- 2018-08-03
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MUSIC
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5 Seconds of Summer Premieres New Music Video for “Youngblood”
Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer dropped a new music video for “Youngblood” directed by Frank Borin and Ivanna Borin.
The video features the old-school machismo of Japan’s Rockabilly culture.
The concept for the video came from director Frank Borin when he previously has been to Japan. He saw Japan’s Rockabilly culture in Tokyo.
“Walking through Yoyogi park, I came upon this huge group of Japanese rockabilly guys and girls,” Frank Borin said. “Every Sunday, they were dressed to the nines in full rockabilly gear, doing their hair out in public, taping up their decades old boots, and dancing the day away to Fifties music blasting on their boom-box.”
The band spent time hanging out with a rockabilly crew around Tokyo to better grasp the unique culture and generation-bending subculture.
Drummer Ashton Irwin stated in a press release;
“There are many wonderful, interesting, and captivating subcultures all over the world. In every corner of this earth there are groups of inventors, visionaries, thrill seekers, and boundary pushers. These wonderful worlds that people have created, spread, and effect everyone that comes into contact with them. The Japanese Rockabilly culture is that of a renaissance and a beautiful flare of passion for everything old and new and that makes this particular subculture so interesting and amazing to us. We hope you enjoy this video. Thank you for allowing us to be explorative with the concepts we choose to visually express our songs to you. Thank you to everyone that brought this video to life.”- “Youngblood” is included on their third studio album of the same title, which was released on June 22, 2018. It was written by watt, Louis Bell, Ali Tamposi, Ashton Irwin, Calum Hood and Luke Hemmings.
The album reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 and Australian Albums Albums chart, as well as No. 3 on the UK Albums chart.
Currently, the band has been running Meet You There Tour. The tour takes place in Japan, North America, The UK and Europe through to November.
Learn more about tour dates, click here. - source : Alternative Press
