The time when “casting bands” dominated the pop-music market seems to have breathed its last in 2007. The pop circus was ruled by young, striving bands that had developed naturally, without artificial intervention—such as Tokio Hotel, Killerpilze, Juli, and Silbermond. An ideal point in time for five Swabian chicks from the town of Reutlingen, Germany, to waltz right onto center stage with their debut album. [The above is English translation of the first paragraph below.] Read more on Last.fm