Music Review: t.A.T.u. "How Soon Is Now"
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How Soon Is Now
Album: 200 K/M In The Wrong Lane
Year: 2003
t.A.T. u. resent that their parents taught them to be passive in their mediocre cover of "How Soon Is Now."
A livid guitar opens the single, setting an indignant tone. Its slightly different from the original hook. Lena Katina snots that her parents are quiet and she became the same way. She despises them for not being flashy people.
When they tell her she should a join a club, she yells back that they have no right to talk about how she approaches people. She wants someone who will love her. After all, she deserves have someone like everyone else she knows.
The first verse is sung again.
The chorus is sung again.
The single speeds to the next verse. Katina says she has gone to clubs. However, people ignore her. She tries to talk to them but they don't care. She comes home, embarassed and wants to crawl under a rock. She can't face going into the club again.
The livid guitar returns for a solo.
A piano is added. Katina, now helpless and depressed, says that her parents told she will find someone. However, she asks them if they really mean it. She feels her chance to have someone in her life has passed. She doesn't believe it will happen.
The chorus is sung again.
As a teenager, Katina is already bitter about her dating prospects. She feels that her life is over. The life-and-death attitude is conveyed with a hissyfit. She's quick to point her finger at her parents for making her be a shy person. She won't admit she willingly is a quiet person to herself. T
The band's lesbian gimmick is irrelevant here. Katina feels alienated in general. Whether or not it's because of her sexual orientation is unclear.
The instrumentation of the original has been changed slightly. The guitar hook in t.A.T.u's version is furious and threatening than the original. It doesn't mimic it note by note and attempts to differeniate itself from the original. It also adds in a piano to bring some vulnerability in the single and to offset the overall angry tone.
t.A.T. u tries and makes a valiant effort. But it lacks the intensity of the original.
Album: 200 K/M In The Wrong Lane
Year: 2003
t.A.T. u. resent that their parents taught them to be passive in their mediocre cover of "How Soon Is Now."
A livid guitar opens the single, setting an indignant tone. Its slightly different from the original hook. Lena Katina snots that her parents are quiet and she became the same way. She despises them for not being flashy people.
"I am the son/And the heir/Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar/I am the son and heir/Of nothing in particular."
When they tell her she should a join a club, she yells back that they have no right to talk about how she approaches people. She wants someone who will love her. After all, she deserves have someone like everyone else she knows.
"You shut your mouth/How can you say/I go about things the wrong way ?/I am human and I need to be loved/Just like everybody else does."
The first verse is sung again.
The chorus is sung again.
The single speeds to the next verse. Katina says she has gone to clubs. However, people ignore her. She tries to talk to them but they don't care. She comes home, embarassed and wants to crawl under a rock. She can't face going into the club again.
"There's a club, if you'd like to go/You could meet somebody who really loves you/So you go, and you stand on your own/And you leave on your own/And you go home, and you cry/And you want to die."
The livid guitar returns for a solo.
A piano is added. Katina, now helpless and depressed, says that her parents told she will find someone. However, she asks them if they really mean it. She feels her chance to have someone in her life has passed. She doesn't believe it will happen.
"When you say it's gonna happen "now"/Well, when exactly do you mean ?/See I've already waited too long/And all my hope is gone."
The chorus is sung again.
As a teenager, Katina is already bitter about her dating prospects. She feels that her life is over. The life-and-death attitude is conveyed with a hissyfit. She's quick to point her finger at her parents for making her be a shy person. She won't admit she willingly is a quiet person to herself. T
The band's lesbian gimmick is irrelevant here. Katina feels alienated in general. Whether or not it's because of her sexual orientation is unclear.
The instrumentation of the original has been changed slightly. The guitar hook in t.A.T.u's version is furious and threatening than the original. It doesn't mimic it note by note and attempts to differeniate itself from the original. It also adds in a piano to bring some vulnerability in the single and to offset the overall angry tone.
t.A.T. u tries and makes a valiant effort. But it lacks the intensity of the original.