5 Seconds of Summer
by 5 Seconds of Summer
  • Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Jul 22, 2014
User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 198 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 119 out of 198
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 198
  3. Negative: 60 out of 198
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  1. lucastle1
    Apr 22, 2015
    0
    Awfullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
  2. AbigailSiagian
    Jan 30, 2015
    0
    i don't like this album i only like three songs and those songs are trash and the reasons why they're famous and better is beacuse of one direction other than that they have no reasons to be famous
  3. ThatOneReviewa
    Oct 29, 2015
    1
    The Australian pop rock band's debut has several flaws which make it just awful to listen to. It feels like Green Day, blink-182 and All Time Low thrown into a blender and then mixed with crap. The band is pretty much a boy band with instruments. And that certainly doesn't help my view of this artist and this album.
  4. twerkmeister
    Oct 5, 2014
    0
    I'm sorry, but this is an absolutely terrible record. It's shockingly poor. And the band get pissed over the fact they get called a boyband by people? Why don't they just **** hit out at their label and management, it's the way that their marketed which results in them being called that. I mean appearances in teen magazines and having kiddy merchandise out just goes to show my point.I'm sorry, but this is an absolutely terrible record. It's shockingly poor. And the band get pissed over the fact they get called a boyband by people? Why don't they just **** hit out at their label and management, it's the way that their marketed which results in them being called that. I mean appearances in teen magazines and having kiddy merchandise out just goes to show my point. They're only signed to Capitol because of money. The record label bosses are greedy capitalist pigs.… Expand
  5. MaxGuitarFan
    Jul 22, 2014
    3
    "5 Seconds of Summer" it's dumb and cliché. It contains generic pop-punk guitars with stupid lines that let you wondering why is this band popular. Oh, right, this is not a band, this is easy marketing.
  6. jakewhiteok
    Jul 22, 2014
    0
    Yet another ridiculous BOYBAND... Even though their fans on Twitter and the band themselves deny they are such, they bloody well are. They're as equal as their contemporaries such as The Vamps in terms of that for instance. They're better than One Direction at the very least, who are indeed utter ****

    The reasons why they're better? They aren't manufactured like 1D and many other    Yet another ridiculous BOYBAND... Even though their fans on Twitter and the band themselves deny they are such, they bloody well are. They're as equal as their contemporaries such as The Vamps in terms of that for instance. They're better than One Direction at the very least, who are indeed utter ****

    The reasons why they're better? They aren't manufactured like 1D and many other boybands in the last couple of decades. They formed themselves, and at least they write their own songs, although most of these are pretty crap compared to some artists of the current day. The good thing about them is that they play their own Instruments too, unlike 1D. But this just makes hypnotized hyper fangirls on Twitter consider them a band, yet that isn't what they are.

    I would have actually been more generous in my score, but I don't really want the user score to rise too much if I were to be. But one thing that annoys me most is that fangirls will just write 10/10 reviews because they don't know good music when they hear it, like Burart's review for instance. Also, the fact that at time of writing, the user score's on all of One Direction's album's appear to be higher.    … Expand
  7. AnalyDewa
    Apr 24, 2015
    0
    Muita imagem e pouca música boa de verdade. Apesar de inicialmente um pouco melhores que One Direction, os divos australianos do Allan Patrick ainda precisam provar muito mais que não são apenas mais uma modinha passageira.
  8. SmilerofMiley
    May 13, 2015
    0
    Awfulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
  9. sebastianglz
    Jul 22, 2014
    3
    Honestly, this album isn't bad but it sounds like an album from Green Day but in its pop version. The lyrics are good, but... why their fans are saying they're not like One Direction? The lyrics are similar to One Direction's. The only difference between them it's the "punk" way they act and play.
  10. linikedemarco
    Sep 3, 2014
    3
    Even though they qualify as sticky, one can be smart enough to recognize the album as an absolute absence of unity, as provided with as much nauseating, obnoxious, lines as they stuff people's ears with while climbing their way up in the "teenage cliché in its purest form" rank.
  11. luckythisway
    Aug 30, 2015
    0
    Bad, just bad. Honestly one of the worst albums I've ever listened to. The only good song on the album is 'Amnesia' but it can't save the album from this review.
  12. All_ButTrU4
    Aug 25, 2022
    1
    I liked amnesia & she looks so perfect otherwise the rest can be chucked in the bin as no risk faux joy b-182 imitations
  13. Adrianomor
    Apr 3, 2020
    0
    So boreddddddddddddddd this album is ugly, bored and simple

Awards & Rankings

25
#25 Most Discussed Album of 2014
2
#2 Most Shared Album of 2014

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Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Jul 25, 2014
    63
    Hemmings and his bandmates match these frank admissions with music that’s equally straightforward.
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  2. Kerrang!
    Jul 23, 2014
    60
    Although everything is rendered with a high-shine gloss and sanitised precision that makes it more saccharine than Sex Pistols, there's still an enjoyment to be had on a basic level. [5 Jul 2014, p.53]
  3. Billboard.com
    Jul 22, 2014
    81
    Overall, 5 Seconds of Summer is a delightful debut from a group that cannot be easily pigeonholed, and is worth paying attention to.
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