- 2025-10-17
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MUSIC
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5 Seconds of Summer Releases New Song “Boyband”
Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer, consisting of Luke Hemmings (vocals/rhythm guitar), Michael Clifford (guitar), Calum Hood (bass) and Ashton Irwin (drums), released a new song “Boyband” on October 16, 2025.
The song is the second single off of their upcoming sixth studio album “EVERYONE'S A STAR!”, which is set to be released on November 14, 2025 via Republic Records.
The band first performed the song at a surprise pop-up performance on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles last month.
The song pays homage to the “boyband” label that has followed them for years.
It was written by Ashton Irwin, Calum Hood, Jason Evigan, John Ryan, Luke Hemmings, and Simon Wilcox. Produced by Jason Evigan and John Ryan.
The band said of the ongoing, “We've always been called a boyband and this song is about us owning that narrative and taking the power back.”- The band lead singer Luke Hemmings told Rolling Stone about the song, “It started from this dark but funny place, like getting called a boy band and having those egotistical feelings. I don't know anyone else that could put out that song. It's like, [singing] 'Backstreet's back, alright!'”
Drummer Ashton Irwin continued, “It's so fun to write about the weirdness of our experience, but also the Frankenstein perception of what a boy band is [and] the emasculation of it. Calling grown men a boy band is almost like pointing at a 30-year-old and telling them they're in high school - it kind of feels humiliating. It's nice to bark back at that concept.” -
The new album comprises 12 tracks, which the band recorded across 2024 and 2025 in Los Angeles and Nashville.
Guitarist Michael Clifford told Rolling Stone about the album, “Being in this long enough, and knowing our fan base long enough, we can talk about the ups and downs of not just ourselves as humans, but the course of our career. The part that I'm enjoying the most about it is touching on the irony of our real-life story, sort of exaggerated heavily into this fictional world that we can kind of create with the way that it looks and sounds.”
Photo by Andy DeLuca - source : Apple Music
