Here is a report by one of the "winners". It explains the two-video confusion pretty well - all shall be clear once you read this.
The girl (nickname "puppe") posted the report originally in Russian over at the Tokio Hotel community on liveinternet.ru. I translated the whole thing. Enjoy:
On Tuesday, I arrived at the place (by car with my dad, we live 90km from Berlin) around 12 hours. As I was told to. Two women came over - Britta and Jenine – they were nice. Who closely watches all the interviews and video with Tokio Hotel, would probably have seen them. They collected out “contracts”, that we received by e-mail (like, we accept the rules, signature of parents etc) and gave us pink bracelets. They told is to be careful and not loose them because they have a surprise for us after the filming and that is how they are going to identify us.
The filming of the music video were supposed to start at 15:00. We went to the location, the Kosmos cinema. The time was still early, around 1pm. We thoughts that since it said we should be in front row in the letter, we walked to another entrance. Of course, there were security personnel there. So we waited. The crowd of girls stood in front of the cinema, but it was not a big crowd for Tokio Hotel. I was surprised that there were not that many people there. But of course, everyone was screaming, shrieking and yelling.
Around 4pm (we waited for a long time) everything began. For us though, everything took a different turn. Britta or Jenine (they look alike to me) came out and told us to come back here after filming, because we were going to be filming inside, too. We were so excited, because that meant we could see the boys closer. So we went to join the crowd. I can tell you there were about 60 winners of the special competition. The first guy to appear was Gustav! Then Tom and Georg started to play. And then Bill started to sing from somewhere and came out! The music and singing were rather quiet and it was impossible to hear anything over the screaming. A 20-30 minute pause followed, and they started to sing again. That was repeated 6-7 times. The whole thing was really dragged out due to these pauses. To entertain us during the breaks in filming, they put on other Tokio Hotel songs and we all sang along. It’s was really exciting… But when the boys were singing… It was more than awesome. During the second round of filming onwards, the music was made louder and we could hear everything properly. Bill’s singing was great! And the guys played really great, too. Here are some details:
Bill: He ran back and forth, waved his hands, bent over – performing a ton of awesome gestures. His hair flew with the wind, it’s was really cool. But sometimes he went a bit further into the roof and we could only see half of him. Towards the end of the song, during the last chorus, the three of them (obviously Gustav couldn’t do that since he was at the drums) would start to jump. And we jumped with them! It was the coolest part of the song, everyone waited for it so they can begin jumping. Bill also motioned his hand like a rapper: up and down, and everyone in the audience did that too. But that was not everything. During the fifth round, he sat down at the edge of the roof! With his legs were dangling down... He sat for a while and left. They discussed something on the roof and he sat down like that again and started to sing, and he got up after that. Each time when the song ended he said “Bye!” to the audience. Oh, and once he threw a bottle at the fans. He said, “Be careful to the person who catches it!” Everyone immediately ran after the bottle, but I dunno who caught it. The bottle was still with water, imagine if it hit someone on the head.
Tom: Aw. He is mega cute, although I didn’t like his pants. The looked like training pants, but were wider to fit his style. He didn’t look bad, though. He also occasionally did mega cool turn-arounds, jumps, and at the end he did this thing with his guitar where we struck the cords and raised it up! Super. A lot of people screamed: ich liebe dich Tooooooom! At first he just stood around and played, but then he ran back and forth of the roof. But not much. Bill approached his often, and it looked really cool from aside – two brothers.
Georg: Well, he’s the serious one, as always. I liked how he ran to the camera once and took a cool pose. Anyways, he has such a body... Not bad. I was also surprised by his hair – in the past they were always hanging down, dirty and oily. But now they were shining! Really well taken care of. He probably washes them every half and hour with all the shampoos and gels and god knows what else. You can see just by looking at him that he was older than the rest of the boys, and he always acted very seriously. But I shouldn’t get ahead of myself.
Gustav: Oooh, this boy really surprised me, and I’ll tell you why later. I totally changed my opinion about him for the better. He really entertained the crowd, he almost never left the roof unlike the other boys. We were standing near our entrance, and he would come over to that side of the roof and waves his drum sticks at us. And everyone was screaming, “Gustav, take your clothes off!!”
It was really hot that day, +34. Everyone was given water bottled. There was also a tent for people that felt unwell. When filming stopped finally, the fans didn’t leave yet, and we went for the promised surprise. While we stood at the designated door, we saw how the boys came down from the roof. Tom stood in the doorway and was leaning against it, one hand on his waist. Like, a real man.
Yeeesss, we were really surprised, in all honesty. They gave us T-shirts and told us to put them on inside-out, since we were special and all. On the T-shirts there was writing printed in green letters that glow in the dark: (on the back) Der Letze Tag 18 Juli 2006 Berlin, and (on the front) Ich war dabei. The T-shirts were black. They let us into a fenced area and started to put on face covers. So that only our eyes were visible. Again we had to wait for 30 minutes.
They allowed us to go into the actual building. And then… THE REAL SURPRISE!! The producer - the big guy wearing sunglasses (you all saw him a million times on the photos) said, “Now we are going to film an entirely different video, to a new song!” That’s what he said, my friends. Two videos in one day. To be honest with you, though, the part that was filmed with us will only be a tiny portion of the actual video, it seems. We would hardly be visible in the video, but we didn’t care. Because we were given such a task that everyone got soooo excited!!
OK, so: we had to stand shoulder to shoulder in a narrow corridor in the basement. Along both sides. The boys were going to walk between us. As soon as the music was going to get “hard” we had to grab the boys!! Like in a fight. So if they were going on way, we had to pill them in the opposite way.
They let us in and put us in order. The corridor was “L” shaped. All the tall girls were told to stand in the smaller corridor. There were about 20 of us tall girls. The other 40 girls were in the bigger corridor. We were standing next to the door. It upset us a bit since we thought – they’ll walk through the door and only the girls in the bigger corridor will get to touch the boys. It turned out to be the complete opposite! They walked through the longer corridor, turn and that is when we get to touch them. Oh, I couldn’t believe my luck! I was not only able to look at them at close proximity, and not only see them walk by right under my nose, but I get to touch them!! Not only I can, but I had to!!! So, they lined us up like soldiers. We were told to put our hands on our bums. And while the boys were walking by, to not look at them. At the signal we had to start… and we rehearsed that 5 times.
Oh… You can never imagine how the smell.. especially Bill. Bill’s skin is so mega soft.. And he is so skinny. When you touch him you almost don’t notice it and seems like his hands are like those of any guy his age. But as soon as you look at his legs and arse... His arse is almost non existent! And legs – two matches (sticks)... Oh, he’s sooo (no words). And his voice is so pleasant... The girls were melting, but everyone behaved well. No one was crying out of joy, screamed or impulsively “attacked” the boys. Tom’s face seems so small... His nose, his lips, his eyes... And his smile is so small... All in all, the boys laughed a lot. We were told to stand still, not laugh, look serious, with slightly evil eyes. But then the guys walk by, we start to “push” them and Bill laughs… Giggles and laughs… so that you can see his tongue piercing. Tom also laughed a lot, Gustav talked to us (like, “no need to touch there,” etc), only Georg remained serious. It was really hard to act serious! One time we tried too hard and Bill fell down. He was lying on the floor and laughing. Although, his producer immediately ran over to him. Bill was like, “I fell, hahaha.” Honestly, this producer of theirs really cares for them. Understandably – they’re money. When we were told to pull them, he said, “Just gently caress them, no need to scratch or forcefully pull.” One girl said, “I’m aggressive, I’ll show ‘em.” To which he replied, “Hey! I don’t want to hear any of that!” And waved his finger at her.
I liked the way the guys acted, as though it was all a game, which made the whole experience a lot of fun. They were really great. They were us since 7am, but had so much energy and were very sweet when talking with us. Tom and Georg didn’t talk much, but Bill replied to questions and smiled. But Gustav was the most surprising! This is when I changed my opinion about him! He joked a lot, laughed, chatted with us. He didn’t turn out to be the shy quiet one at all, but a really sweet, fun guy. Although he was kinda short in height.
Honestly, you know, it was really hard to get the boys’ attention. Because all the girls there are trying to impress them, they flirt, saying something, smiling, calling the boys by their named. It all turns out to be a lot and at once, the boys couldn’t even look at one girl for a long time. And this is what every day is like for them! So I’m not surprised why they still don’t have any girlfriends. It’s hard to single one girl out when everyone is being sweet, everyone is smiling and everyone tries to chat you up between filming.
Sometimes there were some stupid questions.
”Bill, how many white highlights do you have in your hair?”
”Umm, about 14.”
What kind of a question is that?
I liked the intonation of his voice.
Girls: “Show us your nails! We also have long ones.”
Bill (spitefully): “Your ones aren’t real!!”
It was also funny when his make-up artist came over to fix him up a bit and he said in a sad voice: “I have bad skin…”
Everyone asked where they were going to next. Gustav said he didn’t know what was coming up next. Bill said they were going home.
Girls: “Take us with you!!”
Bill (seriously): “To MY HOUSE???”
As though he’d take them with him, but not to his house.
But I think they lied.
After the filming wrapped, we were told to get in line for autographs. After I got mine, I went home.
All in all, I really enjoyed it! The boys all look like they do on TV. Handsome, tidy, sweet and charismatic, and don’t act like they are better than you. But Bill gave autographs without looking at the person he was giving it to, same goes for Tom. Georg and Gustav gave autographs and smiled at us. When I gave Georg my poster he looked at my boobs! LOL. Honestly, he signed my poster, looked at me and then his eyes trailed downwards. But Gustav was more polite.
Sadly we couldn’t take photos with them. I was really upset by that. I doubt I’ll ever see them up close like this.
I especially remember the moment when we were “pushing” the guys in the corridor and Bill pulled me to him. I though to myself, “Dammit, they’ll say that I’m not letting go of Bill now.” Also, during the first rehearsal, Tom stood in our corridor and the girls surrounded him. He looked at everyone, but his gaze stayed on me for a little longer. Honestly!! It wasn’t much, but I was happy. Sorry to be bragging, but you’d also be happy if you were me.
Here’s a video, it’s 5 mb, only 20-30 seconds long, it shows how Bill-Tom-Georg were jumping on the roof. The quality isn’t very good. Download:
www.webfile.ru/1029439 Some photos:
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infostore.org/info/1353321/DSCI0086.jpg < us in outfits for the special video
infostore.org/info/1353358/DSCI0091.jpg < me
infostore.org/info/1353381/Untitled-1.jpg < the t-shirt
infostore.org/info/1353386/DSCI0101.jpg < the poster with autographs
Translated by TokioHotel.co.uk team.
