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The Heather Chase Files hits MSN News; Are Fan Blogs Helping the Credibility of Online Music News?
MSN’s article pronounced Kaulitz, notoriously single, is in fact dating. Tokio Hotel fans say the article resembled The Heather Chase Files’ previously published blog-post entitled “Bill Kaulitz is taken?! RTL ruined my life.” Both articles referred to the interview segment with Tokio Hotel, aired by popular European broadcasters, RTL.
RTL Exclusiv aired an interview with Tokio Hotel called “Toyboys and Older Women” on April 12. The interview covered lead singer, Bill Kaulitz’s, taste in women. Footage features Kaulitz and his twin brother, Tom, commenting that Kaulitz is taken.
RTL interviewers hastily stated the Kaulitz twins’ comments were jokes, but suggested younger girl-fans could give up hope of ever dating the Kaulitz twins. RTL further ruined Tokio Hotel’s young girl-fans hopes by summarizing Kaulitz’s dream girl as “…a little more mature and preferably successful and rich…”
The Heather Chase Files re-posted a Tokio Hotel fan’s blog-post reaction to the RTL interview. It points out; Kaulitz is under no obligation to publicize his affairs to fans. And arguably, the RTL interview backs up the rumors that Kaulitz is dating 23-year old American runway model, Heather Grey Chase.
The rumor of Kaulitz dating Chase gained popularity in 2008 due to The Heather Chase Files, a virtuality fan-blog run by Mimi Niggel. Her lack of original sources, and no-return commentary, obscures the credibility of most articles on The Heather Chase Files; shame on MSN for pushing such idiocy. A comment from MSN News could not be obtained.
This is not the first time an article from The Heather Chase Files has made major international news sites; in 2008 MTV News Romania released a video news segment confirming that Kaulitz was rumored to be dating a model named Heather Chase.
Bill Kaulitz is taken?! RTL ruined my life.
“Bill has a girlfriend now, yes.”
Oh, Tom Kaulitz what will you say next?
German idols, Tokio Hotel, during their latest interview with RTL Exclusiv, Tom Kaulitz, guitarist, let slip that twin, lead singer, Bill, had a girlfriend. “Ok – now it’s out in the open,” Bill laughingly replied, grin upon his face.
Calm down! Apparently the twins were “just joking”, as RTL interviewers made sure to quickly include before downgrading Tokio Hotel’s fangirls’ screams to useless. Bill, 19, is into mature, successful, and wealthy older women; the opposite of teenage Tokio Hotel fans hoping to marry him. Bill, a self-described toyboy, according to bassist Georg Hasting, may be currently in such a compensated position.
Sadly, this RTL interview might not have been a total joke. If you can get past RTL making us all look like desperate losers, you will find out Bill’s longtime fantasy girlfriend is very close to reality.
‘The facts are all in the open.’ Sound familiar? Good, for my fellow Tokio diehards it should. You’ve probably all seen the tabloid article this quote is from. You’ll also remember that pesky girlfriend rumor that runs rampant online, cropping up when you least expect it. Yeah, the one about Heather. . .
I find it interesting that the girl Bill has been rumored to be dating is successful American runway model, Heather Grey Chase, 23. From what I’ve read and seen of her, she fits Bill’s RTL interview description – older, mature, successful, and rich. Damn it!
If you don’t know who I’m talking about, the rumor started in fall 2008. Fueled by blogs (namely The Heather Chase Files by the phantom Mimi Niggel) and fandom discussion boards. It a virtuality spin all its own. Some claim it inspired Tokio Hotel’s 2009 album, Humanoid. (Bill did admit the songs on which were based on a girl, love, and something that started online, and turned into more than expected.)
But, back on-topic; my point is, I’m not really buying this whole RTL interview “just joking” cover-up. I definitely don’t think the twins were joking. I don’t know if Bill is really dating Heather or not (he hasn’t said either way), but I do think Bill has no problems about keeping his personal life away from fans.
RTL portrayed the boys as gods-of-rock, beyond the grasp of screaming fans, and only accessible to waifish fashion muses. I am insulted, but I don’t think this will Chase fangirls away, and neither does RTL.
Music for Academics
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Music for Academics
Pigeon writes like Harvard; jams like Berklee.
CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Thursday, April 1, 2010
“Call the doctor/ Call the philosopher/ Tongue-tied but/ It slips.” Lead singer, Heather Grey Chase’s, slightly out-of-key, gritty vocals belt out lyrics to Pigeon’s newest original song, Untitled 1.; off an in-progress hypothetical 2011 album. Thus affirming vocals are not their forte. However, it wasn’t vocal gymnastics that lured Cambridge’s bookish Ivy Leaguers, and our enharmonic-counterpart souls, to Boston last night.
COURTESY PIGEON
It was more to debunk the college-student-urban-legend of Pigeon; a Brooklyn avant-garde band which frequents underground clubs, low-key bars, and indie gatherings on the northeastern coast, and who cater to places crawling with young scholars looking for a break from studying or refuge from their tangled love lives. Pigeon embodies 20-something angst in both human form and noise. Mayhap gig-goers found the verse mind-boggling (“Lies drip like honey/ Fashion pop-culchur/ Darling, I talk circular.”), but catchy no doubt.
Originally from Philadelphia, and now New York, Pigeon is best known for not being known – at all! They’re considered reclusive, even for an underground band. Maybe that was the inspiration for their lyrics “Marco Polo to/ Our secret reality/ Darling, virtuality.” Quite frankly it’s easier to find local bands in Paris then finding where Pigeon has landed. Then again, that’s fun in itself! Besides, if you can catch them performing (a lot easier than it seems), your musical palate is in for a treat. Pigeon is avant-garde music at its finest.
Pigeon is not for the club audience or the pop-crowd. It’s rebellion against mindless dance synth is academic. It’s pure poetry put to avant-garde sound. Each song (written by Chase) is a poem in verses, artfully divided between back-up singer Monk and Chase.
A majority of Pigeon’s act is covers. Between Chase and Monk, Pigeon uses mainstream songs and renders them in sections, then further splits them into vocal parts for each of the sextet; complimented by violin and classical guitar picking on every rendition – even pop songs. The result is something akin to satire.
How Pigeon has found a fan-following in their odd, pushing even the strangest idea of experimental style, is impressive. Their songs tend to be convoluted; but deciphering their allusion is part of Pigeon’s schtick. These self-coined fashion-rockers (all Pigeon’s members are high fashion models), have unusual takes on music, spanning the genres of pop, rock, folk, experimental, alternative, ambient, punk, and classical. Pigeon’s hodge-podge music styling is typically defined as indie-rock, Vampire Weekend-ish, utilizing keyboards and a synclavier (programmed by pianist Chloé Saurian). They bring to mind artists like Imogen Heap and MGMT. Trademarks are their employ of violinist Erik Monk, who mimics pioneer experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson, and classical guitar fingering by Heather Grey Chase, even on their covers. Besides Chase, Monk, and Saurian, Pigeon includes bassist Dune Ralston, guitarist Feist Ralston, and drummer Libby Fink.
Last night found Pigeon in a loud, dingy, college bar bursting at the seams. Perhaps it was the lead singer’s filmy tulle dress and neon green stilettos that brought the man-crowd. Or the slinky dance moves between band members. Or even the promise of Pigeon playing their irresistible genre-traversing satirical covers of overplayed, well-known artists.
More likely it was the universal, and lovelorn, lyrics to their original pieces like Untitled 1.’s “Reckless words/ Slipped ihaveacrushonyou./ Your sparkle allure./ Media connect…/ I know you can feel it too –/ Just can’t admit it, can you?” paired with singularly catchy electronica that begs to be danced to.
“Del dicho al hecho/ Hay mucho trecho./ Your move.”
Heather Chase to MTVBuzzworthy: “Bill makes spikes a class act.”
She claims she doesn’t care for online blogs, but Miss Chase always has something to say about Americans’ pop-culture blog-posts on her rumored beau. “Hands down Bill,” she quips on MTVBuzzworthy’s latest post “Who Wore It Better?: Adam Lambert Vs. Tokio Hotel’s Bill Kaulitz” by Leslie Simon.
The picture MTVBuzzworthy depicts features Kaulitz and Lambert, popping the finger, in tight jackets with spiked shoulder pads. “Bill makes spikes a class act. Its fashion rock at its hottest – not pseudo-rebellious nachmachen glit nicht pop.”
Chase, a fan of Lambert since his early Idol days, also adds Lambert has gone a bit too far, “It’s cute he’s into Bill’s style and music, but he needs his own swagger.”
In earlier interviews, Chase suggested Lambert stole Kaulitz’s style and it was helping Tokio Hotel’s US exposure. However, she now thinks Lambert’s exact outfits and hair are “not really helping either boy. . .Adam is not America’s Bill. Bill Kaulitz is America’s Bill; we’re still unwrapping his yumminess.”
