Translation by Lord Google.

With Tokio Hotel: «One day we were arguing among ourselves about a girl"

Musicians blockbuster youth group Tokio Hotel in an exclusive interview when told AIF.RU readers will come to Russia as the shape of their relationship with the girls and denied the rumors about the resignation of a member of the collective

"AIF": - He walks a lot of rumors about the relationship in the group and female fans. How do your family and the girls react to this?

Tom Kaulitz: - Of all the permanent members of the group she is only in George, while the rest alone. As for our families, they are happy when we are happy.

"AIF": - The critics say that your music - it is not art, but a product created by skilled producers. You are not offended?

Tom: - Critics are always looking for something to annoy write about us. But we are not even too worried about it. We know what we stand as artists - come to our concerts next year, see for yourself.

"AIF": - Clarify all the same. Your musical style - this is emo-rock, pop-rock, stadium rock?

Bill Kaulitz: - This is a combination of all genres.

"AIF": - now at the stage of your many imitators, and some of them as popular as you are. What do you think?

Bill: - We think that we need to find their own way and style, think with your head and not try to imitate others.

"AIF": - What kind of impression you made on each other when they first met?

Tom: - As soon as we saw each other, it became clear that everything goes well. Always fun to talk with guys your age who also love to play music like me and Bill.

"AIF": - Our young readers want to know how your "dream girl"?

Bill: - We have no certain type of girls who have always liked him. Any like. Hair color does not matter

"AIF": - When you go on tour? You are expected not only in Russia but also in the CIS ...

Tom: - The tour starts on February 22. March 8 we will give a concert in St. Petersburg, and 10 in Moscow. To be honest, we look forward to these statements, because we have maintained excellent memories of Russia. Our performances here have turned out some of the best. And yet, we, of course, the sunset happy party after a concert in Russia!

"AIF": - What are the albums you like one of those that you listened to recently?

Bill: - I liked the album by American band Kings of Leon
Georg Listing: - Me too.
Tom: - To me, the new album, Jay-Z - excellent.
Gustav Schäfer: - I have only one album this year bought. «Humaniod».

"AIF": - Bill, fans ask why you changed his hairstyle?

Bill: - Hair - it's your personality. Just so happened that I had changed. No special reason. I like to periodically change something.

"AIF": - Have you ever argue on something together?

Bill: - Yes, somehow I and Tom were arguing over the girl. Tom won.

"AIF": - It is true that George is leaving the group?

All: - None.

"AIF": - What are you dreaming? You do have something to dream?

Bill: - Of course, dream. Tom, we dream about the same. We're twins. We even dreams are the same sometimes. We have a spiritual connection

The Group and its management to thank fans for their interest in their creativity and apologize for the delay in the interview.The boys have just returned from Central America, where he appeared in a promotional tour in support of their new album.

Thanks to Universal Music Russia for hosting the interview.

Hello! First of all, congrats Gustav, it's your birthday today!
Gustav: Thank you! Though I haven't celebrated it at all, it's only been interviews whole day. But I don't complain. Or yeah, I complain a little.

I heard that you, Tom and Bill, celebrated your birthday recently in a very nice way!

Tom: Yes, we rented an amusement park for ourselves and our friends. It was awesome! We could go on every ride as much as we wanted and didn't had to get in line. It was a dream come true. Crazy!

If there was an attraction on the amusement park with the name Tokio Hotel, how would it be?

Bill: It would be the fastest ride you experienced. It would go straight forward like a freeday really long, then suddenly spinn up, up, up til you were in the sky. Then it would stand still for a while til you suddenly will fall straight down to the ground really fast!

What's the most illegal you've done in a hotel room?

Tom: There are very many illegal things we've done as we can't say here. But we've trashed some things here and there. One time we went really fast on little bikes in the hotel corridors. The hotel staff nor the guests didn't like that so much...

Bill: At a hotel in Germany we trashed so much things so we aren't welcome back to that city anymore and play, haha!

What's the most idiotic you did as children?

Georg: I throw a rock through a window at a Mercedes. But it was by accident. It was actually meant to hit a friend in the head.

Tom: When we were about 6 Bill and I went to a cliff where people jumped bungy jumping. But we had no safety lines or anything. So we stood there and looked. If a gust of wind had came we could probably fell down but we were little and didn't understood it then.

From one thing to another! What's the color of your underwear today?

Tom: Black.
Bill: Black.
Gustav: Blue and white-striped.
Georg: Black. It doesn't show when black underwear gets dirty! And the you can turn them inside out when you've had them for a while.

Would you ever pose naked for a magazine?

Tom: I mean, I'm so good looking and there is already so much focus on my body...

Gustav: ...eh?

Tom: ... so I think it's enough. We should probably not have more attention to my nice body now. It's for the groups best.

Tell us about your first kiss!

Georg: [thinking]

Tom: Wasn't that the kiss you got from me yesterday?

Georg: Haha, no. I don't really remember the first one...

Tom: My first kiss was from the same girl as Bill got his first kiss from. It was a girl I was together with, and then Bill got together with her a month after we broke up. He usually takes my girls after me.

Bill: The first kiss is never good. It gets very wet and strange.

How should a normal Swedish girl do to get your attention?
Georg: Pull her shirt up!

Bill: They could color their hair in some crazy color and maybe have a big sign at our concerts. And learn German maybe. A good phrase is "Du hast so schöne augen". It means "You have beautiful eyes!"

Tokio Hotel's dreamgirl!

Face and legs: Jessica Alba.
Hair: Ashley Olsen.
Nose: Mary-Kate Olsen.
Butt: Jennifer Lopez.
Boobs: Pamela Anderson.
Feets: Angelina Jolie.

Draw a duck, please!

Bill Kaulitz draw a duck and we asked a graphologist to say who Bill is inside!
"There is a lot that spins in the head at this person. Many simple and obvious things. He has many amusing incidents and ideas - but the question is if he managed to achieve everything he wants to do? But despite the weirdness it's a person standing with both feet on the ground."

Bill Kaulitz draw a duck and we asked a graphologist to say who Bill is inside!
"There is a lot that spins in the head at this person. Many simple and obvious things. He has many amusing incidents and ideas - but the question is if he managed to achieve everything he wants to do? But despite the weirdness it's a person standing with both feet on the ground."

author: Murezor

Live report of the GazettE at Saitama Super Arena on September 5th, 2009.

© PS COMPANY - The GazettE

2009 marked the seventh anniversary of the GazettE. Yet the tour they did to mark this event, as well as the release of their latest album DIM, were more than just birthday events. You could also see them as omens of what would be the band's future. And planning the tour final at Saitama Super Arena, a much larger venue than the usual ones for the band, was proof of their ambition. But it was also an important test, and with such a huge crowd as the jury, an average mark would not be satisfying. So let's see if the GazettE successfully passed the test with honours.

One thing was sure: at 5 pm, the announced starting time, Saitama Super Arena and its surroundings were filled with fans. As always, the show was as much in the audience as it was on stage, as spectators made great efforts to dress up for the event. Rarely have there been so many Reita cosplayers in such close quarters, and though the capacity was 20,000 people, the concert was still sold out. An impressive performance, especially at the end of a twenty-two dates tour in Japan, for which the GazettE deserved an A letter grade.

Shortly after the official start time, the concert began. Darkness covered the hall before the stage was lit, accompanied by the song DIM and the crowd's applause. The stage was illuminated by a very bright red light, and each member's arrival was marked by white lighting that cut through our sight. And suddenly, with our eyes still a bit dazzled from the band entrance, the first song, The Invisible Wall, started. It was a perfect starting point for the concert, giving the audience the opportunity to set the mood and adapt itself to the Saitama stage. A very plain stage, it had only two large screens, one on each side, to show the band playing, and six smaller screens. The musicians were also not too overdressed; vocalist Ruki appeared in a white shirt and black gloves, while the rest of the band were mostly clad in black.

As a result, it seemed the GazettE wanted to give the beginning of the show a very peculiar atmosphere, something for which the new DIM album could be quite suited. The audience felt this, and let itself be drawn by the mood of that first song, listening calmly for the most part while a few headbangers could be seen here and there. It ended with the man on the video screens committing suicide by blowing his head up, while Ruki mimicked him by pointing his finger to his temple. If the GazettE wanted to give their audience suicidal ideas, they might very well have succeeded, had they decided to keep this mood going. Thankfully, they had another project in mind.

Because the next song, LEECH, instantly took a different turn. The lights on stage and on the screens turned psychedelic, which seemed to drive the audience crazy. Everyone started to wave their arms and heads, jumping around till the whole place shook and the vibes reached every part of the hall. It was truly amazing to see how, in an instant, the GazettE could change the mood of the whole Saitama Super Arena hall. And it's proof of the heights their mastery of live events has reached.

Then the hall went dark and was filled with screams from the audience for a little while, until Ruki introduced the next song, DISTRESS AND COMA. The lights turned green and the screens showed green binary lines, very much Matrix-like, mesmerizing the public who stood subdued and calm during the song. Even a brief solo from Uruha did not stir them. And it was only when the lights went out that the spell broke and the audience, finally realizing what had happened, started to shout again.

The next song kept that same mood, starting with purple lights focusing on Aoi, before the stage was plunged in a dim blue light, setting a more intimate atmosphere appropriate for a song with more quiet parts. It ended with Ruki on his knees. But the intent was not to make the audience despair or languish, and indeed the mood for the next songs was about to get as different as possible. The lights turned greenish, even unhealthy, and horrible faces filled the screens among which a strange young girl appeared. Silence filled the hall. And suddenly the colours mixed in the hall and Ruki gave a glimpse of the power of his voice and singing. In an instant, he drove the audience into a frenzied mass of head banging. After he called "Saitama" several times, the musicians and the crowd united in another common headbanging session. That song really drove everyone wild, and Ruki's screams intensifying at the end only increased that effect. Now for HEADACHE MAN, the mood became eerie, close to madness, as the audience head banged as much as humanly possible. Multiple eyes watched from the screens, on a red background which turned white for the chorus. Far from frightening the audience, it drove them to new heights and they started to jump wildly.

A final laugh from Ruki plunged the hall into darkness. It was a brief and welcome respite after such an intense set, yet the audience kept on shouting for several minutes. The next song started much more quietly though, with the lights focusing on Ruki, with Uruha and Aoi both playing acoustic guitars. The audience listened respectfully before the band roused them again. The two guitarists kept on switching between electric and acoustic guitars, making for two completely different atmospheres. The way they played with the audience's feelings was indeed impressive. Mesmerized, the crowd started to clap rhythmically, in a now psychedelic atmosphere. Blood whirled on the screens, over a white background, before waves of red spotlights filled the hall. In this dream-like haze, the audience stood very straight, very calm, listening with rapt attention to Ruki's singing, while Reita accompanied him with a bass solo. The singer was finally illuminated by a blue light, before sending a last tortured call in front of a red and cloudy sky background.

Silence fell, and the crowd appeared to be in shock, still a bit dizzy from the last song. Aoi took center stage for a bit and played on his double neck guitar while Ruki let the audience rest a bit. It was as though everyone was hypnotized after the magical act, and only a snap of the fingers from the magician Ruki could draw them from their meditative state.

Applause and shouts finally filled the hall. The concert had only started one hour before, yet it had been very intense already. Ruki spoke a few words, making sure everyone was well awake. A needless precaution, because the audience was really getting worked up now and followed Ruki's call to jump with obvious delight. A good thing, because for the next two songs, the crowd would have many opportunities to test its toughness. Fans waved their hands, jumped and head banged as much as they could, as the songs really tore their guts out. The atmosphere was really hot now and the audience was really starting to let loose. The musicians set an example for them, taking turns interacting with the crowd, Ruki getting closer to the edge of the stage, and each guitarist coming to the front. Each member also appeared on the smaller screens.

The atmosphere got harder for DISCHARGE, alternating with bursts of music, powerful sound and Ruki's strong voice. White lighting and smoke filled the hall, and the crowd looked like it was having an epileptic fit. The audience united for a respectful head bang for their gods, before going wild in a pagan salute. The last song, DIM SCENE, started in an ethereal atmosphere fitting the song, only to be broken by a bestial howl from Ruki. Meanwhile the screens behind him showed water steams full of foam with glimpses of breaking faces. Then the screens turned red again, and the last few words of Ruki were drowned in deafening sounds. He was finally left alone on stage in the dark, before staggering off.

Silence fell before the audience began to applaud and call for an encore. After ten minutes Reita and Kai came back on stage to stand side by side, each wearing a scarf around his neck and mouth. Reita started to scream "Saitama!" and the audience screamed back. After a few words, to warm up the audience, they started Ride with the Rockers. During that song, they kept playing with the crowd, Reita shouting and the fans answering. The next song, Ruder, was also all theirs, and the two of them put the Saitama audience to test. It was a show of head banging, dancing and shouting, everything the audience could do. Finally Uruha and Aoi rejoined their friends and started to take a part in the fun, while the audience went wild with calls of Reita and Aoi.

For THE $OCIAL RIOT MACHINE$, Ruki finally returned to the stage. It started with a solo from Uruha, and during that song, Reita, Uruha and Aoi each kept making solos in response to each other, while Ruki drove the audience to new heights. No more light shows and mood stuff now, it was all about strong and raw sounds, full of energy, spreading through the hall and making the audience ecstatic. The band couldn't stop itself now, and the next song came without a break. The audience didn't want to be left behind and kept the pace, responding to the musicians' fierce head banging with their own.

The band took a small break on stage while the audience stayed as wild as ever. After saying a few words, Ruki called for Saitama to make itself heard even more. The following song started with great head banging and screaming from Ruki, while Reita and Uruha played together at the front of the stage. The hall became like a great human sea as long hair flew and waved through the rows of people.

Finally, it was time for the last song, LINDA. The audience felt this would be its last chance to enjoy the show and didn't even take the time to rest. They just kept on headbanging, jumping and having fun. After a last solo from Aoi, it was all over. the GazettE started to salute everyone, Ruki shouting "thank you" over and over to the audience. After the band left the stage, the lights went out. "DIM SCENE" was written on the screens, while Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan was played. The audience kept screaming and asking for more, and it felt like they could go like this for a long time, just to have a bit longer with the band.

And the GazettE came back! The fans must have knocked so hard on the door that it broke because, to their delight, the band would perform one more song to end this show, and at the same time this long DIM tour. They probably felt they were in Heaven right then. Before starting, Ruki spoke a few words and his emotion really could be felt in his voice. The atmosphere for that last song was as wild as when the concert began several hours before. It was the last opportunity for the audience to get a last good look at the musicians as they appeared on screen, as well as hear solos from each of the guitarists. Each moment was savored because all too soon - although it had been over three hours - the concert finally came to an end.

To thunderous applause, the GazettE saluted their fans one more time. As a parting gift, they invited some of their staff on stage with them, and everyone held hands. The fans also joined hands before everyone made one last jump on Ruki's count. After the band left the stage, darkness fell one last time in the hall. the GazettE's latest single was broadcast on the screen and a few announcements were made, including a live DVD of this concert and another show at the end of the year to celebrate Christmas the GazettE's way.



If anyone had any doubts about the GazettE's ability to play in front of such a large audience, this date at the Saitama Super Arena should be proof that they are quite capable. The band gave a great show, playing not only great music but also creating different atmospheres throughout the night. And if this show was indeed a forecast of the band's future, then we can only wish them to continue this way. Because even if the GazettE just started playing on their own in such a big hall as the Saitama Super Arena, it already seems like it's too small for them. Anyone knows when there is a free date at the Tokyo Dome?




Set list:

「剥離」「Hakuri」
1 THE INVISIBLE WALL
2 LEECH
3 Hyena
4 DISTRESS AND COMA
5 Shiroki Yuutsu (白き優鬱)
「エ リ カ」「Erika」
6 13STAIRS[-]1
7 HEADACHE MAN
8 WITHOUT A TRACE
「感触」「Kanshoku」
9 Nakigahara (泣ヶ原)
「子宮」「Shikyuu」
10 Guren (紅蓮)
11 A MOTH UNDER THE SKIN
12 COCKROACH
13 IN THE MIDDLE OF CHAOS
14 Filth in the beauty
15 OGRE
16 DISCHARGE
17 DIM SCENE
「朦朧」「Mourou」

Encore:
EN1 Ride with the Rockers
EN2 Ruder
EN3 THE $OCIAL RIOT MACHINE$
EN4 Anata no Tame no Kono Inochi. (貴女ノ為ノ此ノ命。)
EN5 Kanto dogeza kumiai (関東土下座組合)
EN6 LINDA~candydive pinky heaven~

Miseinen (未成年)

author: Zy

translation: Non-Non

Evolutionally-Advanced

© © 2009 Zy.connection Inc. All Rights Reserved.

It will be D'espairsRay's tenth anniversary on September 9th, 2009, and they will release their first major single, FINAL CALL, in celebration of this anniversary. As this band has had lots of experience with lives overseas and have kept producing highly accomplished works, the songs on this single are brilliant. We caught them just before they left for their European tour in July, and asked them to talk about their new songs.


So on your tenth anniversary you will release FINAL CALL. How was production?

HIZUMI: It went along smoothly, which was unexpected. We had never been able to do it like that before.

Karyu: I think we were three times as fast.......no, five times as fast.

HIZUMI: We usually take a long time to produce. So it might be normal this time. (smile)

Why do you suppose the production went so smoothly this time?

HIZUMI: I think it's because Mr. Kishi (Toshiyuki Kishi is the keyboardist and programmer of abingdon boys school) was just the best. (laugh)

I see! I heard you've had offers to work with him before. So this time was the first time you collaborated with him, and it seems to have worked out quite well.

Karyu: He chose good things well and his tempo was fast.

HIZUMI: It might be because our favorite sounds are similar to what Mr. Kishi likes too.

What did you think of working in a studio?

HIZUMI: What I felt most was that my voice was comfortable to listen to. When I sang, recorded, and listened to it, I felt that my voice has this or that kind of quality to it.

And you are just realizing that now? (laugh)

HIZUMI: Yes. Maybe other members thought so too.

Karyu: Yes.... I listened to only these three songs though. (smile)

When you decided on these songs for the single, what did you base the selection on? As I listened to it, I felt the songs are generally bright and go in the same direction.

Karyu: We had many songs made for this single!

So the songs were born like a fountain and just gushed out!

Karyu: They actually did you know....(laugh)

author: Zy

translation: Non-Non

Impellent force

© © 2009 Zy.connection Inc. All Rights Reserved.

D will finally release their long-awaited new work seven months after they released the album Genetic World. The single Tightrope is full of confidence, with driving rhythm and melody, as well as aggressive lyrics. As we listen to this song with the three coupling songs, we can't help feeling the endless power of D! Here, we'll ask the five members about their feelings and eagerness for the event Mad tea party, which they will organize after a three year interval.


Tightrope has a real driving feeling, which matches D. But it's rare to have such straight and aggressive lyrics like that, isn't it?

ASAGI: Yes. (laugh)

Because of that we felt it was more rock than before.

ASAGI: Rock, I think, is an "explosion of feeling." So in that way, I think it came to be a song that matches a rock sound.

What was the background that generated this world view?

ASAGI: For the story, I used the world I described in Corvinus (ASAGI's solo work released on September 20, 2006) and Rebellion (Major debut single BIRTH, first limited edition type B, C/W) in my head. If I put them on a time line, their order would be Rebellion, Corvinus, then Tightrope.

Present, past, future......each song links to each other, and has D's unified world view in all the songs.

ASAGI: The main character of Tightrope is a guard who escaped from a prison world in Corvinus, then songs that stimulated the guard to wake are put in Tightrope. The songs were made like that and are actually linked to past songs, but the present feelings and thoughts are from myself as I'm the one who wrote the lyrics and will sing them.

So songs are born through the world portrayed in your songs and thoughts you have about the world around you.

ASAGI: When we made Corvinus the world view of Tightrope was almost born as well, but we couldn't complete it since our feelings at that time didn't match or really link to it enough.

So your present feelings are poured into the souls of your songs at the time of writing?

ASAGI: Yes, I think so. They are also songs that stimulate me too. I want people who worry about something, and that includes me, to listen and feel the strength in them.

Do you still remember your reaction when you first saw the first part of Arthur and the Minimoys in the cinema, and heard your voice?

I had to get used there first of all to hearing my own voice. I do not like this since, actually, at all. Just, so, I was very critical of course what concerns my work on the film. However, after a while I was also really proud and thought only: " Wow! " I remembered immediately the days in the synchronous studio and how much work was this. But I just still knew exactly how much fun has done this and could enjoy it to see the final result, finally, on the canvas.

Have you been glad to lend your voice this small adventurer for Arthur and the Minimoys - the Rückker of the bad M. the second time?

Clear, I was properly excited again. Synhcronisation is for me still something new, for a long time there I am not so experienced as while singing. And when I have seen the film, then, I have felt properly at home. By the first part I have a right relation to Arthur and had immediately again desire to speak him once again. Far that is a piece anyhow also my film - and I feel nearly a kind of responsibility for Arthur.

Did you have before a notion, how would the action go on in the second part?

No, I was totally curious, above all like it goes on with Arthur and Selenia. Then the end of the film has also surprised me really totally, one sees this not coming at all. So or so the audience will do anyway a few quite new experiences with Arthur.

Would you say then that Arthur has changed?

He has been adult anyway a little bit, not least by all experiences which he has collected in the first film. For the fact that he is still so young he has experienced already quite a lot many crass things. This has made him surely more ripe. In addition, he has also taken over a big responsibility, while he has saved the Minimoys in the first part. He takes seriously this very much, in the end, the Minimoys lie to him incredibly with the heart. And above all he would like to protect of course Selenia, because, in the end, in that he is in love.

Do you have a favorite scene in the new film?

One of my dearest scenes is anyway when Arthur and Selenia kiss each other for the first time. Arthur comes later with the Minimoys in than expects and Selenia was quite really sad. He is afraid that it is disappointed and gets an absolutely wrong picture of him. Besides, he was all the time in thoughts with her and has been worried. When they kiss each other then, finally, this is a really intensive scene - and one really notices how falls in love the both are.

Do you run, actually, differently through the grass since you know that there the Minimoys live?

Well, I am not real anyway thus the physical freak. But this is not so bad in this case also at all, in the end, I must never do to myself in this manner the reproach that I maybe injure the Minimoys. So, my tip to everything: Comes to the cities and leaves the Minimoys in the wood and the meadows in peace!

The world of these small beings is totally foreign to you?

Anyhow already. But, nevertheless, one gets by the films suddenly desire to experience all these things also sometimes and to be even a Minimoy. All at once one has to sleep desire also sometimes in a flower or to fly with a ladybird by the area. Such scenes do Arthur's adventure a real experience.

Tom's blog

If you need some spooky stuff for Halloween you should get the latest issue of German mag INTRO [or join Gustav for a ride in his car!]. The theme is perfect for this time of year - it's all about ghosts, monsters and scary stories. The cover turned out really great! It was done by someone who specializes in creating old school comics as well as old & cool looking movie posters. For Christmas I'll give this cover as a giant poster to Bill as my present....so he can hang it up beside his bed, next to all the other pics of me that are covering the walls in his room ;-]

You can download a PDF file of this by right clicking this link!

The interview - Translation by Pat
Twins are a challenge. Because they are so equal, there is the chance of mixing them up. For years, the double identity of Tokio Hotel inspires and polarizes. Kerstin and Sandra Grether, The Intro's own twinpower, met the two in Hamburg to discuss the phenomenon, the music and everything else.

"Lots of people have an image of us and react automatically, most of all in daily encounters." (Bill Kaulitz)

What would aliens say, sent from a nosy planet to Earth, to describe the phenomenon Tokio Hotel? It would be quite possible that they would find lots of beautiful things on the first two albums of the most loved and hated band in Germany. Since Nena's epic early work, there has not been a German-speaking band that succeeded to produce such everyday, rebellious fantasy rock for a young and mostly female target group. Moreover, an original mix of styles, which is more aesthetically demanding then functional.

What it feels like for a girl, boy.

Above all, the aliens would be astounded that a leather jacket, eyeliner, and long-haired dreadlock-wearing pop singer can move heaven and earth, and polarize, just because it pleases him to also show his feminine side. The aliens would possibly remember the start of that which we call pop culture. The decade after the Second World War, when the Americans invented the word "teenager" as a marketing term and the press was making fun of the mass hysteria Frank Sinatra created because he was not wearing a uniform and was not traditionally masculine.

The "Crush with eyeliner" already has credibility with the male audience and it does not even cause a stir anymore in the artificial Anglo-American galaxies of pop. Even so, Tokio Hotel takes a courageous ride through the monsun of German-authenticity hell.

The blood will freeze in the body and mechanical soul of our aliens. Imagine. Two iridescent, cool mythical beings from an East German small town schoolyard, 2005, in the aggro wonderland where bullying is tolerated (translator note: can't really translate this sentence, god german can be tough sometimes - Pat), while all the adults stand around, talking about being authentic and rational, to overplay their own madness. And what can a 15 year old girl, (who has grown up with internet pornography and female-unfriendly rap songs in the charts, in a time, in which "whore" is just another word for girl/female/woman), wish for besides these romantic, guitar riffing, sexy scream of self, in which Tokio Hotel wrote their experiences about the everyday varieties on the provincial schoolgrounds into their songs?

Yes, Individuality ranks highly in the Tokio Hotel Universe. It is that, which made the differently-styled twins reinvent the teeny band format. Is that what interests the (mostly female) fans the most?

How do you do that, going your own way?

Man could have known by looking at the polarising power the 4 emo boys have, the fans of Tokio Hotel are not just screaming idiots. When you click through the fan forums, you very rapidly see that they can reflect on the band with humor and critic. Which does not stop the scornful, homophobic and shocking voices in public, from telling the girls that they have fallen into a gigantic scam. The rebelling against these idiotic, sexually envious, male anti-pop reflex is a known part in the fan code. And it sharpens all the senses for a independent and creative being. (and a sixth sense for anticipating fear as well)

But the way Rock' n Roll dies a thousand deaths, it also starts a thousand beginnings. It is no coincidence that Tokio Hotel quote Frank Sinatra's my way evergreen in the happy science fiction hymn : "The Dark side of the Sun", while they are tracing their own glorious road : "Hello, the end is near, hello, we're still standing here. The future's just begun, on the dark side of the sun".

Humanoid

Humanoid, at the most humanlike, is the name of the 3rd album, on which the band takes a risk and changes their known TH sound in a grown up and playful way. It includes many perfect pop songs in goth rock style.

Pretty and sick, complex and to sing along to, without meaning and full of meaning, and that all at the same time. Of course there is an influence of renowned international songwriters like Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams), Desmond Child and the Matrix, with whom Tokio Hotel and their song writer team collaborated on a few songs. The guitardriven hit "Automatisch", with electro beats and highflying singing against the machine values and celebrating being out of love as in a trance. And the already mentioned glam rock manifest: "Dark Side of the sun", which refers to the novel by Terry Pratchett, tops even the classics of glam rock, with the huge crazy panic scenario, that was designed into it, this neat and crazy Tokio Riot, is already going on. "On the TV, in Your place, on the radio, oh. it's a riot, it's a riot, they say no, oh." The Radio Hysteria song goes over all capabilities of the so called perfect pop song, to take the extraordinary out of the normalities. And it is a worthy answer in the stylish conservative rock era, that searches and curses their superstars, and can not do anything else but either love or hate them for their individuality.

It is a combination of spontaneity and strategy, and the high degree of selfmade stylising, that turn Bill and Tom Kaulitz into worldwide superstars in the boulevardised pop stables. The ideal of this decade is to channel extreme emotions in a creative way, to have a voice that counts. Bill Kaulitz's voice and his notoriously touching looks are not anything like the idle coldness and the warpaint worn by David Bowie or Him singer Ville Vallo. He shocks and inspires with humor and cordiality. And makes fans all over the world crave for Bill and Tom's media presence on lots of documents on the internet. Especially twins have been used historically as a strong projection of the desires of society. The world around them sees something special in them, threats them as outsiders because of that and at the same time fights the symptomes of this special state.

Twin Towers

Man, we are already really excited for the interview, we do not meet identical extravagant twins every day, who come from a town at the end of the world, coffee addicted and sunshy. And who exist to keep a distance.

Then all of a sudden Tom and Bill show up, really looking like very big dark angels (1.90m) dressed in lots of black, with striking white contrasts. Which mimics with their changing between light and dark songs. The boys come across as very neat, make jokes and are a bit nervous on this early interview day. They radiate with energy, so that a lifely conversation develops really fast. Drummer Gustav and bass player Georg are not there, too bad, it is a twin meeting after all.

What does Humanoid mean to you?

Bill: The song has a lot of different melodies and influences. And that is exactly what Humanoid means to us, a feeling of being torn up, not knowing where you belong. We have freed ourselves of the typical song structures and build the song like a story, with highs and lows.

How did you come up with the new sound anyways?

Tom: We wanted to try a few things. We had the best technichal possibilities for it. Our goal was to have cool songs and get something completely new soundwise.
Bill: It was a lot of detail work. We didn't sleep the last few days and just kept changing it. Tom and I have also co-produced the album.

How should we imagine your songwriting process?

Tom: In the past 90 percent of our songs were created with the acoustic guitar, and then in the studio we figured out how to make them work. This time, we were directly composing and recording in the studio.
Bill: Our producers for instance played something to us and said, so and so in that direction. Then Tom had played guitar to it, and I sung to it, the songs were created in different ways.

The song Automatic sounds like you wanted to return the projections, that a lot of people have about stars or your band. That you were created, and function like a machine and so on.

Bill: Super that somebody recognizes that. That is what we meant with the song. A lot of people have an image of us and react completely automatic. Especially in meetings, that happen automatically during the day. You cannot get people to be genuine enough when you meet them.

Tokio Hotel must meet the requirements of an internationally succesful act. Your view as a popband is obvious.

Bill: Clothes, lyrics, music. It all goes together for me. It is a feeling you want to transport. I love taking pictures and I am very much into the entire fashion thing. This way you can make a lot of small dreams come true.

[to Bill] We had the theory that you went in Tom's hairstyle direction, because he did not want to take yours.

Tom: [laughs] Let's say, I have been a rolemodel for Bill my entire life.
Bill: When I decided to get the dreadlocks, I did not even think about his, cause I thought his were horrible. They were kind of nature things. And I wanted something completely different.

Did you guys have a phase in your lives in which you did not stand out at all?

Bill: When you were out on your own, it was not such a big theme. But when you show up together, people talk about you. Even though we look so different.
Tom: That was already like that in the past.
Bill: There is nothing more beautiful then being an identical twin. I cannot even imagine it being any different. Tom and I, we are so much one, we are soulmates. I can not be without him for even one day.

Next to all the enthusiasm, that comes with that, there must be people who are afraid of this strong unity.

Tom: That has happened to us a lot, naturally. In the seventh grade we were punished exactly because of this. The teachers said, our opinion was to strong for them.
Bill: [laughs] When Tom and I share an opinion, you cannot get passed that. That is pretty hard/rough. Also for the people on our team.

Your twinly togetherness is probably not standard in society?

Bill: Yeah, it is something different.
Tom: All people always thought, it is crazy that these types, who dress so differently, talk to each other at all.
Bill: Like the motto: why is someone, who obviously listens to hiphop, hanging out with a dude, who paints his eyes.

You are living in the vision of a really tolerant society. Because it is nice that a hiphop type guy and such a feminine type understand each other so well.

Bill: Yeah, to be understood, ja, right!
Tom: I think, people can supplement each other, when they would do more together. People compliment each other really well , thank god, while everyone has a different opinion.

Really shocking , that your teachers dissed you. They should have saved you from being bullied.

Bill: Yeah, exactly, instead the teacher, when we got punished, told the students, they should put Tom in a new class.
Tom: We found that out recently. My best friend was in that class, and he told me.
Bill: We never allowed it though.
Tom: We have always polarised. That was a good preparation for now. We love our fans for this courage. And it is great that it inspires girls to get creative themselves.
Bill: Everywhere we go, they give us their lyrics and demo's and drawings. That is really cool.

The Aliens transmit to their planet: Once Tokio Hotel confused the schoolgrounds. Humanoid could convince the adult doubters, who only saw blank posterboys in a group/band. Tokio Hotel are too good to just be a "Guilty pleasure". One of the last truths that can still be twisted about in this era.

EXCLUSIVE: Tokio Hotel Launches "Humanoid"

Formed in Germany in 2001 by tween twin brothers Bill and Tom Kaulitz, pop/rock band Tokio Hotel, whose members are now in their early 20's, also features drummer Gustav Shaefer and bassist Georg Listing. While Bill and Tom were onstage in a club in Magdeburg, Germany, music students Georg and Gustav watched from the audience and saw a future partnership possibility. The young group first appeared as "Devilish" but once young Bill almost won the German version of "Star Search", a music producer latched on and Tokio Hotel was born. The band hit big first on the Emo and Pop scene in their native Germany and have gone world-wide in winning both MTV Europe Music awards and MTV Video Music awards as well as Latino honors.

Tokio Hotel's second English language album "Humanoid" (their first was 2008's "Scream") features metallic single "Automatic" and the band focuses on the future with a more electronic sound. Both Bill and Tom were heavily involved in all phases of production. The twins couldn't look more different; frontman Bill with his dark Goth leather a la Adam Lambert vibe and twin Tom with a leathers and watchcap look that replaces his sporty with long dreadlocks appearance. In contrast Georg and Gustav look like two cute guys who could be in your English class.

While on an American promo tour for the new album, the energetic guys sat down and chatted with us on speakerphone. We are sure some silly faces were made while we couldn't see but a fun time was had by all. We chatted mostly with Bill but Tom chimed in and we got the occasional comment from Georg and Gustav. Just to keep it simple, we'll go with just Tokio Hotel on responses. During our chat we learned that the guys have never been to Tokyo and that their fave U.S. food is an artery-clogging but yummy nightmare!.....

TeenMusic: Okay, German fans and American fans.. how different?

Tokio Hotel: American fans can speak much better English. That's the main part. I don't know. I think our fans are just so energetic and cool everywhere. No matter where we go. We are just proud of them.

TeenMusic: Can you give me your strangest and then most touching fan encounter so far?

Tokio Hotel: I think there was a lot of crazy stuff going on nearly every day. One day in Spain, there were some naked girls in (drummer) Gustav's (Shaefer's) room, lying in the bed. That was funny. And in L.A. we got some underwear and one fan made a Tokio Hotel guitar which was really good. And for touching, there was one woman yesterday and a little boy and girl and they were crying all the time. It was like a dream coming true for them. To see that you can make people happy just to be there and sign an autograph, was really cute.

TeenMusic: Are you guys still into video games or do you play 'Rock Band' or 'Guitar Hero' on the road?

Tokio Hotel: We do that when we are on tour. Now, we are every day in another city so we have no chance to play. But I think we will do that again on tour.

TeenMusic: Why name the band Tokio Hotel?

Tokio Hotel: Just the idea to have a symbol so we chose hotel. It was always our dream to travel the world and stay in hotels. And Tokio because it sounds great and we've never been in Tokyo. We want to go there. We hadn't been there so we didn't know what came with that. We didn't expect anything so it was cool to choose a city where we'd never been.

TeenMusic: You've gotta go there! Do you have a most embarrassing moment on stage to share with us?

Tokio Hotel: One time we were doing a concert in Russia I think and the whole stage just broke down while we were on stage. It fell down. Nobody was hurt but nearly. But it was embarrassing.

TeenMusic: We read that Bill said he'd love to be a Twilight Vampire. Are you a fan of the books or the films or vampires in general?

Bill: Vampires in general and the movie is great. It's really cool.

TeenMusic: Are you guys still determined to keep your looks very different from each other? Do you have any plans to change the look of the band in future?

Tokio Hotel: I think you don't plan that in advance. It's really a personal thing. The change just comes out of you. Some day we wake up and say 'okay, I'll cut my hair off' so you can't plan that. Maybe we'll change it.

TeenMusic: I heard that you all have disagreements and even hit each other at one point. How do you handle your disagreements?

Tokio Hotel: I don't know if anybody was hurt but sometimes it's like that. We had a lot of tracks and then we had to make a decision on which track would make it (on the album) and there were some fights but we come back together.

TeenMusic: Sounds like a brother thing. Are you bringing out another single after "Automatic"?

Tokio Hotel: Oh definitely and we have to decide this in the next (few) hours. It's really hard to pick the next single but we are talking about three songs. We don't have a final decision but we really have to do it. We have to decide on the videos too. Once we have the song decision we'll figure out what the video is. You have different pictures in your mind for each song.

TeenMusic: What can each of your simply not live without on tour?

Tokio Hotel: This is Bill, I can't live without my dogs in general. I bring them with me when I'm on tour in Germany. I have everything with me. I'm prepared for every situation. (Another member... Tom??) But, I'd say it's important to have your laptop just to stay in touch with your family and write things down and check your mail.

TeenMusic: Who cooks and what do you cook best?

Tokio Hotel: I think I'm the best (bassist Georg Listing). I cook whatever the boys like. We all like pasta and pizza so it's not that hard.

TeenMusic: What track on "Humanoid" is the most personal and why?

Tokio Hotel: We can't pick one. There is a personal story behind every song. I really like the sound of 'Dogs Unleashed' and I love 'World Behind My Wall' which describes our life very well.

TeenMusic: Who would you most like to collaborate with on an album in future?

Tokio Hotel: It would be Arrowsmith. It's hard to pick one band because we all listen to different music but I think Arrowsmith would be cool for everybody (we hear a lot of "yeahs!" in agreement).

(teenmusic spelled Aerosmith wrong)

TeenMusic: Do you have a favorite food here in the states?

Tokio Hotel: Animal fries! Definitely. (Animal-style, super fattening fries from California Chain In-and-Out Burger! Your tray of fries comes topped with a mass of melty cheese, grilled onions, and a heart-stopping ladle of Thousand Island dressing. Good thing these guys are skinny to start with!)

TeenMusic: Have you had songs used as part of movie soundtracks yet?

Tokio Hotel: Not so far but we've planned something that we can't talk about yet.

TeenMusic: When you are on tour, do you dress in disguise and go out to do stuff in the towns you are in?

Tokio Hotel: Most of the time you have no chance to go out. You are in the city to play the concert then go to the next city. You only thing you can do is look out the window.

TeenMusic: Awww. What do you do when you have a chance to relax then?

Tokio Hotel: Sleeping, just sleeping.

TeenMusic: Who is the band is the jokester and who is the one who says 'okay, we need to actually work now'?

Tokio Hotel: (some discussion) I think Tom and me (Bill) are very serious about Tokio Hotel and Georg, definitely not. I think he's the funny guy. He's clumsy (we hear Georg mumbling in the background).

TeenMusic: Does everybody write songs or who is the biggest songwriter in the group?

Tokio Hotel: Most of the time Tom is doing the music and I (Bill) am writing the lyrics and we work together with our producers. But we're like one big family in the studio and we do everything together.

TeenMusic: Biggest musical influence in the last two years?

Tokio Hotel: That's hard to say because with all the studio time, you don't listen to other music. You've got no time. You're just focused on your music and your production. But, I think that can be good. Focusing on your own stuff is really important.

TeenMusic: You are very young but have been singing for what now, 10 years? What is the biggest change in your sound that you've seen in those years?

Tokio Hotel: I think it just becomes better and better. We have new sound boards for this record so we tried new things out. It's a bit more electronic than the older records. I think a goal for this album was to try new things out and see what is the next step for us. I think we don't know what is coming up. We take our time. I think the record company expected the record half a year ago. We just took our time and produced for a year and I think it will be the same for the next record. Give us enough time for us to listen to ourselves and decide what we want to do.

TeenMusic: Good for you! Message for your fans?

Tokio Hotel: We want everybody to enjoy the new record and to let them know we really want to come back and play live and are really looking forward to that.

Well, now he is loving these:

Sneakers Deluxe! Wicked brand that I just discovered. Love the new collection's style!
...what do you think about these sneakers?

What do you think? I would love to see Tom in these with that blue!

Host 1: I must say that you scream a lot

Host 2: What are you doing here? Oh stop it now I know him since he's little, I took him out of the streets.

Host 1: So it's ok, I'm not bothering you?

Host 2: It's MY show, I'm the one interviewing Tokio Hotel, not you.

Blablabla...**jokes** blablabla

Host 2: Ok but I just have to ask my guests if they are ok with this. Are you ok to stay with Mustapha?

Tom: No

Georg: No

TH: Yes, yes...

Host 2: Ok so I leave you with Mustapha El Atrassi

Host 1: Thanks Laurent! So, we're good in here. I've been waiting for this for so long. A good chair from the public television, not some crappy TNT stool (TNT is like cable tv, the show is broadcasted on TNT but here they are on the stage of another show broadcasted on national tv) Hello Ladies and gentlemen, don't be afraid all is ok. I'm hijacking this tv show so you're not watching "On n'est pas couché" but my new show "La Nuit vous appartient". Everything is gonna be ok, as France 2 (tv channel) has accepted to pay me a ransom in the form of a german group that we welcomed cheerfully in France, it's a bit of a routine here. So you are really welcome. So...Tokio Hotel. You have to know that if you put the 4 of them together they don't reach the age of Genevieve de Fontenay (french lady from the Miss France contest) They are here for their new album "Humanoid" in contrary to Genevieve's album "Haemorrhoids" (ah ah...) Yeah it's a real info I'm giving new here. So here we know very few about German people to tell you the truth... Güten Abend?

Bill: Güten Abend
Tom: Yes

Host 1: Ok so that's all for German language. Those are the only words I know with Volkswagen and Birkenstock that are quite hard to include in an interview I would say. Nevertheless it'll be my 1st question: Have you already driven a Volkswagen while wearing Birkenstock? Ah, you weren't expecting this question dude!

Bill: Mmmh no not yet but I'd like to have some designed especially for me to drive a Volkswagen, it would be cool.

Host: What I'd like to know is how you dress to go to the beach?

Bill: I would say...a swimsuit...?

Host: That's a really good answer. So I see that there are huge fans here so we're gonna broadcast the video clip for those who don't know Tokio Hotel yet. That's the brand new single called "Automatisch" Here it is.

**Video clip**

Host: You really have a mad life so what I wanted to know is do you still have time to see your parents?

Bill: No so much. But when we're at home we try to see our friends and family, we try to spend time with them.

Host: Do your parents still have authority with you? Isn't it hard when your kid sold thousands of albums to tell him "Put your slippers on" "Brush your teeth" or "Put the Kohl pencil were you found it, Bill"?

Bill: No I find it cool from time to time when parents tell us what to do or not, "Pick up your dirty clothes" "Do this or that" It's good, it brings us back to Earth.

Tom: And talking about this, you should make your mum iron your costume.

Host: Tokio Hotel it's above all a style, you've noticed it. I tried to imagine how they would look without make up and it looks like that.

*picture of Les Choristes*

Host: What are you doing here? You're badly parked here girls. Make some noise for Tokio Hotel. So Bill you have a tattoo that says "Liberty 89″ That's it?

Bill: Yeah here

Host: So what is it? A cheat word for an History exam? This has nothing to do with the Berlin wall.

Bill: No nothing to do with the fall of the Berlin wall I made it on my 18th birthday and that's my birth date.

Host: I don't know if you know it but Berlin wall was build in less than 2 days... It proves that there are many Portuguese people in Germany

**people booing**

Host: Oh we have Portuguese people in here! So you surprise me everyday, I read articles about you in the newspapers and there's one where you say that if Tokio Hotel doesn't have success anymore, you'll go play from bar to bars and do porn. That's something they really say.

Tom: Yeah that's for me. It's true that I would really like that, it's my thing. There was 2 possibilities, either being a porn star or being in a successful band and finally Tokio Hotel made it to the top so...

Host: Congratulations. But we're not stopping here. What I want to know is what kind of porn? Accessories or not, with animals, leaving or dead..? We want to know! What kind of movies?

Tom: I filmed some at home so I could send those to you

Host: You wanna see that girls?

**audience YEEEEEEESSSSS (there's a no lol)**

Host: And what would be the pitch (summary?) of the film? In one sentence. It must be short, cause a porn scenario must be able to be written on a dick. So short yeah. Tokoi Hotel in a porn film... Moreover YOU really look like a porn actor (pointing Georg)

Georg: Yeah

Tom: Snow White and the 7 dwarfs (translator note: WTF TOM???)

Host: Ok so you seem to be very glad to be here in France, you have a real love for France. Do you know some french singers and do you like french songs?

**audience: nooooo**

Host: Let them answer!

Bill: I don't know many, I don't really know the french scene but just now I can't tell you one. You could tell us some?

Host: In an interview you talked about Carla Bruni

Tom: Yes

Bill: Yes but I never heard anything she did...

Host: Even when WE listen to the album we don't hear anything so... I really feel like making all french fans happy, to prove us your love for France and all together we're gonna sing La Marseillaise (french anthem) Everybody stand up

**singing**

Bill: My french is SO bad

Host: Applause please! Thanks, thank you very much! Louder! Thanks to Tokio Hotel. I'm going back to my stage. Buy their new album, it's called "Humanoid", it's wicked. Thanks again, I'm gone!