Junk Magazine N º 45/10 - Singapore

Subject: Junk Magazine N º 45/10 - Singapore Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:05 am

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Tokio Hotel opens its new album. And David Hasselhoff.

The quartet of Bill and Tom Kaulitz, Georg Listing, Gustav Schafer and can only, on average, 20 years, but they have been playing music all over Germany for the better part of a decade and have found global stardom the release of her first English album Scream. Now armed with their fifth studio album Humanoid, Tokio Hotel has its sights set on nothing less than total domination of pop.

Really, the choice of album title has a set of young people who have spent most of his youth playing in a sea of faces changing scenarios and have been persecuted all over the city for rabid fans - a a group of youths who can not walk through a mall, or standing on the sidewalk without being recognized. Reading the song titles as "Human To Human Connect ',' Humanoid ', and' World Behind My Wall 'reveals a desire, a need most, the union with other people - rather, because of its high profile, only Bill Kaulitz made to a limited extent. He stresses, "Humanoid was always a feeling that Tom and I were in our childhood ... we felt a little humanoids - as a fourth planet aliens or something, and we still feel that way sometimes."

What is a humanoid, really? Something that looks and seems human, but actually resembles a human, is a condition that is applied mainly to robots, but as a human who wants to feel human but can not? This question is masked behind the teen angst in the lyrics of Kaulitz: "How I can join you?" This is really a valid question to ask him. In the whole band, only Georg has a relationship, while the rest are single. As Tom says, "Once you choose this life, let forgotten everything." For them, there is nothing more than Tokio Hotel. No second plan, no side draft, no return.

But at the same time, Tokio Hotel have created what could be the archetype of teen pop will be so for many years to come - a hint of sexuality, one third of soul, a pinch of relationship drama, and packed with choirs classified sand with a slight sheen automelodía.It is also more ambitious than the moody Scream, a vastness like U2 songs like 'World Behind My Wall. " "We wanted to have a larger sound like a soundtrack to our lives," Bill says the new record.

There is a different point of Tokio Hotel humanity however, evident as they laugh about their largest export country (Rammstein) and how they make fun of guitarist Georg over their alleged worship of the idol and former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff as he pats his face in despair about what should be a joke often repeated. And it is this humanity that they bring to the stage later that night, thoroughly enjoying the adulation of the crowd screams. As Bill promises that they will return one day, it is clear that they are in it for long. As Tom says, "For us to do everything we planned to do, it would take another 30 to 40 years." What they have in mind for this humanoid existence however, is the question on top of languages around the world.