t.A.T.u. Returns
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Julia Volkova and Lena Katina are back. Hopefully for the last time.
But if t.A.T.u. represents the tippy-top of the marketing universe, it also represents the bottom third of pop songwriting. Predictably, their sophomore album is lousy with that we‘re-serious-this-time vibe, the palpable straining that screams, “Take us on our artistic merits, at least until we start mauling each other.”
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Unfortunately, t.A.T.u. patronizes its younger fans with an assortment of tiresome pop treacle — overwrought momentum killers that periodically ding the release.
Dangerous and Moving also features incidental contributions from Sting, the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart and Richard Carpenter of the Carpenters — none of which is worth detailing. Volkova and Katina have enough problems with frivolous distractions.
“Dangerous and Moving,” t.A.T.u. (Interscope)