Hold On (Good Charlotte song)
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| "Hold On" | ||
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| Single by Good Charlotte | ||
| from the album The Young and the Hopeless | ||
| Released | 6 December 2003 | |
| Format | CD Single | |
| Genre | Pop Rock | |
| Label | Epic Records | |
| Producer(s) | Eric Valentine | |
| Good Charlotte singles chronology | ||
| The Young And The Hopeless (2003) |
Hold On (2003) |
Predictable (2004) |
Hold On is a song by the band Good Charlotte. It is taken from their second studio album, The Young and the Hopeless. It is the eighth track and the fifth and last single from the album. It was written in response to the people who had written to the band saying they were considering suicide. The video features suicide survivors talking about their experiences, either through losing a loved one or remembering a time they were suicidal.
[edit] Trivia
- The song was one of the songs that Sony payed radio stations to play in the 2005 payola scandal.[1]
- The video was directed by the renowned Samuel Bayer. As a result, the video has a firm plot, instead of standard videos showing the bands performing. This was the last video Sam directed until American Idiot by Green Day in 2004.
- Bassist Paul Thomas is shown wearing a T-Shirt with the Baroque Works logo from the anime One Piece. It is unconfirmed whether he is a fan of the series or simply wearing it because of the Jolly Roger theme - the band wore many Jolly Roger themed attires before.
- Several fans of the band claim this song has saved their life. However, the number of fans that claim this is so large, that the validity of some of these claims has come into question.
- The video receives very limited air play in the UK - This is because the song was released as a double A-Side with The Young & The Hopeless merely a few weeks after the video had been released.
- The song peaked at #4 on March 5th, 2004, on the MuchMusic Countdown.
- In a 2007 interview in Rocksound magazine, guitarist Billy Martin said that mothers have come up to him and said that this song made their child commit suicide. Billy said his response is usually "What the **** do you think the song is about?".
- The two brothers in the band, Benji and Joel Madden, have had the kind of problems they are writing about in the song.
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| Good Charlotte |
| Joel Madden | Benji Madden | Billy Martin | Paul Thomas | Dean Butterworth |
| Aaron Escolopio | Chris Wilson |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Good Charlotte | The Young and the Hopeless | The Chronicles of Life and Death | Good Morning Revival |
| Singles: Little Things | Motivation Proclamation | Festival Song | Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous | The Anthem | Girls and Boys | The Young and The Hopeless | Hold On | Predictable | I Just Wanna Live | The Chronicles of Life and Death | We Believe | The River | Keep Your Hands Off My Girl |
| Songs: Riot Girl | S.O.S. | Dance Floor Anthem |
| Videography |
| Good Charlotte Video Collection | Good Charlotte Live at Brixton Academy | Fast Future Generation |
| Labels |
| Epic Records | Daylight Records |
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