Digital Love: Tokio Hotel Rumor of 2009

Is it really what you thought it was?

Heather Grey Chase’s moniker is synonymous with surfing for Bill Kaulitz’s girlfriend. It’s virtually impossible not to have read any of the Tokio Hotel diehards’ debate whether or not Chase and (lead singer) Kaulitz are an item. After all, Chase’s relationship with Kaulitz is the Tokio Hotel fandom rumor of 2009.

 

It started as a blurb on Tokio Hotel’s Spanish fan site, and grew into a virtual phenomenon via mass coverage from world-wide pop-culture blogs, YouTube stalker videos, bashings on music forums and various tabloids’ claiming the couples’ love, friendship, and infidelity. In early 2009 the rumor of Heather Chase dating Tokio Hotel lead singer, Bill Kaulitz, disappeared from public eye leaving fans grappling with confusion, but more rumors would surface and the chase would be on again.

Are they really together? Or is it just a Tokio Hotel marketing gimmick?

In spring 2009 rumors of Chase’s band (Pigeon) lending their signature violin trademark to Tokio Hotel’s new album, in a published article, attempted to explain the question of who Heather Grey Chase really was. With a subsequent break up of Pigeon, Tokio Hotel returned to the scene. In August 2009 TH announced their new album Humanoid. Chase retreated back into anonymity.

Was Humanoid named for Chase? Did Bill and Heather break up?

With Humanoid’s release in September 2009 Kaulitz confirmed his single “Automatic” was indeed inspired by love and a girl. The album itself was inspired by something that happened to him over the course of the last year. Kaulitz stated something totally unexpected had started online. Yet along with the hype of “Humanoid” came the bashings on Billy’s masculinity, from Perez Hilton and then Alexa Chung. Eerily, Chase materialized to successfully defend Kaulitz’s honor once again.

Who is this girl? Are Chase and Kaulitz for real?

Tokio Hotel fans were positive they had Heather Grey Chase figured out. For them, the lack of information had deemed her a fraud. Then, on December 22, 2009 a photo of Chase exiting her car was published. Tabloids greeted it as a first, enjoying the fact that it had not been hidden by Tokio Hotel’s management or by Chase’s reclusive family.

Has the world found Heather Grey Chase?

At the close of the year, and propelled by 2009’s favorite social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook, Chase once again looks like Bill Kaulitz’s girlfriend. It comes as no surprise. The facts are all in the open. Will 2010 be the beginning of a new year for the love story of Chase and Kaulitz? The coming year will tell.

Snap, Snapped: Heather Grey Chase

Today is Tuesday and Pop-Cultured’s all over the Chase. Have you seen IT yet?! You’ve got to see IT! Waking up this morning and checking our inbox was better than a Christmas morning. IT is probably worth a million dollars and we’re kicking our asses for not snap-snapping IT.     

What is IT? – The first known pap shot of model (aka Bill Kaulitz’s [better known as GOD] humanoid bitch), Heather Grey Chase, surfaced on the viral feeds this morning. That’s right; a real candid of Miss Chase arriving in her car (which is apparently extremely old school cool??)   

Photo Credit: MyNY. Heather Grey Chase snapped by the paparazzi.

 

We’re hyperventilating! – This is the first photo that hasn’t been hoarded away by Tokio Hotel’s management, or her people. And Heather (OMG) totally looks like what Bill said his type is. You bet we’re insanely jealous; the glam feathers, pale vampiric skin, green eyes, full lips, perfect teeth, and Lady Gaga hair. Ok, maybe not quite so Lady Gaga, but you have to admit the blond streak is pretty cute.   

Speaking of Gaga and the paparazzi… “Paparazzi” by Lady Gaga. Yes, that was totally relevant and necessary. Did you know Gaga was called a sexed-up version of a Pigeon (meaning Heather) by a New York beat reporter earlier this year?  

This has been Pop-Cultured.