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By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 26 October 2022

5 Seconds of Summer have spoken about how winning Worst Band at the NME Awards three years in a row has affected them. In a new interview with NME.

“You all call us the worst band ever and that affects a guy”, says drummer Ashton Irwin. “The 28-year-old doesn’t give a fuck and I actually think that’s cool. But when you’re seventeen and eighteen, ‘I’m in the worst band? What?’ And it’s like what do you mean? What does that mean to me? What am I doing wrong?”

“This is a relative example of how the character of the band can be said [that] Really affects the sustainability of the whole thing”, he adds.

Yeah, I mean, you might not like 5SOS much, but calling them the worst band in the entire world in any given year seems a bit much. Three times as well! It’s almost insulting bands who are worse than them.

NME has now stopped awarding the worst band at its annual awards – 5SOS are the last band to win in 2017. So I guess they hold the title forever now. The other ‘worst’ categories at the music magazine’s annual awards bash – worst album and worst dress (the latter being least stylish) – had already been phased out by then.

The awards were a hangover when the NME Awards were trying to be an anti-Brit event – ​​a reaction to the more mainstream and corporate UK music awards shows. But worst of all it and those awards seem increasingly stupid as the NME Awards themselves have become bigger and brighter. And they always went for easy targets anyway, so it wasn’t fun either.

There was another negative award in the proceedings, that of Villain of the Year. It also dropped in 2020, turning the whole NME Awards shebang into one big, positive love. Although that particular category was back in 2022, the Victorian ghost is going to Jacob Rees-Mogg.

In 2019, James Blunt complained that he was never actually sent his 2006 Worst Album trophy, in an interview – again with NME: “It’s really about getting an award and not [be sent] I used to keep it right above my bed, so I could look at it and see it every day. That would be the best prize in the world.”