1 	White Robe 	3:18
2 	You And I 	3:18
3 	Sparks 	3:12
4 	Snowfalls 	3:18
5 	Марсианские Глаза 	3:12
6 	Little People 	3:31
7 	Waste Management 	2:07
8 	Running Blind 	3:42
9 	Fly On The Wall 	4:01
10 	Time Of The Moon 	3:26
11 	Don't Regret 	3:12
	Bonus Tracks
12 	Белый Плащик - White Robe (Fly Dream Remix)	5:35
13 	Running Blind -	Running Blind (Transformer Remix) 	3:56
14 	Не Желай -  	Don't Regret (Sniper Remix)	4:58

Lena Katina, Julia Volkova - vocals

The provocative and controversial pop duo t.A.T.u. deliver a set of sleek electronic dance music on this, their third English-language album. Released in 2009, Waste Management (an English-language edition of their Russian album Veselye Ulybki) features 11 songs (12 on the "Transcendent" version are remixed for nonstop play) in which vocalists Lena Katina and Julia Volkova take their edgy musical stories to the dancefloor; selections include "White Robe," "Snowfalls," "Little People," and more.---Mark Deming, AllMusic Review

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1. Dangerous and Moving (intro) (0:51) 
2. All About Us (3:01) 
3. Cosmos (Outer Space) (4:12) 
4. Loves Me Not (2:55) 
5. Friend or Foe (3:08) 
6. Gomenasai (3:42) 
7. Craving (I Only Want What I Can't Have) (3:50) 
8. Sacrifice (3:10) 
9. We Shout (3:02) 
10. Perfect Enemy (4:12) 
11. Obez'yanka Nol (4:25) 
12. Dangerous and Moving (4:35)

Three years after they were an international media sensation -- hey, who doesn't like talking about and looking at Russian lesbian schoolgirls? -- t.A.t.U. returned in 2005 with their second album, Dangerous and Moving. As Tommy Duncan sang, time does indeed change everything, and t.A.t.U. had a turbulent three years, separating from the Svengali manager and, most shocking of all, revealing that they weren't lesbians at all! In fact, Julia Volkova actually had a child, which kind of punctured the whole schoolgirl lesbian fantasy that had been pushed by the dearly departed manager in the first place. So, free to be themselves, t.A.t.U. decided to grow up for their second album -- and nothing says maturity like ditching the short plaid skirts and bringing in Sting to play bass for a track, while hiring Richard Carpenter for a string arrangement for another. The presence of these two middlebrow titans may suggest that Dangerous and Moving sounds different than their debut, 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane, and while that's true to a certain extent, it's also misleading. Yes, there are a couple more ballads here, the Eurotrash quotient isn't quite so trashy (yet it's every bit as Euro), and, best of all, the girls' voices aren't run through the computer compressor that makes them sound as high and shrill as a drill. But all these little changes don't alter the duo's music much at all: they still make cold, crass, clinical dance-pop sung by two ciphers with thin, awkward voices. Like last time, they have one single with an insistent, repetitive hook built around the word "us" that opens the album (last time it was "Not Gonna Get Us," it's now the sound-alike "All About Us"), and then they recycle that sound to staggeringly diminished returns for the remainder of the record. As Dangerous and Moving wears on -- hell, by the second track -- the icy digital sheen of the production starts to grate nearly as bad as the flat, bored vocals of the girls. Since the beats are monotonous, since the songs are insipid and forgettable, since the girls not only can't sing but have no on-record charisma, since there's no sense of style and, most importantly, sense of fun to this whole enterprise, Dangerous and Moving is the worst kind of pop music: the kind that is better to theorize about than to listen to. And now that they're not hot lesbian schoolgirls anymore, it's not even that much fun to theorize and argue about, since without the sapphic gimmick, t.A.t.U. simply doesn't have a reason to exist. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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1 	All About Us 	
2 	All The Things She Said 	
3 	Not Gonna Get Us 	
4 	How Soon Is Now? 	
5 	Loves Me Not 	
6 	Friend Or Foe 	
7 	Gomenasai 	
8 	Null & Void 	
9 	Cosmos (Outer Space) [She Wants Revenge Remix] 	
10 	Show Me Love 	
11 	Craving (I Only Want What I Can't Have) [Bollywood Mix] 	
12 	Ne Ver Ne Boisya Ne Prosi [Eurovision Song] 	
13 	30 Minutes 	
14 	Divine [Extended Version] 	
15 	Perfect Enemy 	
16 	All The Things She Said [Dave Aude' Remix Edit] 	
17 	Lyudi Invalidy [Dangerous & Moving Russian Version] 	
18 	Loves Me Not [Glam As You Mix Radio Edit] 	
19 	Nas Ne Dogonyat [Not Gonna Get Us Russian Version] 	
20 	Ya Soshla S Uma [All The Things She Said Russian Version]

Given that t.A.T.u. only had two albums to their name when The Best arrived in the fall of 2006, it might seem like it was a little early for a greatest-hits album -- which is both true and untrue. For most acts, such a quickly arriving hits compilation would be a little premature, but by 2006 the duo's lesbianism shtick was not only exposed as nothing more than a marketing gimmick, but they had also parted ways with their label, Interscope, which meant that their act was outdated and that they no longer had the support of a major label, so it was the perfect time to chronicle the half-decade where they were a Europop sensation. The Best does this exhaustively, offering up the hits -- "All the Things She Said," "Not Gonna Get Us," "How Soon Is Now," "Friend or Foe," "All About Us," plus the new single "Gomenasai" -- plus a bunch of remixes and some album tracks. Since a little t.A.T.u. can go a long way, it's best to get all the big hits in one place; the rest of the record might still be filler even on a hits disc, but at least it has all the big songs, which The Best certainly does, and that should satisfy any listener who considers the Russian duo a guilty pleasure. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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