Bill: Hmmm, no, there was none. Only then began to write music for us, we made our own music. So far, we haven’t copied anyone’s songs.
This is amazing !
Bill: (laughs) But each of our musical interests are different. And so far, it hasn’t had a band like ours, we could only do original music soon. Because all members didn’t have any favorite artist in common.
Now ?
Bill: Now, everyone likes rock stars Aerosmith. But of course, the music that each private listening is different. Always ask us, about our vision, we want to do from now on, as do music, but is really simple. Only hope “something” that comes to us all.
So, it’s easy to find music that you guys want to do ?
Bill: Of course ! Since the beginning of the band was really early, I always think of the lyrics, and Tom plays the guitar …
Tom: Writing music is easy. It is always easy to find what we do, then just do it.
How you ever find it ?
Tom: Just started to act in rehearsing rooms. Bill begins writing the emotional lyrics, and we play our instruments. The lyrics and music are produced all at once.
Georg: We don’t prepare anything in advance.
Bill: Speaking some expressions, when writing, there are people who write a story or writes poetry to express themselves. But whenever, we express ourselves in making music.
When you write the lyrics, where inspiration comes from ?
Bill: From everywhere. Pick up ideas from many sites. Tom and I will arrange it together while we’re recording in our home studio. We are inspired by films, through cities, myself and different people, and also in life. We are going to study and collect these things, and from there some new ideas are born and others are changed. It is well put together.
Bill, you create the lyrics as if you wrote a diary ?
Bill: Yes. They are completely different. We got the inspiration from various aspects, and the content is mainly about our feelings and experiences.
The songs are not only about reality and fantasy, but also about the connection between them.
Tom: I think both worlds awaken my true feeling. The fictional world affects us, especially reflected in our new album “Humanoid. “
What emotion can easily be impressed by the music of Tokio Hotel ?
Bill: We always create the letters with our emotions of the moment. We probably are aggressive or sad, grief, broken-hearted, happy, or sometimes just want to have a party that night. We have different feelings every day. Whenever we take some points and put them in our lyrics, just like a diary. There must be some people who write diaries every night ! And our music is the product of a mixture of daily and fantasy.
In the official Tokio Hotel, we know a lot about your own views in the world in the web design concepts. When you had this idea ?
Bill: HAHAHA (laughing happily). It’s like doing a jigsaw puzzle. We didn’t have even an idea at first. Only continue to build our songs, and make electronic music and made them more attractive. When we did this, we gradually had some ideas as visual effects that may come to us, or how to transport the human emotions. We achieve this purpose by the photos or funds, and are just as the costumes of the tour. All the songs make them more lively.
How profound ! Cool ! Bill, when you knew you wanted to be a star ?
Bill: Very early. My mother always said that Tom and I were very noisy children.
Georg: And you are still being noisy children. (they laugh together)
Bill: (still say with a little anger) are naturally artists. My mother often brought us to parties and we took the microphones with us, so we talked and danced. We were aggressive at any time.
Tom: (in German) But sometimes there is bad language.
Everyone laughed when Tom said “bad language”, Georg the most.
Although I’m quite interested in the history of the puzzle. So what kind of film influences the world view of Bill ?
Bill: It’s hard to say. I like various kinds of film. The first movie I saw was the David Bowie Labyrinth (1986). This is my favorite movie.
When did you see this movie ?
Bill: Um … about 6 years ago. He saw it again and again because I really liked. I also like “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988), although it’s a very old movie. I watch different kinds of movies, like science fiction movies. When I was young, I liked a lot ET (1982), and vampire movies. I like the Fifth Element (1997). And I also like to watch romantic movies like The Notebook (2004). It’s really touching. Yes, I see many kinds of films, rather as a particular type.
Tom: It’s really crazy. We have thousands of DVDs, too many good films.
And the other three ? You have a favorite band or movie, or something that influences you ? Could you talk about this ?
Gustav: My favorite album is “Darkside of the Sun. ” And my favorite is DVD Tokio Hotel. (Everyone laughs)
Georg: Speaking of actors I like Leonardo Dicaprio. (Gustav and Tom are laughing very hard)
Georg (says seriously): His films are really good.
Bill (according to him): Um, this is a fact. His films are quite good. Films made when he was young are good too.
Georg: He could be the actor of the century.
Bill: True !
And music ? What is your favorite album ?
Georg: I listen to many kinds of music. And I hear more than one album every day. The last album I bought was that of Mike Posners. (Mike Posners
Bill: He is an American newcomer. And there are influences from pop and R & B into their music.
Tom: R & B, Dance and Hip-Hop, these three mixtures sit together.
And what about you Tom ?
Tom: My favorite movie is Training Day (2001) starring Denzel Washington. He is cool and …
Bill (interrupting): Tom likes all the movies played by Denzel Washington. And the Fire of Vengeance (2004).
Tom: Ah ! The Fire of Vengeance is really good. Dakota Fanning is also a good actress. (He also appeared in The Fire of Vengeance, his full name is Hannah Dakota Fanning, best known film I Am Sam (2001).)
The interview suddenly began to heat.
Turning to music, from your first album, you guys have been working with producers such as Dave Roth, Patrick Benzner and David Jost. What kind of effect has been brought to work with them ?
Bill: We have been working together for a long time.
Tom: Yes, we have been working together for 7 or 8 years since we started our band.
Bill: We know each other well, and all albums are recorded with producers. Our last album “Humanoid” was slightly different in that we work with different people, but us had put many new ideas on the album, we still work with them.
Tom: I think the most important is that we know each other well, each in the studio knows the direction of production and sound.
Bill: It is important for us to have the same taste. If producers have different musical tastes with us, it would be difficult for us to produce a single song. But we’ve been working on for a long time, know what to do, then it is quite easy.
Which song from the album “Humanoid”, contains the newest element? I think ‘Dogs Unleashed “is a unique song that mixes electronic rock.
Bill: Yes, this is the song that we work with our new sound better. The effect of electronics, drum machine, keyboard and synthesizer, we had the challenge to a different sound.
Yes
Bill: But when we put this matter in our music, we had some bare in mind. The songs were ours, but us to write our songs in our hearts, we may be affected by the outside world in the recording. Some people have different ideas, but his ideas could not be better. If we used the wrong way, the sound seems cheap. So, to not make that sound that becomes cheap, we had to mix it with rock inpresionante. In the last album, the electronic rock is the part I like best. I think we’re on stage and we want to have the change to new matter.
Tom: It is a tool for us to do larger scale music. Introducing electronic rock, we pointed us to make an album sound more sense to scale.
Bill: Actually, musical instruments were played more music we play, here.
Bill and Tom looked serious talking about his music. There is still a chat with the 4 boys.
