We All Know The Tatu Schtick By Now

Matt Cibula of PopMatters.com weighed in on t.A.T.u.’s English debut ’200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane’. He writes, “So by now every soccer mom and clueless square uncle knows the shtick about Russian ‘lesbian’ teens Lena Katina and Julia Volkova, who are t.A.T.u. They were put together, forbidden underage ‘porn’ image and all, by their producer/songwriter/Svengalis, and they’re probably not really lesbians after all due to their having boyfriends back in Russia, and it’s all a big pop swindle. But that’s a wonderful reason to love them, and you could just groove on the whole time-honored artificiality of it.” Read more.