Tatu's Julia Volkova told NME that she had never heard of The Smiths before being given the song to sing: "[The producers] just put it on for us and we decided it was worth a try. Frankly speaking, we hadn't known this group."
So we know it's going to be dire; the question is: will it be dire enough to appreciate in an ironic sense (like Pee Wee Ferris' commercial-dance version of Blue Monday), or will it just be shite?
It's not that it's a dire version so much as an *unnecessary* one. There's not even any sparkle in the gender confusion of 'schoolgirls' singing that they're the sons and the heirs.
Oh hang on, that's the /Charmed/ theme, isn't it?
have you actually heared it or are you basing your opinion on their reputation? i think it's pretty good, there's been way worse covers of how soon is now. whoever did the cover for the craft/charmed version and the lame psuedo-industrial drain the doves version. atleast tatu (or the creative direction behind them) bring something original to the song.
I mean, this whole Tatu thing is just silly.