Tokio Hotel wants privacy

German Tokio Hotel draws attention to themselves wherever they go. For better or worse, according to the members. "We have not had any privacy since we were 15," lead vocalist Bill Kaulitz says. The new album Humanoid will soon be released.

German Tokio Hotel draws attention to themselves wherever they go. For better or worse, according to the members. "We have not had any privacy since we were 15," lead vocalist Bill Kaulitz says.
With six million sold CDs, Tokio Hotel is one of the biggest pop groups in the world. And when they visited Stockholm on Tuesday to promote the new album hundreds of teenage girls waited outside the hotel.
"Our fans are the best you can imagine, they are intense but supportive. After working hard, it feels great to come back and be received like this, "s Bill Kaulitz says.
But attention comes with a price, and the 20-year-old members have previously followed by too close for comfort fans. Last spring the band's fanclub joined in an action against the stalkers.
"They are sick people, people who need help. Of course it is very scary, but if you're famous it is more less inevitable" Bill Kaulitz says.
He speaks for all members in saying that Tokio Hotel loves to tour, but admits at the same time that the group, which has existed since the early teens, soemtimes dreams abouit a totally different life.
"There will be days when you wish you lived a normal life, that you could go out and meet friends, go to the movies or go shopping. There is nowhere where we can hide to have privacy. But you get used to it."
And good is that., because in the nearest future the pressure on the four teenage idols will not get any less. In less than one month they will release their third album in a German and in an English version. A couple of the songs unfortunately leaked online last summer.
"It was the worst thing that could have happen to us, you feel so attacked as an artist. they weren't even finished versions. those thinsg cannot go unpunished " Bill Kaulitz says.
Exactly when Tokio Hotel come to Sweden for a concert is not determined, but a tour is planned for early 2010. The singer, whose vocal cord problems caused them to cancel the Europeean tour and the Stockholm concert in 200, is now fully recovered.
"It is hard to know when to pull the emergency brake, when you've been working too much. It took a long time to process, so I'm more cautious now, "he says."


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