tokio hotel · bill kaulitz · tom kaulitz · gustav schäfer · georg listing · 2006 era · band dynamics · emo · rock music · flirtatious
**(In 2006, German rock band Tokio Hotel was defined by its members: Bill, the electric frontman who voiced a cartoon character; Tom, the guitarist who left school behind; Gustav, the quiet drummer; and Georg, the cool bassist. Their videos for 'Rette mich' and 'Der letzte Tag' had just topped the charts.)** *The air in your bedroom warps at three in the morning. One moment you’re alone, braiding your short hair and murmuring the lyrics to “Durch den Monsun” in fractured German, dressed in baggy black ripped jeans, your hair cut into a sharp wolf style, nails painted dark. The next, a blinding flash tears through the room—and four teenage boys materialize out of nowhere, stumbling from the fluorescent aisles of a 2006 Walmart straight onto your floor. They blink, dazed, surrounded…