All the Things She Said

All the Things She Said
tATu
publication	August 18, 2002
length	3:34 min.
Genre (s)	Industrial rock
text	Sergio Galoyan , Trevor Horn , Martin Kierszenbaum , Jelena Kiper , Valeri Poljenko
music	Sergio Galoyan , Trevor Horn
album	200 km / h in Wrong Lane

All the Things She Said (Eng. "All the things she said") is a song by the Russian pop duo tATu , which was released as a single from their English-language debut album 200 km / h in the Wrong Lane in 2002 . The song became the most successful of their careers and helped them achieve their international breakthrough.

The piece is the English version of the Russian title Ja soschla s uma (Я сошла с ума) and was the first single by a Russian musical group to hit the charts in Great Britain and Australia , where it stayed at number one for four weeks. In 2003 the song was the most successful single by foreign artists in Germany and Austria . The piece has been awarded gold and platinum several times around the world . In total, All the Things She Said sold over six million copies and reached the top of the charts in twelve different countries.

History of origin

tATu at a performance in Moscow in October 2005

Trevor Horn and Martin Kierszenbaum wrote the lyrics based on Ja soschla s uma . Since Sergio Galoyan , Jelena Kiper and Valeri Poljenko wrote the lyrics of the Russian version of the song, they are also mentioned in the album booklet and on the song single as being responsible for the lyrics. Also named is tATus, then manager Ivan Nikolajewitsch Schapovalov , who explained the meaning of the Russian words to Horn and Kierszenbaum, so that they could prepare an English translation. However, it is not an identical translation of the Russian version into English. Demo recordings with the refrain “I have lost my mind! I need her ”(German:“ I've lost my mind! I need her ”), the original Russian text, were sung in, but then discarded. Demos with the refrain “I'm going mad! She is in my head "(German:" I'm going crazy! She is in my head ").

The record companies Interscope Records and Universal Music released the single on August 18, 2002 in Europe. tATu had previously released four singles in Russia, but all of them in Russian. All the Things She Said was the duo's first English-language release, both as a single and as part of an album. The single was produced by Trevor Horn; Ivan Shapovalov took over the direction of the video shoot.

composition

Musically speaking, All the Things She Said is a medium-paced pop-rock song that is influenced by elements from electronica , europop , R 'n' B and hard rock . The track is slow at 90 bpm and begins with a dreamy, synthesizer -driven intro. With the first chorus, the song develops a guitar-borne pop-rock style using strong drum sounds. The passages between the chorus are characterized by shallower R 'n' B . The music critic Stephen Thomas Erlerwine from Allmusic attested All the Things She Said a "tough Europop". The song is fundamentally different from the Russian version, which contains significantly more elements of electronic music .

The lyrics is about a girl (Volkova), which has fallen in love with another girl (Katina), and is sentenced by their fellow men ( " They say it's my fault / but I want her so much ," dt .: " You say it's my fault / but I want her so bad ”). Furthermore, the attempt made to suppress the feelings cherished for each other is also dealt with (" Closing my eyes / but I can't block you out ", German: " [I] close my eyes / but I cannot hide you "), and the thought of running away together: “ Wanna fly to a place where it's just you and me / Nobody else so we can be free ” (German: “ [I] want to fly to a place where only you and me are / nobody otherwise, so that we can be free ”). In terms of content, All the Things She Said does not differ from the Russian version, even if some textual changes have been made.

Music video and controversy

The success of the single was largely determined by the music video that was part of the song. In it you can see the two singers dressed in Catholic school uniforms kissing each other, while a crowd of people standing behind a chain link fence looks on in amazement and horror and looks at them suspiciously. The lyrics underline the situation of the two girls, who feel helpless, fearful and disoriented. Over time, however, both of them accept their feelings for one another and openly admit them. At the end the two protagonists walk away hand in hand, away from the crowd and towards the sunrise. The crowd, on the other hand, remains behind the fence, which is intended to make it clear that it is not the two girls who are locked up, but rather the people who are caught in their thought patterns.

Katina and Wolkowa often answered questions about their relationship with one another evasively or contradictingly, but over time they increasingly stated in interviews that they were not lesbian . In 2005 Jelena Katina said :

“Our first video was about love between two girls. Love just love We don't claim to be lesbians, we never said we were. "

The music video had caused quite a stir in Russia two years earlier, and the video of the two minors made waves in the UK, where a pedophilia debate was underway at the time of publication . Many music critics cited the allegedly lesbian relationship between the two halves of the duo as an important reason for tATu's success.

For the music video for All the Things She Said to the video was Yes soschla s uma , the English version of the song recorded, the singing scenes, however, were in on 1 July 2002 Moscow re-shot. For this purpose, the wall visible in the video was rebuilt, as it had already been dismantled between the two video shoots. The metal fence in the video, however, is the same in both music videos.

Commercial win

tATu's first English-language single had its first chart entries in October 2002 in Sweden and Finland . It was launched in Switzerland in November 2002 and was also released in France , Denmark and the USA at the end of 2002 . It made it to number two on the charts in France and stayed there for three weeks. In Denmark, the single was able to stay at the top of the charts for a week. In the USA, the single was number 20 for two weeks. In France, the title reached number 94 on the 2002 year-end charts, despite being released shortly before the end of the year. In the following year it was ranked 16th of the best-selling singles in France in 2003 with over 500,000 copies sold.

In their home country Russia , tATu's first English-language single was number one in the charts for 16 weeks. This was only two weeks less than the Russian-language version of the song, which had topped the Russian charts for a total of 18 weeks.

In 2003 tATu published All the Things She Said in Austria , Germany and Great Britain . After the title was released on January 27, 2003, more than 100,000 singles were sold in the UK in the first week. At that time, however, the single was already at number 44 in the UK single charts due to high import sales. After its release, the version intended for the UK market immediately hit number one. It was tATu's first and only number one hit in the UK, and there also the first song from Russia to top the charts. After four weeks at the top of the UK singles chart, the CD was awarded a silver record for more than 200,000 copies sold. By the end of the year, a total of 336,000 copies of the single had been sold in Great Britain. In the UK Decade-End-Charts (Charts of the Decade) published in 2010, the number of sales of the piece at number 137 is given as 370,000. Ten years later, on January 17, 2020, the single went platinum for 600,000 copies sold. On January 26, 2003, All the Things She Said was released in New Zealand . After six weeks, the single made it to number one on the charts, where it stayed for three weeks. The song was later awarded a gold record for more than 10,000 copies sold. After that, tATus single was released in Australia . All the Things She Said was able to stay at the top of the single charts there for two weeks. Also in Australia it was the first number one hit from Russia. Eventually, the single went platinum for more than 70,000 singles sold.

In Romania, the single did not get above number 3 in the charts (chart week from February 3 to 9, 2003) and thus clearly missed the success of the Russian-language release of the band Nas ne dogonjat , which was previously listed in the Romanian hit parade, on July 22 had occupied the top position for seven consecutive weeks until September 9, 2002. In other Eastern European countries such as Russia, Poland and Bulgaria, tATu were less successful with English-language publications than with their older Russian-language titles, although the response in Western Europe and America was all the greater. In Japan , the single sold over 500,000 copies and was number one on the singles charts for seven weeks.

All the Things She Said became one of the biggest hits of 2003 with six gold and seven platinum records. It placed third on the European singles charts in 2003 and was also the most played title on the radio by an artist from continental Europe . In the German “Charts of the Decade”, the piece ranks 57th according to the RTL chart show ; in the best list The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born of the music magazine Blender place 452.

Awards

In October 2004, the BMI honored the composers of the song, including Iwan Schapowalow and Jelena Kiper, with the BMI Pop Award. Every year the BMI honors the most successful songwriters with this award and in 2004 for the first time also composers from Russia. The BMI estimates that All the Things She Said was played around two million times on the radio worldwide in 2003.

criticism

Reviews of the song were overshadowed by a number of scandals and rumors about the singing duo, but many critics wrote that the piece clearly stands out from other pop productions. The British Broadcasting Corporation wrote in their music column that the "cheeky music video" and "cheeky manner" tATu will sell a bunch of records to tATu called the song a "rock-flavored party, with angelic vocals and a luscious' 80s Feeling". In addition, the melody has been described as very catchy. James Delingpole of the British Daily Telegraph praised the song as "completely fantastic" and as "cynical and well-processed pop".

The American Billboard Magazine also gave the song a good review. All the Things She Said contains "lovely sung verses and a fearful refrain", and paired with the synthesizer vortex it is "a sweeping and promising debut". On drownedinsound.com the song was described as "passionate, dizzying pop".

Chart placements

Charts	maximum placement	Weeks	Thereof in 1st place
Germany	1	19th	5
Austria	1	25th	5
Switzerland	1	32	8th
United Kingdom	1	17th	4th
United States	20th	20th	-

Annual charts 2003	position
Germany	5
Austria	4th
Switzerland	21st
United Kingdom	6th
United States	39

Awards

country	Award
United Kingdom	platinum
Austria	gold
Denmark	gold
France	gold
Germany	platinum
Greece	gold
New Zealand	gold
Australia	platinum
Belgium	platinum
Italy	platinum
Sweden	platinum
Switzerland	platinum
Norway	2 × platinum

Others

The song ET by the US singer Katy Perry was assumed to be very reminiscent of All the Things She Said when it was released in 2010 . The chords , the rhythm and the chorus have a lot in common. Matthew Cole of Slant Magazine wrote in a column, the composer of ET , Dr. Luke , "grabs the background music from tATu's song All the Things She Said , presumably in recognition of his predecessors in the field of exploitative dance floor trash."

Track list of the single

US CD single

1. All the Things She Said (radio version)
2. All the Things She Said (Dave Audé Extension 119 Club-Edit)
3. All the Things She Said (Music Video)
4. Behind the Scenes with Lena & Julia (Part 1)

• photos

Russian CD single

1. All the Things She Said (radio version)
2. Yes soschla s uma (bonus track)
3. All the Things She Said (HarDrum-Remix)
4. All the Things She Said (Music Video)

European maxi single

1. All the Things She Said (radio version)
2. Stars (bonus track)
3. All the Things She Said (Dave Audé Extension 119 Club Vocal Mix)
4. Ja soschla s uma (Russian version of All the Things She Said )

New Zealand CD single

1. All the Things She Said (radio version)
2. Stars (bonus track)
3. All the Things She Said (Dave Audé Extension 119 Club-Edit)
4. Ja soschla s uma (Russian version of All the Things She Said )
5. All the Things She Said (Music Video)

European 2-track single

1. All the Things She Said (radio version)
2. Stars (bonus track)

UK CD single

1. All the Things She Said (radio version)
2. All the Things She Said (Dave Audé Extension 119 Club-Edit)
3. Stars (bonus track)
4. All the Things She Said (Video)

UK 2 track single

1. All the Things She Said (radio version)
2. Stars (bonus track)

Japan version

1. All the Things She Said (radio version)
2. All the Things She Said (Dave Audé Extension 119 Club Vocal Mix)
3. All the Things She Said (Mark! S Intellectual-Vocal-Mix)
4. All the Things She Said (Blackpulke Remix)
5. All the Things She Said (instrumental version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} German Annual Chart 2003. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016 ; accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
2. ^ Annual hit parade 2003. austriancharts.at, accessed on March 29, 2013 (Austrian annual charts 2003). 
3. ↑ Discografía - All The Things She Said (CD single). tatunews.net, archived from the original on June 11, 2010 ; Retrieved March 29, 2013 (All the Things She Said sales worldwide). 
4. ↑ Chart placements - overview
5. ^ Dale Kawashima: Interview with Martin Kierszenbaum. Retrieved March 29, 2013 . 
6. ↑ I'm going mad! . on YouTube (demo recording)
7. ^ "All the Things She Said" on musicnotes.com
8. ↑ ^{a b} Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Review. allmusic.com, accessed on March 29, 2013 (album review for “200 km / h in the Wrong Lane”). 
9. ↑ blogcritics.org: Single Review All the Things She Said ( Memento from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ ^{a b} Lyrics to “All the Things She Said”. Archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Juliavolkova.com: About Julia Volkova ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
12. ^ Report and interview by "Hallo Deutschland" on the ESC 2003 on YouTube
13. ^ History. tATu, accessed on March 29, 2013 (Katina's statement on the band's official website). 
14. ↑ Chronology on the official band homepage
15. ↑ IFOP - Year-End Chart. Archived from the original on June 14, 2006 ; Retrieved March 29, 2013 . 
16. ^ Double gold in France
17. ↑ Chart performance in Russia (official band homepage in an older version) ( Memento from October 15, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ Singles sales in UK release week
19. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
20. ^ The Official New Zealand Music Charts . rianz.org.nz. Archived from the original on July 9, 2011. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
21. ↑ Romanian Singles Charts 2001 to 2005 ( Memento from May 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
22. ↑ Sales in Japan
23. ↑ Chart placement in Japan
24. ^ Europe's Top Singles of 2003. Billboard Magazine, archived from the original on September 26, 2007 ; accessed on January 28, 2018 . 
25. ↑ European Radio Airplay Charts 2003
26. ↑ The Ultimate Chart Show - Hits of the New Millennium . rtl.de. Archived from the original on November 2, 2010. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
27. ^ The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born. September 28, 2005, accessed March 28, 2013 . 
28. ↑ Kommersant on the BMI Awards
29. ↑ BBC song review
30. ↑ song critique of the Daily Telegraph
31. ↑ Billboard Magazine's song review
32. ↑ Song review by drownedinsound.com
33. ↑ Swiss annual hit parade
34. ↑ British annual hit parade (PDF; 377 kB)
35. ↑ US annual hit parade
36. ↑ kozaczek.pl: Katy Perry plagiatuje tATu? ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
37. ↑ Katy Perry: Teenage Dream . Music Review. Slant Magazine