The twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz grant us exclusive insights into their life as rock stars. In-between glamorous performances and everyday tour life. More bling bling isn’t possible: Bill is into flamboyant stage outfits. The 20-year-old young-celebrity even gets provided with outfits by the designer duo Dsquared.
Tom: Well, I wouldn’t be up for that. Therefore, I don’t envy him at all. Because it takes time and effort to get dressed in all this sh*t and he’s always only got like one, one minute and thirty [seconds] to do so in-between. Well, I don’t envy him at all. Above all he can’t even really move around [in it]. That’s the biggest problem. Well, I’ve got, I’ve really got to [...] on stage... I’ve got completely different things on my mind. However, for Bill it’s just always important. On stage I’ve got completely different things on my mind than... erm, my outfits. Well...
However, Bill is over the moon with the glowing Star-Wars look.
Bill: Woohoo! Party!
Time and again he causes a stir with extreme outfits like this one.
Bill: If it was up to many other people, I’d probably not be wearing many of those things. Erm... Like, also...
Tom: Exactly.
Bill *chuckles*: … also if it was up to Tom. Maybe not one or the other jacket, but, erm… of course... it’s just what I feel like, what I feel comfortable with and, and that’s what I’m going with. Well, I think, one can’t try to please everybody all day long, right?
Tom: After all, the good thing with our band really is that we let each other live, somehow. Like, after all, Georg also runs around [dressed] like a right jerk. That’s just always been the case and we definitely let each other live.
It’s a different matter outside of the band. They’re superstars there. Not a day goes by without a new headline, especially while touring. Allegedly, Tom pulls one fan after the other. Bill apparently fancies men anyway and would be anorexic.
Bill: Every day somewhere… thousands of things and also in so many countries. After all it’s not just Germany and therefore, erm. One has to loosen up a bit. One has to relax a bit and erm... Yes, therefore, one shouldn’t take it all too serious.
The 20-year-olds have developed their own approach to take on every mean rumour after [spending] five years in the limelight. They steal scandalmonger‘s thunder with ironic videos they recorded themselves.
*part of Bill and Tom bad-mouthing themselves in the car* Tom: [...] cool new look. Bill: Cool. Now they’re looking even cooler than before, ey. Tom: Ey, despic -…[despicable] Bill: They lo-… they just look like a f*cking f*gg*t.
Bill: And that weird, little oddball with his dreadlocks is really a complete chav [uncivilised]. Has never f*cked in his life. Just talks sh*t all the time.
Tom: That’s the best. That’s the best. Never f*cked in his life.
The teen idols really do have humour and put one thing straight: we won’t be told no. However, by now the former band of students from Magdeburg has of course also felt the side effects a fast-paced rise brings. Sure, they win one award after the other. Even against pop titans like the Black Eyed Peas. However, they virtually also have no private life left anymore. Even on holiday on the Maldives the Kaulitz twins aren’t safe from paparazzi.
Bill: Somehow Tom and I probably won’t be able to go there anymore, to this island, because some, erm, f*cking scumbag of a photographer took some pictures there.
Tom *claps*: Bill!
Bill: Erm… Well, yes… Well, this just shows that it’s just difficult for us. Somehow you’re flying to the other side of the world and nonetheless there’s a flipping idiot standing around and, and tries to make money with you.
They can’t go on the streets without bodyguards anymore. Everyday things like shopping are done by a personal assistant. Most of the time at least.
Tom: I can remember, when we’re like on tour or something, come to a stop with the bus, somehow just walk into some supermarket with our people, at night, somewhere in America where nobody else is still shopping and erm, there we’ll get some food out. But, like the normal kind of going-into-a-supermarket-and-I’m-just-looking-what-yoghurt-I’m-taking-with-me or something like that: we’ve never had that.
Now many will think, what’s a yoghurt you bought yourself compared to the luxurious life of a rock star. However, life on tour is anything but glamorous. Tokio Hotel are living in a tiny space without any real privacy.
Bill: We’ve got two buses we live in. Meaning, Georg and Gustav have got one and Tom and I have got one. That means, erm, everybody has also got their [own] room there and can retreat to it a bit.
Tom: Whereas, I think, one also overrates life on a bus a bit. After all it’s more like... Actually we’re more living inside the venues. Because you go to the venue at 11 o’clock in the mornings and somehow get out of it again at 1 o’clock at night.
So, the backstage area turns into a substitute for the living room and a table tennis game becomes the highlight during off-time. That has to be enough. Good thing the four guys have known each other for ages already and can still fool around like little boys.
*Bill [laughs]: Oh come on, isn’t it enough now, you bastards?!*
Apparently there’s no time and place for womanising. Career comes first for Tokio Hotel.
Bill: After all, we still want to have many more concerts, nice concerts of course. We’ve already put the first ones behind us and it’s going really well. So, right now we’re just happy that we’re on tour and erm, after that it’s supposed to go on for us. Meaning, it’ll totally be a live-year. Somehow we’ll be playing [live] a lot now.
More precisely, there are 32 concerts in 53 days. Meaning, pure tour stress. The rock stars from Magdeburg cope with it brilliantly though. Their secret [behind it]? Always keeping [their] cool. We think that’s very likable and refreshingly normal despite their mega career.
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