What's with the new Good Charlotte single?

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Dude, it totally rips off Gang of Radio 4/the Rapture/no, seriously. Also, they wear polka dot banana suits in the video

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

It sucks, of course.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

well, duh

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

but I still can't help dancing to it (with tears in my eyes)!!

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Singer Joel Madden says that this time around, he'd like the band to become the punk-rock Outkast.
"That's what I want," he said. "The one thing I really want to model myself after as an artist is Outkast, because they grow so much on each record. They always set themselves apart and do things so differently than any other hip-hop artist. I would love to be like them."

That doesn't mean Good Charlotte will be getting stanky. But Madden does want the band to evolve beyond traditional three-chord song structures, as he thinks they did on Chronicles (on which the group advanced even further, adding piano and strings on some tracks). Guitarist Billy Martin is bearing this in mind while writing the bulk of the new material. There are also a few collaborations with bassist Paul Thomas, and even Benji Madden has been banging around on an acoustic guitar in his hotel room, coming up with a couple of tunes on his own. At this rate, Joel estimates, they could have anywhere from a fourth to half of the album written by the time they're slated to go back in the studio in 2006. And this on-the-road songwriting is pretty casual, he says — they're hardly even trying.

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

What's it called then?

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

They really cannot die soon enough.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

I JUS WANNA LIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVVE.

*ahem*

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

That doesn't mean Good Charlotte will be getting stanky.

*arched eyebrow*

I *am* right to assume that this is the equivalent of Blink-182 trying to, hrm, 'grow' on their last album?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was blur.

― aa, Monday, 7 March 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

I want to hear this.

― djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 7 March 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

"That's what I want," he said. "The one thing I really want to model myself after as an artist is Outkast, because they grow so much on each record. They always set themselves apart and do things so differently than any other hip-hop artist. I would love to be like them."

So they're one color of shit on their first couple records, and many different colored pieces of shit on their new record.

― billstevejim, Monday, 7 March 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

the strings and the chorus vocal are kind of grating and off-putting, but I love the 2nd verse.

I rock a
Lawsuit when I’m going to court
A white suit when I’m gettin’ divorced
A black suit at the funeral home
And my birthday suit when I’m home alone
Talkin’ on the phone
Got an interview
With the Rolling Stone
They’re saying
Now you’re rich and
Now you’re famous
Fake ass girls all know your name and
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
your first hit are you ashamed?
Of the life, Of the life,
Of the life we’re livin’

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 7 March 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

the group advanced even further, adding piano and strings on some tracks

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 7 March 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

A BREAKTHROUGH

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 7 March 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

It's easily the least annoying thing they've ever done, if not necessarily the best.

Vid is great, too.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 7 March 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

I like it.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 7 March 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

I absolutely love this song.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

haha

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

whats it called? No one has answered this, have they?

― djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

"Pictures of Miccio"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

"Fake Ass Girls All Know Your Name"

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

This being the one where one of them wears a Banana Suit, am I right?

This meaning, now the Manics won't be doing the same, sorry Cal.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I saw these cats on that Punk'd show once. They're such bitches. I'd love to slap the shit out of all of em. Fuck Good Charlotte.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

it's "I Just Wanna Live," Deej.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

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