Australian hitmakers 5 Seconds Of Summer have revealed that while people keep slapping them with it, they really don't fit the boyband stereotype in any way and it's irritating that the label hasn't died down. 

The group's frontman, Luke Hemmings, explained to the Sydney Morning Herald that the boyband tag does get annoying because it does a huge disservice to the kind of music they play and the attitude towards their collective career that they have:

"That implies that we don't play and we don't write our songs. It makes us seem a bit fake. Starting in a garage and writing our own songs and playing them in pubs to 10 people; I don't think [being called a boy band] does us justice as a band."

Guitarist Michael Clifford went onto add that they really want more rock music to be played on commercial and mainstream radio stations, and they're proud that they're bringing pop-punk back to the masses: 

"There's nothing we would love more; for rock music to be on the radio, in the top 40 and stuff. We started the band because of bands like Blink-182, Green Day, All Time Low, stuff like that. We're on the same side as all other people in rock music." 

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