Watch 5 Seconds Of Summer's (Literally) Explosive 'Lie To Me' Video

It's been an exhilarating, love-filled week for 5 Seconds of Summer fans, who celebrated guitarist Michael Clifford's engagement a number of days back. Yet the guys are back to agency right now, and they're putting fans by way of the emotional ringer with the release of their new video for "Lie To Me."


The Youngblood track comes to life indoors a foggy raceway, where Luke Hemmings broods on the roof of a stalled vehicle, lamenting, "I wish we never met / 'Cause you're also hard to forget." His bandmates pace around elsewhere, and eventually watch in horror as Hemmings's vehicle gets rammed by two other vehicles. It's a jarring image, however it's only a taste of the destruction that follows. You can mention it... Ends with a bang.


So what did all that destruction signify? Let drummer Ashton Irwin to explain. A day before the video's premiere, he tweeted, "The 'Lie To Me' video symbolizes to me once someone closest to you is in a toxic situation, and so they take an emotional beating over and over. Without try to escape. It's absolutely heartbreaking."


A red-haired Irwin added before the premiere, "It's one of my main go to videos we've made." That's a big statement, considering the band's Youngblood era has been marked by mesmerizing visuals — there was the stark, skeletal "Valentine," the neon, gravity-defying "Want You Back," and the colorful, Tokyo-set "Youngblood."


None of these other ones had a fiery vehicle explosion, though, so maybe "Lie To Me" really is the coolest of all.