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5 Seconds Of Summer Talk One Direction Tour & Answer Fan Questions

5 Seconds Of Summer Talk One Direction Tour & Answer Fan Questions

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YH hangs out with Ashton, Calum, Luke, and Michael from the pop/rock phenomenon 5 Seconds of Summer to get to know the boys behind the band a little better! The Aussie hitmakers discuss their self-titled debut album, the ever-notorious "Pizza" song, and their 'Rock Out With Your Socks Out' headlining world tour! Plus, they talk about going on the road with One Direction, attempt to name their hairstyles, and take a fan challenge! Stick around to find out the fate of Ketchup the Dog!

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Young Hollywood

Five Seconds of Summer and you're watching Young Hollywood. You guys are wearing hats today.

Guest

Yeah. It's the, it's the hat- It's just like, it's just the first. Oh no. Should we break it up? Second guest: Yeah. I couldn't um... I woke up this morning, I couldn't find my bag. And my bag like, had my hair dryer in it, and I was in a rush. So my hair was wet. So I was like, I'm gonna. I had to wear my hat.

Guest

I was laughing 'cause I, I did like a tweet earlier and everyone's ranting on snapbacks. They're all freaking out that we're wearing hats. They're all freaking out Second guest: Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Snapback Luke! Snapback Michael, give me life.

Guest

Oh. Hey. I'm cooler than you guys. Second guest: Wait. The wise words of Andre. Ok. There we go.

Guest

Ok, ok, this is what's going on before we even start. We're, we're getting like seriously prepped right now. Second guest: With sunglasses. Can't be left out. Sorry. You want? We could wear two, two glasses.

Guest

I think we need those. You got your sunnies. Second guest: No, I feel left out. We could go in the sun. This is, I feel like a movie.

Guest

I know, it's like a, it's like a- That's a very nice hat. My head is really big, so it's not going to fit. I actually would have brought more, but I figured like you guys don't don't always wear them. Second guest: Oh yeah, I'm really feeling it.

Young Hollywood

So the new film, uh, went really well, new Planet of the Apes. Wow, you're so filmed a director right now. I am. That's why. This is Travis of Young Hollywood and I'm sitting with these amazing dudes. The boys of Five Seconds of Summer aka Five Sauce.

Guest

That's us. Five Sauce. Sauce. Sauce. Sauce. Sauce. Second guest: I'm going to take this hat off. I'm going to take this hat off.

Young Hollywood

You wanna run away too? Is that wait, so it's Five Sauce. Well, it's just my in your accents you sort of...

Guest

The accent's a little weird, but Five Sauce. Five Sauce. Second guest: Do you want the hat? I'm gonna

Guest

Is it a hat for you? Second guest: I'm gonna pass the microphone to someone else. There's a big head. All ready? All right, there you go. All right, there you go. Five Sauce. Here's the answer to that question. I think that's all we got time for that question.

Guest

Yeah, that's a wrap. Second guest: And and that's a It's a wrap. It's a wrap. Seriously.

Young Hollywood

But okay, so speaking of the Aussie, the accent. I have to ask you a question about Australia because I lived there for six months.

Guest

I lived there for 16 years, my whole life.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, I did. How? I was obsessed with the licorice and the feta cheese. Is that normal or was it like explain because I've never found feta cheese like anywhere in the world. It's like so weird.

Guest

And you won't. It's a true, true crime. I think, uh, you guys even listening? You wanna participate in the feta cheese conversation? Second guest: Oh, really, feta cheese? You're not.

Guest

But there's something about it. It's like you might be asking the wrong people. Second guest: Yeah. Both of those things I hate.

Guest

Strawberry licorice. I like the strawberry ones, you know. Second guest: Strawberry licorice? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not even like a black, black licorice jelly bean fan. No, I never eat those.

Young Hollywood

You, you can't be from Australia then. That's not, that's not, that's like a crime.

Guest

It's kind of a crime.

Young Hollywood

Whereabouts in Sydney did you live?

Guest

Coogee Beach.

Young Hollywood

Coogee Beach, wow.

Guest

That's much nicer than where we're from. Damn. Wow. Wow.

Young Hollywood

It's right on the water.

Guest

Yeah. Wow. That's so fancy.

Young Hollywood

So last, I should have stayed there. Oh wow. I do miss it. Now I'm stuck in here. What is your, what's your favorite spot in Australia to go to?

Guest

You are doing the worst job ever. I was just, I'm just It's heavy. This is a heavy what was the question? What's your favorite food spot? Um So if it's not feta cheese or licorice. Look at, look at this. I like, I like mom's food. I was just saying, I miss mom's mashed potatoes. I like Ashton's mom's mashed potatoes also. That sounds weird. That sounds very. Ashton's mom's spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti.

Young Hollywood

Okay, we need we need to go to their house then. That's that's the next stop. We need to go over your mom, cook us some meals.

Guest

Oh yeah.

Young Hollywood

So how? Okay, we gotta talk about last night's show 'cause you were rocking out. Hardcore for an hour and a half. You were so bad. Live on sunset.

Guest

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

But that's like epic because, I mean that was your first time playing at that venue, right?

Guest

It was. So sad it's being, it's being uh, torn down. Is that wood in the street? 'Cause we're from there. Heard the wood in the street is that it's coming down? It's just coming. Second guest: I think Ashton's gonna hold the mic. I'm the mic guy.

Young Hollywood

You're the mic guy. It was, um, but you played like almost all your songs like new and old.

Guest

We played all the songs. Because, yeah. We were just I don't know, we learned a whole bunch of new songs and just played all of them. And um, that's totally Yeah. So we just we just kinda did it. Played all our pretty much all our songs we have learned. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

What about the pizza song though? Oh yeah. Explain the story behind it. 'Cause I feel like that's like a huge, that's an interesting one.

Guest

More pizza is a it's a legendary song, I'd say, yeah. Um, we put it on a, on a like we released like a yeah, a cassette and it was like the last song on the cassette and it was like a cassette like also. Yeah. Yeah, like it was like a hidden sort of song and actually people know that song. It was like a thousand cassettes that hid in it was only in the UK, I think it was and it was um, like in different like record shops. I think it was only a Was it a thousand? A thousand. I think so, yeah. And actually, fans really like it and it's it's funny and it's pretty lyrical. We did that song for like four hours before we went on stage. Even two hours. So it was like a spontaneous, let's just

Young Hollywood

And your fans like knew the song. They're all like singing it.

Guest

I mean it's only got like four words in it. It's Michael wants another slice. Michael wants another pizza. Duh, duh, duh. Yeah. It's like six words, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Cool. So you just you just like make that up when you were just like eating pizza. Oh thank you. Um, did you make that up when you were just eating pizza one night or how how did that even?

Guest

Um, I think being the musical geniuses that we are, I think, oh no. It was just it's just a song. We always make stupid songs. I mean there's another one coming out soon which we should probably be pretty excited for. It's gonna be good.

Young Hollywood

So okay, and then we got you're toying with your on accent right now, which I have to like what is the dynamic with you guys? 'Cause I mean you started they found you guys back in, you know, a couple years ago and you were on YouTube just doing covers. Yeah. Which is kind of crazy. Yeah. So.

Guest

We were really, um, we were saying this earlier today. YouTube was like our second priority, like we just wanted to be an amazing live band, you know? Yeah. So we'd do that and then we'd go, damn, we haven't made a YouTube cover in like two months. So we'd just we'd we'd sort of pick a song and put her own spin on it and after two takes put it online. Like that's how

Young Hollywood

Wow. Is it true that like they played pranks on you guys? Like I heard that like Harry came into your bus and just like

Guest

That was literally, yeah, it was a long time ago. Like messed things around. Yeah. This kid's nude-ly on both bands. And um, yeah, we're not proud of it.

Young Hollywood

We'll speaking speaking of which, you you recently just stripped down like recently, right? You got to barely nude.

Guest

Oh yeah. Yeah, we always do that.

Young Hollywood

That, did that, that actually happen?

Guest

I was at rehearsal. That's right. Oh yeah. Damn.

Young Hollywood

So how, like was it just like one day you're like, I'm just gonna strip and, you know, we're just That's Does that happen on a normal basis?

Guest

It's like like stuff happens like that all the time, but sometimes you take a photo of it and upload it. I don't know how it doesn't get taken down. Yeah. Twitter hates us. Yeah. Actually Ashton.

Young Hollywood

Your fans on the other hand.

Guest

You wanna know something funny? We uploaded a picture once of Michael recording naked in the booth. Um and uh our Facebook page got taken down. And we had to we had to plead with Facebook to put it back up. Yeah. 'Cause it's rough.

Young Hollywood

That that is rough. Yeah. And then you got you got a tour coming up next next year? Yeah. That's huge.

Guest

Oh yeah. Rock out with your socks out. Socks. Rock out with your socks out. Yeah. Get the socks going out. It's gonna be grand. I'm wearing odd socks today. I'm not gonna show you. Massive mistake on my behalf.

Young Hollywood

So it's where where's it gonna be? It's gonna be all North America?

Guest

North America. Um, UK, Europe, New Zealand, Canada, Worlds, um, Trinidad and Tobago, I think we're doing a show there. That's awesome. I'm excited for that Trinidad show. It's gonna be awesome. Yeah, it's gonna be really cool.

Young Hollywood

Is that where, yeah. Where have you been where have you not been that you wanna go?

Guest

We haven't been to anywhere in Africa. I wanna go to Japan. South Africa. Yeah. Japan, we really wanna go there. And yeah, we are going there. Um just good news. Which is positive.

Young Hollywood

That's awesome. You gotta go to Japan. I feel like Michael would fit in very well in Japan. 5 Seconds Of Summer: He has good food, man. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Do you like is Japanese food your go to? 5 Seconds Of Summer: He enjoys Japanese food. He likes sushi. He looks like he kinda looks like an anime character with his hair, I think. He's into anime. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

How do you decide one day it's gonna be orange and then the next it's gonna be black? 5 Seconds Of Summer: I honestly don't know. Yeah. Luke's my decision guy.

Young Hollywood

Oh, really? So you're so you just wake up one morning and you're like, dude, your hair is gonna be. 5 Seconds Of Summer: He picks for me. He actually does. He does become. Yeah, he he dyes it for me. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Get him in like a little apron. Have a question. Okay. How how young do you have to be to be Young Hollywood? This here is Young Hollywood. You are like the What if? What I'm twenty. It's not about the age, it's about the attitude. So you could be to be Betty White you could be ninety, but you're cool. But she's she's still hot. She definitely moisturizes. So well. Nivea, I bet. Nivea. Anti anti-aging. Who's else on the on the Young Hollywood? 5 Seconds Of Summer: Cucumbers on the eyes, is brill.

Young Hollywood

You gotta come to our studio on the four seasons. You'll you'll see. We that you guys need to that's your next stop. Betty White. Are we still talking about Betty White or am I behind? But okay, well that segues on to Amnesia. I remember the makeup running down your face. And the dreams you left behind you didn't need them. Like everything you wished we haven't made. I wish that I can wake up with amnesia. Oh. That was tricky. That was one. So the EP is like and it's 5 Seconds Of Summer: Yeah. It's like it's literally one of the coolest albums ever. Oh, you want to see who We are we are releasing the EP Amnesia. It has a cover of American Idiot that we did for a thing called Kerrang.

Young Hollywood

You played that last night. 5 Seconds Of Summer: We did play that last night. Really badly. They rocked it. That was fun. And then it also has a song called Daylight which is a personal favorite of our songs. Um and it also has uh a live version of Amnesia. Live at Wembley. Wembley Stadium.

Young Hollywood

That's awesome. And there's also a convention you guys are doing, right? Deb Con. 5 Seconds Of Summer: Deb Con. Deb Con.

Young Hollywood

So what does that stand for? 5 Seconds Of Summer: Well, we're doing. Okay. Um, we're doing a we're doing two shows at the Forum. And um, which is awesome. And we're also doing this thing called Deb Con where we fly like fans from all around the world to this thing. And it's kind of like like a fan convention Comic Con.

Young Hollywood

So lastly, I gotta get to some fan questions because your fans are awesome. I feel like you don't have the mic and I'm like get worried when you talk. 5 Seconds Of Summer: No, no, no. I I know. I'm like I have anxiety about it. Thank you. Um, thanks for worrying about me though. So. We're we're classing it up tonight. So, okay, this is from @Kylie under underscore class. I'm gonna say it wrong. Since your hairstyles are so unique and unnamed, what would you name them? 5 Seconds Of Summer: Mine's definitely not unique. Oh, I think that's actually quite sarcastic. Yeah. Is that sarcastic? Mine is mine is called the Shaggy Wookie. I call it the Tarzan. I call it the Evan Peters. The Baby Tarzan. The Baby Tarzan. I like that. No. The Sophisticated Tarzan. The Ninja, the ninja shark. The Ninja shark. The guy not so original. Ninja sharks would be awesome.

Young Hollywood

And normally we would see these two's hairstyle, but 5 Seconds Of Summer: The snapbacks. Yeah. I mean. It's today. It's a bad hair day. So it's We mean, you can kinda see his hair. We call We call Michael the fiery fiery. We call Michael the Ring of Fire.

Young Hollywood

Okay. And on that, two more. @FiveSauce, we're @underscore FiveSauce is awesome. What song off the new album are you most excited to perform live? 5 Seconds Of Summer: Um, wait, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Wait, wait, wait. I just can we go back to that other question? Did it mean name them? Like give them name like, like baby. No, no, no, no. No, like, I think we will name them. You're. I guarantee. You're. Dude, I love your joke so much. I love that your joke, except for you. Yeah. My name's Dave. Um, and Steve, you're. No, dude, we moved on. It doesn't mean that. He's still really serious about the character. I mean, I really like that question. Um, what's our favorite song? We'll go down the order. Uh, what favorite song to perform live from the album? Excited to perform. Um, I like I like Amnesia. Nice. Um, which one for you? We played End Up Here for the second time yesterday, and I loved that. That's good. Yeah. What would you say? Um, mine is mine is. No, mine's uh, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. The same. Me. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Okay, and then this is a serious question. @T. K. What happened to Ketchup the dog? Ketchup. I think everyone needs to know the answer to this question. 5 Seconds Of Summer: Listen, this this whole thing. Ketchup the dog. We used to we used to stay in a house uh in West Hollywood. And so we were at this house and then we used to make videos with this plastic dog. We wanted a real pet, but um we're not we're not mentally capable of having a real living animal in our you know. So we had a plastic dog and his name was Ketchup. Um and then someone. Someone broke into the house.

Young Hollywood

Did you name that? 5 Seconds Of Summer: Um, yes, we named it. I named it, yeah. I figured. Someone with a vengeance on our band broke in and stole Ketchup from under our wing. And I and I met them and they asked me to sign him. I met I met the person who stole Ketchup and they asked me to sign him. And it was like this is my And this girl broke into our house and actually take it. And marks on the wall of where she climbed over. She was crazy. She broke in and stole our beloved Ketchup. Don't just call it a plastic dog. We used to throw him in the pool. I've so many fond memories. And then he used to he used to leave him on the side to dry off because he'd fill up with water and you just And it looked like he was peeing. And it's so where is he? He's gone. This girl stole him. Sad news.

Young Hollywood

Okay, and then lastly, we have one winner who who did a five second shout-out winner. So one person wants you to do something in five seconds or less. Oh. Hence five seconds of summer. Okay, so can you trade a piece of clothing with each other in five seconds? 5 Seconds Of Summer: No, we can't. The answer is They already won. Excuse me. Oh, that's awesome. You guys didn't even like You didn't even see that happen. We changed pants. We changed pants. But you didn't, you know. I wear my glasses. I have ripping pants today. You didn't see but we all changed. I thought we were we were expecting that. I'm sorry. I said assless. We really know who the winner is. Assless chaps. Anyway. On that note. Thank you guys. This has been this has been awesome. Keep going. It's been real. We'll be back soon with a short film. Entitled Ketchup. Fond memories. Ketchup if you're out there, come home. We miss you. Babe, you. Memories. And when you pee in the pool. I do. Peace.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Ashton

    Member of 5 Seconds of Summer

  • Calum

    Member of 5 Seconds of Summer

  • Luke

    Member of 5 Seconds of Summer

  • Michael

    Member of 5 Seconds of Summer

  • Andre

    Mentioned for wise words

  • Travis

    Young Hollywood host

  • Harry

    Played pranks on the band during tour

  • Betty White

    Referenced for being cool regardless of age

  • Evan Peters

    Mentioned in relation to a hairstyle

  • Dave

    Joke name for a band member

  • Steve

    Joke name for a band member

FAQ

Who are the members of 5 Seconds of Summer?+
The members of 5 Seconds of Summer are Ashton, Calum, Luke, and Michael.
What is the 'Pizza' song about?+
The 'Pizza' song, also known as 'Michael Wants Another Slice', is a lyrical and funny hidden track that was released on a limited cassette in the UK.
What is the name of 5 Seconds of Summer's headlining world tour?+
5 Seconds of Summer's headlining world tour is called 'Rock Out With Your Socks Out'.
What is Deb Con?+
Deb Con is a fan convention where fans from around the world are flown in, similar to Comic Con, hosted by 5 Seconds of Summer.
What happened to Ketchup the Dog?+
Ketchup the Dog, a plastic dog that the band treated as a pet, was stolen from their house by a fan.

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