Hold On (Good Charlotte song)
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| Single by Good Charlotte from the album The Young and the Hopeless |
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| Released | December 6, 2003 | ||||
| Format | CD single | ||||
| Recorded | 2001 - 2002 | ||||
| Genre | Pop punk | ||||
| Length | 4:09 | ||||
| Label | Epic | ||||
| Producer | Eric Valentine | ||||
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"Hold On" is the fifth and final single taken from Good Charlotte's second studio album The Young and the Hopeless. It was written in response to the people who had written to the band saying they were considering suicide. The music video features suicide survivors talking about their experiences, either through losing a loved one or remembering a time they were suicidal.
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[edit] Tracklist
- "Hold On"
- "Girls & Boys" (Abbey Road Session)
- "The Story Of My Old Man" (Abbey Road Session)
- "Hold On" (Video)
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
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| Billboard Hot 100[1] | 63 |
| German Top 100[2] | 67 |
[edit] Trivia
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- The song was one of the songs that Sony paid radio stations to play in the 2005 payola scandal.[1]
- The video was directed by the renowned Samuel Bayer (uncredited). 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.
- The video received very limited airplay in the UK - this is because the song was released as a double A-side with "The Young and the Hopeless" merely a few weeks after the music video had been released.
- The song peaked at #4 on the MuchMusic Countdown series on March 5th, 2004.
- In a 2007 interview in Rock Sound 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 fuck do you think the song is about?".
- The video for this song has the distinction of being the only Good Charlotte video not on the band's website.
- Another of Good Charlotte's songs, S.O.S., deals with the same subject matter. However, the core difference is that whilst Hold On is directed at people going through hard times, S.O.S. is written from the perspective of someone going through hard times.
- The song was featured in the game Karaoke Revolution Volume 3.
- Along with S.O.S., Hold On shares its name with two Jonas Brothers songs.
- It has been said that the music video highly resembles blink-182's music video, "Stay Together for the Kids".
[edit] Lyrics
This world, this world is cold But you don’t, you don’t have to go You’re feeling sad you’re feeling lonely And no one seems to care You’re mother’s gone and your father hits you This pain you cannot bare
But we all bleed the same way as you do We all have the same things to go thru
Hold on...if you feel like letting go Hold on...it gets better than you know
Your days you say they’re way too long And your nights you can’t sleep at all (hold on) And you’re not sure what you’re looking for But you don’t want to no more And you’re not sure what you’re waiting for but you don’t want to no more
But we all bleed the same way as you do And we all have the same things to go through
Hold on...if you feel like letting go Hold on...it gets better than you know
Don’t stop looking you’re one step closer Don’t stop searching it’s not over...hold on
What are you looking for? What are you waiting for? Do you know what you’re doing to me? Go ahead...what are you waiting for?
Hold on...if you feel like letting go Hold on...it gets better than you know
Don’t stop looking you’re one step closer Don’t stop searching it’s not over...
Hold on...if you feel like letting go Hold on...it gets better than you know...hold on
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Retrieved January 6, 2008.
- ^ German Top 100 Chart. Retrieved January 6, 2008.
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