Good Charlotte stopped by The Tonight Show to showcase their song “I Don’t Work Here Anymore.” The pop punk number comes off their new album, Motel Du Cap, which is out today.
The band offered a rousing performance of the song, about finding your dreams after losing track of them in the midst of a day job. “All my life, I’ve waited for a chance to chase this feeling,” the band sings on the track. “Don’t tell me what to do, I don’t wanna work for you/ It don’t pay enough, it ain’t adding up, yeah, life’s too short.”
Motel du Cap is Good Charlotte’s eighth album and their first full-length effort in eight years (Generation Rx dropped in 2018). The band shared the LP’s single, “Rejects,” in June. “I don’t even think ‘Rejects’ is necessarily the most obvious single type song, but it’s the one we feel like people should hear first,” Joel Madden told Rolling Stone of the single. “We think it’s a really great start and a representation of the record and the music.”
Madden added of bringing the band back together to make a new album, “We came full-circle back to where we’re all in really good places in our lives where we don’t give a fuck, in a great way. We certainly care about people and our fans. But our families are really the center of our lives. So Good Charlotte is something that we get to be totally free in. We don’t necessarily need it to perform. We actually just need it to be itself.”
Benji Madden added, “You don’t need to write 50 songs for a record; you need to write 12. Whatever came out in that moment is the whole portrait. We made this record completely unconsciously. We didn’t meditate, we made it. We just said, ‘We need to get some things out,’ and we hit record.”
Earlier this year, Good Charlotte seemingly began to tease the new project on social media when they shared a cryptic video featuring old clips from the band’s early days. “GC 2025,” the caption read. Since then, Good Charlotte have announced multiple festival appearances for 2025, including Ocean’s Calling and Aftershock. Last month, the band played at Welcome to Rockville for their first show since 2023 where Benji told the crowd about the new project and possible touring plans: “We got a record coming out in August, we’ll be on tour.”
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