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"All the Things She Said" | ||||||||||
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Single by t.A.T.u. | ||||||||||
from the album 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane | ||||||||||
B-side | "Stars", "Ya Soshla S Uma" | |||||||||
Released | August 18, 2002 (Europe) September 10, 2002 (NA) January 27, 2003 (UK) |
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Format | CD single, Cassette Single, digital download | |||||||||
Recorded | 2002 | |||||||||
Genre | Pop rock, electronic rock | |||||||||
Length | 3:34 (Album Version) 3:29 (Radio Version) |
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Label | Universal/Interscope | |||||||||
Writer(s) | Sergio Galoyan, Trevor Horn, Martin Kierszenbaum, Elena Kiper, Valeriy Polienko | |||||||||
Producer | Trevor Horn | |||||||||
Certification | Platinum (Sweden) Platinum (ARIA) |
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"All The Things She Said" is a song performed by Russian recording duo t.A.T.u., released as the lead single from their debut studio album 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane (2002). The song was written, including musical composition, by Sergio Galoyan, Trevor Horn, Martin Kierszenbaum, Elena Kiper and Valeriy Polienko, with production handled by Horn. It was announced by producers of Interscope that they would be recording the song after the split with Russian act Neposedi. The song was then the musical act's first English-language song for the record label, Interscope Records, a subsidiary label of the Universal Music Group, and emerged at a period in time when the duo was entering into the English-language market through a number of developing projects[citation needed].
Musically, "All The Things She Said" is a mid-tempo pop rock song that draws influences of electronica, europop, R&B and hard rock music. Lyrically, the song is about the relationship between the two girls (whether it is platonic or not is not mentioned) and how they cannot get the other girl out of their heads. The song received mixed reviews from music critics, with some reviews pointing to the song as an album highlight and catchy, but some critics criticized the song's overly-repetitive nature.[1] Following the release of "All The Things She Said", the song had peaked at number one in most charts around the world, including including Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The song managed to dominate the charts in the American market, peaking at number twenty on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
An accompanying music video was released for the song and was directed by Ivan Shapovalov, the person initially responsible for bringing Katina and Volkova together as a duo. It featured the two female singers as school students desperate to escape a fictional educational institution setting, whilst public onlookers show indifference towards the pair's plight. The music video had sparked controversy due to the portrayal of Volkova and Katina kissing on-screen. Many publications and outlets had published about the song's video and the kiss onscreen, with some trying to ban the video from airing. The group had also performed the single live, including a performance at the MTV Movie Awards.
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The song was written as t.A.T.u.'s debut English single by Ivan Shapovalov, Sergio Galoyan, Trevor Horn, Elena Kiper and Valeriy Polienko. The song was mostly produced by English producers, like Horn, and Russian producers. At the time, neither Yulia Volkova nor Lena Katina were fluent in English. The song is also the English version of t.A.T.u.'s 1999 original selection, "Ya Soshla S Uma". Work on the song had started after the duo had finished its recording of Neposedi. On the strength of Neposedi, Ivan Shapolavov had signed them to Interscope Records through Universal Music Group's offices in Russia. The Russian edit of the single is drastically different to this version, as the Russian edit is more electronically mastered.
The song opens with dreamy, trance-gated synthesizers and then shifts into a guitar-based pop rock style with Trevor Horn's trademark huge drum sound, but also lightens up to include softer R&B sounds in the middle eight.[2] Stephen Thomas Erlerwine from Allmusic had described the song as a "heavy europop sound".[3] The English version was very different from the original Russian version, which featured a more electropop and electronica style, whereas the English version supported a more demure pop rock style. When Lena Katina was asked about the songs meaning, she stated: "We're singing about love [...] Even all over the world teenagers, can find themselves in our song[s] 'cause we're singing about these problems, we're singing about teenagers, and I think everybody can understand that".[4]
The song was released in 2002 and 2003. It was first released in Europe in August 2002, worldwide in early 2003, and in the United Kingdom in 2003.[5] There are different artwork covers for the various singles released. For the North American, Russian and UK cover, it featured both Lena and Yulia on the cover posing in school uniforms.[6] For the Australian and New Zealand release, it featured Yulia and Lena in an animated format, with them both in bed together, with Lena asleep and Yulia looking to the side of the bed.[7] A VHS tape was released in France and Spain. A DVD Single was released in the UK and US to promote the single as well.
"All the Things She Said" had received mixed reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlwenine from Allmusic reviewed the song and said that it has a "heavy Europop sound" and has a "gimmick suggestive name", however, he did highlight it as one of the best album tracks.[8] Andrew Lynch from Entertainment.ie described it as a "raunchy video and a superior synthpop song".[9] Sputnikmusic said it was one of a "merit of a pop anthem" and also "It’s a great piece of writing slightly angsty lyrics but not enough to really get worked up about and an electro beat combined with a somewhat hypnotic rhythm make this a little sample of how good pop can be".[10] Popmatters said that its really "ridiculous that people complain about the song like it has a problem or something" and also added that they do not care if they are "transgender, bisexual, lesbian or gay, in the end, its about people and yourself feeling safe and better together".[11] Blogcritic said it really has a "dreamy synthezisers and has sequels of choruses".
The song was ranked at number 452 in Blender magazine's The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born.[12] The song was listed at number 8 on the AOL's Top 100 Pop Songs of the Decade.[13] New Zealand Herald had listed the song at number five on their Top Ten Best Singles of 2003.[14]
t.A.T.u.'s first English-language single made its charts debut in October 2002 in Sweden and Finland, where it reached the number two position in a matter of weeks. After that, the single was released in November 2002 in Switzerland, where the single reached the number one position for seven consecutive weeks. By the end of the year 2002 the single was released in France, Denmark, and the United States. The single hit the number two position in France for three weeks, topped the Danish charts for a week, and in the U.S. peaked at number twenty for two weeks. By the end of the year the song had already reached the number thirty-three position in Switzerland’s Year-End chart for 2002[15] with only 2 months on the charts, and the position number 94[16] in France where the single had only spent three weeks on the chart.
In 2003, t.A.T.u. released “All the Things She Said” in Austria and the UK where the single reached the number forty-four position on import sales alone[17] before its actual release date. After being released on January 27, 2003, the single went straight to number one with sales of more than 90,000 copies[18] and maintain that position for three more consecutive weeks. This became the girls' first and only number one UK single. After spending four weeks at the top of the UK Single Charts the single received a Silver Award for sales of more than 200,000 copies in the UK alone. t.A.T.u.’s last market was Australia where the single spent two weeks at the top of the charts and reached Platinum for shipments of more than 70,000 copies in Australia. On 26 January 2003, t.A.T.u. released “All the Things She Said” in New Zealand where it entered the chart at number forty. Over five weeks, it rose to number two. It peaked at number one for three weeks. It was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) shipping over 7,500 copies. It stayed in the charts for 20 weeks in total.[19]
Their producer, writer and director Ivan Shapovalov had directed the music video. Being an English dub of "Ya Soshla S Uma" (I Lost My Mind), the music video for "All the Things She Said" features Yulia and Lena wearing Catholic school uniforms, singing together in the rain and snow. The two eventually kiss behind a chain fence, on the other side of which there is a crowd of onlookers. It seems like the crowd is watching these two lesbian girls who feel they are trapped within their emotions. The video ends when the girls go around the corner of the building, and off into the distance as the rain clears, revealing that the onlookers are the real captives — of ignorance. The English video is made up from footage from the Russian version, and there are fewer shots of the duo singing, due to the language difference.
The video caused controversy in countries where it was played. It was listed on Much Music's 50 Most Controversial Videos at number 4.
In the United Kingdom, TV presenters Richard and Judy campaigned to have the video banned from TV claiming it pandered to paedophiles with the use of school uniforms and young girls kissing. Although their campaign failed, other TV shows took a negative stance to the video and the girls' kissing. In each of the four times Top of the Pops aired a live performance of the girls, the kiss was replaced with footage of the audience (sometimes kissing) instead.[citation needed]
t.A.T.u. performed the song on many television shows in the United States. They first appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where the girls created confusion, because they kissed each other without first having been granted permission to do so.[20] They performed the single on Jimmy Kimmel Live, AOL sessions (along with Not Gonna Get Us), MADtv, Carson Daly Show, TRL and the 2003 MTV Movie Awards. They also performed the song on shows in many other countries such as CD:UK in the UK and Top of the Pops in Italy. On most of the shows, the girls only lip synced because of Yulia's vocal cyst. In some of these shows, the girls were not taken seriously, and there were jokes about their "relationship". When asked if they were lesbians, they always said they only "loved each other". The girls were also criticized for not kissing on TV shows like they used to do in their concerts.[who?] t.A.T.u. said it was because the TV only wanted to show people their kiss, and not the music.[citation needed]
The song has appeared in multiple television events: it was WWE pro wrestler Victoria's theme song from December 2002 to May 2004. Also, the song was played during the final scenes of the Birds of Prey series on the WB network, in the 2003 episode "Devil's Eyes". This theme was also featured as the opening song of the Chinese drama, Legend of the Heavenly Stones, as a Chinese language dub.[21]
The song was parodied on the Australian sketch show Comedy Inc..[22] The video was also parodied on The Frank Skinner Show with Skinner playing Volkova and Jennie McAlpine playing Katina.[23] Leigh Francis parodied the video in series 2 of his comedy program Bo' Selecta![24]
"All the Things She Said" went on to sell more than 2 million copies around the world. It ended up as the number six best selling single of 2003 in the UK.[25] selling more than 336,000 copies[citation needed] and at number 16 best selling single of 2003 in France. "All the Things She Said" became one of the biggest hits of 2003 reaching number three on the European Singles of 2003 chart,[26] just behind Eminem's "Lose Yourself" and The Black Eyed Peas's "Where Is the Love?."
U.S. CD single
Russia CD single
Europe Maxi-CD single
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Europe | August 18, 2002 |
United Kingdom | January 27, 2003 |
Preceded by "Dilemma" by Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland |
Swiss Singles Chart number-one single 15 December 2002 – 2 February 2003 |
Succeeded by "We Have a Dream" by Deutschland sucht den Superstar |
Preceded by "Every Little Part of Me" by Julie |
Danish Singles Chart number-one single 10 January 2003 |
Succeeded by "Every Little Part of Me" by Julie |
Preceded by "Sound of the Underground" by Girls Aloud |
Irish Singles Chart number-one single 1 February 2003 – 22 February 2003 |
Succeeded by "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera |
Preceded by "Stop Living the Lie" by David Sneddon |
UK Singles Chart number-one single 2 February 2003 – 1 March 2003 |
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Preceded by "Lose Yourself" by Eminem |
Austrian Singles Chart number-one single 2 February 2003 – 2 March 2003 |
Succeeded by "Tomorrow's Heroes" by Starmaniacs |
New Zealand RIANZ Sigles Chart number-one single 2 March 2003 – 16 March 2003 |
Succeeded by "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera |
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Preceded by "Lost Without You" by Delta Goodrem |
Australia ARIA Singles Chart number-one single (first run) 16 March 2003 |
Succeeded by "Lost Without You" by Delta Goodrem |
Australia ARIA Singles Chart number-one single (second run) 30 March 2003 |
Succeeded by "In Da Club" by 50 Cent |
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All the Things She Said is a song by Scottish rock group Simple Minds released as the third single from their seventh studio album, Once Upon a Time. The song reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart and number 28 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was featured in the 2013 best-selling video game, Grand Theft Auto V, on the fictional radio station Los Santos Rock Radio.
I'm in serious shit, I feel totally lost
If I'm asking for help it's only because
Being with you has opened my eyes
Could I ever believe such a perfect surprise?
I keep asking myself, wondering how
I keep closing my eyes but I can't block you out
Wanna fly to a place where it's just you and me
Nobody else so we can be free
Nobody else so we can be free
All the things she said
All the things she said
Running through my head
Running through my head
Running through my head
All the things she said
All the things she said
Running through my head
Running through my head
All the things she said
This is not enough
This is not enough
They say it's my fault
But I want her so much
This is not enough
And I'm all mixed up, feeling cornered and rushed
They say it's my fault but I want her so much
Wanna fly her away where the sun and rain
Come in over my face, wash away all the shame
When they stop and stare - don't worry me
'Cause I'm feeling for her what she's feeling for me
I can try to pretend, I can try to forget
But it's driving me mad, going out of my head
All the things she said
All the things she said
Running through my head
Running through my head
Running through my head
All the things she said
All the things she said
Running through my head
Running through my head
All the things she said
This is not enough