I tell you now, there won’t be another Good Charlotte song in this whole “My iPod” thing. Never really liked them. They got big over in the UK in about 2002 and I knew their stuff then, but I didn’t care about them. Fast forward four years later when I’m starting secondary school and I make a friend who really likes their music, I try to listen to their stuff again. That’s when they released “Keep Your Hands off My Girl”. “No” I thought to myself. No speak/rap please. Whatever I ‘felt’ about Good Charlotte was gone. It is alright thinking about it now, but I can’t take it seriously.

“Girls & Boys” is the only song by them that I actually really enjoy. The song’s lyrics, to crudely put it, state that girls and boys are just as stupid as each other when it comes to the money and being materialistic or whatever. But the music isn’t half bad either. And although like the other singles the chorus has words in which a syllable is elongated and makes up about a third of it in the process (“LIFESTYYYYYYYLES OFTHERICHANDTHE FAY-MOOUUS“) (“YOOOUU, DON’TWANNABEJUSTLIKEYOOU“), it steers away from being too grating and whiny. “Girls & Boys” has great melodies from the vocals to the guitars, particularly during the instrumental break.

Is this a guilty pleasure? Maybe. Actually, no! This song is great, I don’t care. Good Charlotte on the other hand not so much.