VLT #57 (10.3.2009): "the band changed everything

 
She is obsessed with Tokio Hotel 
Mirja Röyhkiö consider herself to be Tokio Hotel's biggest fan. Her room has amounts with pictures and stuff. -"Tokio Hotel has given me a style and identity. I feel like an perfect person when I listen to their music", she says. 

The band changed everything 
Mirja Röyhkiö consider herself to be Tokio Hotel's biggest fan. The German rock/pop-band has changed her whole life and her interest reflections an idollove in addition to the normal. 
 
17th-year-old Mirja has liked Tokio Hotel since the summer for 2 years ago, she looked in the magazine OKEJ and saw a picture of Bill Kaulitz, the singer in the band. She got in love and ever since has the love develop to pure love and now she consider herself to be Tokio Hotel's biggest fan. -First of all so is it the bandmembers looks who makes the group unique but its the mix of good themes/melodys and their wonderful lyrics, as I can relate to, thats what makes them so fantastic. Last year Mirja succeed to get ahole of one of the most sought-after tickets to Tokio Hotels only Sweden-concert. But among with thousand other heartbroken fans she got, only a week before the concert, information about the frontman's surgery and had to cancelled the concert. Mirja did not gave up her dream about see the band perform live, and went the same summer to Finland to see them play a song on a charity. (thats wrong, TH was in Finland 2007, not 2008 :>) -The happiness was complete, it was an amazing feeling! I could camp outside their hotel just to get the chance to meet them. Bill Kaulitz couldn't unfortunately so good English, so if I only had met him I would probably only say something stupid like "I love you" and give him a real Hollywoodkiss, so he could remember me. Mirja keeps talking about her love for the frontman Bill: -He's my type of guy, not only because he is famous, I would be in love with him if I saw him in school. 
How much money have you spend on your interest? - "I don't know an exact numer, but very much. I owns everything from CD's, calendar and sheets to t-shirts and a mug. My personal favoritething is a DVD with their concerts and interviews, I would place that DVD in safety before everything else if my house burn down." Its not only the music that cost Mirja money, she has also planned a trip to Germany this summer. -"Tokio Hotel are from Germany and I have started to love that country because of them. This summer will I travel there to look at their house and see where they live and where they have grown up. I will also go and kiss a little on the Bill (vaxdoll) at the Madame Tussauds in Berlin! says Mirja and laughs." 
Have you friends who's also Tokio Hotel fans? -"No, not as crazy as I am. All my friends and classmates are tired of my nagging and thinks Im annoying. Tokio Hotel regard as a "fjortis-band" (Fjortis = immature behavior) and many think about the wellknown bloger Kenza. Other consider Tokio Hotel as emo, but Im neither an "fjortis" or emo, Im only myself. 
Do you think you ever will get tired of them? -"No, never! I will listen to them even when Im adult, and play their songs as lullaby for my children!" Mirja Röhkiö tells that the band isn't only a musicinterest but that they actually have changed her whole life, to the better. -"Tokio Hotel has giving me a style given and identity. I feel like an perfect person when I listen to their music. You can also say that I've found myself through them." 

Written by: Elisa Amorelli. Photos by: Cornelia Eriksson.