In honor of 5 Seconds Of Summer’s (5SOS) tenth anniversary, the Australian band dropped their newest single titled ‘2011’, the year they established themselves as a band.
Throughout the past decade they've seen a lot but started from virtually nothing. In February 2011, front man Luke Hemmings posted his first ever singing cover of Mike Posner's ‘Please Don't Go’. As months progressed the rest of the band started to come together recruiting lead guitarist Michael Clifford, bassist Calum Hood, and drummer Ashton Irwin.
In 2014, they joined One Direction on tour as the opening act on the Take Me Home tour, which helped the band acquire a large following. In that same year, they released their self titled album that featured their first major single, ‘She Looks So Perfect’. The year after they embarked on their first major headlining tour Rock Out With Your Socks Out.
In 2018, 5SOS opted to swap out the pop punk persona for a more mature pop sound with their single, ‘Want You Back’. This set the stage for their sophomore album, Youngblood, which had great success. Continuing on with this new sound during the first major shock of a global pandemic, they dropped their fourth album CALM which debuted at #2 on the billboard 200 chart. It would have been their fourth album to reach #1 but due to a shipping error the sales were counted a week earlier than the actual release date.
But enough of memory lane let's talk about… well, memory lane.
On December 3rd at midnight, they dropped not only a homage to the years they spent together as bandmates, they dropped a sneak peak to what they've been cooking up in the couple months for their next album. 2011 has a poppy feel good atmosphere with hints of reflective melodies. Lyrically, it's a sentimental anthem of living bravely in a moment in the past as if it was easier than the current uncertainties of the present. It highlights that life changes fast and often we take moments in the present for granted while worrying about the future then find ourselves looking back at days gone by wishing we could return to the very same moment we started worrying in the first place. Lastly, long time fans will rejoice once they hear that all four members recorded vocals like it's quite literally 2011.
I think I speak for all of us when I say that we’re really proud of the four Australian boys who started out singing covers on youtube and that we are on the edge of our seats for what's to come in the next decade!