Forget the New Kids on the Block reunion. Millions of teenage
girls are freaking out over the hottest new boy band, Tokio Hotel.
Of course, you’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of
this four-piece German outfit, who’ve earned a U.S. fan base
in the last few years thanks to concert clips available on YouTube.
So when the band came to play its first American shows in February,
fans lined up hours beforehand to catch a set of energetic, glammy
emo-pop songs, many of which are on its English-language debut,
“Scream.”
Tokio Hotel’s first record was performed in German, so
it’s likely that English-speaking fans were more taken with
the band members’ divergent physical appearances. Frontman
Bill Kaulitz looks like a cross between a Japanese anime cartoon
and Nikki Sixx; guitarist Tom Kaulitz (Bill’s twin brother)
sports Axl Rose-style dreadlocks; drummer Gustav Schaefer resembles
Spencer Pratt from MTV’s “The Hills”; bassist
Georg Listing, strangely enough, could pass for Steely Dan’s
Walter Becker in the ’70s.
But what about the music? For what it is — slickly produced,
thoroughly modern rock songs with calm verses and seize-the-day
choruses — it’s not terrible. Title track
“Scream” is powered by crunchy guitar riffs,
arena-ready beats and Bill Kaulitz’s adenoidal croon, while
“Don’t Jump” is the kind of soaring, string-laden
ballad that could work on the soundtrack to a big-budget action
movie.
As a hyper-sensitive young man, Bill Kaulitz writes lyrics that
often address breaking away from some vague apocalyptic nightmare,
and he typically wants to take a special someone along for the
journey. No doubt one of his female fans would accept the
invitation. But, as is the ephemeral nature of the boy band, you
have to wonder: Would she say yes five years from now?
Source
http://www.tokiohotelus.com
Arianeth
dim 11 mai 2008 12:49