they took home best new female artist, best music video for fire, and most importantly, won best song of the year with i don’t care!!

video of the girls accepting their award for best song:

congratulations CL, Minzy, Bom and Dara ^____^

This girl is awesome! Her debut album, “Differently” is in stores this Friday, August 14!

Today, the 21st of October, 2008, has seen the release of t.A.T.u.’s latest album, Happy Smiles!

The album is available for physical sale in Russia at two Soyuz stores, as well as from t.A.T.u.’s official store. If you are like me, and are unable to purchase the album from either vendors, you are still able to purchase it online from, amazing enough, the iTunes Music Store!

The album is amazing, simply amazing. All the fucking around, all the postponement, all the lack of communication, no longer matters. They have released the album, and it is awesome.

Please support our talented girls by purchasing the album. If you need convincing, or a taste of what $16.99 on iTunes will get you, you can download the album for sampling purposes only from this Mediafire link: http://www.mediafire.com/?yzinnrzdj2j

official press release, posted september 10 on tatu.ru

“Veselye Ulybki” / “Happy Smiles” is t.A.T.u.’s third studio album.

After parting with Universal Music in 2006 and touring Russia as well as playing a set of gigs abroad, in spring 2007 Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova started to record new material. They worked in Germany, the US (Los-Angeles) and in Russia. The release of the new album should have been in December 2007, but Yulia Volkova was expecting her second baby, and it was decided to hold the album until the second half of 2008.

Meanwhile t.A.T.u. released two singles – “White Robe” and “220″. The biggest radio stations refused to play the songs because they “didn’t fit the rest of the playlist”, but videos for these tracks became the most discussed works of Russian musicians not only in their own country, but also in the world and made t.A.T.u. the only artists, whose videos in Russian language were taken in heavy airplay by Eastern Europe music TV channels (Viva Poland, MTV Poland, MTV Baltic, MAD TV Bulgaria, MAD TV Greece). Both videos got into The World Chart Express of MTV Europe in March and in August 2008 respectively.

In May 2008 t.A.T.u. released the most unique maxi-single in band’s history – hyperion-plate “Beliy Plaschik”. The uncensored version of “Beliy Plaschik” video became the main bonus of this double-disc edition. Despite the fact that “Beliy Plaschik” single was available in shops only from 20 May, it appeared on 15th line of Billboard Russia magazine May Album Sales Chart.

“Veselye Ulybki” / “Happy Smiles” is 12 songs, born during 3-year-long silence.

For almost a year a working title of the album was “Upravleniye Otbrosami” / “Waste Management”. But a month before the release – for the sake of ironic smile of those, who understand –the title changed. The essence, however, remained.

Among “Happy Smiles” contributors there are beginners, who were lucky to appear in the right place at the right time (such as Masha Maksakova, a 16-year-old school girl from St. Petersburg; she wrote the lyrics “Beliy Plaschik” is based on). There’re also professionals (Billy Steinberg, an author of the songs for Madonna as well as t.A.T.u. smash hit “All About Us” (2005)); Valery Polienko, the author of the lyrics for “Ya Soshla S Uma”, “Nas Ne Dogonyat” (2001), “Obesyanka Nol” (2005); Sergei Galoyan, a composer of “Not Gonna Get Us”, “Ne Ver, Ne Boysya, Ne Prosi” songs).

In 2009 “You and I”, a movie directed by Roland Joffe, should be released. t.A.T.u. songs from the “Happy Smiles” album will be featured in its soundtrack.

Distributor: SOYUZ
Available at SHOP.TATU.RU

Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. Белый плащик
3. You and I
4. Снегопады
5. 220
6. Марсианские глаза
7. Человечки
8. Веселые улыбки
9. Running Blind
10. Fly on the Wall
11. Время луны
12. Не жалей

The long, long, long awaited release of the album once entitled “Upravleniye Obtrosami” (Waste Management) will be the Tuesday, October 21, according to a statement released on the t.A.T.u. official website.

t.A.T.u.’s third studio album “Happy Smiles” will be released October 21 (Tuesday). The first copies of the album will be delivered to two “SOYUZ” stores situated on Pyatnitskaya St. and Leninskiy Prospect, 11. On this day we’ll be giving special posters to the first buyers of “Happy Smiles” in Leninskiy Prospect store (the number of posters is limited)!

In a few weeks “Happy Smiles” will be distributed among other stores.

Please don’t forget the 50 roubles discount coupon from the hyperion-plate “Beliy Plaschik” – it will be valid! We remind you that in “SOYUZ” stores “Happy Smiles” will cost 299 roubles.

On the release day at 9PM t.A.T.u. will welcome all the fans at the photo-and-signing session at “SOYUZ” store on Leninskiy Prospect, 11. Everybody will have a chance to sign their albums and have a professional picture together with t.A.T.u.!

Please take into account that the photo-and-signing session will last no more than two hours – please come early.

http://www.tatu.ru/en/news.html?id=679

The words “it’s about motherfucking time” come to mind…

You and I, the latest single from t.A.T.u.’s upcoming album Veselye Ulybki (Happy Smiles), has been released for an exclusive 3 day rotation on Russia’s Love Radio.

As well as being released on Love Radio, you can hear t.A.T.u.’s new single on their Myspace page.

Not only can you hear it on thier Myspace page, you can also download it from here. (sendspace link)

I’m personally quite a fan of this new song, and really hope it is an indication of the songs to come!

[SENDSPACE LINK]

I can’t get enough of this song, the Cobra Starship cover, not the Katy Perry original. Just one of the many reasons why Cobra Starship are fucking awesome.

Listen to the song below…

You can download the CitizensFOB mixtape featuring all new material by Panic at the Disco, Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is… and many other Fueled by Ramen artists, for free from Clinton Spark’s website.
[Direct file link]

It is well worth the download.

Click for bigger versions, obviously.

More wallpapers here.

If you liked the song as much as I did, you can find The Bird & The Bee at myspace!

http://www.myspace.com/thebirdandthebee

The video was made by a guy called Dennis Liu.

http://www.dennisaliu.com/

The choreography may not be the best, but it is, in my opinion, one of their best sounding single releases for a LONG time…

“220 – t.A.T.u.”
Directed by James Cox.

According to Google Video, this is one of the most viewed videos on the internet this week.

Watch it for yourself, have your own thoughts and opinions of the video, and tell me all about them!

Starring, directed and edited by Belfast Met College students JJ McAllister, Eoin O’Kane, Scott Mitchell, Becca Nelson, Kayleigh Birtles, Patrick Millar and Mark Black as part of National Diploma in Media Production 1st Year course

Jay: Watch the hobo. Then watch my Top 1. Be surprised and double-check. Triple-check. No matter how many times you like to check it – It’s Jen indeed. Just watch the clip (you are allowed to put the music off, cause well, the song is pure shit), and spread the link, if you please. The more views her clip gets (it’s an exam thingy, Jen does media), the happier her examinator is gonna be. The happier that examinator is, the higher Jen’s grade is. The higher Jen’s grade, the happier Jen is. The happier Jen is, the happier I am.

And don’t we all want me happy?

Yes?

Thought so.

Therefore, watch that clip. Rate & comment. Please be so kind to base your ratings and comments on the clip itself, and not on the band or the song, cause those two suck. Which is at the same time the reason why the clip Jen’s starring in, is so class. I mean… Could you make quite an artistic black&white clip with only a few people for such a crap song?

http://blog.myspace.com/yavernuz