Drummer Ashton Irwin said it was both a shot and a nod back to the critics.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, that\u2019s punk, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s more just thank you for such a sharp tool,\u201d Irwin said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cPop is a conversation with society, to us. The things you call us, we can turn them into firepower, creatively. And that\u2019s really a bit of a breakthrough psychologically for us. Call us more things, we\u2019ll just make a pop song out of it and utilise that conversation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people would call us a boy band when we were younger, it was almost to emasculate us and make us feel smaller than we were and to belittle our dreams as musicians. It was nasty, but we weren\u2019t intellectualising it enough to use it as a mirror\u2026 it was a bit of a breakthrough when we did that on this album and and actually just accepted it fully.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you you say we\u2019re that, then this is our version of that, which is funny because it\u2019s been very enjoyable and cathartic to to use that language to our advantage, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch the full interview above or listen below.<\/p>\n
5SOS will return to New Zealand and Australia next year<\/a> in support of the new album.<\/p>\n 5SOS 2026 Australia and New Zealand Tour<\/p>\n Ticket information available via\u00a0livenation.co.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0livenation.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n October 24th October 28th October 30th November 2nd November 6th
Spark Arena, Auckland, NZ<\/p>\n
Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD<\/p>\n
Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW<\/p>\n
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC<\/p>\n
Kings Park, Perth, WA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5 Seconds of Summer say they have fully embraced the boy band moniker with their new album after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[26062,26064,64,63,134,109849,136,163315],"class_list":["post-282919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-5-seconds-of-summer","tag-5sos","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-everyones-a-star","tag-music","tag-rolling-stone-uncut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}