Leute Heute Interview!

“Every generation has its Idols...for some it were The Beatles...for the other ones it was Michael Jackson or Take That...12 year olds von today’s generation are adoring Tokio Hotel...World wide.At the moment, the 4 Magdeburg boys are bedazzling their French fans in Paris, in front of 17.000 people, they played all their hits. Let it be here, or in the USA, Italy or France, their amazed fans know their German lyrics by heart.The guys are very happy that this way, they can carry their mother tongue out in the world.

Bill: “We never came out and tried to say “Ok here we are, we want everyone to sing in German”, it just kinda came along and we have noticed that people are having no issues with actually learning the language itself, and we have the most utter respect for them, because we all know how hard it is to learn a language”.

Until now, Tokio Hotel has sold around 3.5 million CD’s and have won many awards for their work. Starting von the “BAMBI” or to the “COMET” or just recently “DIE GOLDENE KAMERA”, many big named awards are there. Even though they have all the fame, they are still always nervous to come out and be on the stage.

Bill: “Yeah, of course you are still nervous when you are on the stage. You get so nervous, it’s not even normal. Especially, like today, with so many people here, the excitement is even bigger. Even the night before you are like thinking about it, and can’t sleep at all...those are all the things that come along with it”.

Just recently, they had some more sleepless nights, but it was about another thing: Next to their music careers, the 4 boys had to get their secondary school diploma. And it felt like a stone in their stomachs...

Tom: “It was a total horror. It’s like even more stress on top of everything, because we are like always on the road, we only had like one week, where we tried really, really hard just to concentrate on school... which is hard ‘cuz then like the phone would ring and people are calling us... but somehow we actually managed to get it done. But like I said...a really stressful, annoying and shitty time for us”.

But that time is now over, and now the 4 Tokio Hotel boys can totally just concentrate on their music careers. Tonight, they play one more show in Paris, and then after comes Portugal, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and many, many more European countries...Bill, Georg, Tom and Gustav are very happy about that!

Tom: “When you are standing on this stage, and you are playing a song, and everyone sings along, and there is like 17.000 of them...and they are happy to see you and that you are there, that’s the moment when you realize why you chose to do this...”

Not many artists were successful to sing in German in other countries, but Tokio Hotel has made it. We shall see what they will surprise us with next!

See interview here:http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=oz4laJ...
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