| I see comments on you tube, blogs, and forums | | | | your strange but don't change and I let her. Is it |
| about how Tokio Hotel fans only like "the old Tokio | | | | strange I should change I don't know why don't you |
| Hotel". You see comments like "the band has gone | | | | ask her". |
| commercial" or "they're just not the same band | | | | Here is a band who performed in their most |
| anymore", the usual two objections being that the | | | | formative years who no longer is 15, 17, but 21. Why |
| band is attempting to make money or their style has | | | | in the world would they be the same? I hope Tokio |
| changed. | | | | Hotel fans can understand that these same |
| Looking at this from the perspective of being what I | | | | arguments have been going on practically forever. By |
| call myself "the oldest Tokio Hotel fan " I actually find | | | | the way why wouldn't any band go "commercial" and |
| this extremely amusing. I can recall myself saying that | | | | make as much money as they can? Being true to |
| Bob Dylan sold out when he stopped doing acoustic | | | | your music doesn't mean being broke. |
| music. I accused various bands during my time of | | | | A band is lucky if they get noticed when they are 21 |
| "going commercial". I remember bands changing their | | | | years old. Tokio Hotel is in the record books for |
| style and finding it highly objectionable. | | | | being number 10 in the largest concerts of all time, |
| Of course what I find amazing is that the Twins are | | | | performing to over 500,000 people. They have had |
| just 21 years old yet the band has been together for | | | | to grow up very early, yet they seem to have |
| probably close to 10 years. This is by far longer than | | | | survived it very nicely. |
| most bands stay together. What I say to fans that | | | | In a video of Tokio Hotel performing when they |
| find it strange they should change is haven't you | | | | were 15 or 16, you see Bill reaching down to touch |
| changed? | | | | the fans in front of the stage. And in a video shot |
| Musicians are creative people and will always attempt | | | | last year where the band is cooking, the host takes |
| to do new things. In the end some fans will like it and | | | | them to the roof to see all the fans outside. When |
| others will not. I think the band, by putting together | | | | Bill is walking off stage here he still is touching fans |
| the humanoid city tour really wanted to present | | | | hands as he was walking off the set. That doesn't |
| something very different to their fans than what | | | | seem like a guy traumatized by recent fan related |
| they were used to. As I own the DVD I think the | | | | events! |
| new tour is awesome. | | | | It really seems to me that the band is truly enjoying |
| Just so the fans of Tokio Hotel don't think they are | | | | their life. They may have the odd moment of wishing |
| unique here are some lines from a Neil Young song | | | | they had a more normal life, yet they understand |
| when Neil Young was just young. "I was raised by | | | | that being is famous and popular as they are has its |
| the praise of a fan who said I'd upset her. Any girl in | | | | consequences. I really believe they are happy. |
| the world could've easily known me better. She said | | | | |