Damn, I wish someone leak all unreleased stuff... like Show Me Love Video, demos/songs/remixes they didn't use on albums... Tokio Dome/Bonn concerts. It would be a dream to watch/listen all of these.

Just now, Cutthroat said:

Wasn’t Waste Management delayed for months and months? As I remember the artwork leaking so long before it actually came out. I was starting to think it wasn’t ever coming.
 

The entire era was messy from the single choices down to them releasing the English counterpart an entire year later. 

Well I guess they were waiting for the label deal. Also some of the songs on the record were bought from Shapovalov's prodigies & then re-written, so probably there was some hassle with securing rights for the English versions.

2 minutes ago, lovedaddy said:

Damn, I wish someone leak all unreleased stuff... like Show Me Love Video, demos/songs/remixes they didn't use on albums... Tokio Dome/Bonn concerts. It would be a dream to watch/listen all of these.

Paragate concept art PLEASE

 

This is honestly so good. Vocally, I’ve always preferred Julia’s parts in t.A.T.u. songs but Lena’s debut album surprised me a lot. 

9 minutes ago, WhoWho said:

Paragate concept art PLEASE

 

Does this even exist? I think they barely started thinking it up before it was abandoned?

19 minutes ago, Aquamarine said:

Does this even exist? I think they barely started thinking it up before it was abandoned?

We know that they finished character designs and script before the project got shelved.

 

A BOP

I came across a viral tweet about the worst album covers in history and remembered the roll out of t.A.T.u.’s third album. So decided to share this here

 

So in late 2007 “the Insider” on the t.A.T.u. Forum(actually members of group’s management team) spilled that both versions of the next album will be called “Waste Management”(«Управление Отбросами» in Russian).

 

Fans got annoyed with the name being “overly dark” YET AGAIN and there was some backlash, so girls allegedly decided to troll the fans and leaked the “ACTUAL ALBUM COVER” for the third album, which was supposed to be called “Together Forever…”(«Вместе Навсегда…» in Russian). The cover also hinted at “Snowfalls/Снегопады” being released as the next single.

 

 

3 months later paparazzis traced Julia’s car. She drove up to the salon to do her nails, and while she was away, the paps were making photos of the insides of her car through windows. And there it was! “THE REAL THIRD ALBUM” called “Singing Soul”(«Поющая Душа» in Russian). Obviously, that was also just trolling.

 

 

Edited April 21, 20224 yr by WhoWho

Also, another fun fact is that "Together Forever" was the name of one the early "Not Gonna Get Us" demos.
Another suggested title was "200 по встречной" or "200 km\h in the wrong lane"

Lyrics in the intro:

200 по встречной, вместе навечно(in Russian)
200 km\h in the wrong lane, together forever(in English)

Edited April 21, 20224 yr by WhoWho

Another fun fact is that originally "Happy Smiles" cover art looked a little bit differently.

The original album cover that was posted by t.A.T.u. on their website on the 3rd of September 2008 (48 days before album's release date) depicted a South Korean astronaut Yi So-yeon, the first Korean to fly in space.

The cover art had to be changed the very last minute in order to not get into legal dispute.

Here's how it looked like.





Here's a video from the CD factory in Podolsk (city near Moscow) that girls visited before the release of the album. They themselves were surprised that the cover art looks differently and had to ask their management for the explanation.

 

Edited April 21, 20224 yr by WhoWho

Finally, there's another twist to the whole "Waste Management\Управление Отбросами" debacle.

After facing the backlash from their Russian fans for "another dark album name", t.A.T.u. knew that fans were expecting another dark  era from them. So team's management decided to come up with another title to surprise Russian audiences. The name that they ended up with is "Happy Smiles"(or "Веселые улыбки" in Russian).

This change reinvigorated the album campaign. Thanks to leaks of info and "the all knowing Insider",  fans knew plenty of details before the album's release, and with most of the songs from the album being performed at least once during the year prior to the album's release - there was not much room for shock. So all in all that was a great decision.

However, the thing is that behind the "Happy Smiles" cover art  the owners of physical copies were greeted by another cover art with "УО" abbreviation. Which as you could have already guessed stands for "Управление Отбросами", the original name of the album. So in the end t.A.T.u. tricked their Russian fans into buying the album with the name they hated.

 

Edited April 21, 20224 yr by WhoWho

And yes, I know that I have no life.

GET OF MY BACK YOU F-WORDS!!!!

 

5 minutes ago, WhoWho said:

And yes, I know that I have no life.

GET OF MY BACK YOU F-WORDS!!!!

 

1 minute ago, Saddy said:

23 minutes ago, Saddy said:

In all honesty, I'm just trying to keep this nearly dead thread alive, but to do this we probably need to start discography rate.

18 minutes ago, WhoWho said:

In all honesty, I'm just trying to keep this nearly dead thread alive, but to do this we probably need to start discography rate.

No one would criticize your posts, even if you don't have life lol so don't worry about that 

8 minutes ago, Saddy said:

No one would criticize your posts, even if you don't have life lol so don't worry about that 

lol thank you king (or queen!)

new Lena song

 

 

On 4/16/2022 at 1:26 AM, Saddy said:

A BOP

5 hours ago, lovedaddy said:

new Lena song

 

 

Cute song, not her best but better than her other songs she released 

1 hour ago, Saddy said:

Cute song, not her best but better than her other songs she released 

it's not a song, it's a roadkill.....

why do both of them sound like they are tired or sick or something, ever since Waste Management...like that chorus literally has no energy, she's just getting through 9-5 or something

On 4/21/2022 at 10:36 AM, WhoWho said:

Another fun fact is that originally "Happy Smiles" cover art looked a little bit differently.

The original album cover that was posted by t.A.T.u. on their website on the 3rd of September 2008 (48 days before album's release date) depicted a South Korean astronaut Yi So-yeon, the first Korean to fly in space.

The cover art had to be changed the very last minute in order to not get into legal dispute.

Here's how it looked like.





Here's a video from the CD factory in Podolsk (city near Moscow) that girls visited before the release of the album. They themselves were surprised that the cover art looks differently and had to ask their management for the explanation.

 

I remember this. A MESS 

 

Miss them, for some reason I went to their Apple Music profile and found out their Russian debut is available now (I’m in Mexico and it wasn’t before)

 

Lemme get my life 

I've been obsessed with them (again) lately. I watched all of those old behind the scenes documentaries/outtakes that are on youtube and they are... truly something. Its crazy how mismanaged they were literally from the very beginning. The one thing that remained incredible tho is the music of course.