Voor sommigen is dit enkel een bevestiging van een slechte dag, voor anderen een domper op de goede,
desondanks vind ik het spijtig dit nu te moeten zeggen ...

Ik stop namelijk met deze blog.

Momenteel gaat het hier persoonlijk wat moeilijker qua studievlak en meerdere en ik zou enorm graag mij volledig focussen op die zaken. Plus dat het lage bezoekersaantal van de vorige maanden ook niet doorslaggevend zijn om verder te bloggen.
-helaas-

Ondanks alles heb ik toch genoten van deze blog te creeëren!

Natuurlijk laat ik jullie niet volledig zitten op gebied van Tokio Hotel.

Wie hen nog nadrukkelijk wil volgen:

-> http://tokiohotel4all.myblog.de/ (Duitstalig)
-> http://www.youtube.com/user/tokiohotelchannel (Th Channel)
-> http://www.freewebs.com/tokiohotelworld/ (Nederlandstalig = België)
-> http://tokiohotelnederland.web-log.nl/ (Nederlandstalig = Nederland)
-> http://www.buzznet.com/tags/billkaulitz/journals/ (Engelstalige blog)
-> http://www.tokiohotelrocks.com/ (Engelstalig)

Zo, dit zijn mijn aanraders!

Hopelijk hebben jullie evenveel van de blog genoten als ik!

xXx
Dübel

02-10-2008 om 17:12 geschreven door Dübel

It is not all gold that glitters. Tokio Hotel is also annoyed of some sites of their celebrity life..

For three years, they are under constant observation. Whether on holiday on the Maldives, the stroll through Paris or in front of every hotel in the world. Wherever Bill (19), Tom (19), Gustav (20) and Georg (21) stay, paparazzi are not far, an photoflash-storm goes down to the guys. Not always to the delight of the four, as they betrayed BRAVO …

BRAVO: What do you hate in your life as a star?
BILL: The positive outweighs the course. But I hate it, that we don’t have any private stuff. And the badest thing are the paparazzi!
TOM: For us, it’s important, to protect the life of our family and freinds. They have nothing to do with our job. If we are with them, it’s bad for us, especially when paparazzi appear.
BILL: You have to be truly an evil man, to be a paparazzi. I hate them.

BRAVO: Thereby, you have luck here in Germany - here are paparazzi harmless …
TOM: That’s true. In other countries it’s really harder. In France and America are the paparazzi the most glaring.

BRAVO: What is annoying you?
BILL: Sometimes, everything it too much for me. Then I lie in the bed and think: “I can’t anymore!” Then I will simply not stand up, can’t laugh for a shooting into the camera or inspire people. I feel as if someone have to help me. Because I totally lacking self-confidence and I simply want a break.
TOM: Sometimes I have homesickness.
GEORG: When I’m long on the road, I miss my family. And then, sometimes I get a bad mood.
BILL: I get oftener sich. And if I’m away from home, is this terrible. Then I’m missing Germany totally. I’m also sad, when I’m alone in the hotel room. As much as I love it, to be with the band on the road - in hotel rooms I’m really sentimental. I can’t even say exactly why. But then I wish myself into my own bed. While Tom would never admit it, but I bet he is sometimes sad. At the latest, when his hotel room acquaintances are gone again.
TOM: I also miss often the german toilet paper. (laughs). If we are at the end of the world, we’re really looking forward to coming home …

BRAVO: You have to live with many scandals and rumors. How do you handle with it?
BILL: Mostly we know it before, what there will be. Sooner, when we had dinner at the club, we knew exactly what there will be at the next day in the newspaper: “Teenagers drink alcohol. How can they be a role model?!”
TOM: Or something like: “Tom sits alone at the table - separates the band?”, is also very popular.
GUSTAV: Or: “Bill looks sad - does he have depressions?”
TOM: Everything, that people, who never know us personally, write about us, I don’t really care. But if it’s about our families, it’s not okay.

BRAVO: There was the story about your grandfather, who allegedly shooted around…
BILL: The funny thing is, that this wasn’t our grandfather. We even didn’t knew this man …
TOM: Just over 20,000 corners. But everbody says, that we’re related with him.
BILL: Just like in school. There was then suddenly every girl with us together and each class mates were our best friends. And I should also owe all the people twenty euro

01-10-2008 om 17:12 geschreven door Dübel

Momenteel wordt ik zo een beetje depri van de regen, het vroege opstaan en het lage bezoekersaantal op de blog ...
Maar wat doe je eraan?

Zoals de laatste dagen al het geval was, is er heel erg weinig nieuws over Bill, Tom, Georg en Gustav ...

Deze week verschijnen ze ook niet op de poster/cover van Joepie.

Ook weer wat geblaat als het zowat gaat rond de vriendinnetjes van Bill en Tom,
ditmaal een zekere Siobhan en Séverine (Frans). Achja, dat hoort er ook bij.
-weeral een valse roddel-

 
-shoked?-

Wees gerust, enkel een foto met de wassen Bill Kaulitz!

xXx
Dübel

30-09-2008 om 18:58 geschreven door Dübel

Ex-Tokio hotel Double-Timo (21) is desperate:
He gets the image no longer going
Double Timo: Once Bill, ever Bill



Google trans:

Munich - New nose, lips and aufgespritzte a taut forehead: Four years ago, appealed
to Timo Barth (21) from Gauting the first time in beauty surgeon Werner Mang
under the knife.

The result: With black hair and delicate facial features, he suddenly looked like Bill
Kaulitz of Tokyo Hotel. The advantage, and he made a double career. Timo now
wants nothing more with the singer to do, but his image he did not get going -
but will make even humiliated on TV!

There should be a new start in life: Timo has his hair dyed blond and has been
recently at a renowned Munich Model Agency under contract. A life in New York -
that is his big dream. This could now crumble. Because: As a guest at the talk
show by Oliver Geissenpeter he was publicly humiliated! "I have just joined to
the new Timo to present. That was also previously with the editors denied,
"complains the 21-year-olds. Together we went through all the questions, Timo
presented itself on matching answers. But then everything was quite different: "I
was announced with a clip of me only as Bill Doubles presented." The questions
of the Masters talk about "beauty ideals" attracted purely on its operations and
his life as a double from.

But that's not all: Another talk show host, a roughly 50-year-olds who undress for
Playboy wants to live on it went off, presented him as a madman out. Timo was
not prepared for such verbal attacks, came to stumble. "I bloßzustellen, which
was planned long hand!", Is the 21-year-old safe. Because: After the program
had the 50-year-olds completely dissolved when he apologized. "She was
apparently predicted what they told me everything should throw his head," says
Timo. He is after the incident ready. In the hotel arrived, he let his tears run free.

From the consignment rausschneiden he can not, unfortunately, they will be on
30 September broadcast: "We had previously signed a contract that the talk
show may be sent."

Timos Conclusion: "I'm under a false pretext been lured into the studio. From now
on I will never again for an RTL broadcast available."

RTL spokeswoman Anke Eickmeyer puts the accusations. "Timo Barth knew what
issue it was. There are no questions previously denied. There was no one spurred
him to attack. To that extent we can not understand what the Timo Oliver
Geissenpeter talkshow accused."

29-09-2008 om 19:43 geschreven door Dübel

Wel, ik had allezins een zalig weekend!
-eindelijk hadden we wat minder werk-

Bon, vermits ik nu al enkele uren op status "hyperactiviteit" sta, kan een blogje er ook wel van af!
Ik weet dat het de laaste dagen interviews/artikels waren, maar nu heb ik toch een paar nieuwtjes:

Hier zijn al foto's van het wassen beeld van Bill Kaulitz
-ookal wordt dat pas morgen onthuld?-



Ook nieuws over de EMA's
(dit jaar in Londen)

Tokio Hotel wal al genomineerd in "Headliner" en sinds vandaag ook in "Best Act Ever"!

En dat was zo een beetje het laatste nieuws
-haha, ik weet het, weinig ...-

xXx
Dübel

29-09-2008 om 19:41 geschreven door Dübel

29-09-2008 om 00:00 geschreven door Dübel

BILL IS SORRY FOR NOT KISSING A GIRL THE LAST 3 YEARS

The singer and leader of Tokio Hotel, Bill Kaulitz, is sorry for not kissing a girl in more than three years he says to the Bravo German magazine that leaves today on sale. " That makes me sad completely. I have 19 years and I miss that feeling" , it points worldwide famous idol of teenagers, famous for his hairstyle and makeup.

Bill Kaulitz who already declared to the magazine six months ago he had been two years without a couple, admits that he has not had much luck since then. " I am not good at flirting", he says.

Apparently this world-wide success fame and winning a  Video Music Awards ( the first one for a German band ) , has not contributed to improve his personal situation towards romance,  and says that he feels alone.
"I would love to have a girlfriend to share my life with" , points out  Kaulitz, that affirms that  the company of Tom, his twin brother and Co-founder of the band is not able to take the melancholy away.

Bill and Tom founded the band " Devilish" in 2001 with Gustav Schäfer (20), and Georg Listing (18), and they changed its name to the well known " Tokio Hotel" in 2003.
The four guys are all an icon on Germany since they released their first CD " Schrei"  in 2005 " edited later in English published in English by the name of "Scream".
While in Germany their second CD "Zimmer 483" was positioned in the first places.

Tokio Hotel perfomed on June at Rock in Rio at Madrid will perfom this 16 of October at the MTV Latinoamerican awards 2008 on Guadalajara , Jalisco.

27-09-2008 om 00:00 geschreven door Dübel

A certain THR reader asked a really famous astrologer about Bill Kaulitz and his relationships,and he found out this;

He is very sensitive, cautious, and shy about showing others his feelings. Though he may love and care for someone a great deal, Bill Kaulitz rarely expresses his feelings openly and freely. Very often Kaulitz’s love for someone is expressed by his wish to help him, do something tangible to benefit him or serve him in some way.

It is also difficult for him to receive warmth, affection or appreciation, for he often feels that he does not really deserve it or that “they do not really mean it”. Kaulitz may therefore come across as rather cool and aloof - much more so than he feels.

A deeply ingrained critical attitude often makes Bill difficult to live with. Bill Kaulitz needs to learn to be gentler and less of a perfectionist with others and with himself.

Kaulitz works well with the public and has an instinct for what the public wants and will respond to. Having a “nest” is not especially important to Bill, and he may invest more of his emotional energy into his career or public life than in his private life. He is likely to be engaged in providing and caring for others in a professional capacity.

Bill Kaulitz feels that he must always be doing something, and he becomes impatient and irritable if he has to slow down or wait for anything. A stormy home life may be the result of his own tendency to fight for what he wants, rather than compromise. Bill may not realize how competitive he is.

He is warm and affectionate in his relationships with others and has the ability to see the others’ point of view, which is greatly appreciated by those around him. Bill Kaulitz is emotionally well balanced and also has a well developed intellectual grasp.

Bill Kaulitz possesses the gifts of tact, courtesy and consideration, and has a strong desire to please and understand his love partner. Because he values harmony so highly, Bill Kaulitz will compromise a great deal to avoid any discord or conflict in his relationships. Bill does not like to dwell on controversial or emotional subjects and often tries to “smooth things over” or “sweep them under the rug”.

In love relationships, Bill Kaulitz wants an intellectual peer, an equal and a friend. He is attracted to people who have a certain finesse, delicacy and subtlety. Bill Kaulitz appreciates good manners and refinement and is not happy with coarseness or bluntness in a person.

Kaulitz is a very sociable, congenial person and he wilts very quickly without relationships with good friends and people to share good times with. Bill Kaulitz thoroughly enjoys working with others on group projects or community activities. He is quite happy when he is a part of a club, support group or team of some sort.

His feelings are very powerful and Bill Kaulitz expresses them vividly. His romantic relationships are likely to be very passionate and deep. Bill Kaulitz has a tendency to go to extremes in love relationships and may be driven by inner compulsion rather than rational thinking.

Bill Kaulitz has a very erotic and sexual nature and may often find himself drawn to another person by a kind of inner compulsion. Kaulitz could become quite obsessed by someone and he has a tendency to control and manipulate his relationships.

27-09-2008 om 00:00 geschreven door Dübel

Only sex?
How do you find the perfect lover? MAX asked Tom Kaulitz, 18, who can practically have every woman, which criteria should fulfill a short-time partner for him.

MAX: What kind of women do you prefer?
Tom: First, I don´t go for any specific type of woman. Blonde, brunette or red-haired- I don’t care. And second, even if I would go for a special type it’d be totally stupid, if I would admit that. Seriously, it just have to match. Well, after all not really. I´m awful at long relationships at the moment and for one night, it isn’t really about the character. Everyone who says something else, is a liar.

MAX: With which famous woman would you like to spend a night with?
Tom: It is so boring to go for famous woman, that I again think it’s cool. Well, many names come to my mind: Olsen Twins, Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba, the three girls from the Playboy Mansion…

MAX: How do you seduce a woman?
Tom: It´d be a lie if I’d say that I put on a certain show that always works or that I have a recipe to seduce a woman. I take it as it comes. It’s easy to say that for me, because the other three nobodies from the band don´t have anything to tell about.

MAX: What turns you on?
Tom: I’m the typical hunter-gatherer. I have to take over a woman. I love it when she acts like she is not interested.

MAX: And what totally turns you off?
Tom: Dirty Talk! Women should talk less in bed. Screaming is ok..

MAX: A number of female fans want to go to bed with you. Who can make it, who not?
Tom: Well, I wouldn’t exclude anyone. I just have limited time, unfortunately a day only has 24 hours.

MAX: Did you ever fall in love?
Tom: No, never. To be honest I don’t believe in love. Except love for one night.

MAX: What was your longest relationship?
Tom: I think it was 2 years. Since that never longer than 2 days.

MAX: Have you ever done something crazy for a woman?
Tom: Since I was never in love, I think, I never did anything crazy for a woman.

MAX: Extraordinary places, that you had sex at?
Tom: Hmm. In a field (laughs). But I wasn’t the only one that was bitten by something. I hate bugs. I rather prefer sex at home, but there all over the place.

26-09-2008 om 00:00 geschreven door Dübel

xXx
Dübel

25-09-2008 om 19:30 geschreven door Dübel

xXx
Dübel

25-09-2008 om 19:26 geschreven door Dübel

From  emo/rock to pop?
After “Schrei” and “Zimmer 483″ the guys are working hard to make a new album. The question is if they are going to disapoint the fans with a new musical way?

After winning the price for “Best New Artist” on this year MTV VMA, Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg are back in studio again. Bill Kaulitz had already then a bunch of lyrics ready. The reason that he started writing new songs-dayly-when he was on a hospital, after operating his voice this spring.

The operetion gave him inspiration to think about live, and since he coulnd’t speak-he wrote. It was here the new album started, and the album is on the good wasy to be ready:

They reasently came back from touring in the USA, and are soon ready for a new album.
Bill is often coming to me with new ideas to songs, tells Tokio Hotel’s manager and produsent David Jost.

I think Bill’s lyrics are about missing thins. He wishes to be at home, but he also wants to get further with his carier, says David.

And when the inspiration comes, Bill writes it down:
Bill writes on all the empty places on a paper with lyrics, and has them in his pocket. Almost all the papirbits has an hotel-logo on. He is a bit fumly (?) and has already lost some lyrics. Says Jost.
And unfornotional he doesn’t write the lyrics on his laptop. Wow, what if he has lost a really good song??

Now if you’re wondering how the new album is going to be,we can say that his twin brother Tom, says that the band is going to change style:
“I want to include songs with new inspiration which impress people”, tells Tom Kaulitz.

25-09-2008 om 19:25 geschreven door Dübel

Germany, France, England or the U.S.: No matter where the guys show up - everywhere the same scenes: fans, who totally freak out, who scream the names Bill (19), Tom (19), Gustav (20) and Georg (21), who can sing the songs along.
Many TH-fans go even further, making clear offers their darlings - for example on gross poster slogans: "F**k me through the monsoon" or "Tom, we want to give you a blow job" are almost harmless.
In the fifth part of the great BRAVO-series, the boys reveal exclusively what there's real - between them and the fans ...

BRAVO: What are you saying about the partial hard slogans of your fans?
TOM: I think it's cool, that our fans are so directly (grins).
BILL: That makes our fans. But to be honest: Initially, we were sometimes short of breath ...

BRAVO: What were the most beautiful experiences sp far with your fans?
BILL: The first gig after "Durch den Monsun" was published - and suddenly so many fans were singing the song along. The concert had even canceled, because the crowd was too big. This has overwhelmed me!
TOM: Just until we were in Mesico. Once we had about two hours to write autographs. The fans were so touched, and many have even creid, just because we were there. It was so gross. We were also previously never in the South American country and didn't know, that we are so known. And suddenly there were thousands of people. It was really unbelievable.

BRAVO: Were there once really gross situations with fans?
TOM: Oh yes. In Madrid once the situation was out of control. Gustav went into his hotel room. But in his bed were already fans. They were fallen Gustav directly around his neck and he has become so frightened. At Bills and my room were already quite a lot in front of the door. They have constantly knocked, they climbed up the fire brigade, have totally screamed.
BILL: Then suddenly the police appeared. They have entered the door and drag me out of the room. "Are you Bill Kaulitz?" they have screamed. Then they took my hands together, interrogated me and claimed that I was responsible for the cahos. The problem was: They couldn't speak English, they only spoke Spanish. I hardly understand something. Tom has then tried to contact our security people. When they arrived, the matter could be resolved. The police really wanted me to take to their police station.

BRAVO: But here, the fans went too far, or?
BILL: Well, that was traumatic and violent ...
TOM: But since we were holding on as a band - then it bothers us really not. That's just a part of it and makes us not be afraid or so. While it was already gross, but also actually funny again. But if we are at home, we're glad about tranquility. Then we're not giving autographs and taking photos. But if we're on the road, we're doing this for sure.

BRAVO: Were you already nasty to your fans?
TOM: So we would never be knowingly nasty to our fans. They are too much important for us.
BILL: We certainly never wanted to do something nasty to them. We love them. But everyone has a bad day and looks bad. Sometimes we just couldn't give everyone an autograph. Then we're in stress and must continue to the next appointment. We're constantly on the road for our fans and we're for sure no assholes.

BRAVO: Hand on the heart - were there also some embarrassing moment with your fans?
TOM: Nope. Only once, a girl wanted to come with me to my hotel room and fall down on the way.
BILL: Or the scene at the airport: There were girls screaming "We want to f**k you" - right in the dead silence there. That was then embarrassing, but more for them.

BRAVO: Tom, how many groupies did you have had in your bed?
TOM: Hmmm, that's really difficult to say. I don't count.
BILL: Yeah, but he has such a clicker (laughs)!
TOM: What I can say, I had more often a woman in my bed than I was on the toilet (laughs loud). No, nonsense! Now seriously: I'm even become somewhat quieter.

BRAVO: That means ... ?
TOM: I still don't get it by myself - but perhaps with 19 I already rejected the horns. Not that sex would become boring. But I also prefer watching a DVD in the evening. The other is indeed very strenuous (grins). Meanwhile, I could even imagine something stronger. But the girl really would have to strike me.

BRAVO: And how about the groupies by Georg and Gustav? Are they so wildly like Tom?
TOM: As far as we know, there is nothing (laughs)!
BILL: There are no guys, which represent a girl. Gustav had at the beginning of our career a girlfriend. But even then was nothing more.
TOM: Georg is doing so as if he were a macho. But he prefers it, when she's offensive.
BILL: Inside, he's dirty but outwardly too shy.
TOM: You have to show him what's happening. There were for sure already some girls, who liked him and the other way too. But none did the first step. With me it's different - I belong to the hunters and collectors.

BRAVO: And what about you, Bill - there was still no kiss for you?
BILL: No, not yet. That totally makes me really sad. I'm 19 now and that's missing me completely. I'd really like to have a girlfriend, with whom I could share my life, whom understands everything, what I do. Although I have Tom. But I absolutely want a girlfriend.

BRAVO: But the offer is huge for you?
BILL: It's difficult to open yourself to someone. I have no time, I'm always on the road. When I meet on a after-show-party girls, I never know what they really want. I also see in the near future no way - that's bad. But I still have the music, this is my backup. And dogs are my substitutes. Sometime, I want to have many dogs. They make me happy ...

(bron: Bravo)

24-09-2008 om 15:23 geschreven door Dübel

Nog eventjes op het artikeltje van gisteren
-meer specifiek gericht op de reactie van Kirsten-
Ik ken inderdaad ook de andere liedjes en
het valt me soms op als ik het liedje beluister.

toch vind ik "gestolen" zo een lelijk woord ...
Er zijn nog veel meer groepen die zo een dingen doen,
dus om daar nu zo een drama van te maken ...
-gewoon omdat TH nu zo bekent is-

ª
Deze week in Joepie:
Sexy Tokio Hotel picts: met Tom en Bill op het strand!
- die heb ik hier natuurlijk al lang gepost-


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30 september kom er een wassen beeld van Bill te staan in het wassenbeeldenmuseum "Madame Tussauds"!

Bill Kaulitz becomes a wax figure

The waxworks of Madame Tussauds get growth.
Bill Kaulitz, singer of the teenie-band Tokio Hotel, will move in Berlin`s Madame Tussaud next week.


Bill Kaulitz from the German teenie-group Tokio Hotel moves in Berlin`s waxworks of Madame Tussauds: The wax figure of the girls`heartthrob will be unveiled next week on Tuesday in the rooms “Unter den Linden”,like Madame Tussauds informed on Tuesday in Berlin.

The leadsinger of Tokio Hotel will soon become the new fellow occupant of the musician-community with Herbert Grönemeyer and Nina Hagen at Madame Tussauds.

(bron)

xXx
Dübel

24-09-2008 om 15:22 geschreven door Dübel

Interviewer: What do you think about the band Tokio Hotel?
Lauri (singer of The Rasmus): We love them (laughs)
.... I think ... I don't know too much about this band ...

Interviewer:Are they big in Finland?
Lauri: Yeah! I think that they're quite huge in Finland. But there're only one thing that I know for sure that they stole our rift.

Interviewer: Which one?
Lauri: It's a song called "Spring Nicht", yeah... It's exactly like a rift in our song "Not Like the Other Girls"... Actually we got that from the fans... The Rasmus's fans . They send us... they made like a video when they edited those two songs after each other.

Interviewer: Very interesting...
Lauri: Yes! ... I wish all the best for the band.. I think they have a good atittude and... some talent to get very far. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYoLWy1M_M
-filmpje met het "eigenlijke" liedje-

23-09-2008 om 19:09 geschreven door Dübel

Thanks to a certain THR reader, we found a small, funny but shocking interview of Tokio Hotel. They talk about their “old band” Devilish..and how wonderfu… oh i mean horrible it was! xD

You’ve gone a long way since your beginning with Devilish, your first band.Will those songs re-emerge some day under the name Tokio Hotel?

23-09-2008 om 19:05 geschreven door Dübel

xXx
Dübel

22-09-2008 om 19:33 geschreven door Dübel

Bolderājas fitness “Sabina” gebruikte Bill's ogen op hun reclamebord.
-tot groot ongenoegen van enkele mensen-


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Volgens enkele (officiële) berichten zou Tokio Hotel op 16 oktober weer in Mexico te zien zijn op een evenement van Mtv. Ze zouden daar samen optreden met onder andere Paramore en Katy Perry.

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Onlangs was Coldplay in Duitsland.
Nu zou je denken dat ik zot ben, want deze blog gaat toch enkel over Tokio Hotel?
Wel, denk eens na ... Wie is zo een grote fan van Coldplay?
-uhu, Bill Kaulitz-

22-09-2008 om 19:31 geschreven door Dübel

MUNICH - Four long-haired young men from across the pond have come to the U.S. They send massive crowds of teenage girls into a frenzy in their native country, and now they’re in the States playing clubs and appearing at the MTV Video Music Awards in Hollywood.

They’re Tokio Hotel, from an unlikely pop birthplace — Germany — and when they started out, frontman Bill Kaulitz and his identical twin brother Tom, the band’s guitarist, were only 13.

Now, five years later, the Kaulitz twins and their slightly older rhythm section, Georg Listing and Gustav Schaefer, have redefined the term “teen phenom.” Besides selling almost 3 million CDs and DVDs, racking up 13 platinum records in German-speaking territories and packing stadiums throughout western and central Europe and Japan, they’ve transformed the fringe esoteric image of German pop into the new global teenybopper cool.

Girls in such countries as Poland and France are learning German in order to understand Bill Kaulitz’s lyrics of teenage disaffection. And there have been worried editorials in Israeli papers about whether the country’s next generation of Jewish mothers is aware of the historical implications of this current youthful passion. Tens of thousands of Israeli fans signed a petition to get Tokio Hotel to play in Tel Aviv last year, and the band obliged — to a huge open-air crowd.

But if the Tokios can make it anywhere, can they make it in New York? The band has been to the U.S. a handful of times in the past year, the second time appearing on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” to promote the release of their first English-language album, “Scream.” The Los Angeles Times described them as a “young emo-glam outfit” who sound like “the Jonas Brothers covering Guns N’ Roses.”

Their most recent U.S. stop was last week on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

The Tokio Hotel youngsters owe their precedent-setting success at home to “the professional and meticulous work of a team of producers and managers who maintain control over their ‘product’ at all times,” German music journalist Olaf Tost says. “Bill Kaulitz, with his androgynous, vulnerable and yet energy-laden persona, is something of an emotional anchor in the sea of teenage angst for his fans.”

One of the main members of the Tokio team, producer and co-writer David Jost, describes meeting Bill Kaulitz for the first time as a life-changing event. “I was 100% certain they were going to break the roof in Germany,” he said shortly before the “Late Night” performance. “I would have bet the whole German music and media industry on this. But of course I never expected this thing to take off internationally.”

The U.S. fan base was built mostly via the Tokios’ YouTube channel, updated with professionally made and English-subtitled videos at least once a week. The intro to the channel declares triumphantly, “It’s only a matter of time before the hysteria follows them stateside.”

“A band from Germany getting big all over Europe — with the chance of even more — that happens every 20 years, maximum,” Jost says.

Tost is a bit more skeptical.

“They may have some temporary success in the U.S. But for the long term they might not have the ’special something’ — like (German hard rockers) Rammstein does — that makes them different from other bands,” he says.

21-09-2008 om 10:27 geschreven door Dübel

Ik ben het bloggen gisteren helemaal uit het oog verloren!

-achja, misschien omdat ik met iets anders in mijn hoofd zat?-


Blijkbaar als ik hier zo zie ben ik niet de enige ...
*werpt een blik naar de andere TH sites*

Wel, omdat er mij niets beters lijkt,
post ik dan nog maar wat foto's van de jongens ...

 


 

  
 

 

 

Jah, iets anders is er helaas niet te vinden ...

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Dübel

21-09-2008 om 10:26 geschreven door Dübel