5 Seconds Of Summer Unleash Retro ‘Youngblood’ Music Video
5 Seconds Of Summer have FINALLY premiered the official music video for the title track of their new album 'Youngblood', and it was well worth the wait. Having already gifted us a video for 'Youngblood'filmed on tour with the boys to tide us over, this time the foursome play no part in the video, instead choosing to shine a spotlight on an interesting Japanese subculture.
In the video, an elderly couple are given a pill to re-live their youth for a final 24 hours of their lives, transforming the pairback to their 50s rockabilly young selves. As it turns out, the actors in the video are actually part of a real rockabilly scene in the Japan...
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Ashton Irwin says:"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."
The video's director Frank Borin adds: "About 10 years ago I was shooting in Tokyo and was walking through Yoyogi park when I came upon this huge group of Japanese rockabilly guys and girls. 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 50’s music blasting on their boombox.
"Flash forward to 10 years later, 5SOS was releasing Youngblood and the band and I were collaborating on another video together. The band were really into the idea of highlighting the rockabilly crew and we hung out with them for a couple days. They took us around Toyko and gave us a peek into their world which really lent itself to the spirit of the song and ultimately became the video."
We really hope the guys don leathers for the UK and Ireland leg of their tour which hits our shores in October!