מצאתי את הכתבה-
כתבה ממש טובה! אהבתי מה שבילי אמר על הקטע שאומרים שהם "וואנה בי" פאנק ושיט,ובנג'י יצא חמוד בכתבה-בקיצור עמוק =| *תקראו הכל* GOOD CHARLOTTE HAVE IT ALL. FAME. MONEY. SUCESS. THE WORLD'S THEIRS FOR THE TAKING. BUT SOMETHING'S EATING THEM. THINK YOU KNOW GOOD CHARLOTTE? THINK AGAIN.. BENJI MADDEN, one half of Good Charlotte's mainmen twins, is pissed off. His bandmates are ready, waiting and calling at him to hurry up. As he ties a bandanna over his mouth and pulls a hat firmly down on his head so that all you can see are his eyes, the guitarist finally skulks out of the bathroom where he's been preparing himself for the photo shoot for the last 20 minutes. "I apologise," Benji says to me, not worried about keeping everyone waiting for another few minutes. "I hate having my picture taken. I hate having to think about the way I look and I wish I didn't have to be in photos. I look like a loser." He looks good though, I tell him. Like a little boy lost with black-kohl tearstains smudged under each eye. Benji throws me a half smirk, like he doesn't believe me, yet he knows what I'm saying is true at the same time. GROWING UP isn't easy. Maybe the hardest thing about growing up is coming to the realisation that you never stop - that you're always learning and changing. But that's also the thing you need to accept in order tolet it happen. Like life and death. Once you face up to the fact that you're going to die and there's nothing you can do about it, you free yourself up to live your life and enjoy it. Good Charlotte have been thinking about things like this a lot recently. SO much so that they've named their forthcoming third album 'The Chronicles Of Life and Death'. At New York's picture Ray Studios, Kerrang's cover shoot marks the start of a long and gruelling schedule of promotion for the follow-up to 2002's four-million worldwide selling album, 'The Young And The Hopeless' for Benji and bandmates brother/vocalist Joel Madden, guitarist Billy Martin, bassist Paul Thomas and drummer Chris Wilson. This studio was where the band did the shoot for the cover of their first, self titled album in 1999. That must seem like a lifetime ago. The dream they had when that first album was released has become a reality. A lot has changed for these five friends since then. You could be forgiven for thinking there's something trite about a band talking about 'growing up'. How many times have you tried to read and interview with a rock star dribbling on about a new album marketing their new-found maturity, that their new sound simply comes from them growing up? Pop-punk contemporaries Blink 182 and New Found Glory spring to mind as the most recent offenders. But people do grow up. They change and they evolve and that has had a knock on effect on what they do. IT's a fact of life. Perhaps we just don't like being reminded that our favourite rock stars are just like us. OVER THE last 2 years, Good Charlotte, who formed in the small town of Waldorf, Maryland in 1996, realised that. With the twins being the band's eldest at 25, you can hardly call these guys old... but they've been in the music business long enough to be swallowed up and spat out again. More experienced, wiser, a little life-beaten and world-weary, 'The Chronicles of Life And Death' sees a new Good Charlotte emerging. They are not only armed with their finest album to date and one that will shut the mouths of those who wrote them off as a joke band, but also with a new perspective on, well, just about everything. One that signifies the start of a new chapter in the life and times of Good Charlotte. So, are you sitting confortably?
