Another interview from when Tokio Hotel were in France. This one was filmed earlier this month. It’s a great interview about the songs and music, not a lot of the usual fluff about falling in love. :p
Tokio Hotel – German group may be stronger than the Beatles in terms of number of fans completely hysterical that travels with him to each of his appearances – is back with their third album Humanoid! And it’s an event! Do not forget that Tokio Hotel, whose average age group is 20 years, no more, has already completed the Parc des Princes has single-handedly in June 2008! Nothing less!
Tokio Hotel was in Paris last week to present this brand new album in the bins since the beginning of October. Our reporter SoYouTV has met Bill (the singer) and Tom (guitarist), twins from the German formation. The two brothers took the opportunity to tell us about the evolution of the group, including their involvement in the group Tom and Bill are in fact co-produced the album, a way for them to remain masters of their work.
Translation by summerlove, please credit her when you use it.
Here’s the translation…I tried my best! French is my third language (and it’s getting rusty) so excuse me for any mistakes! :)
How are you?
Bill: We’re pretty well. We’ve been standing for a long time, but we’re always in a good mood.
The new Tokio Hotel?
Bill: The new album is a bit more electronic and there are a lot of other influences, but it’s something that came naturally during the production. It wasn’t planned or anticipated; it came like that. And I think it’s a normal evolution. It’s still tokio hotel, but the sound has changed a little.
And your French?
Bill: I love you (je t’aime)
Tom: I’m fine (ça va bien)… (sorry, I didn’t understand very well what else he and Georg said)
Your lyrics?
Bill: The lyrics aren’t 100% autobiographic!
Tom: After all, it depends on what’s called a true autobiography. But even when we speak of things that we’ve experienced, it’s linked to what we described in our songs. These are issues that affect us, that we are not insensitive to. And even if it’s something we’ve not lived, we have thought and felt about it. So they are autobiographical!
A very visual city?
Bill: This album is as we wanted it to be. There’s electronic sounds, and we experimented with many others too. And image, we immediately thought of robots! Same for our video. So you see me on a motorcycle in an urban city when writing an album, as the main display. It’s already known what our clips and everything will look like. And when you write, you put all these pieces together one after the other and the end result is the long awaited album.
Stage in France for 2010?
Tom: Nothing is concrete yet. We haven’t finalized all the plans. But what is sure is that in the beginning 2010, we’ll go on tour. Certainly there won’t be any cars or motorcycles in shows! But it will really keep in mind the CD during this tour. After all, whether we will be on stage in France? We will.
The Show?
Bill: It’s simple, the show will be like the album… MAGNIFICENT!
The Acoustic concerts?
Tom: We really love big concerts! That’s why we love having a LOT of fans to fill large venues because we love playing in a packed concert. We need this connection with the public, but maybe one day we will make an acoustic tour. It’d be fun!
Bill & Tom Co-Producers
Bill: We like to control everything and do all ourselves. Whether it’s the cover, we love to ‘touch’ everything. It’s our group and we do not want someone else to decide for us. We had also wanted to participate a little more in the development of the CD. We dove in and really worked on the production of the album. It was very important to us to have a say in the mix among other things. So that’s why we wanted to co-produce “Humanoid”. We discovered a new facet of our business and I think that in the future it will continue like that.
Yama vs Geisterfahrer
Bill: We all thought it’d be nice to have a feminine voice on this track and vary the rest of the album. Her voice was perfect for “Geisterfahrer” and I thought it was a good idea because she has the voice of an angel! even a little fragile and I thought it fitted perfectly with the song. She brings the emotion in this song. Her tone is opposed to what “Geisterfahrer” has, what he thinks, what he sees, what he says and what he sings.
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I am pretty sure that the female singer in Geisterfahrer is Jana Pallaske. In German, you pronounce “J” as an English “Y”. And the “N” was mistaken for an “M”. Hope that clears things up a bit. And Bill is right! Jana does sing like an angel! Then again, so does he!
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HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA No matter what country our boys go to they have to learn at least one curse word while they are there.
Merde. Makes me laugh a little.
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Awww voice of an angel
georg saying hi was to cute
I think gustav wants to learn Spanish
if u look at bills hair it’s like a Forrest
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gustav said merde.
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omg idk if u guys notice but when georg said hi it kinda sound like bill or must be my hearing
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OMG! i know i noticed that too!
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georg said: merci beaucoup (thenk you very much)and then both him and tom said bonjour tout le monde (hello everybody) and then right after that really quietly tom said merdre (shit)
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btw, their trench is horrible XD
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u mean ‘French’?
xD i think u need 2 work on spellin ;P
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im taking french as my second language! ^-^ German shall be my third, then italian, then spanish if i have time!
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i heard Georg:
‘merci beaucoup’
thank you very much.
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*cannot wait for the American tour, and is temtped to sneak over to Europe for a “vacation”* :D
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That was funny at 2:23 when Tom kind of took over the question from Bill. Bill is looking around fidgeting with his hands, all bored and kind of mad like…”hey, he has the microphone, now what do I do?”
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georg also says bonjour tout le monde which means Hello everyone
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Georg says in french merci beaucoup (i think i spelt that wrong :P) BUT it means thankyou very much :)
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i absolutely loved this interview and it was great hearing them talk about geisterfahrer!on another note, georg said “thank you very much” and gustav said the french word for shit, in case anyone wanted to know what they said when the very nice person that translated this couldn’t hear them :)
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Yama is the name of the singer ? .. what a .. different name :D
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dawwwww, bill is soo sweet “she has the voice of an angel!”
eheheh imagine he said that to one of us? *blushes* n///n
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So who is Yama? I’ve looked this up and found almost nothing useful to answer this question…
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“The Show?
Bill: It’s simple, the show will be like the album… MAGNIFICENT!”
that’s a HUGE under-statement :D
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“Yama vs Geisterfahrer
Bill: We all thought it’d be nice to have a feminine voice on this track and vary the rest of the album. Her voice was perfect for “Geisterfahrer” and I thought it was a good idea because she has the voice of an angel! even a little fragile and I thought it fitted perfectly with the song. She brings the emotion in this song. Her tone is opposed to what “Geisterfahrer” has, what he thinks, what he sees, what he says and what he sings.”
This is the first time I’ve seen them comment on this in print. Interesting thought process to the song.
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yes I agree, I was just going to comment on that. this is the first time they’ve revealed anything behind the female voice. So is “Yama” the name of the singer? Interesting.