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OHHHH Joss Stone and Joko Winterscheidt! Totally blowin' up Tokio Hotel's SPOT with the pyrotechnics and stuff! Maybe the fire in their "World Behind My Wall" performance was supposed to be a S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E, mkay? Anyway, enjoy this video of Tokio Hotel on the red carpet at the 2009 MTV Europe Awards in Berlin. Plus, enjoy the fun potent Tokio quotables such as:

+ Bill Kaulitz saying, "We just know some words from our school time." (Tee!)

+ Tom Kaulitz, who says that Tokio has been doing "a lot of dirty interesting and you know, nasty things."

+ "We are old-school." -- Bill Kaulitz... Granted, five seconds later, Tokio Hotel joined Twitter, so you never can tell!

+ Plus: Watch the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards on demand, watch every MTV EMA performance, and check out more red carpet interviews.

We've already seen how hardcore you Tokio Hotel fans can be for just a touch -- nay, a glimpse! -- of Bill, Tom, Gustav, and/or Georg. Case in point: Their live performance of "Automatic" on It's On With Alexa Chung on MTV, where fans practically had to be restrained from rushing the stage.

So what would Tokio Hotel do if they could somehow go incognito for just a day and manage not to be recognized? Bill Kaulitz would take his family and friends and do "normal things" like shop and get ice cream. And Tom Kaulitz would go to an amusement park. (Again!) Wee!

Plus, see how Tokio Hotel juggles vegetarianism with their love for burgers, AND the burning question, WHAT DOES BILL KAULITZ SMELL LIKE is answered... kinda... in this brand-new Buzzworthy interview with Tokio Hotel!

Bill and Tom Kaulitz have made no attempt to hide the fact that school wasn't exactly their favorite place on earth, even though they won an award for distance learning, proving that sometimes smart people flourish outside of the classroom too. And I know a lot of you Tokio Hotel fans out there can relate. (But stay in school, okay? I didn't love school that much either, but I stuck with it, and LOOK AT ME NOW, MA! I GOT A JOB WRITING ABOUT TOKIO HOTEL!)

Anyway, I wanted to know if Bill and Tom had any advice for Tokio Hotel fans who are just trying to survive the school day -- so they can get home and listen to Humanoid and check Buzzworthy for Tokio updates (Yay! Enjoy this one!)

Tokio Hotel are real dudes and can see through a lot of media training 101 bull s++t a lot of artists automatically dish out. So when I asked Bill and Tom Kaulitz about how to get through school, Bill's response was totally straight-up and real about it: "Just close your eyes and do it... But it's always bad."

If you were expecting a canned, shiny, Miss America "save the world" response, Bill and Tom Kaulitz didn't give you one, but their answer was completely real, and whether or not they want to be role models, their fans look up to them. Their answer only made me respect them as down-to-earth guys even more.

Yesterday, Tokio Hotel met a runaway evil robot, and we learned that there is no Tokio Hotel sex tape, possibly to the chagrin of you bawdier fans out there.

In today's exclusive Buzzworthy Blog interview clip, I ask Bill Kaulitz about his ever-changing, always-glam style and what inspires all of his interesting iterations. Coyly, Bill expressed that no one but the man in the mirror and that Kaulitz inner voice matters when it comes to his often-imitated -- yet ultimately his own -- chameleon-like characteristics.

Plus, will Georg EVER cut his hair?

Missed Tokio Hotel on It's On With Alexa Chung today? Wait... no you didn't... Well, for all you international Tokio Hotel fans (and I know you're out there), check out these inTENSE photos of Tokio Hotel performing on MTV today. And watch Tokio Hotel perform "Automatic" live on MTV.

+ Check out more photos of Tokio Hotel performing live on It's On With Alexa Chung after the jump.

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After a whirlwind few months of recording Humanoid in Germany and Los Angeles, traveling to South Africa to shoot their "Automatic" video, doing press in Paris and juggling wine glasses in Madrid (I discovered I'm terrified of El Hormiguero puppets), and gold records in Greece for Scream and Humanoid, Bill Kaulitz FINALLY got to meet his favorite band!

Find out who Bill Kaulitz's favorite band is, watch Tokio Hotel take in Athens (and try to figure out when lunch is), see the guys get their gold records, and then watch them rock Athens live in concert during MTV Day. And, bonus -- more footage of Bill and Tom play pingpong!

+ And don't forget to submit your Buzzworthy fan questions for Tokio Hotel!

Couldn't make it to Athens for Tokio Hotel's MTV Greece MTV Day performance? Boo! Me either. Check out these stunning photos of Tokio Hotel rocking Athens on Friday, October 9, shot by Chris Kissadjekian. Bill Kaulitz's new fauxhawk looks phenoms in action, Tom and Georg have their Slash stance down pat, and unfortunately you can't really see Gustav, but I'm sure he looked epic too. The Grosses kino bar has been RAISED!

+ Check out more photos of Tokio Hotel in concert at MTV Day in Greece after the jump!

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Can you, for one hot second, turn the volume down on Humanoid (just a LITTLE, just for a few minutes)? Buzzworthy's got a brand-new video of  Tokio Hotel! We've followed Tokio Hotel to London, to the set of their "Automatic" video in South Africa, and we've journeyed with Tokio Hotel to Paris.

Today's stop, MADRID, where Tokio Hotel engages in brothery/ band-ly horseplay at the hotel, but not on an epic Guns-N-Roses-trash-the-joint-call-the-cops way -- so well-raised, these boys!

In this brand-new video of Tokio Hotel on the road, you'll see:
+ A beaming, newly faux-hawked Bill Kaulitz signing autographs for his adoring Spanish fans.
+ Georg fearing that his nausea will lead him down the road where nausea often goes -- Barf City.
+ The political side of Tom and Georg, who raise a Red Bull to German chancellor Angela Merkel (bottoms up, lady!)
+ Georg lovingly getting crapped on by Bill for being too short (I thought usually Gustav was the butt of their jokes).
+ Gustav practicing his Spanish!
+ Tom and Gustav totally making their hotel glassware their little beyotches!
+ More adorable in-fighting that almost leads to hotel destruction.
+ Tokio Hotel on Spanish TV show El Hormiguero, where they eat frozen cookies, made some kind of rancid-sounding drink, and made their famous spaghetti dish (ahem).
+ Bill Kaulitz in a tanktop!!!
+ EL FIN!

As a full-blown Tokio Hotel fan as well as a style savant, I'm almost as excited about Bill Kaulitz's new hair and makeup looks as I am about the release of Tokio Hotel's new album, Humanoid, which comes out Tuesday, October 6 in the U.S.

And, since I'm always willing to put myself in the hot seat -- especially if it means bringing joy to the MTV Buzzworthy Blog's diehard, devoted Tokio Hotel fans -- I asked the wonderful, talented Keri Blair, who's a senior artist at MAC (and whose JOB it is to fly around the WORLD prettying up models during international fashion shows and shoots) to give us a step-by-step tutorial and show us how to recreate Bill Kaulitz's "Automatic" makeup look.

The phenomenally talented Keri, using her arsenal of beauty tips and tricks, recreated Bill Kaulitz's new look, and the results? Well I'm a realistic girl. My nose is, charitably, Roman, and looks nothing like the Kaulitz twins' much-regaled perfect nose. In my estimation, I looked a bit more like a hybrid of Gene Simmons' secret lovechild and this remote-control-operated Beauty And The Beast costume that I saw at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (but that thing's SO cyberpunk too!) than the lost Kaulitz sister. Also, my eyes stung a little, but I totally took one for Team Tokio AND I realized how much Bill goes through to keep his look fresh and fun. And, while Bill does vamp it up (and we love that about him), he makes it look so easy. Ugh. So unfairsies. So while it was fun to Be Bill for a hot second, we all know there can only ever be one Bill Kaulitz.

But, if you love to play dress-up, check out me (that top left photo is to assert that in general, I do look like a normal human, lest you were wondering or wondering) and Keri, and see how you can create Bill Kaulitz's incredibly robotic, hypnotic, totally "Humanoid" new makeup look.

(And HUGE thanks, of course, to everyone at MAC and to Dolores at Self Salon in Williamsburg as well as the fantastic Cody Ross of Priestess NYC and his little dog too!)

UPDATE (9/29/2009) THE REAL-DEAL 'DO. Here's Bill Kaulitz and the boys in Madrid on September 29, 2009, and Bill's hair is freaking ENORMOUS!

Aufmerksamkeit, Tokio Hotel fans! Bill Kaulitz has new hair! Again! It's as if he and Rihanna in some kind of tacit competition to see who can change their hair with more frequency! And while I know some photos of Bill's new fauxhawk are floating around out there, Buzzworthy isn't in the habit of pilfering photos of our favorite Cherry Tree bands, so I dreamed up my own version of what Bill Kaulitz would look like with Rihanna's pseudo-fauxhawk. (I made it on Daily Makeover. Don't laugh! I paid four bucks for it!!)

Pretty hawt, no? At least it's hotter than Drew Barrymore's new two-tone hair. And somehow -- just SOMEHOW -- I bet Bill manages to pull off the fauxhawk even better than Blake Lewis does.

After you tire of blasting the life out of Google searching for photos of Bill's new hair, check out Bill Kaulitz's messy/piecey hair back in 2002, and watch Tokio Hotel in Paris! I'll be watching the "Automatic" video again. Bon jour!