Music Blog – @TokioHotel: Are you stupid? – Radio SRF 3

2019 Tokio Hotel Tower across Europe. Tickets are available from 60 francs. If you wish, you can also purchase a Super VIP upgrade for more than 3,000 francs. Aside from the fact that this upgrade is not really attractive, I find it stupid and extremely unfriendly.

Tokio Hotel has already had fans selling their grandmothers for a bit of closeness to the band. If these fans continue to shoot like that today, their grandmothers must really be careful. In 2019, you can reach Tokio Hotel. The group offers various fan upgrades. From 74 euros we are there.

Gregi Sigrist

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I can always understand that as a big fan of a band, you put a little weight on it to see their soundcheck and get a souvenir photo. This is the content of the "sound upgrade" (from 74 euros) offered on the group page. Some extra extras are offered to you thanks to the "prior update" (from 199 euros). Here is a short conversation with the possible group. You can get even more Tokio Hotel at "Post Chill Upgrade" (from 262 euros). Since you can in a season of "Tokio Hotel TV", the series behind the scenes of the group. Until then, not spectacular. But now, it's getting really expensive.

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After all, the "I Want More Upgrade" (from € 1,062) includes an exclusive group serenade in the locker room, a tour behind the scenes, all that has already been mentioned and a little more.

The "Melancholic Paradise Upgrade" (from 3 # 123 euros) is not infinitely better, but it is obviously expensive. Since you had a hotel night in the same hotel as the group. A breakfast prepared by the group or an object used during the show. Best of all, this upgrade includes the ticket for the concert. For others, apparently not. Hello?

Totally stupid

There are many ways for a group to reduce its fan base. The madness of Tokyo hotels is one of them. What happens with the fan-care of other groups is a business model for Tokio Hotel. Of course, this is not an invention of Magdeburg. Costly upgrades of their fans are especially cheap. What is offered there is hard to beat in an imaginary lethargy and smells like the slaughter and scam of the most important characters in the world of pop music: the fans.

Incidentally, not all improvements are available for the Tokio Hotel concert at the Volkshaus Zurich on May 20, 2019. This is for purely organizational reasons, as the tour organizer calls it.

Maybe the scenes of the Volkshaus are just too small for the big show Superfan. Or is the effort in this case too big for the little things? I do not know But I can not imagine that you can love a band for such smelly actions.

Addendum: Tokio Hotel upgrades are NOT donations for JRZ. The upgrades should lead directly to the group's hairdressers.

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