The 5SOS Tag

Hello beautiful people, hope you are well? 

I have been doing this little blog thing for a while now and realised that probably most of the people who read it have no bloody idea who the heck I am or anything about me so I thought I would do the 5SOS tag so you can get to know me a bit better and about how I am a 5SOS fan! :D

This tag was created by the beautiful @Alexandra5SOS on YouTube, check her channel out here, she is a 5SOS fan based channel and creates videos all about 5SOS so make sure you subscribe to her! :D

Anyway there are 10 questions I will answer (I had to adapt some of the original ones so I could fit them on the blog) so here we go!

Q1. Who is your favourite member of 5 Seconds of Summer and Why?

Let's get down to business and not beat around the bush, I'm an Ashton girl. Always have been since 2012 and the days of the emo fringe! You are lying if you say you don't have a favourite, although I love them all Ashton is just the one that I am more attracted to? It's hard to explain because honestly I'd take them all in a heartbeat! haha but I think me and Ashton have similar personalities and yeah I dunno he just is ok!

Q2. How did you find out about 5SOS?

I found out about 5SOS in October 2012 through being on twitter. I saw some girls tweeting them and decided to check out who they were. I saw they did covers on Youtube and at the time I was a huge Justin Bieber fan and I saw they had covered Next To You. Ever since I have been hooked. Here ends the story.

Q3. What is your favourite 5 Seconds of Summer Cover?

As I said previously Next To You was the first one I watched so I will always have memories of that! But currently my favourite covers they do is I Miss You and What I Like About You.

Q4. Favourite thing about the #5SOSFAMILY

I have found from experience that they are all (mostly) so loving and genuinely care about the boys and the music. We are all (again mostly) nice and welcoming to each other and honestly if it wasn't for 5SOS I wouldn't have met some of my best friends. The family always look out for the boys and lets be real when there is a mob or just drama *cough about groupies cough* we all defend 5SOS to the end and I think that's incredible. And we are all funny as f**k.

Q5. What is your favourite 5SOS song?


I have so many. Really it depends on what mood I am in and everyday I have a different song stuck in my head. However from forever ago my favourite song has been Beside You. When I first heard it I loved it and ever since it has been one for my faves. I also love End Up Here, Disconnected, Wherever You Are, If You Don't Know (which is so underrated) and Voodoo Doll. Basically them all but I just picked a few favourites.

Q6. What 5 Seconds of Summer merch do you have?

(To be clear not bragging when I say this I'm just answering the question)

I have all the EP's, the album, the live album, 2 t-shirts (white logo one and one with their faces on it) the book, the calendar, wristband, album cover poster and that's it. Not as much as a lot of people have but hey I'm a broke fangirl what can I say. 

Q7. Have you ever met 5SOS? tell us what happened!

Unfortunately no I have never met them! :( BUT I hope to meet them next year on their tour! *touches wood so I don't jinx myself*

Q8. Do 5SOS follow you on twitter/tumblr?

Again none of them follow me on twitter (I don't have tumblr cause I don't have a clue how to work the darn thing!) BUT the 5SOS band account have retweeted me which was fucking amazing and I think I died a little when it happened! :D Link to that tweet here

Q9. Draw 5SOS in under 3 minutes 

Not gonna lie this took longer than 3 minutes but hey using paint to draw a masterpiece is hard ok - 

I tried ok. Guess who is who? 😂

Q10. Describe 5SOS in one word

I sat for like 10 minutes trying to think of what to say and all I think of is balls but I don't think that is quite appropriate! So I'm gonna go with NormalBoysLivingTheirDreamsAndAre IncrediblyTalentedAndChangedPeoplesLives - all one word right? ;)

But seriously I don't think they realise just how many people's lives they have changed/saved because of their music and they are still the same dorky boys that I fell in love with over 2 years ago.

So that ends the 5SOS tag. If you read it then please comment and share. Also I encourage you to do the tag as well whether it be through blogging or a YouTube video! If you do it please tweet me so I can read it as well!

Side Note - I normally upload on a Thursday as well but since it is Christmas on Thursday and New years Day the Thursday after I will only be uploading on Monday.

Finally I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas, I hope Santa brings you everything you got and if you asked for 5SOS then sorry but they will be at my house. Sorry! ;)

Love, @5SOSFamDerpCon (follow me, we can be friends!)

What Is A 'Fangirl'?

Hello all,

Today we are going to be talking about the big facade that is the typical, everyday 'fangirl'

For all those of you who are reading this and have no idea what a fangirl is let me break it down for you very quickly. In today's society there is a big phenomenon around 'celebrities' such as singers, bands, actors, Youtuber's etc and along with that these people build up masses of fans, many of the very dedicated fans that follow their idols every move are becoming known as 'fangirls/boys' 

Although there is nothing harmless in being a fangirl, in my opinion anyway as I myself would class myself as a 'fangirl', some people outside of fan bases, typically the older generation (no ageism intended of course) have this strange idea that fangirls are crazy, deluded teenage girls who stalk One Direction and do nothing else with their lives except stay online all day. 

Well I am here to explain to you all that this isn't in fact the case (don't get me wrong, there is crying and stalking involved in some instances but not everyday.)

So where exactly am I going with this you might ask yourself? I am going to take you on a journey to the very root of why fangirls exist and the purpose of fangirling. Prepare yourself.

If you consider yourself to be a fangirl of someone or something then more than likely you will have a twitter account. That's where fangirls mostly meet and tweet each other all about what is going on with their idol. I know everyone always says 'Be careful of everyone on the internet, they are all creepy old perverts' when in fact not one person that I have met on twitter has turned out to be that, that I know off. In fact I have met most of my best friends on Twitter because of our common love of a certain thing, aka other fangirls. If you wanna become my friend then hit me up on twitter, @5SOSFamDerpCon unless you are in fact a creepy old pervert, then don't.

Fan-girls would love and support their idol to their death, showing immense dedication to the fanbase. Some say obsessive, we say love. With being a fangirl comes a lot of responsibility. I will use myself as an example. I am clearly a fangirl of the band 5SOS, so with that I find myself buying all their music, voting for them for awards, tweeting them constantly, obviously making fun of them for being complete idiots sometimes but then again that is just the fanbase. Buying their merchandise (e.g t-shirts, calenders, books, wristbands etc) and of course getting tickets to see them in concert. (if you're lucky!) You may think to yourself 'wow, what a waste of money for a stupid band that you'll grow out off' but that's where people are wrong. There is more to fangirling than just spending your money on people. 

Many fangirls dedicate their lives to these people because they saved them. They are the only piece of happiness they have in their life and they want to pay them back for all the good things they have done for them. For some people a band or singer's song might be the only reason they are still here today. It might sound outrageous to some of you, but it's true. Music speaks and saves people. 

Some people consider themselves fans of a band if they enjoy a certain song, which is totally fine and awesome if you support a song by a band, but spare a thought for the people whose lives this band have actually saved whether it be through just a simple tweet or even a song. 

I realise this is probably really long and babbly and won't make sense to many people but it was something that I needed to get off my chest because fangirls sometimes get such a bad name and are made out by the media to be these obsessed, over excited crazy chicks who hide in Justin Bieber's bin outside his house and hopefully what you can take from this today is that we aren't like that at all (most of us) but in fact we are normal human beings who just happen to love a certain person or people and dedicate our lives to them. 

"Being a fangirl isn't just a hobby, it's a lifestyle." - Quote by Myself.

If you enjoyed this then please comment and share with those who have no idea what your life is actually like being a fangirl and this might show them!? haha and also if you want more posts like this then tweet me! :D

Until next time, 

@5SOSFamDerpCon

Ps. Sorry for the lack of posts, I have been dealing with some thins but I am back! :D