Tokio Hotel Answered YOUR Questions! [HQ]
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A little while ago we asked you guys to submit YOUR questions for Tokio Hotel that are related to the AUTOMATIC video. We picked ten of them and Bill, Tom, Gustav & Georg answered them in an exclusive interview above the clouds. Enjoy!

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What's the reason that you guys picked Automatic as your first single from your album Humanoid?

Bill- I think it was one of the last songs we wrote for the record, and it was uhm, I think it was just the right feeling, and the right energy and everything. So it just sort of (I don't understand what he says here). We went in the studio and everybody said "ok, that would be our first single" and that's it.


Do you have a favorite scene in the Automatic video?

Tom- Favorite scene...
Georg- I love all the car scenes
Tom- Yeah
Georg- I love those cars
Tom- We had some scenes when Georg was on the toilet, and did some, did some big business.
Bill- But for serious I really liked the scenes where I, I'm standing you know, somewhere, nowhere and they're, the cars moving around me, and I'm standing there. And I think the light and everything was really beautiful, and I think it was one of the first shots we did for this video, and it, it was really great.


This is already your second video that you shot in South Africa - What's so special about this country?

Tom- I think in South Africa you have a really good and special locations, and the good thing about shoot was we had a great safari hotel, and we had breakfast with uhm
Georg- Gebheart(?)
Tom- Yeah, Gebheart(?)


How long did it take you to shoot the video?

Tom- It wasn't that shoot, just five days in the middle of nowhere in the desert and you have just great locations and yeah.


Why has your sound become so electronic in this song?

Tom- It was just Automatic
Bill- Yeah, it just happened in the studio, where we didn't plan it in advance or something we just went in the studio and I think we want to try new things out, and try new things with the voice with some new instruments, and uhm we created like a new sound world for Tokio Hotel.


Did you leave the Tokio Hotel sound from your previous albums behind?

Bill- I think it's still, it's still the old sound, but with some new parts in it.
Tom- Yeah.
Bill- And uhm, yeah it just happened it was not planned. Yeah but I think it's just fresh and something new, and that's what we wanted for this record.


Where did the idea for this song come from? Do these ideas just pop up in your head or is it a personal experience? How does it work?

Tom- I think the inspiration is just everywhere. You have like uhm, the last, the last records we wrote sometimes on tour, and for this album we, it wasn't (mumbles) that we have enough time, just go in the studio and do nothing, and just, just focus on your own stuff, and on your own music. It was important for us we had nearly one year to produce a record, and...
Bill- I think you collect your ideas on the road, so I have always something with me.
Tom- But you wrote them down in the studio, so it was more studio, real studio album, and studio work.


In the Automatic video you're driving some awesome cars. What's your favorite car in real life?

Tom- I also like muscle cars, I like the uhm, I like American cars. I have a Cadillac, I have, and I also love Audi, and uhm yeah.
Bill-(mumbles) I have an Audi, I have an Audi Q7, the new one. And uhm yeah, I think it's cool to have nice cars, but it's not the most important thing for me. But uhm, I really love this one, it's a great car.
Georg- I really love those old American muscle cars, for example the Ford Mustang is really great.
Gustav- I drove the Pontiac GTO and I definitely know I will have this car in my life, but I don't know when.
Tom- I mean it's just important nothing for, for Georg and Gustav that they have a speed limiter in their cars for maybe
Georg- Maybe 20 Mph
Tom- Maybe 20 Mph
Gustav- No, no, no, that's too fast for me, that's too fast.
Tom- I think that's ok Gustav.
Gustav- No it's too fast.

Do you guys feel that you are behaving Automatically a lot?

Bill- I think there are some parts in your life that you do Automatic like brushing teeth in the morning
Tom- That's not Automatic for Georg, but you know.
Georg- Oooooh
Tom- (Something I don't understand) to be Automatic.
Bill- Life in general you try to be just, you know, yourself and natural and just do stuff...
Tom- And always trying to be honest and do not vent Automatic (something)
Bill- Because I hate Automatic people, so I try to be just, or we all try to be just ourselves and yeah.

The Automatic video also features two robots- Will robots also be part of your stage during the next tour?

Bill- I think the robots are really and I, I like the whole Tokio Hotel design with the faces and everything. So maybe we, maybe it's a part of the show, but it's not, it's not fixed and...
Tom- We have a great new stage design, and uhm yeah, we are still in the creative process of the stage, but...

Bill- We saw just the first paintings for the stage, and I think really yeah, it's really Humanoid City, so we really bring a new city in the town where we go. And there are a lot of things going on.

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