I'm upset in our 10years we've not been to India but hopefully um hopefully we can go soon
I mean it's hard to say completely mess the new one but I think Young Blood is a great representation I'm pretty proud of that song.
We're a very brave and ambitious band so um with world events I don't think that would stop us from touring or visiting our friends out there
Please imagine us in your heads playing a show in wherever you are and think about it every day for a week
Hi there Surbhi this side welcome to Pinkvilla Thanks for having us.
So I'm gonna jump right in, it's been ten years of 5SOS that's a massive massive milestone! How do you decode the trajectory of the band you know starting out with performing in front of 12 people then touring with One Direction
And like now selling outdoors and topping charts how has that been? Great!
It's been a massive journey since you know we started the band when I was 15 years old and it's been ten years so that's a big portion of the change in everyone's life but for us it's just been trying to remain friends and trying to remain
focused on kind of why we started the band and just trying to stay true to that and keep getting better as songwriters and performers. I am upset in our 10 years we've not been to India.
But hopefully um hopefully we can go soon. Hopefully, we are also looking forward to it. You know a line in your celebratory single 2011 says 'nothing lasts forever nothing stays the same',
How do you correlate this in terms of the band's journey? Why do you think you guys have stayed stronger you know you have the same kind of passion?
Yeah I think we really welcome change and change reminds us that we are moving forward with our you know original intentions um and we like that nothing stays the same because it keeps it interesting
Yeah I mean we have a few cornerstones of the band's ideologies that you know started to exist early days and we've attempted to keep our intentions pretty pure towards what we do
And everything is a manifestation of a positive mindset towards what we do you know so as good things happen we just say thank you.
You have a new single coming up 'Complete Mess' how would you say it adds to uh you know the band's already successful you know, book.
I think I mean this song is kind of the culmination of those ten years finally coming to ahead of the band uh releasing its first single of it's just being uh produced by Michael and the band and it's written by the band
I mean it's a massive accomplishment for us to get that far and I feel like the process of writing this song and this album has like- it's kind of what we've been hoping for the last ten years and it's amazing to finally get there
You know talking about the future, fans are always thrilled with collabs uh do you think we'll see Five Seconds of Summer collaborating with say K-Pop group?
Yeah we are always down to collaborate if it involves songwriting um songwriting is what we're truly you know really into we really like the process we like the challenge of coming up
with an inventive song uh that is a combination of whoever we're working with and our individual mentalities on what we think a good song is
So to collaborate with anybody is a pleasure. Yeah if we can truly collaborate by writing songs with them that will be awesome.
You know looking back at your band's journey you guys started out very young you were on tour with One Direction.
What was the one thing that you learnt very early on from them?
I think there was I mean there are so many things we learned early on I think at that stage it was basically we always knew we wanted to be uh the best live bands that we could be and I think at that point it was literally just playing for like
at that point half hour long it was thirty minutes a night and just trying to be the best live band we could be and I think it's just putting in the hard work and that time and that dedication to it
And I think alongside that was like the songwriting and trying to understand what band we wanted to be and we always wanted to be a band for a long time as well even you know
being so young it was it was always a thought, so I think it was...
I don't know just sticking to like the you know playing live and songwriting and production and all that and sticking to that from the start and trying to build on that as a whole career as
opposed to jumping onto anything to I don't know just for the sake of getting on it. It was more trying to stay truthful to those like um I don't know basic concepts as a band
You know now that your new single's coming out in terms of putting out new music how would you distinguish your past works and what you're working on now?
The older I mean we as I said in an earlier question, we're just really open to it changing and we're not attached to the band being any one way um
So I think it's a departure um musically and recording-wise partly because we did it top to bottom ourselves um and you know producing and writing the record at such a standard or
hopefully a standard you know um where we can become more internal and have more ownership over our creative process that's the true success to us so that's how it's
different from every other record you know it's just a step forward again into creating in a more fluid way. Definitely!
In ten years fans have had like their favourite songs for you guys what is that one song that you're the most proud of?
I mean it's hard not to say Complete Mess the new one but honestly, I think Young Blood is a great representation I'm pretty proud of that song. Yeah Young Blood um
'She looks so perfect', 'amnesia', and 'jet black heart' are pretty awesome. Also you guys are going to go on tour you know it's been with Covid everything has been very different.
How excited are you to finally like meet fans perform in front of fans? I'm excited for that I mean that's the nectar of life for us um
Sharing that energy and experiencing that osmosis with a crowd you know that is the most beautiful thing we get to experience it is a gift you know um so just excited that it's even on the cards at all yeah.
We're very lucky and we're very brave and ambitious band so um with world events I don't think that would stop us from touring or visiting our friends out there.
Apart from loving your music one thing that fans really enjoy about you guys is also your social media fun you guys are very witty on social media uh as a band amongst you know
amongst your members who do you think is the funniest? I feel like the funniest member changes day to day
But definitely definitely does - i think honestly one of the funniest things we've done is that is the Five Seconds of Summer show we did like actual
because we've been doing skits as a band for a long time we actually got to record them and do them like with you know like actually do them properly so that was pretty funny I think we did a pretty good job.
It's kind of us blowing off steam professionally. So at the moment who's the funniest? At the moment I'd say Calum yeah but Calum has a sophisticated humour
you know he doesn't really share it much but you got to be quick to catch it you gotta be listening to everything he's saying he'll like mumble something hilarious under his breath yeah!
Lastly I want to ask you guys uh what if you had one message for your Indian fans who are definitely looking forward for your tour someday, what would you say?
Please imagine us in your heads playing a show in wherever you are and think about it every day for a week and if we all do that together I think the cards will shift to a place where
we probably will end up playing those shows in India because we want it really bad.
It was really nice talking to you guys thank you so much for your time
You're very lovely thank you for your time yeah thank you appreciate it.