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Angsty German teen pop band Tokio Hotel won the best newcomer award at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday Sep. 7 for their post-apocalyptic style music video for the song Ready, Set, Go!


The quartet's win as the only male and only non-American nominees in their category came as a surprise to the young musicians.

"I can't describe in any words what we're feeling right now," singer Bill Kaulitz said, thanking the band's fans worldwide.

Since Tokio Hotel was formed in Magdeburg in 2001, the quartet of Bill and Tom Kaulitz, Georg Listing and Gustav Schaefer have enjoyed much success in their native Germany, wirth four number one singles and two chart-topping albums, selling nearly five million CDs and DVDs.

Tokio Hotel released their first album "Schrei" (Scream) in May 2006 and sold some 600,000 copies in six days in Germany. It also quickly became a major success in France, Austria and Switzerland.

Persistent pop disaster doll Britney Spears stole the MTV show, however, winning awards in all three categories she was nominated in: video of the year, best pop video and best female video. The row of awards marked a comeback after her disastrous performance at last year's VMAs.

Ever growing international success

 

After starting to sing more in English, Tokio Hotel's international popularity has been growing rapidly with large fan bases in other European countries, particularly in France and Belgium.

The award marks the band's growing success in North America, reaching 39 in the official US billboard charts and climbing as high as sixth place in the Canadian charts. That makes Tokio Hotel one of the few German bands to enjoy such international success.

Tokio Hotel is well known for what some describe as shrewd marketing tactics -- playing on the singer's androgynous look, the band members' young ages and edgy hairstyles to reach icon status among many teenage girls.

As well as singing more in English, the band has recently adopted a more serious "emo" image, which is reflected in their now award-winning video depicting a mass of soulless people marching in uniforms -- apparently the victims of a dystopic regime.

The VMA award is already being seen as a potential breakthrough for the band to further success in America. Speaking ahead of the ceremony, Bill Kaulitz said: "We don't expect it, so for us, it's so cool to be nominated. I think it's really, really special for us -- it's America and it's our first American award and that's so huge."

The youngsters showed they are getting used to the international pop-star lifestyle when they turned up for the awards on a monster truck, though they were upstaged by rapper T-Pain who arrived on elephant accompanied by various circus performers.


källa: World.de

Our awesome victory night by MTV
This is a party Tokio Hotel will never forget! The Magdeburger boys won the pop-prize "MTV Video Music Awards" in Los Angeles - as the first German band!
It is the absolute crown on their young career!
The four Magdeburger boys from "Tokio Hotel" are crowned as best newcomer ["Ready, Set, Go"] on the MTV Video Music Awards in LA.
With this the desired "Moonman" went for the first time in his 25 year history of the awards to a German band!
Now Bill [19], Tom [19], Georg [21] and Gustav [20] are real world stars - and also party like it!
Shortly after 8pm local time, the boys were awarded. In front of millions of TV watchers, Bill [in really good English]: "Now we want to thank all our fans all over the world".
Bill to BILD: "When we got the award, I was completely speechless - then Tom drank himself down under till 5am in the morning. At a private party from their record label Interscope-Universal in Santa Monica - with a view on the Baywatch beach from Malibu...
Tom: "We just wanted one thing, party hard! Just like super stars like Britney, Christina Aguilera, Pink or Kid Rock"".
Vodka with Red Bull they drank against tiredness, a few glasses of champagne against the anxiety, and water to hang on with. Tom: "Awesome party - and the girls are also pretty fly. They constantly scream wherever we go".
When the sun rose over the Pacific beach to say "Good Morning", the four boys in four stars hotel "Casa del Mar" said "Good night".
The next plans for Tokio Hotel: "One more talk show appearance in the USA, then the flight back to Germany. Now Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg want to get back in the studio again - to record their third album.

© beertje_86 & Lenny@tha