This teenage anthem was written by 5SOS guitarist Michael Clifford and drummer Ashton Irwin with Good Charlotte's Benji and Joel Madden and frequent collaborator, producer John Feldmann. The press release describes the tune as a "mischievous riot of an anthem - all crunchy guitars, high octane drums and a massive chorus."
The Madden brothers have form with 5 Seconds of Summer. They previously co-penned their 2014 hit single, "Amnesia."
Ashton told Billboard magazine that the songwriters were thinking about the band's fans when they were putting the lyrics together. "Basically we just went in with the Madden brothers to write some songs, and 'She's Kinda Hot' came out of it," he explained. "We kind of planned on it being a song of revolution for our fans, and we made up the lyric 'We are the kings and the queens of the new broken scene,' and the idea of the 'new broken scene' is of a revolution for our fans to get behind. It's almost for the misfits and stuff like that, and it's for us to give our fans a place to belong." "The song tells a few stories of people who don't fit in," Ashton continued, "and they're being pressured to fit in, in each verse. And then it goes to the chorus saying we'll be all right, because and we're the kings and the queens of the new broken scene, and we're all together in this."
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