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Tokio Hotel Hope To Expand Already-Rabid Fanbase To Make It Big In The U.S

'We are so excited we have fans here at all,’ says Bill Kaulitz, frontman for the German pop-rockers.

By James Montgomery, with reporting by Kim Stolz

According to their (rather rabid) fanbase, Tokio Hotel are: A) “Certainly the most interesting up-and-coming music act in recent years”; B) “The cutest Germans I’ve ever seen”; C) “F—ing amazing. … They showed me that music doesn’t have to be complex and full of technicalities for it to eat my f—ing heart alive”; D) “An amazingly talented group of young guys. And the twins are amazingly hot!”; or E) “sooooooooo HOTT!”

That’s pretty hot(t). Of course, that enthusiasm is not shared by the other 98.9 percent of the planet, who probably only know Tokio Hotel as “that German band with the weird lead-singer chick” (if they know them at all).

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1587040 vid=231493

And therein lies the problem — or, more specifically, the challenge — facing Germany’s hottest pansexual pop-rockers: They are massively popular in their homeland (not to mention pretty much everywhere else in Europe), having sold more than 5 million albums, singles and DVDs in just more than three years, and they lord over a dedicated online army. Yet here in the States, they probably couldn’t get arrested, unless frontman (yeah, he’s a dude) Bill Kaulitz’s epically spiked mane violates some sort of zoning laws or something.

In short, Tokio Hotel have a legitimate shot at being the biggest rock act on the planet. All that’s standing in their way are the amber waves of grain and purple mountains majesty of the United States.

“It’s really hard to get fans in another country, especially here, because America is so, so big, so it’s really hard to get known in this country,” Kaulitz said in a heavy accent. “We are so excited we have fans here at all. In America, we see a fan and it is like, ‘Oh, we are proud! We have a fan in America!’ ”

So with the hopes of increasing that fanbase here in the States, Tokio Hotel — including Kaulitz and his brother Tom on guitars, bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schäfer — have just released their first English-language album, Scream, which features re-recorded versions of tracks from their first-two German efforts, Schrei and Zimmer 483. Distributed here by Cherrytree (an Interscope imprint), the album is chock-full of crunchy riffs and self-flagellating lyrics, a cash cow clearly aimed at the Hot Topic set and their chain wallets.

And if it manages to score big, well, then the guys in Tokio Hotel will know that their hard work has paid off. After all, getting to be the biggest band on the planet isn’t easy.

“We had some help with [this album], because our English is not so good. For me, it was pretty hard to go into the studio and sing English for the first time, because I always sung in German, and we’ve been making music for seven years and it’s always been in German,” Kaulitz laughed. “So that took some time, and hopefully the fans will like it. It’s really important to us that everyone can understand our lyrics, so we said we’d try it. But also, the fans in America want to hear German songs … and last time we played here, we did two German songs [and] they sang the songs with us.”

Ah, yes, their fans here in America. They’re a small — but loyal (and vocal) — bunch, turning Times Square into a squealing mess Tuesday when the band appeared on “TRL” and packing Hollywood’s vaunted Roxy earlier this year for Tokio Hotel’s first U.S show. Clearly, the seeds have been planted. And now, everyone involved with the band is hoping they’ll come into bloom.

“We expect great live shows here. We’ve played a few times here, and it was great. So now we want to play a tour,” Kaulitz said. “So we might come back and play a tour. I don’t know. We are going back to Europe to start writing a new record, and then we’ll do it in English. And then we want to come back.”

source: mtv.com

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Washington Post: Tokio Hotel

Forget the New Kids on the Block reunion. Millions of teenage girls are freaking out over the hottest new boy band, Tokio Hotel. Of course, you’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of this four-piece German outfit, who’ve earned a U.S fan base in the last few years thanks to concert clips available on YouTube. So when the band came to play its first American shows in February, fans lined up hours beforehand to catch a set of energetic, glammy emo-pop songs, many of which are on its English-language debut, “Scream.”

Tokio Hotel’s first record was performed in German, so it’s likely that English-speaking fans were more taken with the band members’ divergent physical appearances. Frontman Bill Kaulitz looks like a cross between a Japanese anime cartoon and Nikki Sixx; guitarist Tom Kaulitz (Bill’s twin brother) sports Axl Rose-style dreadlocks; drummer Gustav Schaefer resembles Spencer Pratt from MTV’s “The Hills”; bassist Georg Listing, strangely enough, could pass for Steely Dan’s Walter Becker in the ’70s.

But what about the music? For what it is — slickly produced, thoroughly modern rock songs with calm verses and seize-the-day choruses — it’s not terrible. Title track “Scream” is powered by crunchy guitar riffs, arena-ready beats and Bill Kaulitz’s adenoidal croon, while “Don’t Jump” is the kind of soaring, string-laden ballad that could work on the soundtrack to a big-budget action movie.

As a hyper-sensitive young man, Bill Kaulitz writes lyrics that often address breaking away from some vague apocalyptic nightmare, and he typically wants to take a special someone along for the journey. No doubt one of his female fans would accept the invitation. But, as is the ephemeral nature of the boy band, you have to wonder: Would she say yes five years from now?

source: washingtonpost.com Thanks to Jenny at tokiohotel.org.uk for updating us about this! ;)

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MTV.com

A new article from MTV:

This is interesting. We here at MTV News thought we were kind of conducting a fun little experiment when we published an item on Tokio Hotel a couple weeks ago. We were sort of daring the rumored-to-be-rabid fan base to react. But in the words of “GG,” OMFG! Y’all are too much!

Here’s a mere sampling of the massive groundswell of comments we received just overnight when posting about the pint-sized German band’s visit to Times Square yesterday. And if you care this much, maybe we’ll just roll out a video piece on the band. Don’t tempt us…

On Appealing to All Ages Forever & Ever:

Val: I wish you’d stop referring to their fans as 14-year-old hysterical girls or tweens. I am in my 30s and not particularly hysterical and have been a fan of this bad for almost two years now since discovering their music on YouTube.

Melody: Maybe it looks like that TH only has teenie 13-years-old fans, but that’s not real.

Oyoa: I didn’t know I was considered a shrieking 14-year-old tween…seeing as I’m 19.

Maggie: Please, PLEASE, for the love of God stop referring to all of their fans as “tweens” or “little 14-year-old girls” because it isn’t true. Yes, there are younger fans, but the majority of TH fans are 17 or well into their 20’s and even 30’s (and older). Referring to their fan base generally as “tweens” is quite insulting.

Sylvia: I’m 17 and I love this band. Don’t believe me go check out both my Gaias and my MySpace. I’m serious.

Amanda: Yeah, I’m 14 but I barely know ANYONE my age who even knows who Tokio Hotel are. And I’m rly mature and look older than my age and yeah if I ever saw them I would obv scream but still I’m not immature…

Alex: It’s not true that all of there fans are 14 years olds. Like me, I’m 15 and I know others who are older.

TH FanWoman: I know that the teen fans hate being called hysterical but they are. When you go to a Tokio Hotel concert you can barely hear Bill’s voice over the screaming. I am not talking about the singing along with Bill but the random, high-pitched screaming and shrieking. I buy my tickets to hear the boys, not all that teenage horniness coming out in a scream.

On the Experience of Raw Desire:

ecem: Tokio Hotel is appearing very beautiful.

Jeanine: TOM I LOOVEEEE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!

Alisa: They are f***ing amazing. They showed me that music doesn’t have to be complex and full of technicalities for it to eat my f***ing heart alive.
Shiira: I really, really, really, really, really want to injure the writer of this little article. “Anime Porcupine/frontBOY”? Are you kidding me? He’s not 12, he’s an actual adult, so get over the fact that he’s physically attractive (and yes, adorable) and pay attention to the talent he has…I guess “cute” German teenaged boys just isn’t sophisticated enough for MTV, what with the intellectual fare provided there, like “A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila.”
Stephanie: im uber happy they have more and more ppl are learning about Tokio Hotel in the US…but at the same time it really PISSES ME OFF! cuz i don’t want them to start getting fans that just are in to them cuz their looks…i know it sound really selfish..cuz i don’t what them to gee other fans…but their so amazing i wanted to have them all to myself! I LOVE GERMANS!…TOKIO HOTEL I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART AND NEVER STOP ON ROLLING MY WORLD! TOM…U R SO HOTT…CALL ME!

Here is an article from MTV Newsroom,I highlighted some funny things...

Tokio Hotel Take Over Times Square

We like to think of ourselves as a mini United Nations here, so we were delighted when the nice young Germans of Tokio Hotel stopped by the office today, hair and all.

We were pretty shocked Tom would make the undiplomatic move of wearing a Red Sox hat here in Yankee town [Ed: WTF??], but the be-dreaded guitarist assured me he was "so pretty" people can’t really get mad at him. Sorry, Tom, they so can. Fortunately for him, there’s usually a pack of screaming 14-year-old girls (and one burly bodyguard) surrounding you at all times.

Anyway, the band’s English language album Scream drops here tomorrow — it’s already out in Europe, which is why so many shrieking American tweens have all the lyrics memorized. Anime porcupine/frontboy Bill said it was pretty weird recording songs in English that he was used to singing in German. His favorite track to do live off the album is title song, while twin Tom favors “Read, Set, Go!” But don’t worry — they agree on, like, everything else!

Much more on the band’s love of Rammstein, The Scorpions, and The Hoff to come here at MTV News. (Oh, yes, it’s true — they are that adorably lost in translation.) And more pics of the band’s visit, after the jump.

(this is from tokiohotelamerica.com)


"Awesome article. source Welt.de - translation via janasternenreise - danke danke! credit her if you use it please.

Singer Bill Kaulitz was not allowed to speak a word for 4 weeks – and “Tokio Hotel” couldn`t play concerts anymore, the European tour was cancelled. Now the young Magdeburgers celebrated their mini-comeback: at a festival in New Jersey. Snoop Dog performed before them.

A Cyst had to be removed from his left voice cord, and after the operation there was strict silence for him, because his voice had to be trained carefully.

A full month without Bill! For the fans of Tokio Hotel this situation grew to a nightmare.
“I thought: Oh god! Hopefully nobody takes me that amiss”, Bill commented the situation, “and hopefully nobody was angry.” For many haters it was more like a holiday for the ears. Tokio Hotel polarize like no other band.

At Saturday night now the Magdeburger stood with his three bandmates – twinbrother Tom Kaulitz ( 18 ), Gustav Schäfer ( 19 ) and Georg Listing ( 21 ) – on stage in New Jersey. At the “Bamboozle-festival” – the first performance after the operation.

Because of the still prescribed voice cord-rest Tokio Hotel only played three songs.
“4000 fans stood in front of the stage and could sing every song along by heart”, band-manager David Jost says. And that, though the US-album isn`t released yet.
“Bill seemed to be pretty impatient and tensed up before the performance, but when he stood on stage, all the excitement was forgotten”, Jost describes the first performance.

At the festival in New Jersey performed already celebs like the Rolling Stones, Prince and Nirvana. Now the American rapper Snoop Dogg stood on stage before the Magdeburger. A full blood musician, who looked at the German newcomers with interest for sure. But the quartet has to get used to that fast.

Already at Thursday the four boys will be at the Late Night Show of Conan O`Brien, and at May 13th they will perform their only complete concert in the US at the Avalon in Hollywood.
“Bill has turned the hearts of the New Yorker again to the left”, manager Jost believes.

Tokio Hotel stood on stage in New York already at February. The “New York Times” published in their online-issue a cover story with video about the band “from Germany”. There you can see the known love-offers on placards and chanties: “We love Tokio Hotel”.

No matter, where the band performs, they put the fans in a state of emergency."

(this is from tokiohotelamerica.com)

"Bill stürmt wieder die Bühne
New York feiert Tokio Hotel
Von MARK PITTELKAU
New York – Endlich hat ihn die Bühne wieder!

Knapp fünf Wochen nach seiner Stimmband-OP trat Rockstar Bill Kaulitz (18) mit seiner Band „Tokio Hotel“ erstmals wieder vor sein Publikum.

Bei einem Open-Air-Festival am berühmten „Giants Stadium“ vor den Toren New Yorks (USA) sang er mit seinen Jungs vor 4000 Fans drei seiner Hits auf Englisch. Bills Stimme – kraftvoll und energiegeladen wie nie zuvor!

Manager und Produzent David Jost: „Bill war ziemlich nervös und konnte es kaum erwarten, endlich auf die Bühne zu stürmen.“

Hören Sie Musik rund umTokio HotelBill ergänzte nach dem Auftritt: „Es war wie eine Befreiung, nach so langer Zeit wieder in ein Mikro zu singen.“

Die ganze Woche noch jagen „Tokio Hotel“ in New York von Termin zu Termin, geben den amerikanischen Medien Interviews. Nächste Woche erscheint in den USA ihre CD „Scream“ („Schrei“)."

"Here’s a google translation in the meantime.
Bill stormed the stage again
New York Celebrates Tokyo Hotel
By MARK PITTELKAU
New York - finally has him on stage again!

Nearly five weeks after his vocal chord surgery joined rock star Bill Kaulitz (18) with his band “Tokio Hotel” the first time before his audience.

In an open-air festival at the famous “Giants Stadium” at the gates of New York (USA) he sang with his boys before 4000 fans three of his hits in English. Bill’s voice - powerful and energetic like never before!

Manager and producer David Jost: “Bill was pretty nervous and could not wait to finally on the stage by storm.”

Listen to music around umTokio Hotel Bill added to the performance: “It was like a liberation, after such a long time in a microwave to sing.”

The whole week hunt “Tokio Hotel in New York from event to event, give the American media interviews. Next week the U.S appears in their CD “Scream” ( “Scream”)."

From bild.de

Only five weeks after his vocal cord operation, rockstar Bill Kaulitz (18) performed again in front of his audience.

He sang with his boys in front of 4000 fans three of his hits in English at an open-air festival at the famous “Giant Stadium” before the gates of New York (USA).
Bill’s voice – powerful and full of energy like never before!

Manager and producer David Jost: “Bill was pretty nervous and couldn’t wait to storm finally on the stage.”
Bill added after the performance: “It was a relief to sing again in a mic after such a long time.”

The whole week Tokio Hotel will run from date to date and will give interviews to American medias. Next week their CD “Scream” (“Schrei”) will be released in the US.

(from tokiohotel.org.uk (the forum))

Get the latest news, gossip, and trends! Tokio Hotel

We've been totally crushing on German band Tokio Hotel ever since we first heard their melodic rock music and saw their killer hairstyles! The band's been rocking Europe for years, and now that they've crossed over to the States, Tokio Hotel's ready to take over the world! They've certainly taken over our stereo with Scream, their English debut album released last year. Check out the video for the single "Ready, Set, Go!" to get a taste of the band!

So, what could Tokio Hotel do to make us love them even more? Send a personalized video to Seventeen, of course!

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