03.09.09 Viva Interview Part 2 (with translation) X

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Viva : And talking about science fiction, how do you guys imagine the future?

Bill: I hope there will be a lot of ... (do anybody knows what he is saying?) in the future, because I'm a big fan of it.
Tom: I would like flying cars.
Bill: Right! Flying cars and robots managing around, that would be cool.
Georg: And a beamer would be nice.
Bill: Yeah! Certainly beaming, because we all hate it to fly (in airplanes) and we loose a lot of time with it.
So when anybody exposes something like that, I would be the first to try it.
Tom: I would like to have aliens here on the planet.
Bill: Me too!
Tom: And who already found one?
Gustav: Not me.
Georg & Bill: Me neither.

Viva: Nobody has. (: And are there some things you fear for the future?

Bill: I'm sorry?

Viva: Are there some things you fear for the future?
Bill: Ehm . *is thinking*
Yes, maybe that al lot of things get done by machines and nothing's left for humans. That would be really sad, so we really have to pay attention to that. Human things just have to stay, for example when you go in the shop and there are only robots, no machines. That would be not so nice.
Tom: But it would be cool when you could have a robot that do all things for you.
Of course such things always have negative sides.
Georg: And in your bed? Would be cool too *laughs*
Tom: Yes of course * laughs*



Viva: Eh yeah indeed. *wtf.*
So, in the time between the last album and this new one, a lot of things happened. You guys got succes in foreign countries, did that make it easier to you? Or did you feel a lot more pressure because of that?
Bill: Of course now there is a pressure. When you're writing a lyric you think " Holy shit, so many people will hear this, now I have to write a song that thousands of people will hear. " That makes me nervous.
But besides we used the succes, we recorded our album in cool studios, with cool technics. That are positive things you can use. You definetly should not think too much of all the people that will hear my song, but that's very hard. You always know a lot of people will talk about it and some people will hate and trample it.
Tom: but the pressure really got higher.
Bill: Yeah.

Viva: So your it was easier to work with in your mind: "Nobody knows me and nobody is expecting anything".
Bill: Yes that is more calmly. Then there was no time pressure. There was nobody that says " So guys you have to finish that album quickly! ". Here our record company did. In the end it was us who made the deadline, because we just couldn't find the end. We never had the idea that it was done and perfect. We always wanted to make it more perfect and bether. Somebody had to tell us " Hold on, the record is finished yet, you cannot do anything anymore on it."
Otherwise it never ends, I never have the idea that it's perfect.
And before you're going to finish you just go crazy again and we wanted to change some things.
Tom: Yes, so it was us who made the deadline. We said to our record company; " Okey, let's plan it for October. " In that way we knew how many time we got left.



Viva: Bill, you say, a lot of people will hate it and trample it into the ground. That's always when people have succes, there are a lot of critics too. How do you deal with it?

Bill: I have to say, for us that isn't something new. When Me and Tom were 9 and went out of the city, there were always people that hated us. I think it's normal when right now I'm sitting with a camera right here, not everybody likes it.
Tom: To be honest, if somebody has critics to us or not, I don't care. I never took comments like that serious.
Bill: Yes, we have to thank that people because they made people talking about us. It would be worse when there was no one talking about us. Besides most of the time we just laugh about it.
And of course it's great that there are still people who like us. ;-)