5 Seconds of Summer is defending their place in the pop-punk world (they are definitely not a boy band, you guys) in their new cover story with Billboard magazine. Ashton Irwin tells the mag: "People get confused because we're young and have a female fanbase… But so did Fall Out Boy. Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him, they obsessed over him."

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But wouldn't Justin be the Pete wentz of 2013? Since pete was relevant before JB?

Tell em, Ash.

that analogy doesn't make sense at all, wtf

Um no, FOB had many more older and male fans. Justin sure doesn't and neither do they

WHAT?

WHAT?

I agree. I was fantasizing about Pete when I was 13. Dat bathroom dick pick mhmmm

Some celebrities should just refrain from speaking.

I was expecting them to say Justin Timberlake

But this analogy is 10 times messier

That basically puts Ashlee Simpson as the Selena Gomez of 2007 as well.

Not exactly, tho.

I respect 5SOS but that **** doesn't make sense.

Mess. FOB had a large following including many male fans. Who, other than tweens are checking for JB?

What kinda disrespect, yeah pete was a gigantic douche back then but he wasn't that bad

But Ashlee has multiple platinum albums.

Apparently they've only read about 2007 in a book somewhere.

Or stumbled on some FOB fan fiction or whatever.

How dare he compare Pete to Bieber!