One of my very favey Buzzworthy commenters/ frequent "first"ers is tokio_charlotte, who, like me, likes Tokio Hotel, thumbdrives (I have a preposterous amount of them and just got a Little Britain one in the mail this morning. yay!), nail polish, and, most importantly, the Internet. But I also like her for reasons less selfish than the fact that we share the same impeccable taste. I also <3 tokio_charlotte because she emailed me an excellent rundown of her most favorite unofficial couples of the 2008 VMAs. And all she got was a lousy Moonman t-shirt. Thanks again, Charlotte! Take it away...

Top of the list: Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus. Sure, Travis McCoy has dibs on Katy romantically, and Miley hates (and likes) "7 Things" about someone who may or may not be Nick Jonas, but Katy and Miley take the prize for Cutest Unofficial Couple. Katy and her mysterious "Special Guest" were all smiles and "feud? what feud?" on the red carpet. Though Katy did not get a taste of Miley's vanilla ChapStick® this time around, the fact that they both lost out to Tokio Hotel for Best New Artist can't hurt future chances. (I wouldn't expect more MyCy/TH Rock Band sessions anytime soon, unfortunately).

Second up is Tom Kaulitz and Nicole Scherzinger. Though this couple only exists in Tom's dreams, Nicole's gush about Tokio Hotel at the VMAs post-show says she's not exactly creeped out by his crush. Don't know if Tom's dream of a Tokio Hotel/Pussycat Dolls tour will happen, but let's not rule anything out.

And the third cutest couple? Maybe-Not-So-Crazy-Anymore Britney and her Moonman(s)! Girlfriend went from trainwreck "OMG did you see her" - in a bad way - to dazzling "OMG did you see her" - in the best way. Best Female Video, Best Pop Video, Video of the Year, and Most Searched Person? Love it. Here's to hoping that things continue on the up on and up, and that next year's VMAs are going to be even better.

‘Member that T-Mobile Los Premios MTV 2008 Casting Call I happened to tell you about the other week? Here's how and where to enter!

You've got from today to October 9th to submit a photo of yourself and describe, in 100 words, what makes YOU a perfecto persona to join Team T-Mobile in Guadalajara, Mexico at Los Premios MTV 2008, where Tokio Hotel, Katy Perry, Paramore, Belanova, Julieta Venegas and more will perform live on Thursday, October 16.

CINCO (that's FIVE, gringos!) lucky folks (you must be a U.S. citizen with a valid passport) will win the following:
+ Roundtrip airfare to Guadalajara, Mexico and hotel accommodations
+ Ground transportation throughout your stay
+ A day tour of Guadalajara, Mexico
+ Access to Los Premios rehearsals
+ An invitation to Los Premios pre-party
+ An exclusive pass to attend pre-phow performances
+ Access to the red carpet
+ Ticket to the Los Premios MTV 2008 Award Show
+ Admission to the exclusive Los Premios after-party
+ Your VIP moments captured on film for all of MTV Tr3s to see!

Find out even more at Blogamole, (also, read the rules, ‘kay?), and get ready to go loco for ToHo. (Hee!)

Tokio Hotel Worry Their English Isn't 'Cool' But Plan To Translate Next LP Anyway

Fresh from their VMA win, the boys headed back to Germany to work on Scream follow-up.

Tokio Hotel just won the Best New Artist VMA on the strength of their first English-language album, Scream, and their popularity in the U.S. continues to grow. But though they've been touring in the States and making plenty of public appearances in English all year, the four young Germans say the language barrier is still quite a challenge for them - one they plan to tackle again as they work on their next LP.

"You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us," 19-year-old lead singer Bill Kaulitz said. "I think it's really hard for me ... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue. I really wanted it to sound natural [on the album], so it took some time in the studio, and we always wanted to do it this way: first in German, then translate everything into English. The English record is a part of us, and we really wanted to go ahead with that."

Bill explained the difficulties of properly translating German slang. "We translate, or we want to, everything," Kaulitz said. "Of course, our German phrases like, 'big cinema,' it's 'grosses Kino' in German. This red carpet is grosses Kino. It's like, 'beautiful,' 'awesome.' "

But TH are determined to keep on honing their linguistic skills for their follow-up LP. "First, we write German songs, and we translate some to English," guitarist Tom Kaulitz said. "We have always German records and English records. I think that's the best way."

Tom said he worries that because their grasp on the language is so unfamiliar, they come off sounding uncool, or "too grown-up."

"Our vocabulary is just school English, so we have no slang, no cool words," he lamented.

The guys aren't going to let the language barrier get them down as they head back to the studio. "After America, we directly go back to the studio in Germany, and we are still in the creative process of our next record," Bill said. "So we're writing songs, and we'll be recording some stuff. So we have a lot of work, and then we do the new record, yeah. No, we have no ideas [what we might call the album]."

"But it will be a great name and an amazing album," Tom added confidently.

Here is a video that goes with this.

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Translation by pwrpuffgrl@THA.

Guy: How are you feeling here in Mexico?
Bill: We're very happy, we had a lot of fun onstage and we're just so happy to be here.

Guy: How did you get together as a band?
Tom: We met Georg and Gustav when we were 7 years old, we were together in various projects when we were younger, all of them had to do with music. Eight years ago we came together as a formal band.

Guy: How was your life as students in school?
Bill: It wasn't the best period of our lives, to be honest. Our grades weren't the best at all, they weren't bad but sometimes we got grounded because of them. Our time at school was never the best.

Guy: How do you see and feel all the mexican girls?
Tom: We are very happy to see all the girls, yesterday we saw around 5000 people at the autograph signing, that was great. Their welcome has been awesome.

Guy: In every group of friends there's always the slob, the leader, the one whose always late. Who are these people in the band?
Bill: Georg is always late.
Guy: Georg is saying that it isn't true...
Georg: I'm getting better in being on time.
Gustav: I'm the relaxed one.
Tom: I'm the sex symbol.

Guy: There are always embarrassing moments while you travel. Any moment you'd like to share?
Bill: We have a lot of embarrassing moments but what we always have are girls that sneak up to our hotel room, climbing two floors just to get to us from the outside.

Guy: We know you a little here in Mexico but we would like to know more. Why Tokio Hotel? You guys are from Germany.
Bill: We like big cities so we thought Tokio could be appropiate.

Guy: Well, Mexico City is a big city. You can name the band Mexico City Hotel
*everyone laugh*
Bill: And since traveling around the world was our dream, we chose the word hotel

Guy: What are your plans after Mexico?
Bill: We're flying to L.A. to continue the tour tonight and for the VMAs, we are nominated two times.

Guy: Thanks so much for coming. In two days is your b.day, what are you doing?
Tom: We don't know yet but it will surely be dirty!

*Then the guy starts talking about they make a concert for the station every year since 20 years ago and that they are honored to have TH*

Guy: Thanks again.
Tom: Muchas gracias.

Guy: Any words in spanish?
Gustav (yes, it's him): Como esta chica.
Tom: Hola. Muchas gracias. Te quiero puta (puta is an offensive word so obviously the guy didn't translate that hahaha)
Georg: No.
Bill: Viva Mexico!

Tokio Hotel are nominated for Best Headliner at the EMA's this year! (Link will come later ;] )

VOTE NOW!!

Hi,

We are sorry that there hasn't been a lot of news up lately, we have our reasons. First of all school, then there is also not that much about them now when they are in the studio...

Hope it's okay with you guys ;]

TokioHotelSwe, Ica & Hanna

Germany, France, England or the U.S.: No matter where the guys show up - everywhere the same scenes: fans, who totally freak out, who scream the names Bill (19), Tom (19), Gustav (20) and Georg (21), who can sing the songs along. Many TH-fans go even further, making clear offers their darlings - for example on gross poster slogans: "F**k me through the monsoon" or "Tom, we want to give you a blow job" are almost harmless. In the fifth part of the great BRAVO-series, the boys reveal exclusively what there's real - between them and the fans.

BRAVO: What are you saying about the partial hard slogans of your fans?

TOM: I think it's cool, that our fans are so directly (grins).

BILL: That makes our fans. But to be honest: Initially, we were sometimes short of breath.

BRAVO: What were the most beautiful experiences so far with your fans?

BILL: The first gig after "Durch den Monsun" was published - and suddenly so many fans were singing the song along. The concert had even canceled, because the crowd was too big. This has overwhelmed me!

TOM: Just until we were in Mexico. Once we had about two hours to write autographs. The fans were so touched, and many have even cred, just because we were there. It was so gross. We were also previously been in the South American countries and didn't know, that we are so known. And suddenly there were thousands of people. It was really unbelievable.

BRAVO: Were there once really gross situations with fans?

TOM: Oh yes. In Madrid once the situation was out of control. Gustav went into his hotel room. But in his bed were already fans. They were fallen Gustav directly around his neck and he has become so frightened. At Bills and my room were already quite a lot in front of the door. They constantly knocked, they climbed up the fire brigade, have totally screamed.

BILL: Then suddenly the police appeared. They have entered the door and drag me out of the room. "Are you Bill Kaulitz?" they have screamed. Then they took my hands together, interrogated me and claimed that I was responsible for the chaos. The problem was: They couldn't speak English, they only spoke Spanish. I hardly understood anything. Then Tom tried to contact our security people. When they arrived, the matter could be resolved. The police really wanted to take me to their police station.

BRAVO: But here, the fans went too far, or?

BILL: Well, that was traumatic and violent.

TOM: But since we were holding on as a band - then it bothers us really not. That's just a part of it and makes us not be afraid or so. While it was already gross, but also actually funny again. But if we are at home, we're glad about tranquility. Then we're not giving autographs and taking photos. But if we're on the road, we're doing this for sure.

BRAVO: Were you already nasty to your fans?

TOM: So we would never be knowingly nasty to our fans. They are too important for us.

BILL: We certainly never wanted to do something nasty to them. We love them. But everyone has a bad day and looks bad. Sometimes we just couldn't give everyone an autograph. Then we're in stress and must continue to the next appointment. We're constantly on the road for our fans and we're for sure no assholes.

BRAVO: Hand on the heart - were there also some embarrassing moment with your fans?

TOM: Nope. Only once, a girl wanted to come with me to my hotel room and fell down on the way.

BILL: Or the scene at the airport: There were girls screaming "We want to f**k you" - right in the dead silence there. That was then embarrassing, but more for them.

BRAVO: Tom, how many groupies did you have had in your bed?

TOM: Hmmm, that's really difficult to say. I don't count.

BILL: Yeah, but he has such a clicker (laughs)!

TOM: What I can say, I had more often a woman in my bed than I was on the toilet (laughs loud). No, nonsense! Now seriously: I'm even become somewhat quieter.

BRAVO: That means ... ?

TOM: I still don't get it by myself - but perhaps with 19 I already rejected the horns. Not that sex would become boring. But I also prefer watching a DVD in the evening. The other is indeed very strenuous (grins). Meanwhile, I could even imagine something stronger. But the girl really would have to strike me.

BRAVO: And how about the groupies by Georg and Gustav? Are they so wildly like Tom?

TOM: As far as we know, there is nothing (laughs)!

BILL: There are no guys, which represent a girl. Gustav had at the beginning of our career a girlfriend. But even then was nothing more.

TOM: Georg is doing so as if he were a macho. But he prefers it, when she's offensive.

BILL: Inside, he's dirty but outwardly too shy.

TOM: You have to show him what's happening. There were for sure already some girls, who liked him and the other way too. But none did the first step. With me it's different - I belong to the hunters and collectors.

BRAVO: And what about you, Bill - there was still no kiss for you?

BILL: No, not yet. That totally makes me really sad. I'm 19 now and that's missing me completely. I'd really like to have a girlfriend, with whom I could share my life, whom understands everything, what I do. Although I have Tom. But I absolutely want a girlfriend.

BRAVO: But the offer is huge for you?

BILL: It's difficult to open yourself to someone. I have no time, I'm always on the road. When I meet on a after-show-party girls, I never know what they really want. I also see in the near future no way - that's bad. But I still have the music, this is my backup. And dogs are my substitutes. Sometime, I want to have many dogs. They make me happy.

Interview:

Interviewer: What do you think about the band Tokio Hotel?

Lauri: We love them .... I think ... I don't know too much about this band ...

Interviewer: Are they big in Finland?

Lauri: Yeah! I think that they're quite huge in Finland. But there're only one thing that I know for sure that they stole our rift.

Interviewer: Which one?

Lauri: It's a song called "Spring Nicht", yeah... It's exactly like a rift in our song "Not Like the Other Girls"... Actually we got that from the fans... The Rasmus's fans . They send us... they made like a video where they edited those two songs after each other.

Interviewer: Very interesting...

Lauri: Yes! ... I wish all the best for the band.. I think they have a good atittude and... some talent to get very far.

This was nice said, don't you think so?

SUPPORT TH AT LOS PREMIOS MTVLA!!!

Help Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg get their hands on a "Los Premios MTVLA" Award! The guys are nominated in the following four categories and you can make them #1 in each of them by casting your vote today!!!

Best New International Artist

Song of the Year - Monsoon

Best Ringtone - Monsoon

Best Fanclub

IMPORTANT: The rules say that you need to vote in all categories for your votes to count!!!

This Saturday's episode of Présentation Spéciale on Musique Plus will be about Tokio Hotel in America. I think this channel is only available to those in Québec, so I hope you all enjoy it and make sure to check it out! For more info, translated by Gloria of our forums, look below the break.

saturday at 10pm, sunday at 2am and sunday at 12pm

Tokio Hotel - Live From Hollywood - Tokio Hotel are offering you a performance recorded at the Avalon Hollywood in California. This phenomenal German band has incredible success in Europe, with 2 albums and 4 songs that were in the top of the charts. They're also playing sold out shows, that are making them the biggest band coming from Germany in the 20 last years. The melodic rock of Tokio Hotel alternates between heavy rhythms, guitar melodies and introspective ballads. Their concerts also include the songs Ready Set Go, By Your Side and Don't Jump.


Direct taken from tokiohotelnetwork.com

There are two people, one from the Danish forum and one from THu's forum, that have written some things about the new album..

Danish fanclub info: (posted on th_cult on LiveJournal)

Hi fellow cult members :) I am posting this here, since I think some of you might wanna know haha. If its not allowed, please delete *__*

Anyways, its not a secret (to some maybe o_O), that I run and own the Danish fanclub (http://tokiohotelfanclub.dk/), and I have direct contact to the Danish division of Universal Music. Today, I got so sick and tired of ALL the rumours flying around online, so I called them, and asked them about what they know. So far, this is what they have been told from Tokio Hotel's management.

In november a new DVD will be released. It will be a combination between Live footage (probably from the european tour) and a lot of backstage material. It will be very simple, but with a lot of never-seen-before stuff :D!

About the new album, they have been told to not expect it before sometime in 2009.

This is what they know. You can question my source as much as you want, just thought I'd share what I know. I have no reason to lie about this, and many knows that I do have contact with TH's PR agent in Denmark (ask onverva lol).

I know some of this have been posted on the internet already, just confirming it, once and for all ^^

<3

THus forum member's info:

OK GIRLS. At the moment i´M in germany. I can for sure tell you some things. I can´t tell you from where I know that. But I know it from confident source. I mean , person who REALLY know them!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. TOKIO HOTEL HAVE 2 STUDIOS... The studio that all we know near Hamburg isn't their main studio. And one reason why they changed it is because of more and more fans that know the address of it. I DON'T know where is main studio. But they will be in other studio definitely more than one week.

2. ALBUM WOULDN'T BE OVER BEFORE DECEMBER!!!! They are working really hard. And they want that album is really PERFECT!!!

3. PARTY WILL BE DEFINITELY IN GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!! I know it for sure. But I don´t know in what city.

SO GIRLS IF I FIND SOMETHING MORE I WILL TELL YOU. I HOPE THAT I WILL FOUND AN INTERNET CAFE TO WRITE YOU... :-)

...

MEN THAT WORK FOR THEM TOLD ME BEFORE 2 HOURS THAT STUFF. I WAS IN FRONT OF THEIR STUDIO AND HE TOLD ME THAT. !!!!

On the Billboard's Modern Rock Chart Tokio Hotel's album Scream is in place 25! Quite good :]
Tokio Hotel's song Scream is now also on the Billboard Top 100, but right now they are in place 96. But they are so good they will find their way up I hope, don't you?

You can also make your own slideshow with Monsoon.

"Head to Rockyou.com and create your own customized photoslideshow with a Tokio Hotel theme and "Monsoon" as the soundtrack! Get creative and create your own slideshow today by clicking HERE!"

Well now you have the chance!

AY DIOS MIOS! I know everyone in Tokio Hotel land is all "traurig" because To Ho's heading back to Germany to work on their next album, but you do know they're making a stop at least somewhat closer to the vicinity of North America next month, right?

Tokio Hotel will be performing live at Los Premios MTV 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico on Thursday, October 16th, along with Paramore, Katy Perry, Belanova, and Julieta Venegas. And if you don't have an up-to-date passport and frequent flyer miles on Mexicana, you can watch the show on MTV Tr3s at 9pm ET.

AND/OR/ALSO you can enter the T-Mobile Los Premios MTV 2008 Casting Call, where five faithful fans can win a trip to Mexico to hit the "ALFOMBRA ROJA" (did I say that right? "red carpet?") and attend the big show. You can enters September 25th, so more info on that coming soon, I swears it, and yes, it's open to U.S. residents, so YAY AMERICA!! But also YAY brushing up on your Español - time to swap out that Rosetta Stone German CD for the Spanish one. Listas?

+ Get more on Tokio Hotel and Los Premios MTV 2008 (they're like the VMAs but with more exotic accents!) at Blogamole!

This is direct taken from http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=232971181

Some of you might have heard of the whole Iron Fist thing,
but now that the guys are actually being seen on their page it..s time for us to drop it for real =)

Lets take it from the beginning. This is what it..s about and how it all begun:

I emailed Iron Fist (a clothing brand Bill has been wearing ALOT lately in the US)
and informed them that Bill have been wearing their clothing for quite some time now,
and thought that they would want to know about it.

As I suspected, they had no knowledge of this,
and they were VERY happy to know about it!

They asked me if Bill or any other member would want to have more clothing from the brand,
and if so; they could have it.

So I contacted some ppl to ask if the band would want any more clothing from the brand, and they told me that; Yes, of course they want to =)

So now the cooperation is working on smoothly between Iron and TH.


So now when you can also see them on the Iron Fist Official Homepage, I thought it would be time to tell you the whole story!

Please visit the Homepage to check it all out:
http://www.ironfist.tv/

I myself am quite sure that he doesnt have ha girlfriend, but here are two articles about it. Do you think its true or not?

Tokio Hotel: Bill Kaulitz in a nightclub for the birthday of his girlfriend Ilayda?

The rumour of the love story between Bill Kaulitz and Ilayda Gecim, a German teen of Turkish origin, restarts! Moving on to a love story! Denise, a fan of Tokio Hotel, has alerted us about the lovers going out to a nightclub in Berlin this weekend. The young Ilayda has celebrated her birthday in the past few days, it's party time!

Imagine that for your next birthday Bill Kaulitz invites you to go to a nightclub with the whole group! What would you think? And your friends?

Right now, Tokio Hotel are in Berlin to record their third album in studio.

Once again we thank Denise, a faithful reader, who alerted us about the existence of this famous Ilayda. See: Bill Kaulitz and his little friend! (translation below)

Thanks to the internet, Tokio Hotel fans react quickly. Don't hesitate on writing to us if you have some news to be published.

We welcome you to be a part of the news association "Tokio Hotel's Verband" (Tokio Hotel's Union), started on August 22^nd by Gaelle, Noemie, Rachel, Amandie and Adeline. Good luck for them who want to develop Tokio Hotel's community. To contact them: [email protected]

Let's not forget that a group without news is a group that's dying! So, it doesn't matter if we're mean now and then!

Second article:

Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel has a little friend of Turkish origin.

There's a rumour all over the internet, and a Turkish reader of staragora who's in love with Bill Kaulitz and Tokio Hotel told us about it: Denise, 16 years old.

According to her, Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel has been going out with Ilayda Gecim. She lives in Berlin but her origins are Turkish. She's 15 years old. The rumour started in 2007: Bill Kaulitz and Ilayda had probably met at an award event, "Comet 07". They were seen holding hands outside a club.

According to Denise, many of girls posed as the young Ilayda at blogs or forums, mostly Teemix and Ladiz... Denise says that's not Bill's little friend: Ilayda can't speak French. (...)

Cut out

UMG plans a strong release schedule for the second half of 2008 with new albums from
Black Eyed Peas, Pussycat Dolls, Paulina Rubio, Akon, The Killers, Bon Jovi, Keane, Fall Out Boy, Ne-Yo, Tokio Hotel, Hikaru Utada, Mylène Farmer and Florent Pagny.
PDF link

In the monstrous melee that was Tokio Hotel's big night at the VMAs, let us not overlook their pre-Best New Artist appearance on the final episode of FNMTV (RIP, June 13 - September 5, 2008).

Watch Bill, Tom, George and Gustav make their VMA predictions (in perfect English!) and express their desires to meet Pink and Danity Kane.

Plus - James Montgomery nearly robs Britney of a VMA and Tim Kash fans the fires of the nearly defunct Jonas-Tokio feud.

"Okay, so I was told by MTV that now I can finally start telling people.

I made top two!

Watch me on MTV Live on Wednesday, Sept 24th, at 6-7pm EST!

THANKS FOR EVERYTHING YOU GUYS.

I WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN."

For everyone with "Kanal 5" record or watch Jimmi Kimmel show tomorrow at 00:15am (Wednesday morning one could more say)

Its live too ;);)

"En dag på playan

- med Tokio Hotel!

Förra veckan prisades de på MTV-galan.

Nu gör tyska rockbandet Tokio Hotel succé i Los Angeles.

Kolla in de svartklädda penntrollens strandhäng här!"

A day on the beach

- with Tokio Hotel!
Last week they got prises at the MTV-awards. Now the German rockband Tokio Hotel makes succees in Los Angeles.
Check the black clothed penntrolls hanging on the beach here!

- Translate by Ica

Link to the pictures

Source

Bill Kaulitz - The stress is consuming him..

The teenie idol is skinnier than ever. Is the Tokio Hotel singer suffering and eating disorder?

Hanging pants and hollow cheeks: In recent photos Bill Kaulitz looks unhealthily skinny that one question comes to surface: Is he anorexic? The Tokio Hotel star denies such: "Don't worry about my eating habits." Apparently he shovels down mounts of fast food, noodle casseroles and milk rice. But his reassurance over such back fires. Because: "It's typical for anorexics to deny their illness." Explains Dr. Thomas Kurscheid, a nutritional physician. "Sufferers have a warped body perception - they believe they're too fat." However, the 19 year old claims that he only weighs 50 kilos - too little for someone with the height of 1.77 m.

His underweight can also be from nature Bill: "I was always so skinny!" or a reaction to the stressful life in the limelight, the results of energy taking performances and tours. However, the expert assumes it's a psychological problem: "Bill's life is controlled from managers. No wonder that he at least wants to keep the control over his own weight..."

You Tokio Hotel fans glued to your TVs last Sunday during the VMAs? You weren't the only ones wowed by Tokio Hotel's big red carpet entrance atop a "loud," "dangerous" monster truck.

Panic At the Disco, pictured above in a photo I snapped on my BlackBerry on the VMA back lot, arrived early (more on their arrival and how Sway tracked everyone via the Swaychopper and the magical <strike>stalking</strike> tracking powers of VehiclePath GPS at the Newsroom blog) and caught a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Tokio Hotel getting primped for their arrival and getting into position on their VMA monster truck.

And how do I know this? Because Ryan Ross blogged about it on Panic's new blog, We're So Blogging, which you should go read. I just bookmarked it. I know I just did!

Check out VMA video footage of Panic At the Disco checking in with Sway from inside their 16-passenger van in the VMA limo line, and then watch Tokio Hotel's subtle, subdued VMA arrival for the umpeen billionf time.


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FAZ, a very reliable German newspaper, has posted a new article claiming that Universal Music plans to send Tokio Hotel back to the United States in November for another tour. This is because after winning a VMA on Sunday, Universal decided to put a lot more money and effort into promoting Tokio Hotel in America, the biggest and toughest market in the world. To read the translated article by Peki of our forums, look below the break.

Just a note for Canadian and Mexican fans that visit our website, I wouldn't expect to see any concert dates because the effort is really on the US, but anything could happen.

UPDATE: Fans in Québec, Canada are reporting that today one of the hosts on their radio station, CKOI, said that Tokio Hotel would be returning to Montreal in November. So, there may be hope for Canadian fans!

An unexpected award from MTV has given Universal Music a boost in their efforts to establish the German teen band Tokio Hotel in America. The sales numbers of Tokio Hotel's music in the American  online music store iTunes have climbed steadily over the past few days, on Tuesday, their album ‘Scream' was at position 19 in the charts. On Sunday, the band won the ‘Best New Artist' award at the annual MTV Video Music Awards.

Universal launched a campaign this year to make the band a success in the US, too. "The American market is the largest in the world, so we're investing more money to establish Tokio Hotel there than in any other country," the head of Universal Germany, Frank Briegmann, told our newspaper. It's a daring experiment, because the US is said to be a tough market in which few strangers become stars, especially if they're not from English-speaking countries. One of the few real, big German successes was singer Nena with her song ‘99 Red Balloons' in 1983. But Universal felt encouraged by Tokio Hotel's great success in other countries to try their luck in the US. Tokio Hotel had their breakthrough in Germany in 2005 and landed hits in countries like France and Poland soon after.

This spring, the band released their first English record, ‘Scream', in America and made it to position 39 in the Billboard charts. Sales went back a bit after that, which Briegmann claims to have anticipated from the start: "More effort and work is required in America. We knew that from the beginning." Briegmann feels reassured by online sales numbers after the award now, and hopes that the album will return to the Billboard charts. According to him, Tokio Hotel have sold 105000 records so far; Briegmann hopes it'll be 500000, ultimately. To keep up a steady presence, Universal wants to send Tokio Hotel back on their third American tour this November. Briegmann states that because of the focus on America, other of the band's target markets like Asia will have to wait a little longer.

Look what I saw yesterday!


This annoyed me! Wrong album, daah!

Mahah =)

September 7th, Somewhere in the Northeastern United States - Nina, the 16 year old photographer and artist from Portugal is watching the Video Music Awards on MTV, while I work at a mind-numbing and low paying online job, watching the little TV out of the corner of my eye. Nina's mother sits in the living room, watching the final stretch of a two day "House" marathon on USA network, as addicted to the good doctor's antics as Dr. House is addicted to his Vicodin. I'm living a "surreal life," for real.

Our mission tonight is to catch Tokio Hotel on MTV. We know they'll be there, the rumor is that they will present an award to another act. But to our shock and delight, Tokio Hotel won best new artist, over a some other very pretty and talented competitors, including Myley Cyrus and Taylor Swift.

My last music review was seriously flawed; I used the date "September 25th," when Tokio Hotel's Denver show actually took place on August 25th. This might lead the reader to conclude that I have delusions of supernatural powers. Sadly, I have no such prescience, and I'm well aware that I can't report on whatever Tokio Hotel is doing in October today. However, I was able to see this much clearly: these kids have a fanatical American fan base, and they are well on their way to superstardom in the US market.

Unfortunately, the acceptance of the award by Tokio Hotel's glamorous and slightly shy lead singer Bill Kaulitz was all that we got from MTV.

Sure, there were other high points: Rihanna's performance gave me chills, Pink's video had me distracted from my work, and a collaboration by Kid Rock and Lil' Wayne on some original lyrics performed over a bizarre segue of the music of Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" into a tribute to Skynyrds "Sweet Home Alabama," cracked me up; the thing is, all of the aforementioned artists have been getting their fair share of MTV coverage for quite a while now.

Tokio Hotel has been around for a long time, but apparently has remained obscure to the US market. This will no longer be the case. They are young, pop-friendly yet hard-edged, and downright weird, reportedly (by MTV) showing up for the awards ceremony in a monster truck. This was an appropriate gesture for what the future holds; these kids are going places, and will roll right over their tired out tabloid fodder American competition.

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And here is the transcript.
MTV: So the VMA is just around the corner..Are you excited?
Bill: Really excited, and really, really nervous. I didn't sleep anything last night. It was just terrible. I was just thinking about everything. And...yeah, we're proud to be nominated and to be there.
MTV: And if you win how will you celebrate?
Bill: I think we'll celebrate anyway...
Tom: Yeah, you know for us it's good to be nominated so we'll celebrate anyway. ..
Bill & Tom (at the same time): ...the nomination...
Tom: Yeah the nomination. We celebrate the nomination.
Bill: yes
Tom: because you know we have no big chance...It's good to be here. Our part is very small you know. Bill's nervous about..you know just about red carpet.
Bill: (giggles) I'm nervous just to be there
MTV: I'll be nice to you guys on the red carpet. If you promise to talk to me.
Georg: Thank you very much.
MTV: I often..actually every week I get emails about you from my viewers. Sometimes they are very nice sometimes they are not very nice. Usually they are very nice. usually they are like "Please I wanna see more of TH" and sometimes it is "Why the F do you not show more videos?". I would like to know, is this something you urge your fans to do or is it soemthing that just happens?
Bill. It just happens. I think it just happens.
MTV: But why only with you? Why do you have such hardcore fans?
Bill: I don't know. We're just proud of them...I have no reason for that......
Tom: We have the best fans in the world....and you know, we...
Bill: If i take a look at Georg I don't know...
Tom: Yeah...
Bill: I don't know but it is great...We go there and we're proud of our fans and everything
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MTV: Cause I want the same kind of fans but they are not...
Tom. I think you have, you have good fans
Bill: I mean our fans...
MTV: Could we be eachothers' fans now?
(everyone babbling over eachother so I don't think they hear the reporter)
Bill. I think our fans are the best fans in the world, so noone else can have(?) them.
MTV: So you're nervous for tomorrow... how will you prepare for your thing tomorrow?
Bill. I need some sleep so I'll go early to bed...and..yeah sleeping, and chilling at the pool.
Tom: Reading, eating, relaxing and stuff like that¨
MTV: When are you coming to Scandinavia?
Bill: I don't know. I mean our schedule is very very full and our trip is very long in America and it was not planned so after this we go back directly back to Germany and to the studio and we'll record new stuff and everything for the next record, and we're still at the creative process so we have a lot of stuff to do and yeah...
Tom: For the next tour I think we definitely will come over and play some concerts and stuff like that.
MTV: Thank you. They'll be much nicer to me after hearing this.

Thanks to tokiohoteamerica for the transcript

Sorry for the lame update! We have loads of homework and right now school is very important to us. Tomorrow is a very busy day too, but maybe if we get some free time we'll post some news

sleep tight!

hanna

ENJOY!!

Tokio Fans TV [Episode 1]: Interview 06/20/08 (Part 1)

Tokio Fans TV [Episode 1]: Interview 06/20/08 (Part 2)

 Tokio Fans TV [Episode 1]: Interview 06/20/08 (Part 3)

Tokio Fans TV [Episode 2]: Yaritzell's Hyper Tantrums

Tokio Fans TV [Episode 3]- Hood Dominicanization (Part 1)

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Here is a transcript by dropthetacos!

Tom: Hey Buzzworthy, we are
All: Tokio Hotel
Tom: and we just finished our rehearsals for tomorrow for the VMAs and now we are ready and we, uhm, go back to the hotel, and it was good and I think the next day will be more than good.
Buzzworthy: What are you guys gonna do tonight? Back at the hotel?
Bill: I think we just go back to the hotel and sleeping or chilling at the pool. I don't know, because, uhm, yeah. We need- we really need to sleep because we're so tired and worked the whole day, so ehm, I think, ehm, yeah. It's important to, you know, get some power for the VMAs tomorrow.
Tom: Just relaxing, sleeping eating, stuff like that.
Bill: Yeah.
Tom: We are ready!
Buzzworthy: Cool. Uhm. Who are you guys excited to see tomorrow on the red carpet?
Bill: I really want to see Pink. I mean, she has an awesome voice and I really love her songs and she's performing her new single (?), so...
Tom: But I don't know if we meet somebody at the red carpet, I think it's -
Bill and Tom: more backstage (twin moment)
Tom: or more aftershow party, or something like that.
Buzzworthy: Give me a clue about what you guys are going to wear tomorrow...
Bill: OH! I have no idea right now!
Tom: But I think it's, it's, you know... nothing special.
Bill: No, I think I wake up and then I think, "Okay, what I can wear now", put all my bags (?), and let's see. I don't know.
Buzzworthy: Bill are you gonna do something different to you hair?
Bill: NO!
Buzzworthy: No. Definitely not.
Bill: No, I wake up with this hair, and I go to bed with this hair, so...
Tom: He's born with it, so...
Buzzworthy: Excellent. What have you guys been doing since you've been in LA? What are some of the things you guys have gone to see?
Bill: Oh, Tom and me, we had our birthday in Los Angeles.
Tom: *repeats Bill*
Buzzworthy: Oh right!
Bill: on the first of September. And we were at the beach, and at the pool, and just relaxing with George and Gustav, and...
Tom: Then we had some radio promotion with KISS FM, and stuff like that,
Bill: and we did a signing session.
Buzzworthy: Yeah, at Hot Topic, right?
Bill and Tom: Yeah, Hot Topic.
Tom: We had a small gig, and we played three songs, and yeah. *clap*
Buzzworthy: Did you get any weird fan gifts today? know you had a lot of fans there...
Bill: Oh, everyone send Skittles, you know? (Tom: Yeah...) Because we love Skittles, and now we have... I dont know, 800 pack of Skittles. It's crazy.
Buzzworthy: Cool, uh, any sort of clue... I know there's a big entrance, I know you cant say what it is...
Bill: We can say it is huge,
Georg: It's dangerous,
Bill: Dangerous, and loud, and I think it will be fun

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'We have no chance,' frontman Bill Kaulitz says of band's two nominations.

Tokio Hotel are the only males to be nominated for Best New Artist at this year's Video Music Awards - they are also the only foreign act contending for the prize. Maybe that will give them the edge, but the guys are quite shy about their chances of snagging a Moonman at Sunday's big show.

"We don't expect it, so for us, it's so cool to be nominated," frontman Bill Kaulitz told MTV News. "I think it's really, really special for us - it's America and it's our first American award, and that's so huge."

The German pop-rockers are up against American pop stars like Jordin Sparks and Miley Cyrus, but back in Germany, the guys are the megastars. They've sold millions of records in their home country and scored several #1 hits since they got together in 2001. Being crowned Best New Artist in front of an American audience would only solidify their fame here in the United States.

Just because they're rock stars back home doesn't mean they don't appreciate being nominated for a VMA. "I mean, I still can't believe it," Bill said. "Last year we were nominated at the [MTV Europe Music Awards; they won one] and it was the biggest thing we had, and now it is the Video Music Awards.

"It's really hard to get fans in another country, especially here - America is so, so big, so it's really hard to get known in this country," Bill told MTV News back in May. "We are so excited we have fans here at all. In America, we see a fan and it is like, 'Oh, we are proud! We have a fan in America!' "

But with a couple of VMA nominations on their side, it seems that now they have more than just one fan in the States. Guitarist Tom Kaulitz added, "To be nominated at the VMAs, for a German band, I think it's crazy."

The guys also have a chance to pick up the Best Pop Video trophy for "Ready, Set, Go!" Of going up against the likes of the Jonas Brothers, Bill modestly said, "We have no chance." But one thing he does hope he has a chance of doing is meeting Rihanna at the big show on Sunday. "I think it would be so cool to meet Rihanna, 'cause she's so sexy."

Now that you've helped us pick the nominees for this year's Video Music Awards, head to VMA.MTV.com to vote for your favorite in the Best New Artist category, check out the latest additions to the performer and presenter lineups, see the best (and worst) of VMA fashion and much more. Then tune in this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET for MTV News' "Opening Act" on the red carpet, followed by the big show, live from Hollywood at 9 p.m. ET.

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When Tokio Hotel performs at the Hollywood and Highland mall, 10 lucky fans and their friends will get a chance to be part of the band's TV performance- and be shown on national TV themselves!

The 10 craziest Tokio Hotel fans will be chosen by the host of the event (Jo Jo from KIIS). Each winner, plus a friend, will be put on the guest list for Tokio Hotel's performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tues Sept 9. The band will be performing 5 songs on Kimmel's outdoor stage, and the winners will be allowed to enter first... and Jimmy Kimmel Live will show them on national TV! Winners will need to arrive at Kimmel at 6:15pm latest.

Kimmel is filmed somewhere in LA, I am sure the winners will receive the most specific instructions.

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Very soon, on September 1, we will be celebrating the 19th birthday of the Kaulitz twins. But for now, let's take a look at all the events that have taken place recently in the life of Tokio Hotel.

Success and Achievements

Bill Kaulitz has everything necessary for a successful career: talent, a look, money, the love of the fans. But there is one thing missing for the total happiness of every young man - a good car! This month Bill finally got his driver's license and immediately bought a luxurious, silver convertible from BMW, for almost 100 000 Euros.

Aside from that, the group is among the nominees for the MTV VMAs in the "Best New Artist" category. This, yet again, proves that the boys are successfully conquering the Unites States and are already quite popular in this country. You can vote for the guys on MTV's official website (mtv.com). The Award show is very soon- on September 7.

This month, Tokio Hotel is also celebrating another important event: exactly three years ago, the August of 2005, the single "Durch Den Monsun" was released, which made Tokio Hotel known to the world. With that song started the band's history. And with that song these boys changed the world of music forever.


Indecent Proposal

The twins are getting older, which means, that the scandals, that they are sometimes involved in, are getting bigger too. Not that long ago, a few girls declared that Bill spends the nights in different online chatrooms, using his big name and fame to get the girls to send him naked pictures. But we know that Bill would never dare to take advantage of the love of his fans, with such low behaviour. The police did an investigation and caught an 18-year-old Frenchman, who, for few weeks was posing on the internet as Bill Kaulitz and making the girls believe that he really is the "real" Bill. During the contact with the girls, the false-Bill was very friendly and caring, so it took awhile to find out about the fraud. But the Frenchman took too much advantage of Bill's fans, and this brought about hard consequences. At first the girls were nervous to send the poser their naked pictures. They were suspicious, but still sent the photos. Finally, the law enforcements were able to trace the guy and found him in a small town in France. With him, they found many photographs of naked girls in erotic positions. The police were in shock, when they found out that some of the girls were only 11-years-old. Now the dude will have to pay a large fine. When we contacted Bill for a comment about the event, he assured us and all of his fans, that neither he nor anyone else from the group ever were and ever will be at these online chatrooms. They just don't have the time.

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Page 1
- The boys had fans waiting for them at the New York airport.
- Tokio Hotel are being pulled in different directions. Despite their tight schedule, they promise to come to Russia. You will know about the concert dates first in BRAVO!
- Bill tries to pay attention to each fan.
- Even on the streets of New York the boys are greeted by large groups of fans.
- The tough American cops protect the boys like "the apple of the eye"...
- ... But the love of the fans cannot be stopped.

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- The future "Birthday-boys" are ready to party.
- There is no limit to the excitement of the American fans.
- Today the guys of Tokio Hotel are welcomed guests on MTV, but once they couldn't even dream of such tremendous success.

Here is the translation of the swedish mag. OKEJ number 9

USA, Europe, Southafrica....
The Tokio Hysteria spreds over the world.

New Album?

It has been rumoured for a long time that the boys are recording a new album for a long time now. And it's true, Bill writes new songs almost every day. But no date is set yet and their popularity in the US risks delays in the recordings. What is comfirmed is that the album is going to be in German.

During the summer TH has...

X Toured through Southeurope

X Begun their 2nd tour in the US. The guys sold out in, amongst other places, Chicago

X Performed at Conan O'Brian

X Had the cover of a big mexican magazine

Did you know that Bill...

Dressed like a vampire on Halloween once? After that he decided to look that way every day.
He didn't know what anime was when he created his look.

Has maredreams that he sleeps too late and misses an important meeting?

Thinks that the Tokio Hotel logo tattoo on his neck was the one that hurt the most?

Likes Prison Break

Wouldn't hide his girlfriend if he had one?


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Translation up later I hope!!

When they knew that a lot of their disappointed fans had destroyed cds and posters in protest of not getting the promised autograph, the band members of Tokio Hotel just smiled in surprise.

"It wasn't our intention to upset anybody. WE're very sorry, but we were told that everything went according to what was planned", said lead singer Bill Kaulitz in press conference yesterday.

According to the germans, they didn't know that about 800 people with bracelets didn't get an autograph on last friday night in Plaza Cuicuilco.

That's why they never got offended by the fact that their fans booed when they left, saying that they didn't know that the record store Mixup had assured the fans the band would sign 2000 autographs.

The truth is that the store gave out that amount of bracelets and that in the event there were fans that traveled from other states of the country just to see the band and get an autograph.

When the band reached 1200 autographs, their security guard decided that it was time to leave.

When they knew that Tokio Hotel had left, some teenagers and their parents started to tear the cover of the Scream cd, while others went to the store to demand their money back.

Around 600 people caused the movilization of 20 security people inside the plaza, because they were pounding over the crystal doors of the store.

"Our record label (Universal Music) said that there were only 50 people left, not that many!! (800) We are very sorry about this incident, we thank our fans for all the love they've given us," said Bill's twin brother, Tom, in their encounter with the mexican press.

This September is starting out great for Tokio Hotel and there are tons of opportunities for YOU to get super close to Bill, Tom, Gustav & Georg. Here are this newsletter's hot topics:
Tokio Hotel on American Radio!
Signing Session and free performance in Hollywood!
Tokio Hotel at the MTV Video Music Awards!

September 3rd & 5th: TOKIO HOTEL ON AMERICAN RADIO!
Check the dates below when Tokio Hotel will visit American radio stations!

SAN DIEGO:
Wednesday, September 3rd @ 7 am: KHTS station / studio - interview at the station and acoustic performance with studio audience and listeners.

LOS ANGELES:
Wednesday, September 3rd @ 4pm: KIIS FM in Burbank - interview and acoustic performance for contest winners include Meet&Greet for fans!

LOS ANGELES:
Wednesday, September 3rd @ 7:30pm: KYSR FM

LOS ANGELES:
Friday, September 5th @ 9 pm: KIIS FM in Burbank - interview with more contest winners !


September 6th: TOKIO HOTEL SIGNING AND FREE PERFORMANCE IN HOLLYWOOD!
Catch Tokio Hotel perform LIVE on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th @ 3PM and be part of the cool signing session. This is how YOU can make it happen:
Beginning Saturday, August 30th at 10am, if you purchase any Tokio Hotel CD or T-Shirt from the Hollywood & Highland Hot Topic, you will receive a wristband that gets you preferred access to the performance and guarantees the opportunity to meet the band following the concert at the store!!! (Limited space available) HOLLYWOOD & HIGHLAND CENTER
6801 HOLLYWOOD BLVD
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028


September 7th: TOKIO HOTEL AT THE MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS!
On Sunday, September 7th it is time for the MTV Video Music Awards. You guys made it happen and nominated Tokio Hotel in the categories BEST POP VIDEO and BEST NEW ARTIST! Make sure to tune in on Sunday at 9pm ET and watch this gigantic happening.

You can still vote for Tokio Hotel as BEST NEW ARTIST - click HERE to vote!!!

To apply to be part of the red carpet MTV VMA audience click HERE.