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(Dec, 2012)

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Why did you decide to join the DSDS-Jury?
Bill: We decided to join this show, because it’s the most successful casting show. In addition to that the winner is going to have the perfect start into the music business. A #1-single and a successful first album are almost guaranteed, plus the winner will also get 500,000 €. That’s a lot of money, which you can still work with as a musician after DSDS.

Would you have wanted such an entry into the music business for Tokio Hotel?
Bill: Yes, our story is a Cinderella story which barely happens in the music business nowadays. We were discovered in a live-club in our hometown. Nowadays, the record labels don’t want to spend money on anything. There aren’t a lot of talent scouts left who look for bands and invest in them, as there were ten years ago.
Tom: The music business changed so drastically, that this is the only way to have some kind of success. In the US some of the greatest artists have been sitting in the Jury of the casting shows for a long time, to give aspiring artists some type of input.
Bill: Mariah Carey and Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Britney Spears sit there in the Jury’s to find new talents.

Do you like being a part of the DSDS-Jury?
Bill: It’s a lot of fun. But when the people are standing in front of you with a hopeful look in their eyes…all of them have big dreams – there are also some older candidates who’ve been making music for a long time, and you’re basically deciding someones fate.

How do you get along with DSDS-“Headman” Dieter Bohlen?
Bill: Good! We’re all of different ages and make different types of music. We also have some candidates who sing Schlager music, which Tom and I can’t say much about. They fall into Dieter’s field of competence. Everyone of us basically has their “area of responsibility”.

How do the candidates respond to you?
Tom: I think Bill and I are pretty fair in our decisions. But there are certainly going to be candidates who are going to be upset about our decision in retrospect.
Bill: Yes, we had one or two of those candidates…
Tom: There was one girl, we had to tell her that it just wasn’t enough and she looked at us in such a way that you got the feeling that you have to spiritually cleanse yourself.

Are you going to watch the castings on TV?
Bill: I don’t like watching myself on TV…
Tom: I don’t like hearing myself talk and I don’t like seeing myself on TV. I had my first experience of this kind in primary school at a film studio for kids. I had to play “The gallant tailor”. Watching it with my family afterwards was horrible…

translation by: Icey

(03.10.2012)

Berlin, Germany

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– Bill

(26.12.2012)

Punkt 9

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Their latest music videos are two years old. That’s how long the band Tokio Hotel has been completely gone from the public eye for. Now the twins Bill and Tom are on the judging panel for DSDS’s anniversary season and finally, at 23 years old, they’re talking as open and privately as never before. Pamela Schuppner and Christina Gest report about what they have been doing in their adopted home Los Angeles in the meantime, how things will continue with the band and we have the first hot pictures from the Recall on the Caribbean island Curacao.

Desperately seeking for a way to cool down. These are the DSDS judges, Tom and Bill Kaulitz during a break from shooting on the “Recall” island Curacao and yes, of all the pleasant places the twins would actually rather swap this one for a little corner in the shade.

Bill: It was unfamiliar to work in the sun like this, being totally honest, I’m actually not a fan of sitting on the beach like this, erm, I’d rather somehow… We’re just kind of night persons. In that case we’d prefer the studio…

However, the two have to put up with it now because Bill and Tom complete the judging panel for the by now 10th season of DSDS alongside Pop music titan Dieter Bohlen and Culcha Candela singer Mateo.

Tom: Of course it’s a nice thing for us to also be involved in the anniversary season. After all, as a band we also already have… though, we’re almost having our 12th anniversary already, aren’t we?
Bill: I don’t know.
Tom: Well, also something between 10 and 12 years and therefore it goes quite well together. Meaning, we’re happy about it.

It’s been 11 years to be exact and ever since that time the band has been one of Germany’s most successful musical exports. Whether it’s in Mexico, Italy or, obviously, Japan, Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg are welcomed in the same kind of way everywhere: loud! For months Tokio Hotel’s life only consists of planes, hotels, concerts and press appointments.

Tom: Somehow we’ve just been on tour non-stop and on the road for five years and, erm… And eventually we got to the point where we said “Well, now we just have to […] something… We just want to have some kind of break.”, to do something else and above all to also get some kind of feeling at home somehow.
We’ve never said, like, “Yes, let’s… We’d like to go home now.” because that didn’t… there wasn’t one.

Tokio Hotel withdraw themselves, avoid the public eye, don’t give any interviews. Bill and Tom move their place of residence to Los Angeles and enjoy life without cameras and concert stages for two years.

Bill: Tom and I pl-… have started to play a bit of tennis, to do a bit of sport. Also for the first time in our lives, I think. Tom and I have got four dogs and therefore we’re also somehow out and about with our dogs a lot and erm… Yes, pretty normal stuff actually. However, of course we’re also going out a lot and go partying a lot.

However, the band Tokio Hotel continues to exist including Georg and Gustav.

Bill: Right now we’re also working on the new album. We’re taking our own sweet time for it. We’ve spent lots and lots of time in the studio. At home we’ve got a home studio where we’re writing quite a lot.

However, it came as a surprise all the same that the two 23-years old break their hiatus from the public eye now and take a seat next to Dieter Bohlen on the DSDS judging panel.

Dieter Bohlen: I find the judging panel quite interesting this time because I don’t know these two at all. Well, I only know them from TV like everybody else does. Erm, and that’s why I’m certainly very curious how this will, like, erm… what will happen, what will be going on. After all they’re a little bit younger than me, right? Therefore the way they’re seeing it is obviously interesting for me to see.

Oh well, and apparently [they’re seeing it] in a different way from the Pop [music] titan many a time. Bill and Tom can already reveal that much.

Bill: However, I think, for the first time there are certainly also different opinions colliding. That’s pretty much a given. Meaning, we’re debating like crazy.

What this looks like and who the new judging panel will decide on in the end: the 10th season of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” will start here on RTL at 8.15pm on 5th January.

translation by: tokiohotelstreetteam.uk

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