Interviewer: What do you think about the band Tokio Hotel?
Lauri: We love them
…. I think … I don’t know too much about this band …
Interviewer: Are they big in Finland?
Lauri: Yeah! I think that they’re quite huge in Finland. But there’re only one thing that I know for sure that they stole our rift.
Interviewer: Which one?
Lauri: It’s a song called “Spring Nicht”, yeah… It’s exactly like a rift in our song “Not Like the Other Girls”… Actually we got that from the fans… The Rasmus’s fans . They send us… they made like a video where they edited those two songs after each other.
Interviewer: Very interesting…
Lauri: Yes! … I wish all the best for the band.. I think they have a good atittude and… some talent to get very far.
He didn’t. In a 2008 interview:
Interviewer: What do you think about the band Tokio Hotel?
Lauri: We love them
…. I think … I don’t know too much about this band …
Interviewer: Are they big in Finland?
Lauri: Yeah! I think that they’re quite huge in Finland. But there’re only one thing that I know for sure that they stole our rift.
Interviewer: Which one?
Lauri: It’s a song called “Spring Nicht”, yeah… It’s exactly like a rift in our song “Not Like the Other Girls”… Actually we got that from the fans… The Rasmus’s fans . They send us… they made like a video where they edited those two songs after each other.
Interviewer: Very interesting…
Lauri: Yes! … I wish all the best for the band.. I think they have a good atittude and… some talent to get very far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Ksx9_bmKU