History Music / FiveSecondsOfSummer

5 Seconds of Summer (commonly abbreviated as 5SOS) are a Pop Rock / PopPunk band from Australia. The group formed in Sydney, Australia, in December 2011, and slowly started to gain an international following. The group really started to take off when they were discovered online by Music/LouisTomlinson and offered a gig as the opening act for Music/OneDirection's 2013 "Take Me Home" arena tour. The next year proved to be a huge breakout for them, as they nailed a #1 album in dozens of countries and began to explode in popularity. They re-teamed with 1D for their 2014 "Where We Are" stadium tour and went on their on their first headlining tour, "Rock Out With Your Socks Out" in 2015.

In 2018, 5SOS largely bucked their pop punk style for moody electronic {{SynthPop}} rock on 2018's "Youngblood". This GenreShift carries onto their fourth album, C A L M and upcoming fifth album, [=5SOS5=].

!!Members of 5 Seconds of Summer include:
* Luke Robert Hemmings (lead vocals) - Born on 16th July 1996 in Sydney, Australia
* Michael Gordon Clifford (guitar, backing vocals) - Born on 20th November 1995 in Sydney, Australia
* Calum Thomas Hood (bass, backing vocals) - Born on 25th January 1996 in Australia
* Ashton Fletcher Irwin (drums, backing vocals) Born on 7th July 1994 in Hornsby, Australia

!!Discography
* Unplugged EP, Somewhere New EP[[note]]both independent releases[[/note]] (2012)
* She Looks So Perfect EP, Don't Stop EP, Amnesia EP, Good Girls EP (2014)
* 5 Seconds of Summer (2014)
* [=LiveSOS=] (2014)
* Sounds Good Feels Good (2015)
* Youngblood (2018)
* Meet You There Tour Live (2018)
* CALM (2020)
* [=5SOS5=] (2022)

5 Seconds of Summer (commonly abbreviated as 5SOS) are a Pop Rock / PopPunk band from Australia. The group formed in Sydney, Australia, in December 2011, and slowly started to gain an international following. The group really started to take off when they were given a gig as the opening act for Music/OneDirection's 2013 "Take Me Home" arena tour. The next year proved to be a huge breakout for them, as they nailed a #1 album in dozens of countries and began to explode in popularity. They re-teamed with 1D for their 2014 "Where We Are" stadium tour and went on their on their first headlining tour, "Rock Out With Your Socks Out" in 2015.

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** With 1D owning a large stake in the group and going on hiatus in 2016, many who consider 5SOS a boy band thought them to be the only currently active and internationally popular Western boy band left standing.
** It could be argued that 5SOS' initial success with radio friendly 90s-2000s inspired pop punk in the 2010s helped set the stage for Music/MachineGunKelly to properly bring it back to the mainstream in the 2020s. Like [=5SOS=],[=MGK=] is another artist with connections to the alt "scene" but was never truly a part of it who gained massive criticism for derivatives and taking "shortcuts" to popularity.

--> ''My girlfriend's bitching 'cause I always sleep in''

--> ''Is it tears or just the fucking rain?''

* CoverVersion: ''[=LiveSOS=]'' features "What I Like About You", "[[Music/KatyPerry Teenage Dream]]" and "[[Music/GreenDay American]] [[Music/AmericanIdiot Idiot]]".

* SpiritualSuccessor: With 1D owning a large stake in the group and going on hiatus in 2016, many who consider 5SOS a boy band thought them to be the only currently active and internationally popular Western boy band left standing.

In 2018, 5SOS largely bucked their pop punk style for moody electronic {{SynthPop}} rock on 2018's "Youngblood". This GenreShift carries onto their fourth album, C A L M, received two standalone single releases (Teeth and Easier) in 2019 before being officially announced for release in 2020.

%% * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Luke is melancholic, Michael is phlegmatic, Calum is sanguine, and Ashton is choleric.

* PopPunk: Completely bucking the sound of late 2000s-early 2010s pop-punk bands like Man Overboard, Neck Deep, The Wonder Years, and The Story So Far in favor of a lighthearted throwback 1990s to early 2000s pop-punk acts like Music/AllTimeLow, Music/{{Blink182}}, Music/GoodCharlotte, Music/GreenDay, Music/JimmyEatWorld, and Music/FallOutBoy. This difference in sound is part of the reason why you'll either see them heralded as the second coming of pop-punk to the mainstream or the worst thing to ever happen to the genre.

* SpiritualSuccessor: With 1D owning a large stake in the group and going on hiatus in 2016, many who consider 5SOS a boy band thought them to be the only currently active and internationally popular boy band left standing. And then Music/{{BTS}} broke through in the West...

I'm a six and she's a ten\\

If what we had was real, how could you be fine?''

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Luke is melancholic, Michael is phlegmatic, Calum is sanguine, and Ashton is choleric.

* DeathsHourglass: The music video for "Youngblood" features an elderly Japanese couple taking a pill that restores them to their youth for 24 hours. The flashing imagery, the x-rays , and the man of the couple constantly checking his watch heavily imply that he and his beau will both die at the end of this time (as does the nurse bringing them their de-aging pill), and at the end of the music video both lay [[TheBigSleep slumped over each other in an alleyway]].

* The music video for "Youngblood" features an elderly Japanese couple taking a pill that restores them to their youth for 24 hours. The flashing imagery, the x-rays , and the man of the couple constantly checking his watch heavily imply that he and his beau will both die at the end of this time (as does the nurse bringing them their de-aging pill), and at the end of the music video both lay [[TheBigSleep slumped over each other in an alleyway]].

In 2018, 5SOS largely bucked their pop punk style for moody electronic {{SynthPop}} rock on 2018's "Youngblood". This GenreSwitch carries onto their fourth album, C A L M, received two standalone single releases (Teeth and Easier) in 2019 before being officially announced for release in 2020.

'''5 Seconds of Summer''' (5SOS) are a Pop Rock / PopPunk band from Australia. The group formed in Sydney, Australia, in December 2011, and slowly started to gain an international following. The group really started to take off when they were given a gig as the opening act for One Direction's 2013 "Take Me Home" arena tour. The next year proved to be a huge breakout for them, as they nailed a #1 album in dozens of countries and began to explode in popularity. They re-teamed with 1D for their 2014 "Where We Are" stadium tour and went on their on their first headlining tour, "Rock Out With Your Socks Out" in 2015.

!!Tropes pertaining to 5 Seconds of Summer include:

* ConceptAlbum: Youngblood is a concept album about the breakdown of a relationship.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Ashton Irwin, whose Twitter feed is part band discussion, part being an optimistic sweetheart, and part [[https://twitter.com/Ashton5SOS/status/578277853181009920 tweets]] [[https://twitter.com/Ashton5SOS/status/581536582835945472 like]] [[https://twitter.com/Ashton5SOS/status/575044313555456000 this]].

* LeadBassist[=/=]LeadDrummer: Subverted. Calum and Ashton do not overshadow Luke. However, since every member of the band sings and each member is given equal consideration in promotion (like a boy band!), they are in the spotlight much more than a pop-punk band's bassist and drummer would normally be.

In 2018, 5SOS largely bucked their pop punk style for moody electronic pop rock on 2018's "Youngblood", which will carry onto their upcoming fourth album, which received two standalone single releases (Teeth and Easier) in 2019.