THE PHILIPPINES
“Hello Philippines! We are Tokio Hotel!”
On November 14th, 2009, Tokio Hotel's message had been aired on the local channel, Myx Philippines. The video clip then aquired by the fans with permission from MCA Music Inc. (Universal Music Philippines):
Tokio Hotel Phone Interview with Myx Philippines’ VJ Chino - Novemb...
Tokio Hotel Phone Interview with Myx Philippines’ VJ Chino
Phone Interview Date: November 18, 2009; Tokio Hotel in Berlin, Germany
Air Date on Myx News as Myxclusive: November 21, 2009 at 3:30PM Manila Time
Video Transcription: Ara AKA amber_nightshade of THP
VJ Chino: Oh, your video Automatic is currently at #3 here in MYX charts. Any message for your fans voting for your video?
Bill: That sounds really, really great so we wanna say “Thank You”. We’re really excited about that and we have to see our fans very soon.
VJ Chino: Who came up with the concept of the video of Automatic where you guys have like a big robot?
Bill: We shot the video in South Africa. We had the idea that we wanna have robots because we’re not really good actors.
VJ Chino: Alright. So, let’s backtrack a bit. So, what was the story behind the name “Tokio Hotel”?
Bill: We travel the world and sleep in hotels. We play concerts everywhere so that’s why we chose “Hotel”. And “Tokio” just because of the town. We wanted a town that we don’t know.
VJ Chino: Did you guys expect to be this big internationally, not just in Germany?
Bill: We never expected that we’ll have the chance to be successful in Germany. And then we became successful in some other countries. It was really unexpected.
VJ Chino: Alright, so which bands or artist do you guys look up to? Like your favorite band?
Bill: I think there’s not one band because we are all really different when it comes to our music taste. My favorite bands at the moment are the Stereophonics and Kings of Leon.
VJ Chino: And for Bill, how does it feel like a lot of people are copying your style?
Bill: It’s also kind of a compliment when other people try to copy your style. It has to be good so thank you for that.
VJ Chino: And lastly, what’s your message for your Filipino fans especially the members of the Tokio Hotel Official Philippine Fan Club?
Bill: We wanna say “Thank You” for your support so far. It’s really unexpected that we have fans over there. It’s really cool to hear that and we’re so grateful. We wanna come out there definitely. Maybe in the beginning of the next year. We’ll come out there and have the chance to meet our fans.
Credit: Ara from THP
Automatic Hits #1 on Myx Philippines!
Fans in the Philippines finally woke up and made sure to send Automatic to the Number 1 spot on Myx Philippines Daily Top 10 today, November 24, 2009!
FRESH NEWS: Tokio Hotel Phone Interview on Monster Radio RX 93.1 (Jan 15, 2010)
Pinoy fans went wild with the interview today on Monster Radio RX 93.1 that the official fan club forum is currently wonky with the number of users who are trying to get updates on the interview! We told you there was a surprise – official fan club leader Charm (aka bathala at the forum) was there during the interview! She got the twins to greet us and introduce themselves in Filipino!
Wasn’t able to listen to the interview on air or wanna listen to it over and over and over and oooooooover again? Below is the recording of the interview. Thank you so much to Shiney of the THP forum for providing the audio clip!
On Megavideo as a single file:
SINGAPORE
The New Paper (SG): Thrill Bill - Dec 9th 2009
There's Bill Kaulitz and Tokio Hotel on Singaporean's local English newspaper, The New Paper. They made it onto a full spread coverage on the 'Show' section and Bill Kaulitz was being interviewed by journalist, Jeanmarie Tan via phone all the way from Berlin, Germany.
Tokio Hotel's frontman Bill Kaulitz enjoys breaking fashion rules as he plays dress up
REPORT: JEANMARIE TAN
Guy or girl?
People usually do a double take when they see Bill Kaulitz, the singer from German pop-rock band Tokio Hotel who is worshipped by screaming young women all over the world as a sex symbol and fashion icon. The others in the band are his twin brother, Tom, who is the guitarist and their childhood pals, drummer Gustav Schafer and bassist Georg Listing.
The quartet is massive in Europe and has already made waves in the US. But things can only get bigger.
Fans can't seem to get enough of Tokio Hotel's catchy hit songs like Monsoon, Ready Set Go, Rescue Me, Scream or the latest single Automatic. And nobody can ignore a frontman like Bill, who's a handsome as he is beautiful and makes American Idol Adam Lambert look like Kris Allen. He cuts such a strikingly emo figure with his dramatic guyliner, skin-tight black goth-glam wardrobe and gravity-defying coiffures that require a full bottle of hairspray a day.
Needless to say, speculation about his sexual orientation has been heating up.
But relax, girls.
Bill, 20, told The New Paper: "I've always liked girls and I've had (a few) so far."
Humble, gracious and exceedingly nice, the super-slender 1.9m-tall rock star said in fluent English over the phone from Berlin: "When everyone talks about a boy who wears make-up, they think he likes boys.
"That's a normal reaction, but it's not this way at all."
He also follows his own path when it comes to his dramatic image and finds having a stylist "a nightmare".
"I don't care if anyone says I look feminine. I wear what I want to wear. I like to break borders when it comes to fashion. If people say to me, "Bill, you can't wear that," I definitely will wear it." Recently, he experimented with white and black dreadlocks. And no, he wasn't influenced by his identical sibling Tom, who dresses like a hip-hop rapper and sports dreadlocks or cornrows, baseball caps, sweat bands and baggy streetwear. However, Bill - whose voice is gentler and higher-pitched than Tom's gruff, masculine tone - said the dreadlocks were "hot and uncomfortable" in summer, so he cut them off and now flaunts a shorter mohawk.
He said: "I like the freedom to do whatever I want with my hair and my whole style... it's boring to always have the same look."
Copycat fans
He also thinks it's a "cool compliment" that his fans are obsessed with his physical appearance.
"It's what every singer dreams about, isn't it? When you're on stage and see people in the audience having your hair and make-up."Bill even received the honour of becoming the youngest person to be immortalised in wax at the Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin last year.
His signature look was born after attending a Halloween party as a vampire when he was 12. The fan of the Twilight movies, who would love a cameo as a bloodsucker or to contribute to the soundtracks, recalled: "After that, I wanted to have black nails and dark make-up, and started wearing them to school and everywhere. "My school was horrible though. Everybody was looking at me and talking about (how I looked), but that was the way I felt, it was my personality."
Tom, older by 10 minutes and who is more of an extrovert and usually tagged as the "evil twin", interjected: "he always had me, I was like his bodyguard!"
Bill added: You have to be really confident if you want to look like this. You should just do your thing whenever you want and it'll be all right." Tom joked that without make-up, Bill "looks nearly the same as me - but not as pretty."
Tokio Hotel, formed in 2001 in Magdeburg, Germany, released its first German album, Schrei, in 2005. In 2007, its second German album, Zimmer 483, came out, followed by its first English album Scream - a strategic move by its record label Universal Music to widen the Teutonic boyband's appeal beyond the German-speaking world. The long-overdue language crossover hit pay dirt.
These CDs scored combined sales of more than one million copies worldwide, which helped the band win the MTV Europe Music Award for Best InterAct. Last year, Tokio Hotel pulled off a upset victory over Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Jordin Sparks for Best New Artist at the US MTV Video Music Awards.
And last month, it nabbed the Best Group trophy at the MTV Europe Music Awards, edging out fellow nominees Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Jonas Brothers and Kings of Leon. According to Tom, the guys' next stop will "definitely" be Asia. Especially Tokyo, the city the band is named after - because they reportedly love the idea of the Japanese metropolis - but bizarrely have never visited. But now, Tokio Hotel is busy promoting its new album, Humanoid, which was recorded in both German and English. Both versions were released simultaneously worldwide in October.
Despite sharing a womb, the Kaulitz brothers - who don't have other siblings - are polar opposites, not just in therms of their aesthetic preferences but also in their approach to relationships.
During our chat, Tom affectionately mocked Bill for being a diehard romantic who believes in "real love", whereas he's a loud-and-proud alpha male and ladies' man who "believes in real love - for one night".
Bill lamented that Tokio Hotel's burgeoning fame has contributed to his non-existent love life. He said: "Especially now, we don't have so much time or privacy anymore, so I want to spend time with a really important person and not waste it with a girl just for one night. What I'm searching for is a real soulmate, I'm quite old-school.
"It's hard to meet girls because it's impossible for us to walk down the street in Europe or go to a party without the paparazzi following us. And I'll never know why the girl is interested. Does she want to meet for Tokio Hotel or for me?"
Listing, 22, is the only member of Tokio Hotel who has a girlfriend.
So would Bill date someone prettier than him?
He said laughingly: "I would! When I fall in love, I just do everything. I don't care if she's prettier than me or whatever."
To which Tom added: "Although it's difficult to be prettier than Bill!"
Credit: Emeycia/THA & THSG Flora (transcript), THSG Jasmine(Scans), Jeanmarie Tan(Report)
MALAYSIA
NurEmilyaSyakirah said:
Bill Kaulitz intro before Automatic was played on Hitz.fm Top 40 but unfortunately Automatic was #36 =(
very short intro but very meaningful for me as Malaysian fan =)
Tokio Hotel fur immer!
Thursday December 17 2009
There's also apparently an interview with Tokio Hotel on Fly FM radio
Fly FM twitter announcing the interview schedule: http://twitter.com/FlyFM958/status/5384108635
No actual transcript nor the record from this one, except some mini report from a fan who caught it:
emikaulitz' comment:
i only hear a few stuff like female actress.. & who they wanna married & have baby with.. Tom mentioning about Megan Fox & Jessica Alba.. but the DJ suggesting Angelina Jolie & Tom laugh & said he’s not interested with her or something like that XD they talk a bit.. & then they play a song & the interview start again.. i manage to listen to the interview like 15 minutes only.. p/s: Bill was there too but he just talk a bit.. Tom talk a lot you know! im not sure if Georg & Gustav is there or not..
TAIWAN
Hello to Taiwan Fans
Channel [V]
MTV
MSN Taiwan
NEW ZEALAND
Tokio Hotel Thanks New Zealand fans!
Dialogue in video message:
Bill: Hi New Zealand this is …
Tokio Hotel: TOKIO HOTEL
Bill: You are about to watch our new video Automatic from Humanoid and we heard that our record is working very well, that’s because of you guys, so Thank you so much AND we can’t wait to come over, see you then and Bye Bye (:
MTV ASIA
Quick Bites - Tokio Hotel - MTV Asia
The rest of Tokio Hotel related videos on MTV Asia website
INDONESIA
We have, via cable TV (which a fat amount of our citizen don't own), MTV Asia showing their video clips, their Europe Music Award 2009 appearance, their concert at Athens on MTV World Stage, various lists, their short exclusive interview with MTV Asia. There are also some articles in magazines.
In my opinion, there's not enough exposure by mainstream media or by their label here: Universal Music Indonesia for them in our country, but this is just the beginning. It's only just now that Tokio Hotel starts to go more international than before. Greeting videos & interviews for Asia, never happened before their latest album release.
So, let's GET TOGETHER and make that happens to Indonesian fans too!
I know that we are still very far, our fan-base is still young and small. But I'm sure we'll get there. :)
Let's buy 'Humanoid' album by Tokio Hotel at our local pirated CD seller! ...
Buy original 'Humanoid' album CD, now available at stores!
credit to chunva @tokiohotelindo.ning
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