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Strify Birthday Fan Action

Now we all many Youtube vids and nice fan photos get released around the time of the boys' birthdays. However, this time you can be part of a really cool gift idea for Strify!


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I even got a little preview of how this is going to look and let me tell you..it's going to ROCK! ;D

SPEX Interview w/Strify (translated)

Strify, real name unknown, is a singer of German youth band Cinema Bizarre Room. These mixes Glamrock Quotes and melodic vocals with Japanese Visual-Kei looks and is therefore often confused with Tokio Hotel. As a representative of a generation, from childhood on was networking and quite naturally, says of himself that her self-confidence have found through Google, Strify talking here about the Auto-Tune effect, psychological terror in online communities and not the rest of humanity digitalisierbaren .



Photo: © Yves Borgwardt / Spex

Strify, you're twenty years old. What does it mean for you, a> digital native Without the Internet I would not be me, I would not Strify. Without the Internet today, I would not even singer of Cinema Bizarre, or even a band. I can say with certainty, because I still remember exactly what kind of a gray mouse I had before I started with about twelve years for the first time went into the Internet. I was a complete outsider, was very introverted, had few friends at school and found in the small town with 60,000 inhabitants, from where I live, which is otherwise no people with similar interests. I was infinitely bored that my classmates all looked the same, the same that all wore jackets and trousers. I looked around and saw nothing but a big Einheitsbrei. Nevertheless, I tried to adapt myself. Few successful: My nickname then was "Harry Potter". I looked really like Harry Potter!

In the internet you found a better look and new friends?
Exactly. My father was still a time, successfully defended against the internet, but when we finally got it made when it hit me immediately. On the Internet I noticed: I'm not alone! There are other people who are on it so like me! I learned from the Visual Kei scene, there was this androgynous, fantastievollen looks, in this scene be taken toll and then very quickly gained self-confidence. When I returned the summer back to school came, nobody saw me again.

The online world was therefore a strong feedback effect on your everyday life?
Absolutely! The Internet in this respect is of course a double-edged sword, it is clear to me: Internet-communities can also have the negative effect that this is totally closed to them. It then lives in his great online fantasy world, but in real life will be much more shy and unhappier than before. I have even seen the beginning: When I was a newcomer in the Internet, I went for a time, barely out the door, hung only in forums that had a thousand different Messengers subscribed and surfing through dozens of different communities - until I noticed that my online Friends, this type of communication effectively for the real life did. There was quite unpleasant situations, for example I got from people I never met had bitterly angry messages à la: "Why do not you flagging more? How can you do to me only? "I could only reply:" Can it still? I was only briefly on toilet! "

The extent to which Visual Kei was just important for you, that is, a particular dress code on communicating scene whose Aufstyle and make-up practice known as> Second Life without the Internet One must understand that from the Visual Kei Japanese culture is, so a culture that is much stricter than the European one. For children and young people in Japan, there are an unbelievable number of rules - how long the hair has to be how far the stockings over the knee to extend and so on. Everything is strictly regulated. That is why in Japan there is little room to act out individually. Visual Kei offers as a valve. People meet at the weekend, stylt completely to slip into a character into it, flees for a few hours. I have Visual Kei for me as an escape but never grasped. I myself never wanted to just briefly go into a character, but I wanted to be a separate character! And I then also in other German Visual Kei followers found: they go to school so that they style every day, for them, the look absolutely everyday.

Your band colleagues from Cinema Bizarre did you also know about the Internet?
Yes, it is also about the Visual-Kei community. First I met the guitarist of the band know, Yu. With him on the internet, I emailed back and forth already, before we then for the first time in a Visual-Kei-Convention met. There we learned then still Kiro also know, our current bass player. That was the initial spark for Cinema Bizarre. We stayed on e-mail contact, exchanged ideas, and studied with the aim of the band's founding through the Internet or on other members. Without the Internet would be our band that is actually never existed. If I had the guys not in this way to know, I would have after my first attempt rather unpleasant as a singer in the school band and choir probably never thought to become a musician. All members of Cinema Bizarre are, where they grew up, made a similar experience as me. We were all outsiders.

Today, says her quite deliberately Cinema Bizarre: We are not classic garage combo, we are an internet and Style-band, we make conclusions with the usual rock Authentizismen.
I think that is authentic, who is not adjusted, that is, who's not as sold something that he is not. Britney Spears in this respect is the authentic pop singer at all, because it does not do as she was a great artist. It is simply what it is: a performer. Point. This is totally> true <. We have never as a typical rock and roll band output. Why should we? We are not. Our first reference point was not music, but there were styles and looks. I have recently read an interesting quote from Jason Brandon from the Killers: He said that Nirvana and grunge in the early nineties, the whole fun out of the rock'n'roll disappeared. I would sign it. In the seventies and eighties, there were quite a number of artists and bands that are well defined on their look as about music - great people like David Bowie, Grace Jones and Adam Ant! In the nineties, but then came to Grunge, and as a musician who is now thinking about making his appearance, was considered vain and was therefore not authentic. How Cinema Bizarre but not! We want to create an overall picture - and I do not want to just play music, but also images in the minds of the people to send!

Therefore, a band name like Cinema Bizarre, so the reference to the cinema as a space in the picture and sound come together?
Exactly. We knew at the beginning is that we necessarily say> Bizarre Cinema Bizarre, "a lo-fi, trash and splatter-division of the seventies, until then we all do not know. We liked the concept but and for what he is - just because the cinema is the place where image and sound combine. We then turned the concept simply. > Cinema Bizarre <- that fit into a band who not only heard but also be seen.

If you say that the Internet has helped you, to find your identity, you observe the other way, that Cinema Bizarre on the Internet today, teenagers in search of self-help?
The three 13-year-old boys in New Zealand Cinema Bizarre after making me on the Internet are still not met. But in France has given me time a journalist says that the Internet is a band that we have as one of their biggest influences is called. And of course we have over the Internet much contact with our fans, we always say that they just want to be like us. If I were fans in this way can help to become self-confident and to find their way, then this is for me the greatest. Because that is so often forgotten: that we give children self-esteem needs. Today everything is so multimedial and global, one has to so many simultaneous access, which is a toll. However you can get but also very quickly feel very small, especially as a child - you know you do not remember which of a thousand identities, codes scenes and you really should decide. So I say to our fans again and again: It's great when it's copied and pasted so you stylt like us - but it is just okay, if you own something ausdenkt and simply does what you feel like you.

How to explain you the confidence that your fans pay to you online? After all, they speak essentially with art figures: Your sign all crafted pseudonyms, your middle name and your home are not known, and otherwise we know next to nothing about you or your private life.
Everyone has things that he would rather keep for themselves. Not everyone needs to know everything about me, and not everyone needs to know my entire family. In a normal job you want not even that all my colleagues every detail about a know - and yet you trust each other. It is a kind of self - perhaps even from that experience which I have described: that online reality very quickly otherwise übergriffig may be that someday we thus no longer can go to the loo, without logging off. No matter how much we give of our private lives: We are not a fake. We are what we show. This is what we show is what we want to show. That we are looking for exactly. And we have plenty to tell - about our trips, concerts, on meeting with fans. That is why we remain interesting. We are constantly in contact with our online community, I support a Facebook fan page and our MySpace page, and we now also use Twitter.

The title of your new album, "Toyz," reads well, as he was taken directly to a Tweet.
Yes, the big> Z
For example, he writes on his own unique way, "rawk" instead of "rock".
Exactly. Or he replaces each> J Y <- that he has taken over from the Japanese, because you> Y J <. He hears a lot of Japanese music, someday, he then transferred his slang. It has almost a little bit of a cool secret language. A separate Internet secret language to allow the search engine also makes a little bit harder. Somewhere Yu then> Toys Z Toyz <. This was also visually very good.

Apart from the fact that you've met on the Internet, Cinema Bizarre is also a fully band in the sense that all your products - music, videos, photos - offensively are digitally processed. Photoshop, Sampling, Auto-Tune, etc. Use it for your texts even translation tools?
No, that would be great if I write lyrics in German and they could then only in the translation from Google paste mask should. From translation tools but for now I think nothing. The English cover version of real "Do you weep" on our new album is not as incurred. Poetic language is entirely in digital translations lost. Otherwise, it is true but of course we are fully digital, our aesthetic is very different from computers. That has to do with the times now that we all grew up with digital tools are. Our toys were digital, today is my favorite toy my MacBook. From technology and their ability to be surrounded, for us is completely natural. Recently I read an interview with Dave Gahan, who was again reminded that electronic music in the early days of Depeche Mode still not as> real
Are there language translations, apart from something that is also not digitalisierbar?
Of course, this is the man! Personality. Feelings. Machines are the people can never fully replace - I think at least. People are much too complicated knitted, they think illogical to have mood swings are sometimes totally unpredictable, even if it should succeed once, something like an artificial intelligence to create, could not think and feel like people do. This is the analog core of the whole. That is why in times like these even concerts again is so important: the concerts are the moments in which real people on stage, they are the basic essence of the music business that are not digitally can be calculated. Therefore, we are constantly on the plane and even more in the bus on the way to the next concert.

Annoying and sometimes it does not have its own biomass constantly hoist to transport, only to anywhere in the world to prove that behind the whole performance computing incarnate man is? Would not you sometimes like a digital duplicate losschicken and even stay at home?
Until now, travel for me is a pure joy. To me six years ago someone had said that I have with twenty almost the entire world have seen, then I would have never believed. I can not really complain. We fly for the first time to New York, our concert there in the High Line Ballroom is sold out, and the people bawl with all of our songs - that is what I want to do! That's why I make pop music!

How do you find it, your voice as a singer with overexcited Auto-Tune effect to hear?
Auto-Tune for me is twofold - firstly, a natural extension of my vocal range, so a new, interesting timbre, the other a reflection of digitality built. There are songs in which Auto-Tune would be the most dreadful, what we could do to them, and there are songs, which makes the effect for the decisive kick. The latter is the case with some "Toyz," the title track of our new album. That was from the outset a very electronic number, in principle, it is a digitized children's song. Here, the Auto-Tune effect for one Extraquäntchen character.

And how do you assess the effect on other musicians?
I found "808s & Heartbreak" toll, the last album from Kanye West. However, using the Auto-Tune effect on album length appreciably, it is also somewhat exhausting. Another successful example is the song "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap. He is an a cappella singing, without instruments, the song consists only of voice and Auto-Tune effects. A true statement of our time. Why should not his creativity in this way can run free?

Many take the Auto-Tune effect is still not true as an aesthetic decision, but as a license to bungler.
Yes, people think that we can today with Auto-Tune is everyone in the studio are! And of course: This plug-in allows even people presentable to sound, which otherwise do not meet single tone. But what we never will be automatically achieved - and what do not ever plug-in will create - is the audience emotions trigger. Emotion and passion in his voice, those are things that no digital tool can reproduce. These traces of humanity, these traces of personality are exactly what the people in a most touching song - and why it not only once, but always want to hear.

Romeo, Strify, and Kiro at Fashion New Faces 2009 awards

Link thanks to Official Russian Strify Support {international}
Cinema Bizarre @ Fashion New Faces Awards 2009



...Where is Shin? XD

New Blog from Strify

OYZ 2009.05 - Take a picture we don't care.
Current mood: energetic
Hey how!

Here we go again, sorry for not writing any blogs the last weeks. So I wanted to steo by a and leave a few words.
There was a lot goin' on and finally our new music video has hit the internets and tv stations.



The work with Space Cowboy, Martin Kierszenbaum and Red One was very relaxed and a lot of fun.
I think the track is very unusual and might suprise some people because we are showing off another side of Cinema Bizarre.
Sometimes it's good to not take yourself so serious. To let yourself go and just party.
So we needed a special video for a special song. We created a bizarre parade. Trashy and glamorous.
And that's what I always see in Berlin. A lot of trash and glamour. So you could say the party is Berlin-inspired.
The director we worked with is called Lennart Brede.
The jacket I was wearing was from a very young Berlin-based designer. She's making a lot of unisex clothes and her label is called von bardonitz.

Make sure to check our weekly internet TV show CB.TV. Just check our buzznet channel every thursday as well as our myvideo channel & the official youtube channel every Thursday to catch the latest episode.

It's all very exciting to bring out TOYZ in Europe and BANG! in America.
I get butterflies when I think about it. It's kinda magical. But that's what music is about.

We're planning the WE'RE ALL TOYZ tour at the moment that will lead us though Europe again all over this year and we're also planning new shows in America.
I get a lot of mails with questions in which new countries we are planning to come.
The best way to find out is to check our Official website and our Bandspace. When a date is confirmed you will see it their first!

Thank you so much for all your love and glam-trashtastic support!
Stay bizarre and get ready to play! Kisses,

JackEStrify/_xoxo_

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TOYZ 2009.04 - Music remains.
„Willkomen, Bienvenue, Welcome –

Cinema, Cinema, Cinema!“



It’s bloogin’ time again and so much stuff is goin on.

We are workin’ on the idea for our new music video „I CAME 2 PARTY“, it’ll be shot in June. It’ll be some kind of video remake based on an idea of a music video that’s a classic. I’m not going to tell you too much. What do you think should a Cinema Bizarre party look like?



A week ago we’ve been in Italy and had a wonderful performance of „DEEPER & DEEPER“ at the Italian MTV TRL Awards. Because the album release was postponed again, we wanted to make you a little present and this track is downloadable for free at cinemabizarre.com!



And the journey continues: On the weekend we’ll have the „TOYZ“ pre-release-party in Hamburg where we will appear as DJs and even play a few new tracks from the album for you. Hope I’ll see you there!

Next week we’ll be in Paris and have a little special event for you - an intimate accoustic evening – and the we’ll head to Moscow and Kiev for some concerts.



But a few things happened these days that weren’t so nice.

There was some buzz about stuff that leaked on the internet that upset some of you.

Also I read some reviews about the album that were kind of... I don’t know how I should say it... they were kind of funny. They were writing about all our make up, about how much hairspray we use, about the „wrong“ way of writing „TOYZ“ with a Z and so on.

That’s fine for me, but I really don’t understand the point of writing a review about an album without writing about the music.

Yes, Cinema Bizarre is not only meant to be heard but also to be seen.

We are making video, photos, are creating images... but all this comes along with the music.



There has always been a lot of controversy in my life. I guess it’s the same with the band.

But I just don’t want you to lose focus on the most important thing.

You can have as much posters as you want in your room, you can have zero posters.

You can dress the way you want, you can write whatever you want about us.

As long as you care about one thing: the music.

I don’t want you to forget that, it seems that happened to the person who has written that review (or copied it from another writer).



So many things come and go. Music remains, Art remains.



Stay Bizarre.

Jack E. Strify



PS: Click here to follow CB on twitter. Have you already seen the first three lessons? More to come.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
TOYZ 2009.03 - The Time Flies.
Bonjour mes amis,



It feels like a lifetime since my last blog.

Sorry about that but on the road I just couldn't calm down.




The last weeks have been very good for us and a lot of stuff has happened.

Most of I think already know that we've been to the States.

Lady GaGa asked to us open her The Fame Ball Shows so we spontaneously left everything behind to grab that oppurtunity. We travelled from the West Coast to tha East Coast and opened every show expect the ones who are yet to come because they were postponed.

I really loved working there. We had dozens of interviews, many shows to play, met awesome people, found awesome fashion been glamy and glittery and there's more to come.

Lovesongs (They Kill Me) is now out on iTunes America and it's veeeeeery exciting. We are planing on a US album which will have another title and another tracklist and maybe even some extra stuff. It'll probably come out in June/July and it'll be glamorous! So you can expect mote concerts to come!




We returned to a week to Germany and were also very busy here. There will be a lot of stuff during the next weeks you'll get to see, read whatever! It's a bizarre invasion of our futuristic spaceship. Beware if you wanna play!

TOYZ is finally finished, we recorded a new song two weeks ago. Maybe you've already seen the cover somewhere around the web as well as the single cover of the first single My Obsession.

I told you in December about that song and the magic that's surrounding it. And now it's going to be the first single. Are you already obsessed? I'm sure some naughty of you already checked YouTube... but soon there will be the new video.

We're also already planning the WE'RE ALL TOYZ tour for Germany and Europe.

You can check the dates on the bandmyspace or cinemabizarre.com

It'll be awesome to play finally again in Germany!

Last week we had our own headlining shows in NYC and LA. I really think New York is the only city in the world where people aren't staring at me! I loved that and I hated that.

The LA show was insane and New York was the shit!




The time flies and you never know what happens next on your rollercoaster ride.

But now I'm enjoying my glamorous and trashy Berlin.

So many cities, so many stages but now I'm in the place I love the most.

In my bed having some lovely pineapple...




love.

Jack E. Strify

xxx




PS: If you wanna be always up to date what's going on and if I don't post enough blogs for you, follow us on twitter.com/cinemabizarre

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Russian hats are taking over!

Madonna Vs. Strify!

(Strify photo taken by [x]Black-Kiiss[X])

Strify[Argentina] support fan action!

everyone to wants to qo the same way like Cinema Bizarre , to support and help them and say: "Boys, i stay faithful for you!".... please send us a pic from you or a pic from you with one of the guys from Cinema Bizarre!! with a personaL message! ( but no so long!!!)
becuase i make a video ( or more videos...).. i will give it the boys in Hamburg 27.12.

!!!!!!


please send your pic untiL 22.12.

!!!!



@ this email adress please:

strify87@gmx.de
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PLEASE REPOST IT; I NEED YOUR HELP AND YOUR PICS FOR CINEMA BIZARRE"!

DONT LET THE GUYS ALONE!!!


By: LUMPI

P/S: SEND HER YOUR PIC!!! FIGHT TOGETHER FOR CB!!! ;)

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Snowwhite <3
Current mood: romantic

finally snow!!! <3~

im at my parents house and enjoyin the first lovely snow, this is just a lil view from the street



so santa gav us n early present this year ;D

keep gentle n peaceful and cb will make u a happy merry christmas <3~


-yu-


dreamin away with myv - dear my love. tried to play it on guitar and i keep gettin better yay <3

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