TS: "All the Things She Said" vs. "Heartbeat"

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Annie has the better/smarter beats and instrumentation and production but the Tatu song pwns nonetheless.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

oops

― Aaron A., Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I hate the acoustic guitar on the TaTu song.

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

tough call but tatu are just too weird not to win this.

― bela lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Tatu, more or less. If you'd said "Not Gonna Get Us" it'd be Tatu in a, umm, heartbeat.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Annie, because T.A.t.u. succeed at making me want to kill myself, although I do admire their marketing scheme.

― Kitten, the body needs it, the body cries out for Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Love both songs very much - I was thinking that the TATU one is more urgent, but then "Heartbeat" gets that way too.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Actually "Malchik Gay" is still probably the best thing on that album -- maybe one of my favorites of the decade-so-far.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

"I long for you to hold me like your boyfriend does"

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

So this isn't a Simple Minds vs. Psychedelic Furs thread then?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

C'mon, Roger, hold me like your girlfriend does.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

It's hopeless...

PS - this thread might get more attention on ILM, n'est-ce pas?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I like both songs, but "Heartbeat" wins.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I do admire their marketing scheme

In last year's New Yorker piece, their impresario described them as "the product of historical forces." So deliciously post-Soviet dialectical-materialist...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

See, everyone reads their teen-lesbian thing as being some kind of titillating ploy -- which it is, I mean, KNEEPADS -- but on record, in the songs, there's no sexy-teenage-lesbians material but loads and loads of teenage-lesbian nobody-understands Star Crossed Lovers teeny-drama angst, and it really, really works. "Not Gonna Get Us" is the big eloping away-from-the-cruel-world anthem (and is awesome). "Malchik Gay" read to me a bit the same way, until I realized "malchik" means "boy," and it's just an old-school gay-boy-won't-date-me song. Still, the thread all through is impossible forbidden love, love that can't actually happen, love that dare not speak its name, etc. -- teen-angst basics, not oo-er lesbian teases.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

two of my favourite singles of recent years, but I'm going for Tatu, which has the big bonus that Sinkah and I nearly did it in karaoke once (perhaps there is still time, Mark!). For those who don't know, we are each considerably older than Tatu's ages added together, and I think it's fair to say we may be a little less cute too (a lot less in my case). Also we aren't lesbians or schoolgirls, but I think we were willing to take a shot at it for the performance, obviously.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

OMG M SINKMORE "ALL THE THINGS HE SAID" KARAEACTION!!!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

(I would pay money to see such a beautiful thing!)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Nabisco OTM re: the glory of that tATu album

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

i actually can sing a mean "not gonna get us"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I like to sing "Hearbeat" like twenty octaves lower than Annie, in the Elmer Fudd kill da wabbit opera voice.

FEEW MY HAWTBEET SOFTWY GENTWY WIKE A MEWODEEEEEE

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

i think the knife's "heartbeats" is better than both.

― demonlolver (gcannon), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Me Plus One

("If ever there's a girl that could rock your world/Then that girl sure is me")

― grraham (noodles is a cunt), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

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