NOTHING GIVES HOPE AS GERMAN POP
A raised placard of beige cardboard is waving ahead among the tourist streak from Gustav Adolfs Square [big square in malmö] and Trianglen [other square, smaller] in Malmö. "We're not crazy, we're Tokio Hotel Fans", it's says, and it has a reason.[lol I made it]
Tokio Hotel is a German popband which has during the latest year slowly become a phenomen even outside the German-speaking world. The fanbase is big, yet obviously closed. The Tokio Hotel-gathering [the journalist is actually using the word "colony" here but it sounds wrong in English] with about 30 followers that moved in the crowd of the festival [yearly festival in Malmö, just started] was very representative. They're all girls, almost everyone between 12 and 16.
- Though in the U.S. it's a bit different, you could be both guy and older and still like them, they explain. [not exacly correct quoted, but whatever].
It's in the U.S. that the band is beeing right now: the one that believes that the girls are in town to see the their favourite band onstage is mistaking. The fans has gathered only to behold that on the Friday, it's three years ago the band released their first single.
- It's not only here [in Malmö], it's in Gothenburg and Stockholm as well. Everywhere around the world, says Stephanie Nilsson.
The fans gathered in Malmö is from all of Skåne [Skåne, province in southern Sweden]. The lov of the band has brought them together. Some of them has hung along since 2005, others have joined later on.
- This is my first favourite band, says 13-year-old Elin Karlsson from Ystad [little city a couple of miles from Malmö]. - I like them for the unity. You get friends from everywhere in the country, people that you've never met before.
Tokio Hotel is awakening a lot of emotions, mostly positive. Extremly positive. The negative emotions? They're coming mostly as a reaction on the positive ones. Only a band that is loved this much can awake other feelings among others, as hate.
- I was a TH-hater in the beginning, Karin Frenning [lol that's me] confesses [that was looong time ago though]. - They were just a big phenomen that was annoying.
journalist: - What made you change opinion?
- I heard them [embarassing lol].
Emma Rosdhal tells us that at first, she saw posters in a girl's room in Germany. She was interested by then. The listening came later.
- They sounded as I thought they would.
For many of them this is an important manifestation, a prideparade for German poprock.
- Some people think that we're ashamed of listening to Tokio Hotel, but we're not, Karin Frenning establishes.
The surroundings has found many reasons to get annoyed by the band and their fans. The girls are accounting some of them:
- Bill has a special style.
- Guys think that you has to be gay to like them, since the girls are fans and since Bill wears a lot of makeup
- People think that they play emo music. [and emo is always wrong, lol. he left out the most important things we said in this part, though.]
The gathering is moving away towards the market stalls where you can buy t-shirts, sweatbands, watch-straps, pins and other things with Tokio Hotel-pictures. Some is buying stuff, others have already got what they need. And the music is the most important thing.
- If I'm sad it's the music that's the thing for me. It helps me to think positive, says Elin Karlsson.
Karin Frenning [me again lol] is about to start high school on Monday - a new environment, with new friends, and new possibilities to get new enemies.
- I'm going to be careful with announcing that I like Tokio Hotel. The classmates should learn to know me as I am before they judge me.
TOKIO HOTEL
Quartet from Magdeburg, germany. Fronted by the twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz, 18 years old.
Breakthrough in their homeland August 2005 with their debut single "Durch den Monsun".
Their third album "Scream" was released last year and consists of English versions of songs that were originally released in German.
source; sydsvenskan.se
