smirnoff, if he had his balls snipped off, and was forced to sing kareoke.
i like it (Score:0)
to be really honest, i'm not a fan of the original - it's one of the only smiffs songs that doesn't really do it for me.....
sorry people :(
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Why I Wept (Score:3, Funny)
I woke up early this morning, and for some reason Morrissey was on my mind. Then I switch on the computer, took a peek at Morrissey-solo and see that T.Atu are releasing ‘How Soon Is Now’. I’ve no problem with this.
Then I thought about The Smiths on ‘Top Of The Pops’ in 1985 and Morrissey pretending to slaughter the audience with a machine gun. What a fantastic moment in pop history, I had to go and find it on video. YES! It was just as brilliant as I remembered it. And it made me weep. I’m 34 and it made me weep. I’ve been a fan since the first single and it made me weep. IT MADE ME WEEP!
Why? Because no one would have the audacity, intelligence or bravery to machine-gun the TOTP audience now.
No one has the brains or the words.
There is no one like Morrissey.
There is no one who would rail against the fake, false, controlled, sterile, balloon-and-party-hat atmosphere of TOTP. This piss poor right wing conservative country I live in, full of Big Brother obsessed dorks and awful, AWFUL chart ‘bands’. I wept.
I used to make a nuisance of myself on his doorstep in Manchester. Plaster my walls with his image. Back-bedroom rebel bombarding him with appalling prose. And he was always kind, charming, when he should have told me to piss off.
Now I’m married, but, like my Dad dying, the girl who broke my heart at 19, and the dog that got killed, I will never get over him. This unattainable man in Comme De Garcon. This man who machine-gunned the idiots on Top Of The Pops.
So, this is why I will always forgive Morrissey. Annoying, frustrating, handsome, sexy, self-destructive man. Too clever by half and daft as cake by the other half.
I want to see T.Atu take the same risks. Dare they? No, of course not, because their controversy is stage managed and fake. Words are put into their mouths and clothes are hung on their bodies for them.
There is no one like Morrissey. I will love him always. Chunky Morrissey; even if he grows obese and has to be wheeled on in an industrial wheelbarrow I will listen.
I’ve just read back what I’ve written and I sound crazed….
Well F*** it!
‘submit’
Damian Morgan
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Morrissey's shit tastes (again!) (Score:1)
Reminder:
"Tatu’s Julia Volkova told NME that she had never heard of The Smiths before being given the song to sing: "[The producers] just put it on for us and we decided it was worth a try. Frankly speaking, we hadn’t known this group." "
If I ever come across this bugger Trevor Horn (the fucking producer guilty of this botch), I'll smahs every tooth in his head, or something equivalent.
This is not idle talk.
I've heard Tatu's version a couple of times: really sounds like they don't understand a single word they're singing. Which is obviously the case.
Damned iconoclasts!
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I, Iconoclast (Score:1)
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Now is not soon enough. (Score:1, Interesting)
I hate tatu. I hate everyone who listens to them and I hate everything they stand for. And I hope they get run over by a ten ton truck very soon.
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How Soon is Now (Score:1)
* TATU
* Snake River Conspiracy
* Love Spit Love
* Neil Finn
* Afghan Whigs
??
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Ecstatic pop (Score:2, Interesting)
Musical history is all about artifice, rappers pretending to be trigger happy, singers making about they are more literate/working class/debauched/promiscuous/intense/bizarre than they really are and shedloads of gay clean cut popsters trying to convince the public that they are straight.
How come when two presumably hetero girls sing passionate, well written songs (with lyrics that are frankly more inspiring than anything in 'crashing bores' et al) with a twist of potted controversy (the will they/won't they kiss) they are instantly demonized.
A worldwide number one single that contains the lyric 'i'm feeling for her what she's feeling for me' amidst an evocative tale of angst-ridden forbidden love surely qualifies as at least a minor musical milestone. I can't think of a similar mainstream success that embraced such themes in half a century of pop.
It certainly doesn't warrant knee-jerk vilification.
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FUcken Dykes (Score:0)
It has nothing to do with there...lesbianity....its just...how is Elton John a "Crashing Bore" for constantly shuving his sexuallity in our faces....yet T.A.T.U...is magnificient?
Holy shit...he's turning into michael jackson. Think about it...they both never leave the house....like charlie chapins smile song......and call every new "artist" a genous.
What the fuck?
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I Have One Word to Describe How I Feel About This (Score:1)
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lost as usual... (Score:2, Funny)
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god help us,if your really there! (Score:1)
what is this fucking world coming to.
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tatu you (Score:1)
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My P.O.V. (Score:1)
I heard this version on Mexican Radio, I almost died in shock on how ugly it sounded.
I read somewhere that someone felt their "pain" when they sang this. I died of laughter, what a load of crap!
As for their so called lesbianism, it's all a front.
http://uk.gay.com/headlines/4462
So sad. Their 15 minutes are almost up so I am not sad.
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needed permission (Score:1)
everytime i hear a new version of "how soon is now?", i cringe knowing that no smith - in their right mind - would allow it, and that's including craig gannon.
our only hope is that morrissey/marr (and joyce/rourke) get a slice of the pie.
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tATu you (Score:0)
As I've already said in the message board area, I have their CD and I think it's fun. I'm already tired of a lot of the songs, and I'm sure it won't be long before I file the CD away and rarely listen to it again. But I don't think they're bad. I'm particularly fond of the song "Malchik Gay," in addition to "How Soon Is Now?" Yes, their cover of "How Soon Is Now?" *is* good, and you doofuses knows it. I would find it refreshing to flip by MTV sometime and see a video for it. I'd bet you'd be slow to turn the channel from that too.
Anyway, I think some of you take these things way too seriously. As if you're offended that a couple of teenagers would dare cover The Smiths. (How offended can the person who submitted the item be when he can't even figure out how to spell MORRISSEY - at least tATu spelled it right!)
What is all this anger at them about?
Oh and there's also some of you who take the Bill O'Reilly stand and are offended that they're toying with sexuality or something. You realize rock 'n' roll is called rock 'n' roll becuase it's about FUCKING, right? Relax and enjoy.
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Are we really that concerned (Score:1)
firstly attack my mis-spelling
secondly my grammer
and finally "have-a-go" at my content
well are T.A.T.U. not the modren version of Sandie Shaw and her peers? as contrivied as their person is by some cleaver marketing manager is its intriguing to see the uproar they've caused, they managed to annoy the establishment with little more than a kiss (as laughable as that is). Am I the "traitor" for licking the track for what it is a "pop-song" obviously when the Smiths did it it ment something. I like T.A.T.U. I hate the whole fake lesbian thing it bores me (i like how many noses it puts out of place) but i like their funny voices and disposable lyrics they are so much more tolarable than justin/christina and britney
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i'd hate to be like certain people I know... (Score:1)
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No Emotion (Score:1)
There’s a lack of truth in words recorded on paper to words that you hear yourself…without a tone of voice you can’t hear emotion (although that doesn’t apply to TATU as they sound like robots), which doesn’t convince me at all that Morrissey does like the song…sarcasm can not be heard from paper. Even if Morrissey does, I and many others don't. However, everybody to their own even if it is dire...
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Thinking (Score:0)
I love it, I really do... (Score:0)
Blasphemous!!! (Score:0, Redundant)
BTW, who doesn't like lesbian girls together, he he. And they are sooo young, this is probably just thier experimental phase that they will outgrow.
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How Soon is Now covers (Score:1)
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Re:Relax you precious prats... (Score:0)
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are you sure.. (Score:0)
your bed is up to it? I'm thinking maybe the odd loose spring? or, oh no! you haven't got a divan!?!? tell me you haven't!!
S. (wilfully o.t.)
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