5.10.2010

Tokio Hotel visited China(Taiwan) for the first time. Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld praised (Bill) as a “New Fashion icon

Translation by Yipui Dawson@THCN - Pls credit!


Tokio Hotel visited China(Taiwan) for the first time. Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld praised (Bill) as a “New Fashion icon”.

Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld praised (Bill) as a “New Fashion icon”.
Tokio Hotel visited China(Taiwan) for the first time.
The twin members – singer with a black feather and visual rock look, guitarist with a hip hop look – amazed the whole audience.
Taiwanese little twins offer a local product “Twins”, (causing a)non-stop laughter.

The first visit to China(Taiwan) of Tokio Hotel has already make a furor at the airport. They also fascinated the Taiwanese media at the press conference! Tokio Hotel greeted the media in Chinese by saying ‘ni hao’. The record company invited four lovely children, wearing T-shirts printed with 「東」、「京」、「飯」、「店」(which is the Chinese translation of Tokio Hotel) respectively, to give special gifts (to the four guys), including a Taiwanese snack called “Twins” and a Taiwanese flower printed sheet. That made the four members very happy. Taiwan fans also recorded a fans video (for the guys) which touched Tokio Hotel a lot. The word “Hotel” of the name of Tokio Hotel comes form the fact that they often have to stay at the hotels like their homes in everywhere during the concert tour. At the press conference, they sit on a bed to conduct the interview, which made an interesting scene.

Average age of 20, 5 million sales in Europe, Tokio Hotel’s new album Humanoid has made a nearly 10 thousand sales in Taiwan. Taiwan fans launched a fans function on the internet. Every fan has to sing a sentence of Tokio Hotel’s song, and finally they were montaged into a complete fans song..

The video tape was played at the press conference which was specially arranged by the record company. The singer Bill was so touched and said “We travelled from a far place to here and haven’t expected that we would have so many fans on the other side of the world. That’s really nice.” General manager of Universal Music Taiwan awarded a gold record inlaid with Chinese dragon and phoenix (to them). The members said impressively “It may be the most beautiful gold record which we’ve received so far.” After the press conference, the members demanded to package the gold record up and brought it to Germany.

The four members started to form the band and make music since they were 7 . They started getting along with each other when they were young. The record company specially invited 4 lovely children, representing the record company and the fans, to give two little Taiwanese gifts to them. First, a pair of cute twin sisters brought a Taiwanese snack called “Twins”. The four members all said it was tasty. The other two kids brought a Taiwanese flower-printed sheet. Tokio Hotel suddenly checked in and became “Taiwan Hotel”.

The gorgeous singer Bill, was appointed by Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld to cooperate with, praised as a “Fashion icon” last year and was invited to catwalk in a DSquared2 fashion show. He showed up with a look of black feather outfit plus Mohawks plus smokey eyes, which fascinated the whole audience. When he was asked whether he would like to enter the fashion industry and create his own brand, he answered “This is one of my dreams. I hope that it will come true one day,”. But his hip hop elder brother Tom teased him by saying “I don’t wanna buy his clothes, and he’s so busy so it’s impossible for him to have time (to do these things). Also became a great act in music industry by an exaggerating look, Bill admired Lady Gaga who can show up with her unique style bravely. He said “Everyone has his/her own style. As long as you can wear it comfortably and show your personal charm, it can be fashion.” Tom added “Just like us, each of us has different style. If everybody dresses up like Bill, won’t it be boring?”

Tokio Hotel entered the music industry when they were still very young. They’ve already got used to the flash light. Did they feel strange when came to Asia and face different media or afraid of being asked by some challenging questions? Tom said coolly “We have engaged (in the music field )for so long. Generally we’ve been asked by lots of different questions. We don’t refuse to answer any questions but you can’t bother what we’re going to answer,”. Tokio Hotel couldn’t help that their old schoolmates, teachers used to “help” them to answer the media’s questions. They also have lots of experience of their ex-girlfriends using them to sensationalize news. Until now, except for bassist Georg who has got his very first girlfriend in his life, the other 3 members are still single. Of course, it’s the media and fans choice to judge.

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