Here is what all the kids are listening to these days:

If you hadn’t heard of Tokio Hotel, well now you have. Here are a few factoids, so’s you can get acquainted:

1. No, that’s not Ashlee Simpson. The singer is a BOY. His name is “Bill.”
2. The singer and the guitarist with the dreadlocks are TWIN BROTHERS. They were born in 1989.
3. The band is GERMAN.
4. In Germany, and throughout Europe, they are SUPERSTARS. Bigger than Hasselhoff. They won the MTV European Music Award for “Best InterAct,” whatever that is.
5. Most of their androgynous Euro-Emo has been sung in German thus far, but they’ve just begun to do some English language stuff. Their first American single was initially restricted to the domain of mallrats, being exclusively sold in Hot Topic stores. But it’s only a matter of time before this shit is all over the place.

So, that’s Tokio Hotel. Are you ready?

Yeah. Me neither.