I just think it’s regrettable that so many people, in the business of their lives, fail to take the time to actually research a band, its music, lyrics, history and message, yet feel entitled to make sweeping generalizations and statements about the band as if they actually knew something about it. Please, attention all knee-jerk guyliner haters – just because Bill wears makeup, doesn’t mean the world should ignore the music of Tokio Hotel. They are not poison. They are not dangerous, and they are not trying to brainwash your fifteen-year old daughters and take them away from you. They have enough older, rational and committed fans, who are not hysterical teens, who have been with them from the beginning, and are loyal forever.

Anyway, let’s say that Tokio Hotel becomes big enough in America to have a cultural influence. Is this a bad thing? I would hesitantly suggest that unfortunately many Americans still think that nothing comes out of Germany but swastikas and bratwurst. Could we please end this WWII-era fear and distrust, and start to realize that, sixty-some odd years later, Germany is a different country with many admirable qualities? They have a strong female leader, in the Chancellor Angela Merkel. Their capital city, Berlin, is coming to be seen as a burgeoning mecca of art and creativity, in not only music but the visual arts, architecture, etc. German restaurants are rated second only to France. Germany signed the Kyoto Protocol – can the US say as much? Honestly – we’re so resistant to the idea of anyone non-American, being more famous in America than our own artists – can we get over this arrogance? Personally I think it’s commendable that Tokio Hotel are inspiring young people, in America and worldwide, to learn foreign languages (whether German or otherwise), to take up musical instruments, to travel the world, to talk to people from other countries – how can this possibly be a bad thing? Would it be better if your daughters stayed at home, never applied themselves to another language, only talked to their friends in their little clique at their local high school, and watched Ashley Tisdale? Please.

And a bumper sticker is not vandalism.

2. I hardly think a sticker, easily removed, can be classified as vandalism.

So.

Another case of fan-stereotyping? CHECK.

Another case of fan-stereotyping? Check.