Killing Space And Wasting Time

Remember t.A.T.u.? The female duo from Russia were enjoying their fourth week at #1 in the UK on 23rd February 2003 with All The Things She Said. 

The song is currently enjoying a resurgence of interest due to the inclusion of the original, and a contemporary cover by Harrison, in the TV series Heated Rivalry, which itself seems ot be attracting lots of interest. It's on Sky here in the UK, so it's completely passed me by.

I won't go into the history of the group or the controversy surrounding both the song, the band name and t.A.T.u. themselves, but you can read about it on Iffypedia if you're so inclined.

However, the one t.A.T.u. song that I have in my music collection popped up during a random shuffle, hence today's post.

I'd always assumed that t.A.T.u. was a one-hit wonder, that after the initial rush of excitement and disgust at All The Things She Said, interest rapidly waned, so I was surprised to find that the duo enjoyed two more UK Top 10 hits, one in 2003 and another in 2005.

Today's pick comes much later and via a mammoth compilation of remixes by Italian polymath Gaudi that I bought in 2020.

Time Of The Moon originally appeared on t.A.T.u.'s fifth album Waste Management, released in 2009. In 2011, the remix by Gaudi and San Francisco-based artist Alex Theory was added as a bonus track to the first of two companion albums, which otherwise contained fan-made remixes.

I haven't heard either the original version or the other remixes of Time Of The Moon but this one, replete with the obligatory samples of N.A.S.A./astronaut dialogue, is pretty good.

By 2011, Elena Katina and Yulia Volkova were launching their solo careers, so I guess that Waste Management: Remixes 1 & 2 were posthumous releases. However, in recent years the pair have seemingly resolved their differences and performed again as t.A.T.u.