really interesting article. Hoping for a proper translation.
http://www.volksstimme.de/vsm/nachrichten/sachsen_anhalt/sachsen_anhalt/?em_cnt=1499038In the meantime here's google translation with some obvious correctiopns by me (such as song titles):
The band Tokio Hotel, "published in the next week their third album," Humanoid "
From Magdeburg backyard on a world tour By Oliver Schlicht
Magdeburg. Schramm developed in 2001 in a backyard in Magdeburg-Sudenburg four twelve-to fourteen guys on their instruments. Your children's band they called "Devilish" - teuflisch. Tom, Bill, Gustav and Georg are now millionaires. Eight years after Sudenburg should "be built Tokio Hotel" In these days of world stars.
Actually, it's a joke in rock history: "But at the moment precisely two" east-bands to compete "in a direct duel for the title of being Germany's most successful rock export of all time. These two bands might be the target audience here more different.
The metal rockers Rammstein publish after two years on 16 October their sixth album, "Love is for everybody." The musicians come from Schwerin, Chemnitz and Berlin and have GDR punk bands like "The Your Ear" and "Feeling B played. The four much younger musicians of "Tokio Hotel" - born from 1987 to 1989 - are musically in the reunification of Magdeburg-raised. Their third album, "Humanoid" will also appear after two breaks in the coming week on 2 October.
Two bands fighting for first place What does the "bad guys" by "Rammstein with "Tokio Hotel, the teenage crowd have in common except the similar roots? A lot. In the past, the success: "Rammstein" previously sold twelve million records, "Tokio Hotel" has already sold five million. Currently, both compete for # 1 on the German single charts. Today each appeared a week ago, on 18 September as the first single of the two new albums, the singles Pussy by Rammstein and Automatisch of Tokio Hotel.
And indeed around the globe. Rammstein singing Pussy in a German-English mix. The not quite mature lyrics are about love for the fast easy women. To the disappointment of a false love is in Automatisch. Thus Tokio Hotel really good for a worldwide marketing, was the new Humanoid album recorded completely bilingual. So now echoes the English single Automatic in Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro or Dallas on the radio, Automatisch sounds in German-speaking part of Europe.
And the current placement? International appear Pussy and Automatic/Automatisch for the first time just ten days after the first publication in the various national charts - so until next week. For these lists, sales of sound recordings and music sales in the Internet download portals contributed equally.
In Germany, Media Control issues in addition to these weekly charts but also so-called Daily Trends. They are daily sales sheets with a two-day delay. "Rammstein" captured on 18 September from the start position 1 of the Daily charts, "Tokio Hotel" landed on the same day on position 2 As of yesterday, are Tokio Hotel slipped to 9th place, while Pussy and currently Germany's best-selling single is.
Now does the alarm bells ring with Universal Music, the record label of Tokio Hotel? Melanie Fürste, the press manager for the band, dismiss it. "Many younger fans do not buy the single, but wait for the album," she says. Sascha Wernicke, music editor and "Tokio Hotel" expert on the youth magazine Bravo also suggests another reason: "Teenagers do not have credit cards. So they buy their music very much less than other people to download portals on the Internet."
Was truly in the list of the most downloads the single Automatisch to Musicload. Com yesterday only ranked 61 of the top-100 ( Pussy at number 36). When Apple's download service iTunes climbed "Automatic" in the past two days, at least from position 57 to position 45 (Pussy last place
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Perhaps the reticence lies with the younger fans so well at the new sound of "Tokio Hotel"? "A lot of adult" finds Bravo Wernicke-editor of the new record. That would not necessarily be bad. "Even the fans from 2005 are now four years older."
In fact, Humanoid by Tokio Hotel sounds - pardon me - not even like Teeniepop, but like the very mature album by a loud metal band. Like meeting Rammstein. Both bands have recorded their latest albums the way, completely independently of each other in California, and can mix. Perhaps it is indeed that.
Surely be the reason why the new songs from Tokio Hotel therefore, in the English versions often sound much catchier than in German. It sounds simple one number cooler if Bill Kaulitz does not have to sing about a "Sonn-Nen-Sys-Tem," but instead of "Darkside of the sun".
The people's voice would have liked to talk shop also times two or three sentences with the Magdeburg guys on the new album. Sarah Ostermann - im charge at Universial music for the international press work of Tokio Hotel - knows the tight schedule of the band: Tomorrow, Saturday comes "Tokio Hotel" on a MTVEvent in Rome. "Then they are in France, Stockholm, Helsinki, Finland. Then again, in Italy and Spain. On October 9, is still an MTV concert in Greece and then the dates are in the U.S.." Newspaper interviews, guest appearances on TV shows and radio stations . In between one or another "spontaneous" concert. The PR machine is running just warm.
An apartment in Hollywood "Bravo" editor Sascha Wernicke one of the few journalists who have recently who got to interview Tokio Hotel. Bravo published Wednesday a story that Bill and his twin brother Tom Kaulitz want to look for an apartment in Hollywood. Both have lived for some time at home in Hamburg.
Is Tokio Hotel Magdeburg still have a band? Wernicke, "Well, Gustav and George still live in Magdeburg, and who wish to remain, they have assured me in an interview." George had also been half a year, a friend whom he met in Magdeburg. "She wants to do a lot less than he did in public," the "Bravo" journalist.
That drummer Gustav remains still at home, "active" is to know the fans at least since he got in July in a Magdeburg disco hit on the nose. There he had seen perhaps a bit much to drink. It aims at Handgreifl ichkeit them girls have gone.
Certainly not the kind of girl from whom Rammstein currently so successful singing. Since the new sound may sound so heavy and mature. Pussys do not fit the clean image of "Tokio Hotel".