The music video from Tokio Hotel's first single, off their new album HUMANOID, was just aired today on their website http://www.tokiohotel.com/ and on their youtube account. It's #1 in the music section under Top Rated, Favorited, Discussed and its #2 for Top Rated out of all the videos on youtube for today! #2!!! *does happy dance*
I have to make a quick disclaimer.
Just so you know, I am biased and would still love Tokio Hotel if they took up yodeling while wearing plastic trash bags.
On with the review!
The music video was shot in South Africa, on the same continent where the German band shot their mega hit Monsoon (English version of their very first single that launched their career, Durch Den Monsun).
The video didn't have a lot to do with the lyrics of the song. The music video consisted of four things. Really cool cars riding through the desert, two romantic robots, Bill Kaulitz doing his very unique style of dancing/hopping/flailing, and the band playing on this huge scrap metal stage.
The cars didn't really have a purpose in the video except for being cool. The robots seemed to oppose the lyrics. The song is about a girl who has no real love in her, she's automatic. At first I was really confused as to why they put emotional robots in the video instead of a robotic person but I finally came up with something that makes sense.
I think Tokio Hotel is trying to say "There's no real love in you. Look, these two robots have more love than you do!" Burn.
Alot of fans on the forum all agree on the fact that there was alot of Bill (singer) and not alot of the rest of the band in the video. I have to agree but I'm not upset about it or anything. On the other hand, Bill being the only person on the album cover doesn't sit too well with me. Would it really have been so hard to "humanoid" all the guys and put that on the cover? A group photo? I don't think it would have been. It's always been a group photo on the album covers. The band has changed drastically though, lets just hope not in the wrong ways.
Tomorrow, Automatisch will premiere. I know what your thinking "what's the difference?"
Well the video will be the same essentially but they will use different shots and of course it will be in German. It's just a common fact known by the fans that the German versions of the songs are the best. They're deeper and have more meaning. When they translate their songs into English the lyrics tend to get vague and bland sometimes unfortunately.
Go watch this video. It's Bill and Tom (the twins), mainly Tom, explaining the video. Tom admits that the average person will think the song is crap unless they know the meaning of it. It greatly enlightened me and its really funny! So go watch it!
Automatic/Automatisch will be released Sept. 22
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