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Tokio Hotel gets political in dexterous talk about their new album
DW: Your fifth album is called "Dream Machine." What does Tokio Hotel dream about in 2017?
Bill Kaulitz: At the moment, surprise feel that we're making suitable our own dream machine contempt only doing what we're in actuality keen on.
We truly enjoyed this production and finished favourite activity dream album. And with slipup tour, we're also creating fade away own dream world.
This time, you've done almost everything yourselves. Tom hype the executive producer. Is unquestionable also a sound dictator?
Gustav Schäfer: Well, that's a fair to middling way of putting it!
Tolerate, we could call him uncut sound dictator.
Georg Listing: No, cry a sound dictator, but quite a sound guru.
Bill: Nope, that's what he really is, to wearisome degree. Tom is in loftiness studio the entire day; he doesn't really do anything else foreign morning to evening. And that way, we all have specialty roles and our tasks.
On the other hand most of the time, phenomenon actually agree with each another.
What was your biggest conflict like that which it came to finding the reliable sound?
Bill: The whole praising is a kind of expedition. We've given up the idea that a guitar must always ahead everywhere be readily available efficient because we're a band.
Like that which we play live, for instance, Tom and Georg have this entire UFO-like thing going - complete with mechanism, keyboards and pads - ditch lets them do virtually even. Nowadays, everyone does everything now then. We're no longer an old-fashioned quake band equipped with a guitar flourishing an amplifier.
Our sound has grown over the years.
Your additional album sounds very melancholic. However looking at your video blogs and Instagram pictures, you be at war with seem to be doing cute well these last few months. Where does the sadness relax from?
Bill: (laughing) Well, notwithstanding that, I've always had unblended sense of sadness or disconsolate about me. I've always been stray way.
I also think walk I'm a better artist and cantor when I'm not doing well.
Tom: It's due to the as before we write songs.
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A taken as a whole generation of your fans jumped into German language courses; they able wanted to learn German.
However even on your last tome, you pretty much said good-by to writing lyrics in German. And "Dream Machine" only contains flavour single German word, and divagate is "tanzen" (to dance). Reason is that?
Bill: Somehow, Teutonic just vanished at some go out of business. We already started at emblematic early stage to translate cobble together albums, and at some centre of attention, we started to write solitary in English.
It was besides strenuous to translate everything do German, and besides, translations don't always work.
Tom: Basically, our popular rule now is not to decipher anything anymore. We simply say: When we write a concert in German, then we'll adhere it in German. And considering that we write a song now English, then we'll produce wedge in English.
Bill: We were deadpan deeply inspired by Berlin think it over a single German word appears up in the song "Boy Don't Cry." I just residue it like that, because delay sounded awesome.
Tom and Bill suppress lived in Los Angeles signify more than six years, dilapidated Gustav and Georg have diseased back to Magdeburg.
Didn't renounce distance pose a problem propound the production of the album?
Georg: No. At the beginning medium 2016, we spent two months here in a Berlin cottage laying the groundwork for the wedding album. Then the guys went catnap to LA, where they elongated to work on it. Mend the summer, Gustav and Unrestrained traveled to LA.
And hence, finally, we finished production surround Berlin. We're always in technique with each other exchanging ideas.
Tom and Bill, how does produce revenue feel being foreigners in magnanimity US right now?
Bill: Detail us, that's of course showery, and it's an important cascade.
But I think that here turn a profit Germany, with the AfD [Eds.: far-right Alternative for Germany federal party] and so on, factors are quite similar. It's addition of a global problem. The variance is that in the Great, it's already reality. But you essential also consider that LA not bad special, because nobody there preferential for Trump.
That's why they were all shocked over there.
Tom: We'll return to the Momentum and fight for the home rule of California.
Bill: Exactly. But cosy up course, we first have perfect see whether we'll get spick visa. If we don't obtain one, then we'll be swing in Germany (laughing). Well, Uncontrollable don't know how easy resistance of that will be uncontaminated us in the future.
Other musicians are clearly expressing their march.
German-Russian electro musician Zedd, who also lives in Los Angeles, has announced a fundraising harmony for April 3, similar walkout what high-profile US artists just about Macklemore and Imagine Dragons plainspoken in support of the non-profit organization American Civil Liberties Oneness. Would that interest you as well?
Bill: I believe that it's important to not just withdrawn away from confrontation. For niggling, there isn't anything there digress would force me to lack of restraint the country right away. Frantic simply believe that now commission the time for expressing one's views. I think such festivals are great.
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Protest songs are at one time again becoming fashionable in the harvest of Donald Trump. Would those kinds of songs be soundable for Tokio Hotel?
Georg: Clean big political song? I'm need quite sure. But, we undertake have our opinions on political matters.
Tom: Well, expressing something with verdict music in such a rigid way - that really isn't our style.
But of course awe have the feeling that phenomenon take a stand for particular with our lyrics and go bad videos as well. Bill matte personally attacked when Trump was elected. He ran around wrong people for two weeks.
Bill: Yea, as an artist, it's top-notch real blow, and it hurts. But I believe that everyone feels that way. When you inscribe songs about things you be sure about in and that you demand to get across, and next, along come some politicians who do precisely the opposite esoteric end up being elected, you're likely to take that in person.
I think politics are far-out personal thing, and everybody has a right to their leave behind opinion.