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Билл: Джон был не единственным (John was not the only one)

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Tokio Hotel releases Kings of Suburbia after five year break

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After a five year break, German pop rock band Tokio Hotel, introduced a new electronic album to their international audience, Kings of Suburbia.

Founded in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer, and bassist Georg Listing, Tokio Hotel took the world by storm in their 2007 American debut.The band decided they needed to live out their lives after touring world wide for years, so they relocated to Los Angeles. A year into their break they decided to reform and create new music to surprise fans with.

Kings of Suburbia is an electronic album featuring 15 tracks that stray away from any of the band’s previous albums. This is the band’s fifth album to date, it was released digitally Oct. 3 overseas and Oct. 6 in America. The album has gone number one on the iTunes Chart on pre-sales alone in various countries.

Tokio Hotel’s world tour, Feel It All Part One: The Club Experience, is set to hit London June 6.

Substream Magazine: So this is your first album in five years, Kings of Suburbia, how are you enjoying releasing an album again?

Bill Kaulitz: We’re totally excited. We were on the road a lot and we needed to take a break to get our lives back, but we’re really happy with how the album and record turned out.

SM: What did you do during that break?

Tom Kaulitz: We didn’t do anything, we were on break for most of it. The band has been on tour for years, since we were 15. After a year into our break though, we decided to start making music again and to work on an album.

SM: Your new album, Kings of Suburbia, is something new for the band and its fans. I used to listen to you when I was younger and I was surprised by the spin on your music. Did you enjoy experimenting with music?

BK: Just like you our taste and interests in music have changed too. You know it has been five years since our last album and it was important for our band to make music we now like and are now inspired by. It’s important for a band to change and progress and this album reflects that. It ended up a little electronic but we didn’t predict it to. The whole process of developing and producing this album was very natural.

TK: We tried new things and new music, and I don’t think that is a bad thing. We see a lot of artists now who make the same music over and over because they know its successful, but that not how music should be made. We never want to just stick to just one sound.

SM: How has Los Angeles affected your album, if it has at all?

BK: It definitely affected our music, but it was the freedom of being here that did it. It was impossible to have a private life in Europe, we just couldn’t be there any more. When we got here it was great to just be able to do stuff. We went to supermarkets, coffee shops, just normal things. We also partied a lot, maybe too much, but it was good. We’d work on the album at midnight or later because we’d be partying too much, then we’d have an after party.

SM: So you said that some artists stay with one sound because they know it’ll be successful, how did you skew away from doing the same?

BK: This album is a lot more electronic compared to our last album. We had so much time to work on it though, it wasn’t hard to express who we are now through this album. We were finally able to create our own music from writing to producing it. We tried to meet with some of our old producers but they just wanted to reattempt our old music, and that wasn’t what we wanted so we decided to do it on our own. That’s where ¨Stormy Weather¨ came in we recorded it on our own and sent it to some new producers who really liked it and wanted to work with us.

SM: What inspired this album?

BK: All the partying, the night life, and the clubs.

TK: Honestly, the freedom. We finally had the chance to live our own lives and finally experience life and this album really reflects that.

BK: Yeah I found this so interesting, I would go out and meet people who had no idea who Bill from Tokio Hotel was. It was great to meet people on that level again.

SM: I get a very sensual nightlife vibe from this album, did the band intend for that?

BK: We knew it was going to be a surprise for fans to hear this album, but we didn’t really think of a target audience for it. It was such a natural process of making music, we didn’t think of anyone outside of our home studio. I think that’s how all great music should be done, you don’t just sit down and determine you’re making a hit. You have to just be confident and love the music you are making and success will follow that.

SM: What was the most frustrating and the most rewarding elements of working on this album?

BK: I hated working with other people sometimes, I know that sounds bad. Don’t get me wrong some of the people were really amazing and inspiring, but others were just douche bags. But that kind of thing happens when you’re in the music business there are a lot of big egos to deal with. Getting to feel the final CD was worth it all in the end though, you can just feel all the work pay off.

TK: Another thing was hearing our song on the radio for once. Five years ago no played Tokio Hotel on the radio so hearing it now is great.

SM: What tracks are you most proud of on Kings of Suburbia?

BK: Oh wow that’s hard, I think it changes every day. For today I would say that ¨Run¨ is my favorite song, right now. It’s just so different from all of the other songs and anything we’ve ever done. Also my personal experience with it in the studio, the sounds my voice was able to make surprised me.

TK: I would say my favorite is ¨Girl Got A Gun.¨ I produced the whole album, but I worked on this song the most.

SM: Feel It All Part One: The Club Experience, your world tour, starts this year in London. What are you looking forward to most on tour?

BK: We get to meet all of our fans on an intimate level. The concerts are being held in small clubs so we’ll get a chance to get to know our audience, it’s not your typical concert. We also get to talk to our fans now with the VIP tickets. I think our fans are just as excited as we are.

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Информация о секретном концерте в ЛА

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Thank you for submitting your information for a chance to win tickets to the surprise Tokio Hotel Show. We have a limited number of tickets and will do our best to get you there!

Here are the requirements:

You have to follow @decodeltd on Twitter
You must be 21 or older to attend the show
You must confirm that you will 100% be able to attend (we wouldn’t want to assign a ticket for you and you don’t show up - wouldn’t be fair to others who can go and don’t get a ticket)
You must love Tokio Hotel and want to meet them in person!
The show will be in Hollywood, CA (Los Angeles)

If you are under 21

Unfortunately the venue cannot allow entry to anyone under 21 years of age
You can still come down to the venue to meet the band and get an autographed CD before the show!

What we need from you:

Email us back if you meet the requirements above with your full name, twitter name and age.

We will let you know if you have been selected and more information will be provided at that time.

Good luck and hope to see you!

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Фан-арт

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Пресса

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Clips de l'année 2014 : Stromae, Tokio Hotel et Irma vainqueurs !

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Clip international de l'année : Tokio Hotel - "Love Who..."

Pas même Lady GaGa, ni Katy Perry, Kylie Minogue ou même Sia et Beyoncé n'ont réussi à faire plier Tokio Hotel. Le groupe allemand s'impose dans la catégorie Clip international avec "Love Who Loves You Back". Une victoire étonnante puisque la vidéo a été très peu diffusée sur les chaines françaises, le comeback de Tokio Hotel n'ayant pas fait beaucoup de bruit. Mais le quatuor compte une fanbase très importante et très active. 27.801 internautes ont voté pour sa vidéo, soit 60,4% des suffrages. Là aussi, le score est sans appel ! Derrière, loin derrière, Kylie Minogue est deuxième avec "Sexercize" (4.146), dans un mouchoir de poche avec Tove Lo et le clip de son tube "Habits (Stay High)" (4.053). A noter que la chanteuse Sia n'a récolté que 451 votes avec le clip buzz de son hit "Chandelier".

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De-Code LTD (TW)

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Это #LWLYB. Разогрев для следующей недели! @younghollywood

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Видео - vine.co/v/OpU9hYQjaXw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ea77mculYw

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Bill Kaulitz (Instagram # 379) (10.01.15)

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Bill Kaulitz (Instagram # 378) (10.01.15)

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#Марк Джейкобс #Рей Бэн #Диор для мужчин

(#marcjacobs #rayban #diorhomme)

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Bill Kaulitz (Instagram # 377) (10.01.15)

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Кто придет на наше секретное шоу в ЛА на следующей неделе? #TH #KOS #выступление вживую #ЛА

(who's coming to our secret show in LA next week? #TH #KOS #live #LA)

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Фото HQ (Young Hollywood, 08.01.2015,Los Angeles)

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Фан-арт

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De-Code LTD (TW)

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Начните читать @decodeltd и пришлите на электронную почту: [email protected] информацию о вас, чтобы у вас появился шанс посетить секретное шоу @tokiohotel в ЛА на следующей неделе. #FIA

Шоу могут посетить фанаты из любой страны мира, но вы должны быть на тот момент в ЛА. Количество билетов ограничено, так что не пытайтесь заполучить билет на шоу @tokiohotel, если вы не сможете туда приехать! #1215

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Анимация: Билл

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Tokio Hotel inkognito in Los Angeles | Rockpalast Backstage: Tokio Hotel | MDR

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Берлин (02.10.14) HQ

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Young Hollywood (08.01.2015 Los Angeles)

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How Tokio Hotel Have Secured Their Reign As The “Kings Of Suburbia”

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Tokio Hotel released their brilliant new album “Kings Of Suburbia” last November and it has been met with both fan and critical acclaim. Listening to the album I have found that it is truly some of the band’s most honest and heartfelt work to date.

With their debut album in 2005, Tokio Hotel- -twin brothers Bill (lead singer) and Tom Kaulitz (guitar, backing vocals), Georg Listing (bass) and Gustav Schafer (drums)–rose to become the most successful German rock band of the last 20 years. 7 million copies of their releases have been sold worldwide, and with around 160 Gold and 63 Platinum awards in 68 countries and well over 100 national and international awards, Tokio Hotel is an international phenomenon.

Bill and Tom Kaulitz (25) moved to California overnight at the absolute height of their fame. Submerged in the anonymity of Los Angeles, their experiences there lent them new creativity and inspiration which they used to write and produce “Kings of Suburbia”, their third international studio album.

“Kings Of Suburbia” is filled with a variety of different musical flavors and we see Tokio Hotel having the chance to explore and experiment with a variety of soundscapes including rock, pop and even various electronic elements. The album is a breath of fresh air for the band and certainly stands apart in their illustrious catalog.

From the club-heavy wallop of “Feel It All” to the softer, introspective “Run Run Run” and “Love Who Loves You Back,” it’s an album that finds the Kaulitz twins pushing limits of sanity and discovery, a singular statement born out of one very important realization: Their band could mirror their lives, could provide the soundtrack to the parties that never end. If it feels alive, well, that’s because Tokio Hotel were living it as they were making it.

I recently had a chance to catch up with Tokio Hotel to discuss the making of the new album, their upcoming touring plans, changes within the music industry and more.

It has been about five years since we last had any new music from Tokio Hotel, so when talking about the creative process for the new album Bill says “After the release of our last album we were not really sure what we wanted to do with our music next, so we decided to make the move to L.A.. It was there that we found that we finally had the creative freedom to do what we truly wanted to do with our music. We wanted to make something that we love and what makes us happy.”

We are always curious about the mindset of the band while in the studio during the recording process. The band revealed “With “Love Who Loves You Back”, the albums first single, for that song we kind of had that moment in the studio where you just know that you have something special. That song just stuck with us all day. When we were writing it and recording it and we just really couldn’t get it out of our heads. We really wanted to get it out to audiences and see if their reaction was the same. It is a way to think about experiencing love.

We also made the music video that we have always wanted to make for that song as well, so it was really a perfect fit. It is also the exact opposite of what the rest of the album is like overall. It is very pure without a lot of production, we just wanted to keep it very simple. It is a very fun song and the video was incredibly fun to make. It was something I had never done before.”

Speaking of the music video for “Love Who Love You Back’ Bill revealed that the idea for the video came from a film he saw called “Perfume”. Bill says “In the film the character was getting a lot of hate from those around him as he was creating his perfume. As odd as it sounds, he then sprays his perfume around and it begins to turn the hate into love and then branches out into an orgy of sorts. I had always wanted to recreate that with music and now we had finally found the right song”.

He goes on to say “We found the right director and he had all these people and he asked me if I even wanted to be involved. I said ‘Of course I want to be involved (laughs). He was surprised that I actually wanted to do it. I have never been involved with something like that in front of the camera so it was definitely fun. When I got home that night I felt like I was leaving a porno shoot. Making out with so many people was exhausting, but it was also a lot of fun”.

I was also curious about Tokio Hotel’s upcoming touring plans, as well as, what will be going into the live show. Bill says ” We are going to begin touring in March in Europe with the Feel It All World Tour. It will be a memorable experience for fans. We are still working on some of our concepts and ideas for the show, but it will be great”.

When asked what the most misunderstood thing about Tokio Hotel would be they answered “I think by now people get it, but there was always some confusion about how long we have been together. We have been a band for over 14 years, even before we were doing it professionally”.

During the recording process sometimes there are things that a band will learn about themselves that can be a bit surprising. Bill comments ” Moving out to L.A. and being out here on our own and having control over the whole production was something that we had never done before, so we learned that we could do it on our own without someone telling us how things should be done. It was also interesting in L.A., that no one knew who I am or what I do and I had not had that experience in quite some time. I am used to meeting people who knew exactly who I was, so having this anonymity was a new experience.”

When speaking about the influence that living in L.A. had on the recording process, Tom adds “The move to L.A. provided us with new life experiences, prior to that we had nothing new to say, here we were able to be influenced by all of our new experiences and create new stories to share”.

Many musicians have been affected by the changes in the music industry over the years. Bill tells us that people downloading rather than buying music has been one of the many changes that has had the biggest effect on the band. He says “When we first came on the scene there was not downloading. Nowadays it is more important to have streams and downloads. I don’t even get all of this. There are so many new rules to follow. I remember we used to have these long lines for autographs and nowadays they don’t even do that anymore. They don’t want an autograph, they just want a selfie (laughs). Autographs are not necessary anymore.”

He goes on to say, “When we first started there were music show on TV and talk shows and awards shows to attend, now there are only like one or two award shows to attend per year. So much has changed with the way the world processes music. It is all very different.”

Finally, I wanted to know if we are going to see any Tokio Hotel touring here in the States. They replied “Yes, of course. We announced the first half of our world tour in Europe, so definitely be early summer we hope to announce some touring in the U.S.”.

We can’t wait! We will have to remember to bring our selfie sticks! If you haven’t already be sure to pick up a copy of Tokio Hotel’s phenomenal new album “Kings Of Suburbia” and keep up to date with the band and the following links below:

www.tokiohotel.com

www.facebook.com/tokiohotel

www.twitter.com/tokiohotel

www.youtube.com/user/tokiohotelchannel

www.instagram.com/tokiohotel

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Поздравляем: Love who Loves you Back - видео года!

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Пресса

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Tokio Hotel vernascht Gustavs Hochzeitstorte

gdeburg | In ihr stecken verschiedene Füllungen und mehr als 18 Stunden Arbeit: Die vierstöckige Hochzeitstorte aus der Hand von Lia Lange war für einen prominenten Bräutigam bestimmt. Sein Name: Gustav Schäfer, Schlagzeuger der Band "Tokio Hotel". Der 26-jährige Magdeburger hat allem Anschein nach bereits geheiratet. Ein offizielles Statement des Musikers gibt es dazu bisher nicht.

Aber: Tokio-Hotel-Frontmann Bill Kaulitz postete auf seinem Facebook-Profil schon Tage vor Silvester Bilder von einem Feuerwerk. Auf einem anderen hält er weiße Luftballons. Die Fans vermuteten bereits: Gustav hat sich "getraut".

Zu Silvester traten Gustav Schäfer, Georg Listing, Bill und Tom Kaulitz neben anderen Stars am Brandenburger Tor in Berlin auf. Was scheinbar nur ein winziger Kreis wusste: Schlagzeuger Gustav trug dabei einen Ehering am Finger.

Ein herber Schlag für so manche Teenagerin. Im Dezember hatte der gebürtige Magdeburger seine Freundin geheiratet und im kleinen vertrauten Kreis im Umland des Schwielowsees bei Potsdam gefeiert.

Mitten in der Hochzeitsrunde war übrigens auch das süße Prachtstück aus Calbe vertreten. Die Hochzeitstorte stammt aus den Händen von Lia Lange, Inhaberin der Zuckerwerkstatt La Torta in Calbe. "Das war die prominenteste Torte, die ich bislang hergestellt habe", freute sich die 53-Jährige. Lia Lange gibt zu, dass sie vor Aufregung extra ruhige Hände beweisen musste. Dabei geholfen habe ihr die Musik, die im Hintergrund lief. Wer nun an "Tokio Hotel"-Hits wie "Durch den Monsun" oder "Übers Ende der Welt" oder gar an die Titel der neuen "Kings of Suburbia"-Platte denkt, liegt komplett daneben. Die Calbenserin hat - etwas zum Leidwesen ihrer Tochter Sarah (14) - einen ganz anderen Musikgeschmack. Bei ihr laufen die besten Hits des bereits verstorbenen Schlagerbarden Roy Black aus dem Lautsprecher. Da liegt es nahe, dass sein Gassenhauer "Ganz in Weiß" als Inspiration für die Torte Pate stand. Mehr als 18 Stunden Arbeit stecken in dem Naschwerk. Entstanden ist ein süßer Traum in Weiß mit vier Etagen und handgefertigten Rosen und Perlen. In den vier Etagen der Torte warteten jeweils verschiedene Füllungen aus Schokolade, Milchcreme, Frucht sowie Kokos auf die Hochzeitsgäste. "Ein Unikat, mit viel Liebe und Leidenschaft gefertigt", sagt die Gewinnerin des Gründerpreises 2013. Mittlerweile haben die Gäste der "Tokio Hotel"-Hochzeitsfeier die Torte längst verputzt. Dazu sollen selbstverständlich auch die Bandkollegen gehört haben.

Doch wie ist es eigentlich zu diesem besonderen Auftrag gekommen? "Die Brauteltern sind langjährige zufriedene Kunden", klärt Lia Lange auf. "Ich bin dankbar, dass sie mir Vertrauen für so einen Auftrag entgegengebracht haben." Die Frage, wer denn nun die frischgebackene Angetraute des berühmten Mädchenschwarms sei, lässt Lia Lange unbeantwortet. Eines scheint zumindest sicher. Die junge Frau kommt gebürtig aus der Schönebecker Region. "Ich habe ihnen Stillschweigen versprochen", sagt Lia Lange. So kann der fragende Reporter ihrer Meinung nach zwar alles essen, aber längst nicht alles wissen. (api/ka)

Übrigens: "Tokio Hotel" startet am 6. März ihre "Feel it All"-Tour in London. Am 23. März stehen sie in Berlin im Heimathafen Neukölln auf der Bühne.

www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/magdeburg/140353...

За ссылку спасибо yurkina

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