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5 Seconds Of Summer: 'People call us the Australian One Direction, but we're rockier'

Australian group 5 Seconds Of Summer recently sat down for a chat with America's Billboard magazine and explained that they don't want to just be thought of as the next boyband.

The lads said: "We have definitely been influenced by punk and rock bands, but we're not ashamed to say that we want to get our music to as many people as possible."

17-year-old Luke Hemmings added that while they're honoured to be thought of in the same ranks as One Direction, they're not really comparable because their music has more of a rock edge to it: "People were already calling us the new One Direction in Australia, but in our minds we're a lot different from them. We play guitars. We're rockier. But we thought that if you put us right next to each other, it would actually show people how different we are."

Drummer Ashton Irwin jumped in, admitting: "We're not a boy band -- we're a band. We don't want to be called the next One Direction. That's not us."

Hemmings concluded by saying that they don't want to always be likened to their contemporaries and instead want to be known as "the first 5 Seconds Of Summer": "A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be: a pop band, definitely, but we've got a rock and punk edge. We're not trying to be anything that we're not. We're not the new anything. We're the first 5 Seconds of Summer."

Watch their music video for 'She Looks So Perfect' below: