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5SOS on success: 'We never expected to have this kind of response'

Australian heartthrobs 5 Seconds Of Summer recently did a cover shoot for Billboard magazine and in the accompanying interview, they opened up about their career to date and the success they have achieved. 

Member Michael Clifford explained that they're constantly overwhelmed by the support they receive because the never anticipated to be so successful or for their music to be so widely appreciated: "We're busy at the moment so we're just kind of taking it. We never expected to have this kind of response that we got."

The band's drummer Ashton Irwin opened up about why they chose 'She Looks So Perfect' as their debut single and confessed that it had enough of a rock edge to show the world that they're not another boy band, but wasn't heavy enough to put people off:

"I think why we released 'She Looks So Perfect' as our first single was because we were waiting for a long time to release something with some identity. I think it's rock, but it's not 'too rock' that it'll scare people away from us."

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Watch the behind-the-scenes Billboard footage in full here: