Welt.de: “Being an adult is relative”
Children, time flies by: The Teen Stars from Tokio Hotel are almost twenty. Bill and Tom Kaulitz talk of crashes, with 15, their luck, to go shopping theirselves, and why they prefer to talk to Grandma’s.
“Bill Kaulitz never leaves the house unvarnished,” says the woman from the record company. The time in the mask must therefore always be calculated at appointments. And when the petite young man stands in front of you, you get a slight idea of how much time he needs for his appearance. Among the perfectly coiffed black and blond dreadlocks, a composition of a black and white line graces his eyelids, and his suitably painted nails. The hands in leather gloves have difficulty to arrange the mass of chains that are attached to his black shirt. His twin Tom is sitting next to him, on a couch in a hotel room with pink painted walls. He fancies himself as a street rocker with a leather jacket and braided hair. Not less expensive, but not as striking. Two ordinary guys in pop-star attire.
WamS: Bill, Tom, both your birthdays are on September 1st, what do you desire?
Bill: I want to be together with my family, see my friends and drink coffee. I love coffee, I drink gallons of it. And I’d like a round of coffee with cream pies. And it would be great if everyone would be older than 60. Thus, a real coffee party.
Tom: Coversations with old people result in coversations that are completely off the beaten track. They have quite different thoughts. This would be great, every Sunday a coffee-party
WamS: Do you have any material desires?
Bill Kaulitz: I don’t.
WamS: A new car, maybe?
Tom Kaulitz: I think, that there’s no one who would give me something physical as a present. But sure, I would be happy about a new car.
WamS: You’re turning 20. Are you an adult?
Bill Kaulitz: I think I’ll never grow up. But growing up is relative. I already thought when I was 13 that I can do whatever I want. Go into Clubs and drink alcohol – I always felt older than I really am.
WamS: Via distance learning you finished secondary school and got awarded for a particularly good performance.
Bill: This is almost embarrassing, right?
WamS: A little bit.
Bill: Tom and I hated going to school. That was the worst time in our lives. I feel sorry for everyone who goes to school.
WamS: What was so bad about it?
Tom: Most of all we were scandalized because of our appearance in the school. But I think that the worst of all is, that the personality of each individual get’s totally suppressed in school.
Bill: Tom and I got transferred into two different classes for disciplinary reasons in 7th Grade. We were really rebellious children, and almost got expelled from school. But not because of drugs or fights. But because of discussions, which the teachers simply weren’t up to. And then you realize that pedagogy comes much too short in teacher education. A lot of people simply slip into the study because they see no other way. But if you want to be a teacher, you really have to want it and you have to have the passion for this job.
WamS: A lot of your fans take you as their role model. Are there any values that you want to convey?
Tom: We really don’t think of ourselves as role models.
WamS: But you exemplify it a little bit. Are you aware of this?
Tom: No, very often not. You have to free yourself of this. We have very limited free space anyway. I don’t want to suddenly pay attention to not use swear words in interviews.
WamS: But you, for example, supported an Anti-AIDS campaign.
Tom: Of course, sometimes we try to stand up for things which we think are important. But in the end: I hate this “Role-Model-Position” (Cmmt: Like, people always taking them as an example, pointing the fingers at them etc.). I don’t want to turn into something like this.
WamS: Will you vote?
Tom: Uhm, yes. Let’s see.
Bill: Then, in any case, the first time.
WamS: What’s the percentage of normalcy in your life?
Bill: 1%.
WamS: Is it the same as with the international stars, that you can’t even go shopping?
Tom: Yes, absolutely. When we started making music, we were at an age where our parents bought everything for us – now we’re at an age where we need to do this by ourselves but we can’t.
Bill: It sounds kind of cool to have a personal assistant, who get’s you everything you want. But I would also like to choose my yogurt by myself.
Tom: In the U.S., there are also supermarkets, which are open 24 hours a day. You can go down there at four in the night, when nobody else is there. We once walked into the toy department, and bought everything. Guns with arrows or remote-controlled cars.
Bill: And then we shot off the cars with the arrows. Totally ridiculous.
WamS: And how do you buy your clothes?
Bill: Usually trough the Internet or from catalogs. Totally Boring. But sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow (get over yourself). Fuck it, if photographers and fans are outside the door. Sometimes you have to go out, you need this little piece of normalcy to live.
WamS: What’s on your catering wish list?
Bill: Actually, every year there’s a new one. And I must admit that it’s pretty long. But we are at home so seldom, that we always try to make it as comfy as possible. The most important things are coffee and real blankets in the hotels. These wool-blankets are the worst. Because they make you feel like you’re at a camp. That is what is most important to me, a real blanket and pillow.
WamS: Do you still have normal friendships from the past?
Bill: Only (from the past). In the Tokio Hotel time we didn’t get to know any new friends because we can’t even really get to know each other. Everyone who meets us, already has an opinion about us.
WamS: Are you extra-cautious with getting in touch with new people because you have often been deceived?
Tom: Yes, most of the times from hidden-editors. We had had extreme experiences at the beginning of our career. At 15 we were at every after-show party and we have, of course, been drinking alcohol. Back then, it was like this: You drank a sip of alcohol, and then the next day the editors called the Youth Welfare Office who wanted to call off the project (Cmmt: With the Project they mean their career as Tokio Hotel) completely.
WamS: But you probably get coached in how to deal with such situations.
Tom: No, we never did. And I do not even want someone who tells me how I should respond to the questions.
Bill: You have to learn this by yourself, by bolting into such a situation and then living with the fact that sometimes also bad things are written about you in the newspapers.
WamS: Do you get psychological support for such cases?
Tom: Our family and friends are our psychological support. I could imagine getting professional help, but there’s the problem with the time again.
Bill: I can understand, when people do that. The problem is, I don’t believe in it.
Tom: I also always think I’m smarter than the psychologist himself.
Bill: Exactly. Everything I tell you, I tell you deliberately, because it’s my problem. And then the psychologist would say: Yes, you need to take some time to think about it. And then I think to myself: Great, I also knew this before.
Translation by: Icey @ LoveTH-Music.com
Original Article : http://www.welt.de/die-welt/kultur/literatur/article4425235/Erwachsen-ist-relativ.html
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Iloveradio.de interview part 2
Welcome back, guys!
Tokio Hotel celebrated their live comeback in Germany with their unplugged appearance in Köln this week. Backstage they gave a half hour for an interview with I LOVE RADIO.
In the first part of our interview Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg speak about their new album "Humanoid," their new songs and their new sound. click here for the interview, part one, with all answers in audio files! (Translator's Note: or just go back to where I posted the other entry hurrr.)
There is still more that is new: in "BRAVO" Tokio Hotel bassist Georg told for the first time of his girlfriend, with whom he is already with for half a year! Why did no one know about her until now? Georg explains it in conversation with I LOVE RADIO.
Have fun with our exclusive backstage interview Part 2! I LOVE RADIO publishes all answers from Tokio Hotel as Audio Files - click here! (Translator's Note: Or in our case click "Source")
Georg, did you want to keep your girlfriend secret?
Georg: No - well, yeah, I have a new girlfriend. But I haven't kept her secret for the last half year, but instead we had no interviews, and no one has asked me!
Bill: We really never try to keep secrets. I think that when one of us has a girlfriend, it's the most normal thing in the world. I find it completely embarrassing if Boygroups try to keep it secret in order for girls to buy their CDs. It is completely ridiculous. So we actually always say if we have a girlfriend. Actually I think it's rather sad that only one of us has one. But so it is!
How and where could you ever meet a potential girlfriend?
Bill: Tom and I never go out in private. We are always working, where there's simply none, and when you go somewhere it's an Aftershow party - although we're also not like those that go to every party. Actually to go out privately or to go to the cinema, that is not possible.
Georg: Gustav and I can still move about relatively freely in Magdeburg. That happens sometimes. I met my girlfriend then.
Bill: So that's what's missing, in any case. That is of course the biggest downside. We can't spontaneously say: okay now I'm going with a buddy or with my friends to eat ice cream, or drink coffee, or we spontaneously go some evenings to the club. So everything, what you do, is always planned out, and you are never alone. You always have someone with you - yeah, it's naturally not so great. But I have to say, then there are the moments when we simply stand on stage, and many, many thousands of fans hear our music, and that makes it good again in any case.
translation by : tellurianangel @Th_Apex
original article : http://www.iloveradio.de/tokio-hotel-interview-freundinnen-und-privatsphaere.html
Tokio Hotel celebrated their live comeback in Germany with their unplugged appearance in Köln this week. Backstage they gave a half hour for an interview with I LOVE RADIO.
In the first part of our interview Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg speak about their new album "Humanoid," their new songs and their new sound. click here for the interview, part one, with all answers in audio files! (Translator's Note: or just go back to where I posted the other entry hurrr.)
There is still more that is new: in "BRAVO" Tokio Hotel bassist Georg told for the first time of his girlfriend, with whom he is already with for half a year! Why did no one know about her until now? Georg explains it in conversation with I LOVE RADIO.
Have fun with our exclusive backstage interview Part 2! I LOVE RADIO publishes all answers from Tokio Hotel as Audio Files - click here! (Translator's Note: Or in our case click "Source")
Georg, did you want to keep your girlfriend secret?
Georg: No - well, yeah, I have a new girlfriend. But I haven't kept her secret for the last half year, but instead we had no interviews, and no one has asked me!
Bill: We really never try to keep secrets. I think that when one of us has a girlfriend, it's the most normal thing in the world. I find it completely embarrassing if Boygroups try to keep it secret in order for girls to buy their CDs. It is completely ridiculous. So we actually always say if we have a girlfriend. Actually I think it's rather sad that only one of us has one. But so it is!
How and where could you ever meet a potential girlfriend?
Bill: Tom and I never go out in private. We are always working, where there's simply none, and when you go somewhere it's an Aftershow party - although we're also not like those that go to every party. Actually to go out privately or to go to the cinema, that is not possible.
Georg: Gustav and I can still move about relatively freely in Magdeburg. That happens sometimes. I met my girlfriend then.
Bill: So that's what's missing, in any case. That is of course the biggest downside. We can't spontaneously say: okay now I'm going with a buddy or with my friends to eat ice cream, or drink coffee, or we spontaneously go some evenings to the club. So everything, what you do, is always planned out, and you are never alone. You always have someone with you - yeah, it's naturally not so great. But I have to say, then there are the moments when we simply stand on stage, and many, many thousands of fans hear our music, and that makes it good again in any case.
translation by : tellurianangel @Th_Apex
original article : http://www.iloveradio.de/tokio-hotel-interview-freundinnen-und-privatsphaere.html
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Tokio Hotel talks about their new album!
Tokio Hotel Interview about the new Album "Humanoid"
Tokio Hotel Interview Part 1
After the unplugged appearance from Tokio Hotel in Köln, Bill, Tom, Gustav, and Georg patiently write autographs for 1,000(!) fans! I LOVE RADIO listener Alicia took the chance and photographed Bill from less than 1 meter. Thanks for your photo, Alicia!
Backstage Tokio Hotel took half an hour for an interview with I LOVE RADIO.
For the first time Tokio Hotel speaks about their new album "Humanoid" and revealed which other new album track other than "Automatisch"/"Automatic" will be released on September 18 on the first single.
Have fun with our exclusive backstage interview, part 1! I LOVE RADIO publishes all answers from Tokio Hotel as audio files - click here! {note: or in our case, click on the "source" at the bottom to go hear Bill ganz his way around}
"Humanoid" - what does that really mean?
Bill: Humanoid was a feeling of life that we always had. Even Tom and I had that from when we were little, that followed us and it has caught up with us again and again in the album production phase. Even in the songwriting it's always encountered us. It was obvious to call the album so.
Bill: "Automatisch" is about a girl that has no true feelings and she only pretends. We wanted to convey that with the cover, in which we have this robot arm - and the most human thing there is, namely the heart. I think that describes the whole song very well, and the feeling of the song.
Tom: The picture is just cool. At the first glance the cover may seem a bit gloomy, but I think if you examine it more closely and look at it a bit longer, it's not quite so gloomy. I think it is very atmospheric.
Will we still recognize you on the new album "Humanoid," or does your music sound quite different from before?
Bill: The track "Humanoid" actually describes it quite well, that it is a very different song, also from the song structure, in the structure of the song we really freed ourselves. I'm pretty excited what people say about it! It will also be on the single. Otherwise the last time and the last year of songwriting has naturally influenced us a lot. I don't want to give anything else away, but I think that you hear it in any case!
Tomorrow will be personal: in the second part of our interview Georg explains why he has just now said that he has had a girlfriend for a half a year. What happened in the last year that we know nothing about yet? Tomorrow you will know more: turn on I LOVE RADIO and check our news blog here on ILOVERADIO.de.
http://www.iloveradio.de/tokio-hotel-interview-zum-neuen-album-humanoid_01386.html
Translation by: tellurianangel at the TH_Apex
Tokio Hotel Interview Part 1
After the unplugged appearance from Tokio Hotel in Köln, Bill, Tom, Gustav, and Georg patiently write autographs for 1,000(!) fans! I LOVE RADIO listener Alicia took the chance and photographed Bill from less than 1 meter. Thanks for your photo, Alicia!
Backstage Tokio Hotel took half an hour for an interview with I LOVE RADIO.
For the first time Tokio Hotel speaks about their new album "Humanoid" and revealed which other new album track other than "Automatisch"/"Automatic" will be released on September 18 on the first single.
Have fun with our exclusive backstage interview, part 1! I LOVE RADIO publishes all answers from Tokio Hotel as audio files - click here! {note: or in our case, click on the "source" at the bottom to go hear Bill ganz his way around}
"Humanoid" - what does that really mean?
Bill: Humanoid was a feeling of life that we always had. Even Tom and I had that from when we were little, that followed us and it has caught up with us again and again in the album production phase. Even in the songwriting it's always encountered us. It was obvious to call the album so.
Bill: "Automatisch" is about a girl that has no true feelings and she only pretends. We wanted to convey that with the cover, in which we have this robot arm - and the most human thing there is, namely the heart. I think that describes the whole song very well, and the feeling of the song.
Tom: The picture is just cool. At the first glance the cover may seem a bit gloomy, but I think if you examine it more closely and look at it a bit longer, it's not quite so gloomy. I think it is very atmospheric.
Will we still recognize you on the new album "Humanoid," or does your music sound quite different from before?
Bill: The track "Humanoid" actually describes it quite well, that it is a very different song, also from the song structure, in the structure of the song we really freed ourselves. I'm pretty excited what people say about it! It will also be on the single. Otherwise the last time and the last year of songwriting has naturally influenced us a lot. I don't want to give anything else away, but I think that you hear it in any case!
Tomorrow will be personal: in the second part of our interview Georg explains why he has just now said that he has had a girlfriend for a half a year. What happened in the last year that we know nothing about yet? Tomorrow you will know more: turn on I LOVE RADIO and check our news blog here on ILOVERADIO.de.
http://www.iloveradio.de/tokio-hotel-interview-zum-neuen-album-humanoid_01386.html
Translation by: tellurianangel at the TH_Apex
What does Bill want for his birthday?
Tokio Hotel singer Bill Kaulitz wishes for a round of coffee with cream tarts for his 20th birthday on Tuesday (1st of September). And it would be cool if the guests were all over 60, he told Welt am Sonntag. "So a proper coffee party." Bill's twin brother and Tokio Hotel guitarist Tom Kaulitz added: "With older people you can carry on completely different conversations. They have quite different thoughts."
Although they are both nearly 20, Bill Kaulitz thinks, he "Will never grow up". However, the thought also occurred to him. "I already thought at 13 that I could do everything, and I felt old enough to go to clubs and drink alcohol", said the musician. He has always felt older than he is.
The third album of Tokio Hotel, "Humanoid", appears on the 2nd of October. The first single, "Automatisch", is being released on the 18th of September.
well / ddp
http://www.news-adhoc.com/bill-kaulitz-wuenscht-sich-zum-geburtstag-einen-kaffeeklatsch-idna2009082948056/
Translated by : cream_and_sugar from the TH_Cult
Although they are both nearly 20, Bill Kaulitz thinks, he "Will never grow up". However, the thought also occurred to him. "I already thought at 13 that I could do everything, and I felt old enough to go to clubs and drink alcohol", said the musician. He has always felt older than he is.
The third album of Tokio Hotel, "Humanoid", appears on the 2nd of October. The first single, "Automatisch", is being released on the 18th of September.
well / ddp
http://www.news-adhoc.com/bill-kaul
Translated by : cream_and_sugar from the TH_Cult
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Bill in Minimoys 2!!
Bill Kaulitz slips for the second time into the role of the courageous hero Arthur. In 2007 the singer had taken over this role once before.
About his renewed engagement of synchronous work for Arthur und the Minimoys 2 the 19-year-old tells us enthusiastically:
“When I saw Arthur und the Minimoys 2, I was inspired again immediately. It pleases me that the history of Arthur goes on and it pleases me to be able to give him once again my voice. I was excited of course! It is still not a daily thing for me to stand as a synchronous speaker behind the microphone and it was also a little bit like a homecoming. Arthur has become dear to me.”
http://www.tokiohotelamerica.com/2009/08/13/bill-kaulitz-voiceover-for-arthur/
Tokio Hotel at the VMA's?
It's time for your support!
We want Tokio Hotel at the 2009 VMAs in NYC
go to their guest list messageboard and tell them
Tokio Hotel is very much wanted there :)
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2009/boards.jhtml
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
From 0 to 100 in 3.2 Seconds
"When looking at the thechnical side of this car it seems that it would suit people best with a strong drive to being suicidal."www.tokiohotel.com/us/#tom_kaulitz_blog
August 11, 2008
New Article + Pictures!
Bravo printed a new article in the paper about TH, here it is.
" Bravo: Tokio Hotel – returning with a surprising new song? The entire world is in expectation of a new song from Tokio Hotel – is simply: Bravo! Crazy! Only four weeks, then it will begin again, Bill, Tom, Georg and Gustav rock! In the middle of September Tokio Hotel release their first new song in two and a half years and now in: BRAVO! It is called “automatic” – the song is about a false romance feeling. The third album will be published in October – “humanoid” it will be titled in the whole world in German and English at the same time. But not only the fans are satisfied that the new disc is finished finally. The band is happy! Says singer Bill: “I cannot believe that finally we finished production. The album has taken almost an entire year!” Reason for the length of time it took for production: the recording must be carried out in a relaxed way, without pressure. Manager David Jost says:” Sometimes, when we were in the middle of the recording, Bill was taking ideas from his bag, and accidentally to find a role with the ideas of songs. Like a squirrel, which in winter is in search of some dry fruits. Next, we had to interrupt the production, and we made it the first demo with old ideas of songs “. Thanks to the word of the band we could prove very much – even new musical styles! So you also will listen to it, Tokio Hotel – rock mixes in the sound of electro! They have also changed in terms of appearance. Especially the change in the crazy twins of TH, Bill (black and white cornrows, makeup like the eyes of a cat) and Tom (black, big cornrows). Good news:they’re planning a big comeback-tour! Bill says, happily: “Soon there will no longer be days and nights spent in the recording study, but we will spend the time in tour-bus again." "
And the pics. Sexaayy!!
" Bravo: Tokio Hotel – returning with a surprising new song? The entire world is in expectation of a new song from Tokio Hotel – is simply: Bravo! Crazy! Only four weeks, then it will begin again, Bill, Tom, Georg and Gustav rock! In the middle of September Tokio Hotel release their first new song in two and a half years and now in: BRAVO! It is called “automatic” – the song is about a false romance feeling. The third album will be published in October – “humanoid” it will be titled in the whole world in German and English at the same time. But not only the fans are satisfied that the new disc is finished finally. The band is happy! Says singer Bill: “I cannot believe that finally we finished production. The album has taken almost an entire year!” Reason for the length of time it took for production: the recording must be carried out in a relaxed way, without pressure. Manager David Jost says:” Sometimes, when we were in the middle of the recording, Bill was taking ideas from his bag, and accidentally to find a role with the ideas of songs. Like a squirrel, which in winter is in search of some dry fruits. Next, we had to interrupt the production, and we made it the first demo with old ideas of songs “. Thanks to the word of the band we could prove very much – even new musical styles! So you also will listen to it, Tokio Hotel – rock mixes in the sound of electro! They have also changed in terms of appearance. Especially the change in the crazy twins of TH, Bill (black and white cornrows, makeup like the eyes of a cat) and Tom (black, big cornrows). Good news:they’re planning a big comeback-tour! Bill says, happily: “Soon there will no longer be days and nights spent in the recording study, but we will spend the time in tour-bus again." "
And the pics. Sexaayy!!
New Article about Humanoid!
"[The new songs] handle about our mood, new thoughts and reflections, and also new wishes and hopes. ... We have a song but there are many different ways to interpret the song. And we have to find the best interpretation. We, then start to experiment with each song by changing the guitar-sounds or modifying my voice."To read the rest of the article click here
The pictures just keep rolling out.
Seriously, how much sexier can these boys get? Glam to the maxxx!
Leaked Lyrics?
German:
Automatisch
So automatisch
Du bist wie 'ne Maschine
Dein Herz schlägt nicht mehr für mich
So automatisch
Berühren mich
Deine Hände
Spür alles, nur nicht dich
So automatisch
Deine Stimme - elektrisch
Wo bist du, wenn sie spricht?
So automatisch
Wie du sagst, ich bin dir wichtig
wer programmiert dich?
Refrain:
Wenn du lachst
Lachst du nicht
Wenn du weinst
Weinst du nicht
Wenn du fühlst
Fühlst du nichts
Weil du ohne Liebe bist
Wie automatisch
Renn ich durch alle Straßen
Und keine führt zu dir
Wie automatisch
Folgen mir deine Schatten
Und greifen kalt nach mir
Du bist wie
Ferngesteuert
Statisch und
Mechanisch
So automatisch
Dein Blick so leer
Ich kann nicht mehr
Alles an dir
Wie einstudiert
Du stehst vor mir
English :
Automatic
So automatic
You're like a machine
Your heart beats no more for me
So automatic
Touching Me
His hands
Feel everything, but not you
So automatic
his voice - electric
Where were you when she speaks?
So automatic
As you say, I'm important to you
who programmed you?
Chorus:
If you laugh
You do not laugh
If you cry
Do you weep not
If you feel
You feel nothing
Because you're without love
How so automatically
I race through all the streets
And do not lead to you
How so automatically
Follow me your shadow
And use cold for me
You're like
Remote
Static and
Mechanical
To automatically
Your look so empty
I can no longer
Everything to you
As rehearsed
You stand before me
What do you guys think about it?
Monday, August 10, 2009
4861 Pictures, 500 Crayons and one Polaroid Camera!
http://www.tokiohotel.com/us/#tom_kaulitz_blog
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