{"id":204,"date":"2003-03-05T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T00:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=204"},"modified":"2003-03-05T00:40:36","modified_gmt":"2003-03-05T00:40:36","slug":"tatu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/03\/05\/tatu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tatu<\/a> is rocketing out of Russia on a tidal wave of titillating press coverage<\/a>. This manufactured pop confection takes Britney’s schoolgirl act to another level — or to new depths, if you’re one of the concerned citizens apoplectic about the short skirts and lesbian posing. Sure, it’s all manufactured for a good, strong shock. But they’re meant to appeal to the thirteen-year-old girls who drive the development of popular music, not to dirty old men (who spend money on porn, not pop music).
\nSurprisingly, Tatu isn’t just another tired, roll-your-eyes, R&B-flavored<\/nobr> yawn-a-thon of the type being churned out on a regular basis in the U.S. The girls actually have some energy and life to them. Their remake of The Smiths’ How Soon Is Now<\/span> is not bad.
\nListen here…<\/a>
\nHeavily produced and definitely bubblegum music. But all bubblegum music should be this good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tatu is rocketing out of Russia on a tidal wave of titillating press coverage. This manufactured pop confection takes Britney’s schoolgirl act to another level — or to new depths, if you’re one of the concerned citizens apoplectic about the short skirts and lesbian posing. Sure, it’s all manufactured for a good, strong shock. But… Continue reading Tatu<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5heLP-tatu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}