5 Seconds of Summer

So I’ve apparently decided that this is the sword I’m gonna die on. For the past five or so months, I’ve been preaching to anyone who will listen about the phenomenon that is Youngblood. Cumulatively, I’ve probably spent a week of my life talking about the record. It’s that fucking epic – As per friggin usual, I’m late to the party once more in that I’m just now discovering that there’s a fucking acoustic version of the titular track. And now I’m fucking dying all over again. In all seriousness—who the fuck gave these guys permission to fuck my life up this poetically? – Let’s just dive in why don’t we… First off, it’s taken me way too fucking long to figure out how to adequately describe this rendition of what I believed to be an already perfect track, and it’s really starting to bother me. Also full disclosure: I can’t tell who the fuck is singing what part. I can confidently declare that Hemmings takes the lead throughout the song (as is to be expected for a mf lead singer), but other than that I have no fucking idea. So bear with me..

I want to get us started off by nothing that this is officially my favorite newly-released album at this particular moment. Now this comes after my glorious experience at 5 Seconds Of Summer’s live set at the Toyota Pavillion in Irving a few weeks back, so the way I feel about this record now is absolutely not what my first impressions were. This took some time, thought, and a few dozen (hundred) listens to really get a sense of the personality of this album. So without any further ado, let’s unpack the wonder that is Youngblood.

I have so many thoughts, I don’t even know where to begin, y’all. I swear if 5 Seconds Of Summer releases one more track that’s this caliber of genuine perfection, I’m committing myself to an insane asylum. Diagnosis: clinically obsessed.

Youngblood is the third studio album by Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer. It was released on June 15th, 2018 and it was named by one of the songs on the album. Luke Hemmings, one of the band members, said: Youngblood represented the whole album we felt. It’s the band’s favorite song. It felt the most important as a song. Youngblood as a term and a phrase summed up how we felt making it." Making of this album made band members close, says Michael Clifford: "I struggled to see the end vision, like what the album was meant to look like. Making Youngblood was probably the most important thing that 5 Seconds of Summer have had to do. The connection that we had to have between us four in order to finish something like this that was a difficult album to make for a ton of reasons. The thing that I’ll remember forever is the close bond that we had together, the bond that we needed to have together in order to get to the finished product. "In the US, 5 Seconds of Summer became the first Australian deed to achieve three chart-toppers on the Billboard 200 chart and the album became their third number one album in their country.

5 Seconds of Summer is a band that I remember following closely in 8th grade. My friend was going to a 1D concert and heard about the opening band and boom, we were obsessed; however, for me, I turned to heavier music like post-hardcore and such, but she turned to more boybands like BTS, that is beside the point though. Basically, I remember illegally downloading 5sos’s music in order to listen to it on my way to school because they were pretty exclusive with their stuff- it was only on YouTube- and I remember begging my mom to cancel my sweet sixteen party that she wanted me to have and take me to their concert instead. So, it is another group that I have grown up with and love seeing their progression as artists and was reminded of it while relistening to debut album, 5 Seconds of Summer, in order to write this… so yeah, they are great. Next.

Summer is about to end in some countries, but for a band formed in Australia, Summer never really ends. Their tunes and aesthetic make their fans scream their lungs out, and their youthful vibe brings out the sunshine in any situation. 5 Seconds of Summer or 5SOS as some people would call it, has been in the music industry since 2011. With members Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Michael Clifford, and Ashton Irwin, their biggest break was in 2014 with their biggest hit, “She Looks So Perfect”. In 2019, they have a new single titled, “Easier”, it is after the release of their collaboration with The Chainsmokers titled “Who Do You Love.”