Driving across the Sydney harbour bridge in a black car with tinted windows, 21-year-old drummer and the band’s de facto spokesman, Ashton Irwin, has just learned of a Twitter tirade targeted at them, penned by a prominent music journalist. The accusation is grave – according to the writer, 5 Seconds of Summer are destroying Australia’s reputation in overseas music markets – and it makes Irwin seethe.
‘I just could not give a fuck,’ he says, tossing aside his phone.
‘It says we’re ‘Not cool enough’… I mean, what is that? What is that culture of judgment? I think that’s bullshit.’
