"Automatisch" and "Automatic" are the first singles from Germanpop rock band Tokio Hotel's third German studio album and second English studio album Humanoid. "Automatisch" was released in German-speaking countries on 18 September 2009 and "Automatic" was released in the United States on 22 September 2009.[1][2]
Craig Wessels of Wicked Pixels, the most-awarded animation-studio in South Africa,[3]
directed the music video, shot over three days in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa.[4] The video features the band driving separately in muscle cars and with computer generated humanoid robots.[5] The music video for "Automatic" was released online on September 3, 2009, while the video for "Automatisch" was released a day later.[6][7]