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when people are really rude and douchey and everyone still loves them

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No one has lived through drama unless they were a kid growing up in the Disney era of 2005-2011.

We had Niley, the Niley kiss on stage, the Niley breakup, the Demi and Selena feud with Miley and Mandy, Kevin Jonas picking sides by wearing a Demi & Selena shirt in paparazzi photos, Nelena rising through the Burning Up music video, the 7 things video that shaded Nick with a photo of him scribbled out in it, the Selena and Miley fight over Nick through various interviews and radio shows, Joe dating Taylor Swift, Selena getting closer to Taylor while distancing from Demi, Nelena and Jaylor going on double dates, Demi & Miley becoming better friends because of the Selena & Demi fall out, The photos that surfaced that showed Miley in her underwear that were sent to Nick, Miley’s vanity fair photoshoot, Vanessa Hudgens nudes, Joe falls on stage at the VMAs and slices his hand open, The Jaylor breakup where Joe ended it on a 30 second phone call, the video Taylor made with a camp rock Joe doll “this one comes with a phone so he can break up with other girls too”, everyone wanted Zac Efron and Ashley Tisdale together, Miley dances on an icecream cart pole at the TCAs, Nelena broke up, the song Nick wrote about Selena called “stay”, Orlando Brown was taken to jail for weed, Jason Earles was literally like 35???, Mitchell Musso’s brother and Trace Cyrus formed Metro Station, Joe and Demi began dating, Nick and Selena were spotted trying to work things out, Demi and Joe break up, Joe begins dating Ashley Greene, Nick & Miley are seen trying to work things out??, Miley comes out with a book talking about how Nick was her Prince Charming, Nick writes a song talking about weddings that is dedicated to his love for Miley, Demi goes to rehab, the camp rock tour is pulled, Nick & Miley don’t get things worked out, Kevin Jonas gets engaged, a whole town finds out Miley Stewart was Hannah Montana but keeps the secret, Nick Jonas announces he’ll run for president in 2035, the Jonas brothers start wearing their purity rings as necklaces, Taylor Lautner and Selena Gomez begin dating which is Taylor Swift’s ex, The Jonas brothers break up, Zanessa breaks up, and we find out Chad Danforth and Ryan Evans are secretly fucking in HSM.

What a wild ride.

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Look to your left, to your right, up and down. No matter where you’re from you’re with us and we’re with you

Ashton Irwin / 08.08.15 (via smashirwin)

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why does no one talk about how friends can break your heart so devastatingly intimately sometimes a million times worse than romantic partners why does no one talk about friend break ups

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“This leaves men confused and unable to pigeonhole you. What they are forced to do instead is… take you seriously.”

Syrup (2013)

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what do you do at hogwarts if you start your period? 

like do you go and see madam promfrey? or your head of year? because i’m just trying to imagine the slytherin girls going snape and asking for tampons

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socially awkward but I'll ride the fuck out ya dick

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What will you be doing after the fall of capitalism?

Write in to let us know #aftertherev

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When I was like 6 years old I was woken up in the middle of night by a voice saying “play with me play with me” over and over and I stayed awake for two hours terrified as the voice continued and then I realized it was a furby

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this is beautiful, I am so proud of those boys!

If you like rock music, you should care about 5 Seconds Of Summer. Here’s why.

I am a fan of Australian pop-punk band 5 Seconds Of Summer. Let’s get that out right away. But more importantly, I am a fan of rock music, and that’s the hat I’m wearing as I’m writing this review. I am a fan of bands like My Chemical Romance, Black Veil Brides, and You Me At Six. I love the scream of electric guitars. I am among the alternative, the misfits, the people who weren’t popular when they were in high school because they couldn’t be bothered to care about Justin Bieber. When I first came across 5 Seconds Of Summer, I was as wary as you were. They were young, and easy on the eyes, and sure they had guitars in their hands but so do lots of pop acts. I gave them a chance, though, and I wasn’t disappointed. This is sort of a concert review, but more importantly it is an essay on why you should give them a chance too.

5 Seconds Of Summer, 5sos for short, played in Winnipeg last night on their Rock Out With Your Socks Out tour, and did indeed “blow the fuckin’ roof” off the MTS Centre as drummer Ashton Irwin promised. During their 90 minute set, the four members brought the audience of thousands to their feet, moving expertly through a catalogue of songs from their 2014 debut album, as well as a few fan favorites from earlier EPs, two from their upcoming sophomore effort, and two covers - a very well-done and uncensored rendition of Greenday’s American Idiot, in which guitarist Michael Clifford gleefully yelled “the subliminal mind, fuck America!”, and The Romantics’ 1980 hit What I Like About You, the single off the 5sos live album (released late last year) that honestly out-does the original.

They were a joy to watch. I can’t remember the last time I saw a band with this much energy. The three mobile members - Clifford, along with lead singer Luke Hemmings and bass player Calum Hood - ran around the stage with the zest of school-aged children at a playground, working the crowd from all angles, leaping onto platform boxes and split-jumping back off them, making even audience members in the back row feel noticed and valued. Drummer Irwin was, by nature of his trade, immobilized behind his drum kit, which is in some ways a shame because I get the sense he has the most energy of any of them. He’s extremely skilled, though, and it is a treat to watch him attack the drums in a manner that’s almost violent. All of them, really, must be bruised and exhausted to the bone by the time a performance is finished.

The other thing they were, is very definitely, categorically, a rock back. At the beginning of their musical career, 5sos was invited to go on two tours with international pop phenomenon One Direction as their opening act. This was a smart move for them, but also a dumb one. Smart, because it helped them acquire the type of fame that allows them to play arenas. Dumb, because the music world, in a childish display of guilt by association, labelled them a “boy band” before even listening to a single note. 

5sos is not a boy band. If my mind wasn’t already made up on that point, the show last night would have sealed the deal. The entire set was harsh and grungey and guitar-driven. Hemmings, who in another life could have been in a boy band with his chiselled features and blue eyes and velvety smooth voice, could not possibly have cared less about what he looked like while singing or if his outfit was designer or if he’d grace magazine covers the next day. He was unshaven and sweaty, his voice raw and loud and beautifully flawed. The other three sing as well - Clifford has a rough edge to his voice that brings Billie Joe Armstrong to mind and lends itself perfectly to the genre, and Hood, who a year ago was arguably the group’s weakest vocalist, has really come into his own and now thrills audiences with a smoky, resonant tone. There were mistakes. There were forgotten lyrics and missed notes and cracks in their voices. It wasn’t a pretty, polished affair like you’d find if you went to see Beyonce. 5sos are not a well-oiled machine. They are a rock band. Their shows are imperfect, and therefore perfect.

This band gets a lot of hate within the rock community, mostly because they are young and attractive so people have labelled them a pop group when they aren’t. They were nominated for an Alternative Press Music Award this past month, and there were many who took offence to this on the platform that 5sos don’t belong in the alternative music crowd. This type of ignorance is unfortunate, but the good news is it isn’t slowing the Aussie rockers down for even a second. Their show last night was everything a rock concert should be. It was ear-drum-splittingly loud, rough, tarnished rock perfection. Even songs like Long Way Home and Disconnected that in studio leaned more on the pop side of pop-punk, in concert were as heavy and guitar-driven as anything Nickelback has ever released. The band members don’t care for a moment about how they look. They don’t dance. They play instruments, and they play them well - Clifford can, there’s no other word for it, “shred”. 

The dictionary defines rock music with qualifiers like “anti-Establishment lyrics” and “harsher and often self-consciously more serious than [pop]” and “usually based on a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums”. 5sos fits the bill in every possible way. You can still call them a boy band if you want to. In developed countries Free Speech is an inalienable right, which means unless you’re directly threatening someone you can pretty much say whatever you want. You can call them rap. Hell, you can call them big band jazz if you want to. It doesn’t matter. What Free Speech doesn’t do for you, is guarantee that everything that comes out of your mouth is correct. And calling 5sos anything other than rock, is wrong. Sorry. Take it up with the dictionary. 

This band is important. Don’t hate them because their fans are young. They are important because their fans are young. Young people dictate the direction of the music industry, because they are the ones with disposable income to burn on albums and concert tickets. The 5sos fanbase probably has an average age of around 16 or 17, and that’s important because it means their songs make it onto the radio. Rock music, on the radio. It’s been so long.

Now, I know. As fans of alternative music, mainstream radio represents everything we hate about the world. It represents corporate greed, music being manufactured and mass-produced like a pair of Uggs, treated as commodity instead of an art form, songs being written by hired suits in an office tower instead of on the street by a real artist with a drug problem. We think the Top 40 chart is a pile of garbage. We would never want anything we listen to on those airwaves because then it would be cool, and as soon as something becomes cool it’s no longer alternative. I get that. I’m with you.

However, it’s important to remember that the music business is just that - a business. It is run, as all business are, on supply and demand. Money and resources go into the products that sell. Currently, those products are performers like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran. Who are great, if you’re into pop. If you’re not, you’re already aware of the tragic lack of support for other types of music. I don’t need to belly-ache to you about how much it sucks that alternative bands don’t get the support from their labels that they deserve.

5sos is important to music because they’re getting radio play. Maybe not quite Top 40 radio play, but still. Remember when guitars were on the raido? Remember when bands like Blink 182 and Greenday dominated the music scene? Remember when Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance was a Top 40 hit? Those days seem like a lifetime ago, but they’re set to make a comeback because young people, it seems, are finally starting to tire of the bright lights, the over-production, and the vapid lyrics that define pop music. Increasingly, they don’t want to sing along to a song about having the hypothetical best night of your life at a club that they couldn’t even get into, or a song telling them they’re the most beautiful girl in the world sung by a boy with a conventionally attractive but non-threatening face who’s singing the same words to millions of girls worldwide and somehow tricking them all into believing he’s talking about each one of them. They’re looking for something with a little more substance. 

Here’s the bottom line. If you’re a fan of rock, you don’t have to like 5sos. They don’t need you. They have more than enough fans already. But you should care about them, because of what they’re doing for rock music. They don’t need your adoration but they deserve your respect, because they’ve done what most of your (and my!) favorite bands couldn’t - they’re putting guitars back on the radio and selling out arenas that seat 10 thousand people or more, filled with young fans in ripped denim and Converse. They are nearly single-handedly spearheading the revival of rock. 

If you’re a fan of 5sos, I hope you have/will get a chance to attend a show on this tour, because it will be a night you’ll never forget. If you’re a fan of rock music but not of 5sos, that’s fine, but buckle up anyway because four kids from Sydney are about to change your world for the better. They are introducing this generation’s youth to bands like Metallica and The Ramones. They are going to inspire young kids to pick up a guitar and start a band, instead of trying to be the next Selena Gomez. They are going to be indirectly responsible for the creation of new rock bands, who will get mainstream attention because, finally, they’ll have a mainstream audience again. The music scene is shifting, and when it does, we’ll look back in five or ten years and say “5sos did that” the same way we look at Nirvana for the grunge movement in the 90s. 

Love 5sos or hate them, it really doesn’t matter. Either way, they’ve started a revolution. You can get on board, or you can be left behind.

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i’ll never get why some people are offended by tattoos im just trying to understand how you could see a flower on someones arm and think WOW I’M REALLY ANGRY AND DISTURBED 

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reblog this with your cat's name in the tags

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Canadians!

Especially all of you millennials and such!

There is every reason to believe that Stephen Harper is going to make an election call this Sunday; after that, the entire country will be in an election campaign for the next two and half months.

Stephen Harper is going to try everything he can to stay in power in spite of being awful, but literally his entire reelection strategy depends on millennials staying home on election day.

I therefore urge every last one of you over the age of 18 to go to the Elections Canada website (here) and register yourself to vote.

Please spread this around! Even if you are not Canadian, please signal boost! 

The country is turning into shit right now, and if you don’t vote in this election, you may never have another chance! Vote! 

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