oritsu_luv | Scream 'till you believe it

Yesterday I got the three things I wanted this month:
1) The new AP with Cobra Starship on the cover.
Gabe continues to amaze. God that man is just so smart!
2) The Annual 'Best of the British' issue of Olive magazine
Last year's issue was what got me into the magazine.
3) The Hot Topic Edition of Scream
<3

I was looking through my journal, and I realized I was already into TH back in June, because I talk about how their CD arrived in the mail.

So let's talk about TH a bit.

I came to TH, as I did to many other great foreign bands (SID, I'm looking at you.)through the late and great IMF channel, where I saw one of their music videos. I don't even remember which video it was now, but it made enough of an impression on me (esp Bill) to look them up. I think it was Spring Nicht, because I was obssessed with the song for a long time, even before I knew what the lyrics meant. (I remember at first I thought that maybe it meant 'Spring Night'. Boy was I suprised when I looked up the lyrics!)I downloaded their Zimmer 483 album, and scoured the net for translations of the lyrics, even giving myself mini German grammer lessons. I asked San for translations of the titles.
This was around when the first English version of Scream was released in France and the UK, and my parents went to France around this time, so I asked them to look for the CD -I had a downloaded copy, but I wanted to buy a real one to support the band - and any mags if they saw them. (They didn't but I still asked.)
As a present to myself when I quit my job, I ordered the French edition of the re-issue of Schrei (Schrei - so laut du kannst) from the Amazon.fr.
Somewhere in all of this I started reading interviews with the boys, and fell deeper in love with earnest!romantic!Bill, and cheeky!player!Tom. I may or may not have contemplated writing twincest.
By the time Judith and Andy came to visit, I'd learned enough about TH's image not to be all fangirl-y about them to my teenaged German cousins. (This proved to be a good mood. They were horrified and apologetic about TH.)
It makes me sad that they're seen as something of a joke by people in their own age group, but I think that any band that gets that big is subjected to that kind of hatred, especially when they do admittedly have a lot of screaming 14 year old girls for fans. Yes, a lot of older people like them, but the teenies will always scream loudest and act craziest, so they get all the attention. But I don't really care. They're 18 for crying out loud. They're really really young. But they're good, they're doing what they love and they're very genuine, as genuine as you can be when your life has become a brand. They work insanely hard for what they have. Why should they deserve it any less at 18 than at 28 or 38?