Dec 28, 2006 10:49 PM

Noise du Jour: "Cosmos" by t.A.T.u.

I confess, I am a recovering t.A.T.u. fan. When I was about sixteen, I became obsessed with the similarly-aged, dubiously-lesbian pop duo and amassed an embarrassingly huge collection of Ya Sosla S Uma remixes. I bore a superficial resemblance to the redhead, and took great pleasure in this. Their most recent release, Dangerous and Moving, […]

I confess, I am a recovering t.A.T.u. fan.

When I was about sixteen, I became obsessed with the similarly-aged, dubiously-lesbian pop duo and amassed an embarrassingly huge collection of Ya Sosla S Uma remixes. I bore a superficial resemblance to the redhead, and took great pleasure in this.

Their most recent release, Dangerous and Moving, lacked that poppy punch that made 200 km/h In the Wrong Lane fun, but one song went directly into my “Space and/or the Future” playlist and stayed there.

This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space
Our home forever is outer space
Black stars and endless seas, outer space
New hope, new destinies; outer space
Forever we'll be in
Outer space, outer space

I sent it to a DJ friend of mine, who remarked excitedly that it sounds more like a They Might Be Giants song. He’s right. It’s just sweetly perverse that someone wrote it for t.A.T.u.

Hit the jump for two music videos, with the Russian and English versions respectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U0w7Oq_fAg

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