All the Things She Said
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"All the Things She Said" is a song by Russian recording duo t.A.T.u.
T.A.T.u.
t.A.T.u. was a duo formed in Moscow, Russia in 1999 by Ivan Shapovalov. The group consisted of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova.Their debut single "Ya Soshla S Uma" was released in December 2000. The single had a huge success in Russia and Eastern Europe...

, which was for their first English-language studio album 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane
200 km/h in the Wrong Lane
200 km/h in the Wrong Lane is the debut studio album by Russian duo t.A.T.u.. It was released on 10 December 2002. The album was produced by Trevor Horn, Martin Kierszenbaum, Robert Orton and Ivan Shapovalov, who was the main and executive producerand writer. Before the release, it preceded...

(2002). The song was written by Sergio Galoyan, Trevor Horn, Martin Kierszenbaum, Elena Kiper and Valeriy Polienko, while produced by Horn. The song was the group's first english-based song for their record label, Interscope Records, which is a sub-label to Universal
Universal Music Group
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. At the time, the producers of the album mostly write the album, including this song because the band starting doing english projects.

The song received mixed reviews from music critics, with some highlighting the song as a album highlight, but some dismissed the song because of the lyrics, but some basically called the song one of the best songs yet and sure was a signature song
Signature song
A signature song is the one song that a popular and well-established singer or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of songs...

 to t.A.T.u. Prior to this, the song was a charting success worldwide. The song topped the charts including Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The song even peaked in the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Billboard (magazine)
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, at number 20.

An accompanying music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 was released for the song, which was shot by Ivan Shapovalov
Ivan Shapovalov
Ivan Nikolayevich Shapovalov is a musical producer based in Moscow, Russia. He is best known for being the founder and former executive producer/manager for t.A.T.u.- Early life and career :...

, which featured Katina and Volkova in a look-alike school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...

 and they beg to escape where the public see with plain faces. The controversy surrounding the music video was when Volkova and Katina starting kissing passionately, which started a media frenzy. The music video received mixed reviews from the public, but mostly negative from music critics.

Background and composition

The song was written as t.A.T.u.'s debut English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 single by Ivan Shapovalov
Ivan Shapovalov
Ivan Nikolayevich Shapovalov is a musical producer based in Moscow, Russia. He is best known for being the founder and former executive producer/manager for t.A.T.u.- Early life and career :...

, Sergio Galoyan
Sergio Galoyan
Sergey Galoyan is an ASCAP/PRS Award–winning songwriter/producer and DJ, born in Moscow. He is more commonly known as Sergio Galoyan and is of Armenian descent....

, Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn
Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....

, Elena Kiper
Elena Kiper
Elena Vladimirovna Kiper is a Russian singer/songwriter/producer who also goes by the nickname of Lena. She is the former co-manager of Russian duet t.A.T.u. and wrote lyrics for 2 successful hits for the group.-The years with t.A.T.u.:Kiper was a producer and songwriter for the Russian group...

 and Valeriy Polienko. The song was mostly produced by english and very good english-speaking Russian producers, because at the time, Yulia and Lena were not as good with their english vocabulary. The song is also the english version to their 1999 original version "Ya Soshla S Uma
Ya Soshla S Uma
"Ya Soshla S Uma" is a song by t.A.T.u., released as their first CD single. The song is from the 200 Po Vstrechnoy album, with music by Sergio Galoyan and lyrics by Elena Kiper, Sergio Galoyan and Valeriy Polienko.-Background:After splitting with Neposedi, their producer Ivan Shapovalov had signed...

". The song had started after the finishing of Neposedi
Neposedi
Neposedi is a children's music group formed in Moscow, Russia in 1991 by Elena Pindzhoyan and Yuri Nikolaev. The title refers to children who are unable to sit indifferently in the same place; who are fidgety....

, where Ivan Shapolavov had signed them to Interscope Records threw Universal Music Russia.

The song opens with dreamy, trance
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...

-gated synthesizers and then shifts into a guitar-based pop rock
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 style with Trevor Horn's trademark huge drum sound, but also lightens up to include softer R&B
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...

 sounds in the middle eight. The english version was very different from the original Russian version, where it features a more electropop and electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

 style, where the English version supports a more demure pop rock
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 style.

Critical reception

"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
Europop
Europop refers to a style of pop music that first developed in today's form in Europe, throughout the late 1970s. Europop topped the charts throughout the 1980s and ’90s...

 sound" and has a "gimmick suggestive name", however, he did highlight it as one of the best album tracks. Andrew Lynch from Entertainment.ie
Entertainment.ie
entertainment.ie is a Dublin-based Irish website which provides extensive cinema, TV, live music, theatre, comedy, exhibition and festival listings for free, as well as celebrity gossip, music and movie news, movie and DVD reviews, CD reviews and up-to-date lottery results.The site was developed in...

described it as a "raunchy video and a superior synthpop song".
Sputnikmusic
Sputnikmusic
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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".
Popmatters
PopMatters
PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...

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".
Blogcritic said it really has a "dreamy synthezisers and has sequels of choruses". The song was ranked at number 452 in Blender
Blender (magazine)
Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....

 magazine's The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born.

Chart performance

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 U.S. 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 20 for two weeks. By the end of the year the song had already reached the number 33 position in Switzerland’s Year-End chart for 2002 with only 2 months on the charts, and the position number 94 in France where the single had only spent 3 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 44 position on import sales alone 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 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 49. Over five weeks, it rose dramatically to number two. It peaked at number one for three weeks. It was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand
Recording Industry Association of New Zealand
The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...

 (RIANZ) shipping over 7,500 copies. It stayed in the charts for 20 weeks in total.

"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. selling more than 336,000 copies 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, just behind Eminem
Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...

's "Lose Yourself
Lose Yourself
"Lose Yourself" is an Academy Award winning song by American hip-hop artist Eminem, released as the first single from the original soundtrack to the movie 8 Mile on October 22, 2002. It was written and produced by Eminem himself, along with longtime collaborator Jeff Bass, one half of the...

" and The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group , formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. The group includes rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and singer Fergie. Since the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide...

's "Where Is the Love?
Where Is the Love?
"Where Is the Love?" is a song recorded by the American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas for their third album, Elephunk. It is the band's first record to feature Fergie. The song features vocals from Justin Timberlake, although he is not officially credited on the single release.The single was...

."

Background and sypnosis

Their producer, writer and directer Ivan Shapolavov had directed the music video. Being an English dub of "Ya Soshla S Uma
Ya Soshla S Uma
"Ya Soshla S Uma" is a song by t.A.T.u., released as their first CD single. The song is from the 200 Po Vstrechnoy album, with music by Sergio Galoyan and lyrics by Elena Kiper, Sergio Galoyan and Valeriy Polienko.-Background:After splitting with Neposedi, their producer Ivan Shapovalov had signed...

" (I Lost My Mind), the music video for "All the Things She Said" features Yulia and Lena wearing Catholic school uniform
Catholic school uniform
The Catholic school uniform stereotype consists of a pleated plaid skirt or jumper , Mary Jane or saddle shoes, a blouse, and a sweater, for girls; for boys, a button-down shirt, a necktie, and dark pants...

s, 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 band singing, due to the language difference.

Reception and controversy

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
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, TV presenters Richard and Judy
Richard and Judy
Richard and Judy is the name informally given to Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, a married couple who are both British television presenters and columnists. Since their marriage, their television appearances have been largely made as a couple. They are best known for presenting This Morning and...

 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
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

 aired a live performance of the girls, the kiss was replaced with footage of the audience (sometimes kissing) instead.

Live performances

t.A.T.u. performed the song on many television shows in the United States
United States
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. They first appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where the girls created confusion, because although they did not have permission to kiss each other, they still did kiss. They performed the single on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.The nightly hour-long show made its debut on January 26, 2003, following Super Bowl XXXVII. Jimmy Kimmel Live! is produced by Jackhole Productions in association with ABC Studios...

, AOL
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 sessions (along with Not Gonna Get Us
Not Gonna Get Us
"Not Gonna Get Us" is the second single from t.A.T.u.'s debut English album 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane and was released in mid-2003. It was the last song taken from that album in the UK, where it reached #7 on the singles chart. The music was composed by Sergio Galoyan...

), Mad TV, Carson Daly Show, MTV TRL and the 2003 MTV Movie Awards. They also performed the song on shows in many other countries such as CD:UK
CD:UK
CD:UK was a British music television programme. Originally run in conjunction with SMTV Live, the programme was first aired on ITV on 29 August 1998 to rival the BBC's Live & Kicking and was the replacement for The Chart Show, which had been airing on the network for nine and a half years.In...

 in the UK and Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

 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. t.A.T.u. said it was because the TV only wanted to show people their kiss, and not the music, their work.

Other usage in media

The song has appeared in multiple television events: it was WWE pro wrestler Victoria
Lisa Marie Varon
Lisa Marie Varon , is an American professional wrestler, bodybuilder and fitness competitor of Puerto Rican and Turkish descent...

's theme song from December 2002 to May 2004. Also, the song was played during the final scenes of the Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey (TV series)
Birds of Prey is a television drama series produced in 2002. The series was developed by Laeta Kalogridis for The WB and is loosely based on the Birds of Prey DC Comics series...

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.

Track listings

U.S. CD single

Released September 10, 2002
  1. "All the Things She Said" (Radio Version)
  2. "All the Things She Said" (Dave Audé
    Dave Audé
    Dave Audé is a Grammy nominated producer, house DJ, and remixer. He has done production for musicians such as KoЯn, t.A.T.u., DJ Keoki, Barenaked Ladies, Faith No More, Cause and Effect, Hilary Duff, Wanessa, Ashley Tisdale, The Pussycat Dolls, Lady Gaga, Lunascape, Madonna, Britney Spears, CeCe...

     Extension 119 Club Edit)
    • "All the Things She Said" (Music Video)
    • Behind The Scenes with Lena & Julia (Part 1)
    • Photos


Russia CD single

Released September 29, 2002
  1. "All The Things She Said" (Radio Version)
  2. "Ya Soshla S Uma"
  3. "All The Things She Said" (HarDrum Remix)
  4. "All The Things She Said" (Music Video)


Europe Maxi-CD single

Released October 10, 2002
  1. "All the Things She Said" (Radio Version)
  2. "Stars"
  3. "All the Things She Said" (Dave Audé Extension 119 Club Vocal Mix)
  4. "Ya Soshla S Uma" (Russian Version of "All the Things She Said")


New Zealand CD single

Released January 27, 2003
  1. "All the Things She Said" (Radio Version)
  2. "Stars"
  3. "All the Things She Said" (Dave Audé Extension 119 Club Edit)
  4. "Ya Soshla S Uma
    Ya Soshla S Uma
    "Ya Soshla S Uma" is a song by t.A.T.u., released as their first CD single. The song is from the 200 Po Vstrechnoy album, with music by Sergio Galoyan and lyrics by Elena Kiper, Sergio Galoyan and Valeriy Polienko.-Background:After splitting with Neposedi, their producer Ivan Shapovalov had signed...

    " (Russian Version of "All The Things She Said")
    • "All The Things She Said" Music Video (Video Alone By Itself)


Europe Cassette single
  1. "All the Things She Said" (Radio Version)
  2. "Stars"


UK CD single

Released January 27, 2003
  1. "All the Things She Said" (Radio Version)
  2. "All the Things She Said" (Dave Audé Extension 119 Club Edit)
  3. "Stars" (Album Version)
    • "All the Things She Said" (Video)


UK Cassette single

Released January 27, 2003
  1. All The Things She Said (Radio Version)
  2. Stars


Japan CD single

Released March 5, 2003
  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)


Release history

Region Date
Europe
United Kingdom

Charts

>
Chart Peak
position
Australia (ARIA
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

)
1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 75
Ö3 Austria Top 40
Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...

)
1
Belgium (Ultratop 50
Ultratop 50
Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...

 Flanders)
2
Belgium (Ultratop 40
Ultratop 40
Ultratop 40 singles, often just Ultratop 40, is the weekly chart of best-selling singles in Wallonia and Brussels Capital Region, the french-speaking parts of Belgium. Its equivalent covering the Flanders region is Ultratop 50. Both charts are produced and published by the Ultratop organization...

 Wallonia)
3
Canada (Canadian Hot 100
Canadian Hot 100
The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...

)
3
Denmark (Tracklisten
Tracklisten
Tracklisten is a Danish top 40 record chart that is presented every Thursday midnight at .The weekly Danish Singles Chart also known as Track Top-40 combines the 40 best selling tracks from legal music downloads and the sales of music singles on either CD or vinyl...

)
1
European Hot 100 Singles  1
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista) 3
France (SNEP) 2
Germany (Media Control AG
Media Control Charts
The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...

)
1
Ireland (IRMA
Irish Recorded Music Association
Irish Recorded Music Association is the Irish record industry association. IRMA is a non-profit association set up to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.-Goals and activities:...

)
1
Italy (FIMI) 1
Japan (Japan Hot 100
Japan Hot 100
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)
9
New Zealand (RIANZ) 1
Norway (VG-lista
VG-lista
VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...

)
2
Romanian (Romanian Top 100
Romanian Top 100
The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media....

)
1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan
Sverigetopplistan
Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....

)
2
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 1
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

)
1
US Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 
20
US Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

 (Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

)
5
US Top 40 Mainstream (Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
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)
8

Certifications

Year-end charts

(2003) Position
Australian Singles Chart 14

Decade-end charts

(2000–2009) Position
German Singles Chart 57


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