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Německá goth-popová skupina Tokio Hotel je jako děsivá směs Evanescence, t.A.T.u., a Jonas Brothers se špetkou Adama Duritze připojeného z dobrého posouzení. Jsou druhem skupiny, která by neexistovala bez internetu a zůstala by slastně netušící své existence, ne-li své věrnosti své fanouškovské základny, která dorazila v úterý sem do Madridu a díky mému strýci byla zachycena na video jako nahrávka něčeho, co by mohla být neoprávněná mánie v historii pop music. A to včetně LFO a Limp Bizkit.
Moje rodina u mě má pobývat tento týden a asi v 10:30 úterního rána a jsem je hovorem řádně přesouval do San Jeronimo, Prado muzea, jehož domy jsou impresivní kolekcí práce Titiana, Velazqueze, Rubense, a Goya. Ale bohužel to byl špatný nápad. Dostali bysme se tam 10 kroky z jejich hotelu, ale najednou jsme narazili na barikády a hromady značek. Velmi brzy jsme se přiblížili k davu, shromažďujícího se do kolektivního vřískání, jaké jsem neslyšel od doby, co si Jingle Ball hrál se srdíčky, v duchu největších Long Islandských fanoušků Jonas Brothers. Není třeba říkat, že jsme byli překvapeni a zmateni a myslím, že jsem zachytil pár smějící se nám, doslovně prchajících zpět v reakci na ječení. Masa se shromaždila před hotelem, čekající na příjezd Tokio Hotel a náhlý hluk byl reakcí na přibližující se autobusy, které zastavily zrovna když jsme šli kolem.
Protože jsme nemohli projít davem, zastavili jsme a sledovali boje asi 15 minut se stejně zmanetými japonskými turisty, kteří byli také na cestě do Prado. Naštěstí měl můj strýc videokameru a zdokumentoval to šílenství. Tady je video, kde není moc vidět střed blázince, ale v 2:30 je stopa telefonní konverzace, která je překvapivě velmi emocionální.
Potom, co bylo zřejmé, že se Tokio Hotel z autobusu brzy neobjeví, jsme se rozhodli přejít ulici a neochotně se vzdali našeho dne zasvěcenému skvělým pracím umění. Nemusím podotýkat, že výsledky incidentu inspirovaný zápasem kuriózního Googlinga, mě zmátly a znepokojily. Kvůli tomuhle bylo všechno to ječení.

Podívejte, rozumím přitažlivosti provokativních zženštilých kluků. Muži, kteří s vervou hrají své zženštilé kvality inspirované mánií fanoušků, nejvíce fanoušků popové muziky. Ti dva uprostřed (mimochodem, dvojčata) s Panic at the disco lookem jako začínající defenzíva hasičského fotbalového týmu. Není to tím že jsou zženštilí, je to tím, že vypadají jako dívky. To je dobré pro business, ale nerozumím tomu vyžadování. A navíc dělají vlastní muziku. Oh, bože!
Spring nicht
Nikdy nebudu rozumět zalíbení alt-rocku , a ještě méně tomu, jak se to může dostat do J-14 arény. Popravdě, tenhle song je nudný. Představte si, že by vám bylo 13 a měli jste party a pustili byste tohle do sterea. Ponořili by se do ufňukané deprese. nabídka jejich anglického alba také není příliš překvapivá.
Monsoon, Ready, set, go
Ale vypadá to, že skupina má něco více, než jen dobrá muzika. Dobrý propagační tým. Tokio Hotel youtube channel vlastní velké množstv propagačních videí dokumentujícíh jejich nekonečné tour po celém světě. Nejzajímavější věcí na těchto videích je slyšet hluboký klučičí hlas dvojčat.
TH TV (18. epizoda)
Kupodvu New York times si myslí, že jsou roztomilou malou věcičkou. Příležitost bylo první NY vystoupení TH , německé události, která sbírá hudební kategorie jako by do nich patřili. Proč by neměli fanoušci fandit goth-punkovému boybandu ovlivněnému songy od HIM a AFI, vedenému sexy oboupohlavníkem s obrovskými vlasy? Proč by něměli dostat členové Tokio Hotel šanci přinést jejich ne idiotské refrény: " We are here tonight/Leave the world aside" do Spojeným států?
Jak tento článek naznačuje, je to svobodný stát a mladé dívky mají právo napínat své hlasivky, když se jím to líbí. Ale někdy je otázka "Proč ne" docela dobrá. Když Tokio Hotel můžou a měli by představovat muziku, je ostuda že skupiny jako Spinto Band nemají publićistický stroj aby jim lidé uvěřili že jsou superstar dómem. Protože kdyby tento song...
Spinto Band
... byl hrán na nějaké předměstské oslavě 13 narozenin, více, než Monsoon , pak by byl svět veselejším místem.
Tokio Hotel: Standing In The Way Of Great Art In More Ways Than One
The German goth-pop band Tokio Hotel is like some sort of nightmarish blend of Evanescence, t.A.T.u., and the Jonas Brothers, with just a hint of Adam Duritz's dreadlocked aesthetic thrown in for good measure. It's the kind of band that would never exist without the Internet, and I'd have remained blissfully unaware of its existence if not for a fateful run-in with its fanbase on Tuesday morning here in Madrid, which, thanks to my uncle, was captured on video as a record of what might be the most unwarranted mania in the history of pop music. And that's including LFO and Limp Bizkit.
My family is visiting me this week, and at around 10:30 on Tuesday morning I was dutifully marching them down calle San Jeronimo to the Prado museum, which houses an impressive collection of works by Titian, Velazquez, Rubens, and Goya. But fate, it seemed, had loftier plans. We'd gotten about ten steps out of their hotel when we hit barricades and a mass of Hot Topic preteens*. At the very second we approached the crowd, it let loose a collective shriek, the likes of which I have not heard since Jingle Ball toyed with the hearts and minds of Long Island's biggest Jonas Brothers fans. Needless to say, we were startled and confused, and I think I caught a couple of people laughing at us for for literally jumping back in reaction to the caterwauling. As it turned out, the crowd was gathered in front of a hotel awaiting the arrival of Tokio Hotel, and the sudden hubbub was a reaction to the approaching tour buses, which happened to pull up just as we were walking by.
Since we couldn't get past the crowd, we stood and watched the mayhem for about fifteen minutes with some equally bewildered Japanese tourists who were also en route to the Prado. Luckily my uncle had his camera on hand to document the madness. Here's the video, which isn't much to see beyond general pandemonium, but at the 2:30 mark there's some footage of a phone conversation that gets pretty amusingly emotional.
Video
After it became apparent that Tokio Hotel was not emerging from the bus anytime soon, we decided to cross the street and reluctantly surrender our day to great works of art. Needless to say, the incident inspired a bout of curious Googling, the results of which both disturbed and perplexed me. As it turns out, this is what all the shrieking was for...

Look, I understand the appeal of provocative girly boys. Men who play up their feminine qualities inspire the most manic fandom among a certain subset of pop fans. But come on! Those two in the middle (they're twins, by the way) make Panic at the Disco look like the starting defensive line of a fireman's league football team. It's not that they're girly. It's that they look just like girls, which in general is totally fine and their business, but I fail to understand it on a teenybopper appeal level.
And then there's the music itself. Oh, boy.
Video: Spring nicht
I will never understand the appeal of leaden alt-rock, much less how it could ever sneak into the J-14 arena. Seriously, this song is so boring. Imagine if you were thirteen and having a pool party and you put this on the stereo system. Your guests would drown themselves to escape the maudlin dreariness.
Their English-language offerings aren't any more entertaining:
2 Videos: Monsoon and Ready, set, go
But it seems that the band has got something going for them that's even more important than enjoyable music: a good publicity team. Their YouTube channel hosts a large spread of promotional videos documenting their endless publicity tour around the world. The most interesting thing about these videos is hearing the twins' deep German dude voices.
Video: Tokio Hotel TV - episode 18
Oddly enough, the New York Times seems to think they're just the cutest little things.
The occasion was the first New York performance by Tokio Hotel, a German act that scrambles musical categories in a way that feels ideally suited to the current era. Why shouldn't fans go nuts for a goth-punk boy band influenced by the darkly theatrical love songs of HIM (from Finland) and AFI (from California) and led by a sexy androgyne with spectacular hair? Why shouldn't the members of Tokio Hotel be given a chance to bring their not-quite-idiomatic refrains -- "We are here tonight/Leave the world aside" -- to the United States?
As this paragraph implies, it is a free country, and young girls have every right to strain their vocal chords over whomever they please. But at some point you have to wonder if "why not?" is good enough. While Tokio Hotel can, and, by every means, should write and perform music to be enjoyed by whomever is up to the challenge, it's a shame that groups like The Spinto Band don't have the kind of publicity machine to thrust them into international super-stardom. Because if this song...
Video of Spinto Band
... were just as likely to be played at some suburban thirteen-year-old's pool party than "Monsoon," the world would be a much happier place.
The German goth-pop band Tokio Hotel is like some sort of nightmarish blend of Evanescence, t.A.T.u., and the Jonas Brothers, with just a hint of Adam Duritz's dreadlocked aesthetic thrown in for good measure. It's the kind of band that would never exist without the Internet, and I'd have remained blissfully unaware of its existence if not for a fateful run-in with its fanbase on Tuesday morning here in Madrid, which, thanks to my uncle, was captured on video as a record of what might be the most unwarranted mania in the history of pop music. And that's including LFO and Limp Bizkit.
My family is visiting me this week, and at around 10:30 on Tuesday morning I was dutifully marching them down calle San Jeronimo to the Prado museum, which houses an impressive collection of works by Titian, Velazquez, Rubens, and Goya. But fate, it seemed, had loftier plans. We'd gotten about ten steps out of their hotel when we hit barricades and a mass of Hot Topic preteens*. At the very second we approached the crowd, it let loose a collective shriek, the likes of which I have not heard since Jingle Ball toyed with the hearts and minds of Long Island's biggest Jonas Brothers fans. Needless to say, we were startled and confused, and I think I caught a couple of people laughing at us for for literally jumping back in reaction to the caterwauling. As it turned out, the crowd was gathered in front of a hotel awaiting the arrival of Tokio Hotel, and the sudden hubbub was a reaction to the approaching tour buses, which happened to pull up just as we were walking by.
Since we couldn't get past the crowd, we stood and watched the mayhem for about fifteen minutes with some equally bewildered Japanese tourists who were also en route to the Prado. Luckily my uncle had his camera on hand to document the madness. Here's the video, which isn't much to see beyond general pandemonium, but at the 2:30 mark there's some footage of a phone conversation that gets pretty amusingly emotional.
Video
After it became apparent that Tokio Hotel was not emerging from the bus anytime soon, we decided to cross the street and reluctantly surrender our day to great works of art. Needless to say, the incident inspired a bout of curious Googling, the results of which both disturbed and perplexed me. As it turns out, this is what all the shrieking was for...

Look, I understand the appeal of provocative girly boys. Men who play up their feminine qualities inspire the most manic fandom among a certain subset of pop fans. But come on! Those two in the middle (they're twins, by the way) make Panic at the Disco look like the starting defensive line of a fireman's league football team. It's not that they're girly. It's that they look just like girls, which in general is totally fine and their business, but I fail to understand it on a teenybopper appeal level.
And then there's the music itself. Oh, boy.
Video: Spring nicht
I will never understand the appeal of leaden alt-rock, much less how it could ever sneak into the J-14 arena. Seriously, this song is so boring. Imagine if you were thirteen and having a pool party and you put this on the stereo system. Your guests would drown themselves to escape the maudlin dreariness.
Their English-language offerings aren't any more entertaining:
2 Videos: Monsoon and Ready, set, go
But it seems that the band has got something going for them that's even more important than enjoyable music: a good publicity team. Their YouTube channel hosts a large spread of promotional videos documenting their endless publicity tour around the world. The most interesting thing about these videos is hearing the twins' deep German dude voices.
Video: Tokio Hotel TV - episode 18
Oddly enough, the New York Times seems to think they're just the cutest little things.
The occasion was the first New York performance by Tokio Hotel, a German act that scrambles musical categories in a way that feels ideally suited to the current era. Why shouldn't fans go nuts for a goth-punk boy band influenced by the darkly theatrical love songs of HIM (from Finland) and AFI (from California) and led by a sexy androgyne with spectacular hair? Why shouldn't the members of Tokio Hotel be given a chance to bring their not-quite-idiomatic refrains -- "We are here tonight/Leave the world aside" -- to the United States?
As this paragraph implies, it is a free country, and young girls have every right to strain their vocal chords over whomever they please. But at some point you have to wonder if "why not?" is good enough. While Tokio Hotel can, and, by every means, should write and perform music to be enjoyed by whomever is up to the challenge, it's a shame that groups like The Spinto Band don't have the kind of publicity machine to thrust them into international super-stardom. Because if this song...
Video of Spinto Band
... were just as likely to be played at some suburban thirteen-year-old's pool party than "Monsoon," the world would be a much happier place.