Band members:
Lena Katina: vocals
Julia Volkova: vocals
 

Produced by Trevor Horn (1, 2, 6, 9, 10), Martin Kierszenbaum & Robert Orton (3-5, 7, 8, 11)
Engineered & mixed by Robert Orton
Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Executive producer: Ivan Shapovalov
A&R: Martin Kierszenbaum

Video directed by Ivan Shapovalov
Photography by Sheryl Nields
 

Tracks:
1. Not Gonna Get Us [mus: S. Galoyan with co-author; lyr: Horn/E. Kiper/V. Polienko] (4:22)
2. All the Things She Said [mus: Galoyan with co-author; lyr: Horn/Kierszenbaum/Kiper/Polienko] (3:34)
3. Show Me Love [Galoyan/Kierszenbaum/Polienko] (4:16)
4. 30 Minutes [Galoyan/Kierszenbaum/Shapovalov/Polienko] (3:18)
5. How Soon is Now? [Morissey/J. Marr] (3:16)
6. Clowns (Can You See Me Now?) [Horn/E. Kuritsin/Shapovalov/Polienko] (3:12)
7. Malchik Gay [mus: S. Galoyan with co-author; lyr: A. Karaseva/Kierszenbaum/V. Stepantsov] (3:09)
8. Stars [Kierszenbaum/Polienko/Shapovalov/A. Voitinskiy/A. Vulih] (4:09)
9. Ya Soshla s Uma [mus: Galoyan with co-author; lyr: Kiper/Polienko] (3:34)
10. Nas Ne Dagoniat [mus: Galoyan with co-author; lyr: Kiper/Polienko] (4:23)
11. Show Me Love (Extended Version) (5:08)
12. multimedia content: Behind-the-Scenes with Julia and Lena (Part 2) and "All the Things She Said" music video

Arranged by D. Dvoretskiy, S. Galoyan, T. Horn, M. Kierszenbaum, E. Kuritsin, R. Orton, R. Ryabtsev, A. Voitinskiy
 

Notes: Tatoo or Tatu (depending on how you transcribe the Cyrillic 'Taty' [tattoo]), the teenage duo of Lena Katina and Julia (or Yulia) Volkova, were the creation of record producer Ivan Shapovalov. The band were a controversial hit in their native Russia with the Platinum-selling 200 По Встречной (200 Po Vstrechnoy, or "200 Against the Traffic", 2001), an album of songs about schoolgirl lesbianism. The album went #1 in Poland and sold over a million copies in Russia and Japan, over 100,000 in Poland, and 4 million worldwide. This English-language remake, a worldwide hit, brought in Trevor Horn among others.

Ivan Shapovalov has been accused of appealing to the 'dirty mac brigade' with a pair of young girls (under 16 when the band began) singing in skimpy costumes and even he says he came up with the idea for the band after viewing pornographic websites. The photos in the CD booklet of Julia and Lena are highly suggestive, as are many of the lyrics, but for all the controversy, they are less pornographic than numerous of today's acts—this is nothing compared to the likes of Christina Aguillera's "Dirrty".

A throwback to the classic Horn-produced electro-pop of the '80s with a gorgeously layered production and driving beats, the vocals mix adolescent romantic intensity with torturously melodramatic angst. The manic keyboard lead in "All the Things She Said" has a certain Buggles reminiscence about it, but many of the similarities to Horn's style across the album pre-date his involvement. While Horn's production influence can be heard on the English-language version of the songs, they aren't radically different compared to the Russian-language originals. (1) is a remake of "Нас не догонят" ("Nas Ne Dagonyat [They Won't Catch Us]") from 200 Po Vstrechnoy, (2) is a remake of "Я сошла с ума" ("Ya Soshla s Uma [I've Lost My Mind]"), (3) is a remake of "Я твоя не первая" ("Ya Tvoja Ne Pervaya [I'm Not Your First One]"), "30 Minutes" is a remake of "30 минут" ("30 Minut"), "Malchek Gay" is a remake of "Мальчик-гей" ("Malchik-Gay [Gay Boy]"), "How Soon is Now" is a cover of The Smiths song (the only new track compared to 200 Po Vstrechnoy), "Stars" is a remake of "Зачем я" ("Zachem Ya [Why Me]"), "Clowns (Can You See Me Now)" is a remake of "Клоуны" ("Klouny [Clowns]"). Sadly, the Russian-language "Робот" ("Robot"), a girl's paean to her vibrator, didn't make the transition to English.

(9) and (10) are with the original Russian-language lyrics. The lyrics do seem to flow more naturally in the original Russian, although the slightly accented English can add an exotic quality.

In a July 2019 livechat for The Guardian, Horn had this to say:

I thought when they offered it to me, I thought I was gonna get the multitrack from the Russian version but they wouldn't give it to me, so I had to completely remake the record. Writing the lyric for that song was one of the most difficult things I ever had to do. It took me a long time to figure it out. I had a translation of the Russian lyric, and it was like, "yes I'm mad! I am on fire for her!" I didn't have a clue. And I also knew they couldn't sing English very well. So I tried to write the lyric as if it was a translation of something. "I'm in serious shit, I feel totally lost" - and it worked! Not immediately - we spent two weeks working on their voices on that track. And there was no budget so I had to play all the instruments myself. My late wife said, you had all these bloody guitars, time to put them to use! [...] There was one point where we gave up for a day - we thought, we've blown it. I remember having a day off then going back to the Russian version and thinking, I've made a mistake somewhere. I found the way that the Russian version repeated certain words was really clever, so I changed mine the same way - "running through my head, running through my head". By then, the girls had gone back to Russia. But luckily we got the first access to some software that allowed us to change the pitch of their voices.

Not Gonna Get Us - I had to write the Russian lyrics out phonetically. It's difficult, man, it really is tricky. [...]

They were nice girls. We got on really well. They both could play the piano quite brilliantly. It made me think in a lot of ways, the Russians have a lot of culture that we don't have. The Russian guy was awful, I didn't like the manager. He said, "I've got two girls, trying to get them to sing in English" – that's not a situation where you're going to start being rough with people, but he would say to me, "you're too kind, you're too gentle". I was like, if you think you can do better... You'd do an hour, have a break, do another hour - he said, "you need to push!" I said, "go ahead if you want". He went in, within five minutes, both of them were crying. So I kicked him out. There's no shortcut, you can't bully people. So I didn't like him. But I liked the girls. They were both bumming cigarettes off me. They were 18, the manager didn't want them to be seen smoking. They were my daughters' age. Nice girls.

The lesbian thing, they told me, we're not really "career lesbians". But it wasn't of any interest to me. I wrote the lyric of the song, the whole thing about "all the things she said", the original Russian one, was about two girls that had a crush on each other and didn't know whether they wanted to act on it. So I wrote it like that. That's what it was about.

The album made #1 in Japan, Spain, Austria and Hungary, #2 in Finland, #3 in Germany, #4 in Europe, #5 in Italy and Switzerland, #8 in France, #9 in New Zealand, #11 in Argentina, #12 in the UK, #13 in the US and Denmark, #14 in Sweden, #16 in Flanders (Belgium), #19 in Australia, #20 in Portugal, #21 in Greece, #32 in the Netherlands, and #66 in Ireland. It was the seventh bestselling single of 2003 in Japan, ninth in Hungary, eighteenth in Germany, 61st in Switzerland and 109th in the US. It sold over a million copies in Europe, went Diamond in Japan (2 million+ sales) and Russia (1 million+), double Platinum in Canada (200,000+), Platinum in Finland (49,418), Gold in France (153,700), Germany (100,000+), Greece (10,000+), Italy (50,000+), Mexico (75,000+), Spain (50,000+), Sweden (40,000+), UK (125,000) and the US (831,000).

The lead single from the album was 'All the Things She Said', followed by 'Not Gonna Get Us' and 'How Soon is Now?'. (HP, 1 Feb 03; upated 28 Jul 19)