Wetten Dass backstage interview Part 1 with English Translation

Miriam: Today is an official holiday in Germany…The Day of German Unitiy….yesterday there was indeed a worldwide holiday at least for Tokio Hotel fans….because finally the new album Humanoid had been released…and now Tokio Hotel are here with me…

All: Hello

Miriam: You look very relaxed..No Party yesterday or did you have already celebrated the release of the album?

Bill:Oh….unfortunatly not…because we are non stop on the road…so much to do…less sleep…but nevertheless no party…but we are truely excited at the moment …it had been just released and that is always exciting for all of us.

Miriam: There are two versions…one in english and one in german and you can buy the english version also in Germany..Is the german versions also available in foreign countries?

Bill: Actually both version are available in every country….and so everybody is able to choose what he would like to get …everywhere both versions are available…..

Miriam: Are there already feedbacks? How does it look?

Bill: Ja…until monday there will be the first official results …but until now the fan-reactions are very good…we have read some comments…and it looks fine….we are very excited…

Miriam: The next album will it be only in english or are you sticking to it to record it also in german?

Bill: At the moment we could not imagine to kick off one language….we are not able to choose a favourit…and i don’t know which one i would prefer to sing..so…from that point we will stick to it….

Miriam: Of course, if somebody releases an album you look on the titel..Unfortunatly i could not spare you the question..certainly it is annoying..Humanoid..why?

Tom: In german Humanoid

Miriam: Ok..Humanoid….exactly we need to say it bilingually…so why?

Bill: Humanoid…it was always our awarness of life…it was always a part of us…even at young age…for Tom and me…We noticed during the production that repeatedly some terms from other planets appeared..in some way…there were part of most of the songs…and so we thought it fits….First there was the titel and then we wrote the song….

Miriam: Ok..i see…it looks a bit like Sience fiction…also the video…but i have heard that you are not Sience-Fiction Fans? Or do you?

Bill: Actually that is true….at the beginning we totally disputed that…but

Miriam: Now at all you are?

Bill: Exactly…because for me Sience-Fiction was always Star Trec and stuff like this…i am not a friend of this…but honestly i love those movies…not Star Trec…but real Sience- Fiction movies…..

Tom: Movies like The Fith Element are awesome…and we have just seen District 9…which is also absoluty awesome…Yes..we are

Bill: So afterwards we found out…we are Sience-Fiction Fans..but it was not inspired by it…

Miriam: Which movie did you watch?

Bill and Tom. District 9

Miriam: In the Theatre? Can you even go to the theatre?

Bill. No..We have rented one

Miriam: Seriously?

Bill: Yes

Miriam: I am always thinking …they can do nothing anymore…everytime they have to

Bill: It is like that…

Tom: We have been in cologne…and they have been so kind to show us the movie …after the opening hours….

Miriam: That is so cool..You can go to the theatre? No…we have rented one….

Tom: But of course it sounds cool..but actually i would love to go the movies with some girlfriends like normal people do…

Bill: And it is boring ….you are alone…and then you watch the movie.. but actually you got to movies because it feels good to meet some friends…buy some popcorn…

Georg: To throw popcorn on somebody…we can do it only with us….

Bill: Only with us….

Miriam: To be a little bit antisocial…and then those people who are too late…and then they want their seats back…

Bill: Yeah…i always hated that….

Tom: And then to kick the asses of those people who make calls during the movie….

Miriam: Are they still there?

Tom: Of course…i don’t know…since years i have not been in the theatre…but i hope they are still there…that is a part of it….

Miriam: Today you are going to perform Automatisch.. a song about a disturbed relationsship without real feelings anymore…..biographically of course

Bill: Actually not…. because it is a bit ..i have to say you have your own ideas and enough creativity without being through it directly …because i…especialy me…i havn’t been in relationship since Tokio Hotel about which i could wrote a song….but i guess…in anyway we have contact to many automatic people…especialy in the music-industry…all your own expierence ….in between it is very superficial and very automatic…from that point there are firsthand feelings…

Miriam: No relationship anymore…i have read an interview in which you said..it is already not possible …you are not even able to go to the movies…so how could you built up a relationship

Bill: The problem is …if i am truely in love…in any case i could do it…..because i am some kind of person who would not care about anything else…at once i would move to another country …in another city…

Tom: That is why we hope..he does not get to know somebody….

Miriam: You keep all away from him ..only the totaly antisocials are allowed…

Bill: But that is the case…you don’t get to know a person…you are not able to go to the movies and someone is sitting next to you…you are going alone to the movies…so

Miriam: But here…there are some…is someone single? Interested? I guess…we will manage it…

Bill: It has to be arranged…that’s it….you don’t get to know somebody easily…in my situation you need a lot of luck….

Miriam: From album to album you have become more famous….Does this have an effect on the album?..Have you been able to produce in different studios…with other producer? ..Does this make it easier?

Bill: From this we utilized the most…that we have been so successful that we were able to be in awesome studios..we utilized it really…there was the best technology, we worked together with cool people..and we took absoluty advantage of it….we recorded a lot in Germany…but we have been also in LA…but afterwards i thing it really sucks to say it…first i did not think about it…but now…if i am saying…oh we recorded in LA…that sounds like a wannabe…because right now every little idiot is telling you that he also recorded in the USA…Oooh.. cool…now i am really….but at least

Tom: But we are alllowed to brag…because we recorded the most of it in our village-studio

Miriam: Ok….

Bill: That means..you are able to record good songs also in little Zwickau

Tom: Exactly

Miriam: If you have the talent…that’s it…

Tom: Right…we recorded in the same village-studio as we have done it before with the other album….

Miram: Sound…a lot of guitars..but also Synthesizer…

Tom: You have listen to it already?

Miriam: Ja…i listen to it a bit…here and at home…how would you describe the sound?

Bill: In anyway more electronic…actually at the end of last year…we were not able to look on ourselves…to see our faces..we could not stand to hear the name Tokio Hotel…There was no desire anymore to go on like this….we needed time to be in the studio and to write new songs…to look on ourselves in which music direction we wanted to go…we tried out a lot…there a lot of different versions…and that is the result…there is a new sound in it…of course there are still the guitars…but it is definitly more electronic….

Miriam: But of course it is not so easy to give up the familar and succesful way…Did you get help to find a new way?

Bill: Of course everbody tapped one’s forehead …are you crazy.. you are so successful…why do you change?

Tom: But you have to say it is not completly different…and there is only a new sound involved….an expanded sound…you can say…

Miriam: Actually it sounds stupid…but it is more mature

Bill: I still believe you have to feel comfortable with it..of course you can choose the save way and write another kind of „ Durch den Monsun..but at the end..it was more important for us…that we are totally happy with it..at least to write new songs.

Tom: Maybe it is more mature…because all of us are at least twenty years old…

Miriam: Yes …you are close to thirty…

Bill: Yes..we are close to thirty..

Georg: Don’t say it…we push this to the back of our minds

Miriam: Me too…I had my birthday..since then…i don’t think about it anymore…