Elena and Yulia together

After completing the duo, the producers decided on the name Тату (Tatu). It is a shortened version from the Russian "Eta devushka lyubit tu devushku", meaning "This girl loves that girl".^[6] For the release of their first English-language album, they decided to go by t.A.T.u., lena katina imagesize:large using uppercased letters and periods to differentiate between an already existing Australian band also named "Tatu."

After t.A.T.u. broke ties with Universal Music in 2006, it was finally announced in 2008 that T.A. Music would become the standing record label for t.A.T.u., although only currently in the Russian market. Boris Renski is still currently the band's photos lene alexandra manager.

At the T.A.T.U NUDE 2003 MTV Movie Awards, t.A.T.u. performed "All the Things She Said" and "Not Gonna Get Us". The performance includes nearly 100 girls dancing around the stage, having them strip at the end of the performance and kiss each other. The chorus in "Not Gonna Get Us" is partly playback due to the fact that Yulia had developed a vocal cord cyst earlier that year during Eurovision. During this trip to the U.S., they also taped a segment for the "Show Me Love" video on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.