While they’ve have sold squillions of pop-punk records over the last 14 years - ok, 18 million albums, which isn’t bad either - 5 Seconds of Summer have always been desperate to prove their cred after some early touring with One Direction tarred them with the boy band brush.
Although the sheer success of the Aussie band speaks for itself, it seems that finally they’ve realised they can just laugh it all off, as they do here on Boyband, in which Luke Hemmings piss-takingly singing about being an imaginary boyfriend - ‘Take my photograph and lick it with a wet tongue’ - while irritating the metalheads and being on the TV every time your put it on; the chorus goes ‘Boy band, boy band, make that monkey dance’.
