My Dream 5SOS Concert

G'day mates (I thought I would get in the spirit of Australia Day)

Welcome back to my blog, or if it's your first time on my blog then HEY hope you're good! 

We all have to admit that at one time or another we have caught ourselves in a daydream thinking about 5SOS, right? (well at least I have anyway) and so with that in mind I decided to take you all on a journey to imagination land where we will experience my dream 5SOS concert. And also will all the recent drama that's been circulating it will also be a good getaway.
 Now in all honesty if I could have it my way there would be no one else in the crowd except for me but I thought that was a bit selfish so hey you're all invited! So grab a cup of tea (or whatever you fancy) and come join me in 5SOS land.

Let's start with the fact that clearly it would be free and everyone would get to go so there would be no one left disappointed that they didn't get tickets. Obviously I would be front row so tough luck if you aren't up there beside me...ok just kidding you can all imagine yourselves in the front row too ;)

Before the concert starts everyone would get a free pizza because we would all be starving from standing in the queue outside all day and it would just be a nice gesture, 5SOS take notes ;)

The boys would come on stage (naked..jk but that would be awesome) They would sing every single song of theirs that they have ever recorded, including all the old ones such as I've Got This Friend, Over and Over, Unpredictable, Gotta Get Out (read my previous post for all the underrated songs that I would want them to sing - http://5sosfamconnect.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/underrated-5sos-songs.html )

Ashton would of course do a 20 minute drum solo at the front of the stage because I feel like his talents are so under-appreciated and he deserves the attention also he would do it at the front because then I'd be able to get his attention unlike when he is sat at the back of the stage ;)

There would of course be fire and flames and we would all laugh as Luke would try to not catch his hair on fire. Obviously the concert will be filled with many of Luke's high kicks and plenty of in-sync jumps.

Ashton would also come to the front of stage and sing pizza 5 times throughout the night because lets face it, it is hot af and that song is my religion and it should be yours too. 

They would also then take around 20 minutes to sing some acoustic songs because when they sing acoustically it is like angels from above have came upon us all and we would all have a spiritual experience. Included in that would be Wherever You Are and Wrapped Around Your Finger (Michael's solo, that is all) I would honestly sell my family to see 5SOS perform acoustically, sorry mum.

The night long concert would then end with them coming off the stage and just hanging out with the fans for the rest of the night at an after party (the legal aged fans anyway) but don't worry if you're underage I'll sneak you in ;)

I shall leave the rest of the night to your imagination, keep it clean ;) haha

I didn't want to make this post too long because I would probably bore you all with the ideas that my mind comes up with sometimes!

5SOS Updates -

I decided that I'm going to add this segment to the end of every blog post kinda as an update of everything that is currently going on with 5SOS and you all can leaver your opinions in the comments! :D

• So first of it was Calum's birthday yesterday and of course him and Luke went out for the night (as any 19 year old boy should do) and yeah they partied it up in Aussie land. 

• Pictures emerged of Ashton in LA and of course speculations were high as to why he is there, nothing has come of substance so we wait (don't believe rumours until they are confirmed people!)

• And lastly Michael is still not been sighted anywhere, some thought he might have gone to LA with Ashton but then someone said Luke told them he wasn't in LA so yeah he's probably still hibernating in his man cave, casual.

• 5SOS are scheduled to perform in Japan on February 25th so until then I don't know what they will be doing, maybe writing for the next album in LA?

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed. Remember to leave a comment what your dream 5SOS concert would include and tweet and share this post! :D

Until next Monday,

@5SOSFamDerpCon (come and hang with me on Twitter!)


*Disclaimer - I do not own any of the pictures in the above post, no copyright intended. All opinions are my own, they belong to my imagination ;) *

Underrated 5SOS Songs

Hey guys!

It is pretty clear that 5SOS have a LOT of songs in their repertoire and it would be impossible for them to perform them all in one concert (although I would definitely pay my life savings to go to that concert!)  and therefore that means that there are a lot of songs that just get left under the rug and we never get to hear them live, or in some cases we hear them live and they bring out new songs (which don't get me wrong is great) but they leave other beloved songs to die, and no one wants that to happen!

With this thought in mind I took to Twitter and asked you what you thought were some underrated 5SOS songs so that I could now reincarnate them back into your life or something along those lines!

1. The first song in my opinion that is totally underrated and I NEED them to perform at ROWYSO is If You Don't Know. I literally think I tweet about how much I love this song at least once a week and it is definitely one of my favourites. This song was on the Don't Stop EP, which just in general was an amazing EP. 5SOS have never performed this song live and in my opinion is has just sort of been forgotten about and many people don't even know it exists! 

Let me break it down as to why it is one of my favourites. Firstly Calum's solo, no more needs to be said on that apart from HOW? The lyrics are perfection and the song just gets me all emotional. If they did sing this on tour although it would be amazing I would most likely be an emotional wreck because this song means so much to me! All in all I just really like the song, as does a lot of people so 5SOS if you see this SING IT ON TOUR PLEASE!!

"If You Don't Know" - this was the best version I could find, although it has been slowed down. :(

2. Secondly, a lot of people said that Over and Over was one of their favourite 5SOS songs. 5SOS used to perform this song when they were on tour with 1D and a lot at acoustic shows etc and I was lucky to get to see them perform this when they were just little fetus' back in 2013 however now they don't perform it and honestly I don't know why not because it is such a beautiful song that a lot of people love. It was also one of the first songs of theirs I heard so it does have a special place in my heart (ew cheesy)

"Over and Over" - watch them perform the acoustically back in 2013, bless them and their fetus ways!

3. Wherever You Are. If you don't know this song, seriously you need to listen to it. I honestly didn't think I could love them much more but when they realised this song I literally grew a bigger heart just to hold my love for them and this song. The video for the song especially makes me cry because it shows their journey as a band with the fam and it is such a beautifully (is that a word?) written song and once again Calum's solo is just heart melting. Also in the description they put

"We made this video just for YOU for a song we wrote called 'Wherever You Are'. the video looks back on some of the memories we've shared with the 5SOS fam since it all started in 2011 :) x"

And if that doesn't make you love them anymore than you already do then I don't know what will because they are just perfect and I could go on forever about how much I love them so I'll stop there! But I need to see them sing this live at least once in my life and then I can die happily.

"Wherever You Are" - Listen to it, change your life. 

There are honestly way too many underrated 5SOS songs for me to talk about and every answer on Twitter was a different song so I will leave links to some of the suggestions below and check them out if you haven't heard them before because I think every 5SOS song is amazing (not being biased at all) 

"All I Need"
"Gotta Get Out"
"Everything I Want"
"The Only Reason"
"Social Casualty"
"Close As Strangers"
"Mrs All American"
"Unpredictable"
"Rejects"
The old version of "Beside You"

*Disclaimer, I do not own any of the rights to the above video links or pictures, no copyright intended. All opinions are my own.*

Sorry some the links are live and have screaming but hey welcome to the struggle of a 5SOS fan from 2012/3! And for the fact some of the audio is sped up/slowed down, there wasn't anything I could do¬ :( Also, can we just laugh at their fashion sense back in the days of 2012...sorry but I had to.

Hopefully you've found some new 5SOS songs you love or some that you had forgotten about and now I have you addicted again, I apologize! (not really!)

Until next time!

@5SOSFamDerpCon (come socialize with me!)

PS, leave me comments with what you want to see next on by blog! I can't wait for the tour to start because I have so many post ideas!!

PPS. Can we talk about how Ashton shaved his beard? What an actual tragedy! Tweet me and share my pain with this loss. 

DerpCon Winner - Mexico

Hey guys! How are you all doing? :)

Today I bring you the Mexico DerpCon winner and the lucky girl is 17 year old Paulina ( @PaulinaPR97 ) She was kind enough to talk with me and explain all about her win :)

Mexico's competition for DerpCon was ran by Telehit, the music channel and what you had to do was make a 30 second creative video showing a super power and upload it to YouTube.

This is Paulina's winning video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gzWYDB-2hs&index=1&list=UUhSGkxmDF5INM3B8V0QaiOQ

I asked Paulina to describe everything that happened from how she found out about winning and the lead up to it, "I saw a tweet saying they were announcing the winner on the Friday, so on the Friday I got out of school as fast as I could so I could get home on time for the announcement. I was watching the TV when they said they were announcing the winner in a few minutes when I received a call and they told me 'you're gonna be on the air in a few minutes.'

Paulina then describes how she reacted, "I looked at my cousin and mom and started jumping. They then showed my video on the TV saying that I was the winner of DerpCon and  burst into tears. They started asking me questions and I was so overwhelmed I just said whatever came to my mind!"

On how she is feeling now, Paulina tells me, "I feel overwhelmed and super excited because this is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I get to spend it with my best friend and mom, what else could I ask for?"

When asked what she is most looking forward to about DerpCon, Paulina responds, "I'm really excited for everything that involves DerpCon! Meeting them and taking pictures, the show, traveling with my best friend and getting to know fans from all around the world and making new friends!"

Paulina saw 5SOS perform at the One Direction concert in Arizona but has never met them so this is going to be an amazing experience for her!

DerpCon is in 3 days everyone, be prepared! :D

Until the next time, love;

@5SOSFamDerpCon

5SOS Recent Drama - My Rant

Hi everyone!

I didn't want to start 2015 with a negative post but due to recent events over the past weekend on Twitter and Instagram etc within the 5SOS fam I thought it would be appropriate to give you all my opinion and hopefully maybe you will see things from a different perspective.

Firstly, if you have no clue what has been going on in 5SOS land recently, the boys have been in Australia having a well deserved break but then this weekend Calum and Luke decided to go out with a few friends to some parties and the inevitable happened - they got piss drunk and some pictures emerged around social media of Calum with some girls. After seeing this, some of the fans overreacted and took things way overboard and now well Twitter is a mess. (mine is anyway!) 

Now, if you are mature enough then you will look at the above scenario and think "What is the problem?" and I totally agree with you. The members of 5SOS age ranges from 18-20. If they were not 'famous' and still lived in Australia, then more than likely going out and drinking would be a normal weekly occurrence for them. Where I live boys and girls (including myself) who are this age group go out with friends 3/7 days in a week to drink and party but just because 5SOS have been labelled as idols and celebrities it is a much bigger deal for them to be doing this which I find really bizarre because they hardly ever get to go home and see their friends and so when they do I think we should leave them be to do the normal things which they are missing out on when they are away from home. In the end, we should really be staying out of their personal lives and let them do what they wanna do, it is their life after all, we don't have control over them. It's not like what they are doing is illegal.

Since we have cleared up that them drinking is ok lets move on to the bigger problem - the girls. I personally do not have a problem if any of the boys have girlfriends, one night stands, groupies or even just friends that are girls. Again, it is their life not any of ours. (unless you are the girl, then yay for you!) I don't feel it necessary to freak the shit out whenever I see a picture of any of the boys with a girl, again it would just be like me posting a picture with a boy - totally normal in society but because of 'who they are' people take things way out of proportion. 

When I see fans posting hate directed towards these girls and specifically over the past weekend it actually makes me embarrassed for their lives. The people sending hate to those girls need to actually grow up and move on because in all honesty what are the chances that you posting the hate will change anything? Truth be told, the chance is ZERO. You, again, have no control over who the boys hang out with, who they are friends with or who they have relationships with. It is none of your business.

If any of the boys were to see that you were posting hate to their friends more than likely you will get blocked by them or even called out by them and really if that happens then people will just start to hate on you which I am sure you do not want. However, I have saw that over the weekend when some of the boys' girl - friends got some hate sent to them (which should never have happened in the first place) the girls got really over-defensive and to me, they could have handled it way better. Here is a snapshot of how one of the girls responded to a comment on her instagram - 

After reading this, you will see that clearly this would upset a lot of the fam/fans because basically it is saying that we have no lives and are pathetic people for supporting 5SOS. I found this extremely rude and really disrespectful. This girl, although I don't know her personally or know if she is a close friend of the boys, was trying to stick up for herself but that didn't go down too well because she upset a lot more people than those who were upset about the picture. She talks about people bullying her friend when in actual fact I find that she is now bullying us by using such verbal comments. I would like to hope that if Luke or Calum were to see this they would speak to the girl privately or something and tell her that that is no way to talk to people because in the end fans are people too with feelings believe it or not and seeing something like this could in actual fact tip some people over the edge. Also if this was for more attention from one of the boys or to get 'popular' or something ridiculous then I just have to laugh at her effort because honestly  no one will want to be friends with someone who says such vile comments to people.

I just want to finish with the fact that if unnecessary drama like this continues it will only pull the fam and the boys further apart. This is a whole other topic but the boys are more distant from their fans recently and it will only get worse if this sort of behaviour from us continues.


I want to finish on a positive note, so just keep supporting the boys and their music and please try to not get into this drama and leave the boys to live their own lives outside of the music when they get the chance to do so.


Hope you have a wonderful year and continue to support 5SOS through thick and thin.


love you guys, @5SOSFamDerpCon


Follow me on twitter and tell me your comments and thoughts on the whole thing and lets have a conversation :)


*Just to disclaim that these opinions are my own which I am entitled to, don't come hating on me if you do not agree although I am open to constructive counter arguments.*

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

5SOS Fan Christmas Gift Guide

Hello fellow 5SOS fam!

Today I bring the ultimate 5SOS Fan's Christmas Gift Guide! I have scoured all over Etsy and of course the 5SOS Merch store to bring you all the best (in my opinion) gifts for you to put on your list's for Santa or if you have a friend that is obsessed with 5SOS (Hint - ME!) Then these would be awesome gifts to give them this Christmas!

Without any more rambling here is my 5SOS fan gift guide for Christmas 2014! I have tried to keep everything under £10 so it is budget friendly! :D 

(If you scroll over the words beside the pictures it will send you to the link on where to purchase the item!)

1 - 5SOS Live Album (LiveSOS) was obviously my first choice for this gift guide! 5SOS will be releasing their live album which includes 15 live song versions and is available to pre-order RIGHT NOW! It will be released on the 15th December - perfect time for Christmas ;) 

Live SOS CD Album - £9.99
                             $16.99 (USD)
                             €12.99 (EUR)
                              














2 - 5SOS Cushion Pillowcase ; I saw this on Etsy and thought that it was so cool! This seller does all types of pillowcases for a decent price. They have ones of the boy's face and EP Artworks. This would make a nice gift for someone who likes to spend a lot of time in bed aka most teenagers!

Pillowcase from Etsy - starting price is £9.17
$14.39
€11.57














3 - If you ever go on Etsy and search 5SOS you will be overwhelmed by the selection of products you can get with 5SOS on it. The most recurring ones apart from tops is phone cases. There is such a selection of phone cases that I just couldn't pick one so I chose my top 3 phone cases. Each case can come in a selection of different phones e.g iPhones and Samsung Galaxy's.

IDIOT CASE - £9.17 ;  I PREFER THE DRUMMER CASE  - £8.52 ;  5SOS ALBUM ARTWORK - £8.52

4 - 5SOS 2015 Calendar is my next choice for a gift. Everyone loves a good calendar and why not have a new picture of 5SOS in your room every month? The 5SOS 2015 Calendar is currently available to buy from their merch store and at HMV stores :)

5SOS Calendar - £8.99

                       $14.99 (USD)
                       €11.99 (EUR)

5 - 5SOS Mug ; If you are like me and are obsessively addicted to tea then of course you want a mug with 5SOS on it, right? And obviously not only tea but coffee, hot chocolate or if you want it just to have! On Etsy again there are a wide selection of mugs associated with 5SOS but I liked this simple logo one with their names on the back. Obviously you can select from whichever name you prefer! Just imagine Christmas night by a fire, listening to your new 5SOS Live album sipping tea from this mug - heaven right? That's only if you haven't eaten too much turkey by then! 

5SOS Mug - £10.48
                 $16.44
                 €13.23















6 - 5SOS Temporary Tattoos ; I know these won't be everyone's cup of tea but I thought they were fun and quirky and would be something fun to give a friend? You can get the 5SOS tally tattoo like Ashton's that comes in a set of 6 or you can get a selection of the tattoos that 5SOS have that include Calum's 'MMXII' tattoo, and Michael's anchor tattoo, 'To the moon..' tattoo and his 'X' tattoo. These are just a fun idea and you can have the same tattoos as 5SOS for less pain, YAY! :'D

Tally tattoo - £2.62 (set of 6)
                   $4.11
                   €3.30

 Selection of 5SOS Tattoos - £2.62













I really hope you enjoyed these ideas for gifts for friends or to add to your own wishlist! :D I decided not to include any t-shirts because I know a lot of people will have thought of them so these are things that you might not have thought about to get :)

Leave a comment if you are planning to get any of these items or what is on your Christmas wishlist! :D 

If you liked this then tweet and share it with your friends to give them hints on what to buy you ;)

Until next time, 

5SOS Fam Connect :)

@5SOSFamDerpCon

*DISCLAIMER* All currency conversions are estimated and may not reflect actual pricing. I am not sponsored.