5SOS star: 'We can do whatever the f*ck we want with our music'

5 Seconds of Summer drummer Ashton Irwin has defiantly blasted those who place "limitations" on the group's sound.

The band are often regarded as pop-punk, while some give them the boyband label. Speaking to Alt Press, Irwin said that he feels the Australians have no barriers to their sound or what they can achieve.

He said: "'Boy band' and 'pop-punk' have the same boundaries. I hate when people call us pop-punk sometimes, because we can do more than that. People shouldn’t limit themselves. That’s the issue with this world: putting barriers on what you’re capable of. You’re capable of f*cking anything. That sounds like a super-Bono thing to say, but you can f*cking do it.

"If we can claw our asses out of nowhere in Sydney and become the band that we’re today, you can do anything. I do not give a damn about [the] limitations [anyone] puts on this band.

"I look at this band and I see three other dudes who are just as committed and ambitious as I am and we can do whatever the f*ck we want with our music. ‘That’s not pop-punk.’ ‘You’re a boy band'. I could not give a f*ck. If we lived our life worrying about what other people thought, we wouldn’t be doing this."

5 Seconds of Summer, meanwhile, are currently promoting their second album, 'Sounds Good Feels Good'.

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