Concentrated power from East Germany: Five years after their last album to date, Kraftklub and Tokio Hotel are heading towards a beautiful utopia in their new song “Fahr mit mir (4×4)”. They leave “lawn grid Germany, provincial folklore and East German anxiety at home” without a care, as they say.
See the video here, in which Tom and Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel can be seen in addition to all Kraftklub members:
The song is a farewell to the past and at the same time a hopeful look into the future: “Don’t know where we’re going/But don’t rush because we both have forever”. Although Kraftklub and Tokio Hotel do not necessarily share their musical direction, they do share their East German origins: Bill and Tom Kaulitz grew up in Magdeburg, Kraftklub come from Chemnitz – or Karl-Marx-Stadt, as Chemnitz was called before the fall of the Wall and as Kraftklub still often does today so called.
“Fahr mit mir (4×4)” is the third single from the forthcoming Kraftklub album KARGO, which is due to be released on September 23, 2022, after “One song is enough” and “Wittenberg ist nicht Paris”.
To date, Tokio Hotel have released five studio albums, most recently DREAM MACHINE in 2017. Since then, nine singles have followed, which have not yet appeared on any album. The brothers Bill and Tom Kaulitz moderate their own podcast “Kaulitz Hills – Senf aus Hollywood” on Spotify.
Read our interview with Bill and Tom Kaulitz from March 2021 here, in which they stated, among other things: “Tokio Hotel will always exist”.