Ashton Irwin: I think, the frustrating part about the song "Youngblood" is learning in action
because we've had a funny kind of run of life
Luke Hemmings: Which is very funny, when you see it like in a summer smash playlist.
Ashton Irwin: Yeah, seeing it as a summer chill summer hits playlist.
It's not really how it feels to us.
Luke Hemmings: "Youngblood" for me is a ... is like a way that we were living at the time
we're writing it and also, Youngblood is a person.
Their persona is very on and off push and give and take and all that kind of good stuff
Michael Clifford: That's why we called our album, 'Youngblood'.
It's such a visual word, you can visualize the feelings of the word as well and I think
that always is what connected with me
Ashton Irwin: It was based off those really youthful and naive promises you make the first
time that you might have fallen in love.
It's like you really do make those promises and you don't understand the depth or the
actual commitment that you're speaking of the power of the words, when you use them
for the first time
Luke Hemmings: I always thought it was so weird, when you're in a relationship and you call
each other baby or whatever, or whatever you do you're so close, you do everything together.
And then as soon as you break up, you just are two people that are just kind of ... you're
still in the same place like someone comes to get their stuff from their house because
you're broken up and then you're like, you say their name instead of so it's like so weird.
Luke Hemmings: In that limbo place where you've broken up but it's ... someone keeps opening
the door up a little bit and you come back in and it's like you feel like shit the next
day because you went back in there again and you're like ... and it's all very messy.
It's empty promises being made to someone when in reality something else is happening,
behind the scenes that you might not have seen and you just kind of find out.
Ashton Irwin: It's just that power that the person has over you and you're a puppet to
them.
You'll do whatever just to retrieve the feeling that you think is important or best for you
because you don't know what's best for you I guess, so it's the powerlessness.
You're fragile and you're kind of at this persons every beck and call and I think that's a lyric
of frustration and weakness.
Luke Hemmings: Every time kinda you do the same thing and you go back and you go, "I
want you back in my life," and then "Get out of my life," and now you're crawling because
you know you can't walk anymore because it's just been
Michael Clifford: It’s like how the pre-chorus is like you push and you pull it’s like
that whole thing in like relationships in general
Ashton Irwin: Trying to say proper goodbyes and putting a full stop to a situation and
reaching an agreement with someone that you're breaking up with or attempting to leave for
reasons that should benefit you and then going back on your word five hours later.
I think I've done that, I've done that a thousand times.
Luke Hemmings: If you're with someone they're always jealous and always worried about what you're
doing then that might mean that they're doing that, that same thing so it might be a red flag.
Ashton Irwin: It could be.
Calum Hood: it's almost impossible.
Love sucks.
Luke Hemmings: Love is impossible.
Calum Hood: Don’t try it.
Luke Hemmings: Do yourselves a favor and just give up.
Calum Hood: It’s a scam.