Awesome interview online with Teen Music.com about the launch of Humanoid. And super exciting that there is a shout out about the guitar that fan ThinAir gave to Tom in Los Angeles. :flail: So happy for her! Be sure to go to the site and leave a comment? It only takes about 1 minute and you do not even have to wait for an email reply to do it! Every comment helps get more Tokio Hotel in the USA!
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.
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i heard their song on the movie “prom night”. does that count as part of a sound track?
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i was thinking that too. they must know about it right? but i don’t think that movie was big enough to have produced a sound track maybe.
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dude what the heck why is everybody asking about twilight i mean we know bill likes the movie but they don’t have to ask about it every interview!!! and frontman Bill with his dark Goth leather a la Adam Lambert vibe!! dude bill is the one the created his look adam lambert isn’t close to how good bill!!! >:O and how do you spell Aerosmith wrong??!?!?!? i should go slap these people -slap-
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ARROWSMITH? ARE YOU SERIOUS??
They need to be slapped.
Same with the tokio hotel name question.
*slaps them over the internet*
But just seriously, take a few minutes and imagine Aerosmith and tokio hotel collabing together. HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE? i can see that really happen in the future. *nod*
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stupid annoying interview.
ARROWSMITH??? HUH????
Why name the band Tokio Hotel? um..excuse me, yer’ practically an insult to the band. They’ve been going on this question since forever…
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Wow. That interviewer person was fail.
But I created an account on that website JUST to comment. Haha. Only for my boys. <3
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how do you spell Aerosmith wrong!?! that’s just…wow.
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OMG really?!
Arrowsmith- its AEROSMITH
Dark goth leather a la adam lambert vibe- Bill takes BILLS style
Cute guys in my english class- well ja theyre cute but WOW guys. Georg and Gustav got some style too
Why name the band Tokio Hotel- WHY NOT DO SOMETHING ELSE W/ YOUR LIFE!?
yay for Thinair!!!
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3 things:
1. how can you spell aerosmith wrong?!
2. too common questions. i mean, come on, the name? twilight? give me a break.
3. ADAM LAMBERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! adam admitted that bill was his hair/fashion idol. if anything teenmusic got what they said backwards. its adam a la bill. grr…. this interview irritated me.
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Stupid teen magazines!! Who spells aerosmith wrong?? and they still don’t know how th came up with their name?? really?? And give the boys some respect! call them by their names! none of this “Just to keep it simple, we’ll go with just Tokio Hotel on responses” crap.
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WHO MISSPELLS AEROSMITH?!!!
And another ‘how did you come up with the name Tokio Hotel?’ question?!
GOD!!!!
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*face palm* stupid teen magazines…..after like 7 years they still ask ‘how did you come up with Tokio Hotel’ or something like that, I bet the boys mentally facepalmed themselves.
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lol that’s exactly what i thought!!!! :))) i mean really people you can go to almost any other interview that they’ve ever given and find the answer to that question!!!;)
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ugh everyones taking the twilight thing
out of proportion
Bill says he likes the movie
and then they just keep asking him questions about the movie
and the books.
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ROFLMAO
Arrowsmith!
BAHAHA
Omg… just goes to show how the little ‘teen magazines’ have no apreciation for that good old stuff.
I wouldn’t be surpirised if they spelled Korn as corn lol
LMAO that was too funny!
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thats crazy talk. the song “By Your Side” was in Prom Night :]
i guess they just dont know it XD
but i am looking forward to hearing them in another movie:]
… if thats really what theyre planning….
It was IN the movie, but not on the soundtrack which is the album that gets released, I think that is what they meant. Maybe?
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I actually think they were talking about Humanoid.
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“Bill with his dark Goth leather a la Adam Lambert vibe ”
haha, as if! Adam Lambert wishes he did that style first!*
*ja, I know that they said this because Adam is/was known in the
States first, but still.
haha as if is right.
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Wait. They have a song on the movie “Prom Night” with Brittany Snow. Its playing as the main characters are going to prom.
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Way to go, ThinAir!!! It must feel so rewarding—and so good to be you!—when Tom mentions your incredible gift! We’re so happy for you!!
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Arrowsmith ROFLMAO
FAIL xD
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I’m kind of upset that Teenmusic spelled Aerosmith wrong.
They’re all about music, so what’s up with that?
But other than that, I’d say this was awesome, but…
Every interview they do makes me giddy inside, lol.
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Wow……..im sad tom didn’t talk that much…he even didn’t offend georg or make jokes about him :( well maybe next time hahahahaa jkjk i really want to know more about those animals fries their’re about lol……
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a possible TH song on a movie soundtrack… i’m hoping it’s a big hit here in the US so that their music will get more exposure here in the states.
omg, they MUST collaborate with aersomsith… it would be a-mazing. aerosmith is my favorite classic rock band, and TH my favorite band all together, it’d be a dream. not to mention the exposure they’d once again get in the US if they were to collaborate with aerosmith.
*daydreams of a steven tyler, bill kaulitz duet*
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Animal fries? Gross…TH on a movie soundtrack?…I don’t care what movie it is, I’ll see it just to hear TH in a movie!!!
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“frontman Bill with his dark Goth leather a la Adam Lambert vibe”
sorry, but it’s really bugs me. I love Adam, looking forward to album, but it’s not Bill a la Adam, it’s other way around. And Adam’s new album’s cover is just poves it… Totaly following one of Bill’s pic from Nokia photo shoot.
Oh, yeah, interview is pretty good. But they need to check their spelling in Aerosmith. Just because band members talk with accent you should print it just like say it:)
I KNOW. I saw that cover and was like “Steal much from Bill, Adam?”
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I wonder what they have planned (regarding a movie soundtrack?)that they can’t talk about yet??? hmmmm Animal fries sound crazy, I never heard of them before. This was a pretty good interview, but spelling Aeromith wrong? Sacrilege.
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Holy crap I spelled it wrong! lol I typed it in a hurry, sorry. Forgot the “s” should be Aerosmith. *-*
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yeah that was really the only thing that jumped out for me in this interview, they never said that before…I wonder what they meant and I HOPE they meant one of their songs really will be on an american movie soundtrack, like a future twilight sage film or something else, that would be so wicked!
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wow cool interveiw!!
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YAY first comment ;D