5 Seconds Of Summer nervously play tattoo roulette on ‘Late Late Show’
5 Seconds of Summer appeared on the Late Late Show with James Corden last night to perform their new song “Teeth” and play a little bit of tattoo roulette.
Aside from the epic performance, which we’ll get to later, the band were terrified to play one of the “craziest” games Corden’s ever featured on the show.
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It’s called tattoo roulette, which sounds like a bad idea in itself. The premise was that there were five boxes put in front of each member of the band and the host. One of the boxes was marked “tattoo” on the inside while the other four were marked “safe”.
If a 5 Seconds of Summer member got the box marked “tattoo,” they had to get “Late, Late” inked on their body forever right there during the show. If Corden picked the box, he had to get “5SOS” on his body. It was super serious, as they had a tattoo artist ready to go right there on stage.
The group looked nervous before the game even started, with Luke Hemmings revealing that he’s the only 5SOS member who has never been inked. Despite his lack of tattoo experience, he was up for the challenge. Then, Michael Clifford said he was probably the most nervous of the group even though he has a few tattoos.
You can see the clip of the game below to see who had the unfortunate fate of getting a last-minute tattoo on the show.
The band also gave a high-energy performance their most recent single “Teeth” complete with strobe lights. You can see a video of that below.
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When the band first dropped the song featured in the newest season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, they opened up a bit on the meaning behind it.
“I know what you’re thinking. It’s a funny name. And you’re like, ‘What’s Teeth even going to sound like?’” the band explains.
“We’re in the studio with Andrew Watt, Nellie, Tim Posey, who we did Young Blood and a couple other…and we were writing for like a month, or I mean a bit more than that, and just trying to search for something that was a step forward from Young Blood and all that stuff that we’re riding on the third album and Ryan Tedder was in this day and we’re kind of flipping through. I always wanted to write with him for years.
“As a band, we look up to One Republic obviously, and him as like a pop songwriter so to write with him was already awesome. We’re kind of flipping through ideas and kind of writing a little bit and it didn’t really work and then at the end of the day this idea came about and yeah, it happened really quickly. A lot of times the best songs just kind of fall out quickly.
“I think for us we’ve kind of felt that ‘Teeth’ was always going to be the track that was kind of setting the like precedent for the rest of this record and I think ‘Easier’ for us has always felt like a bit of a setup. Kind of easing into the new different styles and genres and visuals and stuff like that, and I think ‘Teeth’ is where we’re going to come balls blazing.”
You can watch a clip from the interview below as well as the official music video for “Teeth”.
5 Seconds Of Summer are hitting the road with the Chainsmokers this fall. You can check out the full list of cities and dates below and grab tickets here.
Dates:
09/25 — Cincinnati, OH @ U.S. Bank Arena
09/27 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
09/28 — Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
09/29 — University Park, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center
10/03 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
10/04 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
10/05 — St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
10/08 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
10/09 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
10/11 — Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
10/12 — Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center
10/13 — Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center
10/15 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
10/17 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
10/20 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
10/22 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
10/24 — Miami, FL @ AmericanAirlines Arena
10/25 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
10/26 — Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
10/29 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
10/31 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
11/01 — Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center
11/02 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
11/06 — Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
11/07 — Indianapolis, IN @ Bankers Life Fieldhouse
11/08 — St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
11/09 — Madison, WI @ Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center
11/12 — Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum
11/14 — Oklahoma City, OK @ Chesapeake Energy Arena
11/15 — Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
11/16 — Wichita, KS @ INTRUST Bank Arena
11/19 — Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
11/21 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Vivint Smart Home Arena
11/23 — Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Arena
11/24 — San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
11/26 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum
11/29 — San Francisco, CA @ TBA
12/01 — Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center
12/03 — Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
12/05 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center
12/06 — Vancouver, BC @ Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
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