Let's Talk About: TOKIO HOTEL!

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Yes, I have tricked all of you into yet another emo thread.

WHATEVA.

"The Kaulitzes are sexy in a nonthreatening way, which explains their appeal to 'tweens but also a corresponding mountain of animosity. The biggest attacks are lobbed by boys, who sometimes target the music but more often go for Bill Kaulitz's gender ("Is he a girl?") and sexuality ("Is he gay?"). Many seem unable to comprehend why males would spend so much time on makeup and clothes, and simply cannot deal with Tom's androgyny."

ALSO: "Ready, Set, Go" is totally my kind of emo song. Echoes, broken hearts, vague lyrics about about trying to "break down this wall" plus a ripping, bitchin, explosive chorus: "THE SKY IS CHANGING; TOGETHER WE ARE ONE!"

Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

It's killing me
We die when love is dead
It's killing
We lost a dream we never had
The world in silence and should forever feel alone
Cause we are gone & we will never overcome

- Love is Dead

Dead/Had rhyme (I'm not joking)
Alone/Overcome half-rhyme (Really!)

Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

To me you'll be forever sacred
I'm dying but I know
Our love will live
Your hand above
Like a dove
Over me
Remember
To me you'll be forever sacred

- Sacred

IT'S SAD BECAUSE IT'S TRUE

Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know why I mock. I <3 this kind of melodramatic inanity.

Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know how big these guys are elsewhere, but in France they are pretty much the second coming.

baaderonixx, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

The last time I was in Covent Garden the crappy market stalls were *littered* with calendars and posters and god knows what else by this band. I'd never heard of them but they come off like a band born to be on a poster sold in Covent Garden

DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

KOMM UND REEEEETTE MIIIIICH
ICH VERBRENNE INNERLIIIIICH

impudent harlot, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

these guys were all over the damn place in germany ca. march 2006, at least

my roommate met a german guy who described TH as "the second worst thing to come from germany, after hitler"

impudent harlot, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

we really did spend an absurd amount of time discussing the singer's gender

impudent harlot, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, the Brandenburg Buttboys RULE!!!

Nubbelverbrennung, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, they are terrible. I agree with baaderonix they are all over France.

I spent an absurd amount of time with a friend discussing the singer's sexuality. I think three days later he revealed he was gay.

Jibe, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

He posted on the band's official web page that he was gay, and about twenty minutes later the record company made him remove the posting. Since then, nothing, although I did hear Bill strangely non-deny his homosexuality ("we have no idea how that got out there"). The German fanlettes are still in denial, and the most obnoxious ever.

Nubbelverbrennung, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Got interrupted -- strange non-denial was on German tv, rumor has it the lover is MUCH older and is in the industry.

Nubbelverbrennung, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

They re getting increasingly popular over here in The Netherlands, which is worrying me.

Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Tokio Hotel taking over the world? Discuss.

Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

i saw a video for this band, and boy i didn't know what to think.

i guess they are from germany, which makes sense in a way.

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 22:34 (seventeen years ago)

When I was in Latvia they were going to be playing a big concert in Riga. The girl I met there was really blase about it but assumed I knew who they were.

I know, right?, Thursday, 20 March 2008 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

Do they sing in German?

Classy

Raus!

Fer Ark, Thursday, 20 March 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

I don't get these fucking dudes at all.

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

"i guess they are from germany, which makes sense in a way"

harsh, but true.

Marco Damiani, Thursday, 24 July 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

Hahah, ouch. (What would they have been like if they were from Italy?)

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 July 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

Watch and laugh: its pretty amusing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8GUkMBbk7xc

Marco Damiani, Friday, 25 July 2008 09:11 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Oops.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 May 2010 20:09 (fifteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

The last thing I would have expected! But why not! (It does also seem to be about one of the brothers having come out, visits home to Germany from LA and more besides. Hey, if it works.)

https://www.netflix.com/title/81687868

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 June 2024 19:39 (one year ago)


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