The Great Depression was overly hated at the time because emo hadn’t come back in the way it did a few years later and people took the satire elements in our image at face value, oh and our fifth album is gonna be our best album.
⭐️ @Michael5SOS on the band’s upcoming album:
5SOS threw everything at the wall and, guitarist Michael Clifford says, thought: “Let’s make it look fucking ridiculous.” They say they pulled inspiration from extravagant Y2K aesthetics in the visuals — gnarly frosted tips, retro punk fashion, and an overload of colors — and leaned further into irony and satire in their songwriting. “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,” Clifford says. “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.”