Friend or Foe (song)
November 8, 2005
Friend or Foe (Eng. friend or foe) is a pop song by the Russian duo tATu He was the second single from her second English-language album Dangerous and Moving. Was composed the song by Martin Kierszenbaum and Dave Stewart, Sting plays the bass and Bryan Adams was responsible for the cover.
Publications and success
Originally a publication of the CD single was scheduled for early December 2005. For unknown reasons, this date has been postponed to January / February of the following year. At this time, the previous single All About Us was already dropped out of all the major charts, including the German and United Kingdom. Subsequently the belated publication and lack of promotion for the poor performance of the single in the charts was blamed.
In Russia, only a remixed version ( Morel's Pink Noise Radio Edit) was published; This reached number 16 on the charts and stayed 26 weeks in the top 100, or 40 weeks total in the Russian charts. In Italy, the single reached number 16 on the charts and stayed for seven weeks. In Hungary, was the most successful song and was ranked three of the charts. Although Friend or Foe managed to chart entry in countries such as Great Britain, Ireland, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Switzerland, but achieved only mediocre rankings and was only briefly represented in the national charts. In Poland, the song made it to eighth place in the worldwide radio airplay charts, it reached fifth place.
There also appeared a maxi - single entitled Friend or Foe (Remixes), which was used to promote the actual song. Friend or Foe (Remixes) contains 13 different remixes of the song, and was released among others in the UK and Russia.
Benjamin Fox of laut.de refers to the song in his criticism as " below average half- rock song ", which will held together by " electric frills à la music Caterpillar".
Music Video
From 16 to 17 October 2005, there were t.A.T.u. in Los Angeles for the music video for the song in front of the camera. James Cox directed; acted as a producer Billy Parks. The video in the Bronson Canyon was shot in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Jelena Katina and Yulia Volkova, both dressed in black, riding in a Chevrolet Chevelle in a cave of the canyon. There they entered a small stage and sing their song in front of some people while they dance. In the middle part of the video Volkova leaves the stage and plays a short piano solo, continuing the two singers with the performance of the song after. The first release of the video took place on 8 November 2005.