relate to it. "Girls & Boys" was written after an evening during which the Madden brothers tried to enter a club but were twice turned away. They were allowed into a third club; according to Benji Madden, they were "just kids without a lot of experience, just kind of observing what was going on". He discovered the "dynamic of certain types of people with different agendas ... to be amusing". They wrote the song the following day. "My Bloody Valentine" is about a man who kills the boyfriend of the woman he has a crush for. "Hold On" is an anti-suicide song that talks about coping with life; Joel Madden wrote it after receiving letters from fans, who said the band helped them through difficult periods of their lives. "Riot Girl" evokes the work of Rancid. "Say Anything" is a string-laden ballad that originated in 1999 under the name "Time After Time", when it had a different set of lyrics. "The Day That I Die" discusses a person's final days, while "Emotionless" was written about the realization the Madden brothers would not talk to their father again. Madden said of the latter; "We have to come to our own kind of closure. It’s kind of a song we wrote for ourselves". Release During Good Charlotte's appearance on 2002 Warped Tour, Autopilot Off's Phil Robinson was filling in as Good Charlotte's temporary drummer; the Used, who were aware Good Charlotte needed a drummer, introduced them to Chris Wilson. Shortly after this, Wilson became the group's drummer. In July 2002, the group filmed a video for "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous"; it was directed by Bill Fishman and features appearances from 'NSYNC vocalist Chris Kirkpatrick, Tenacious D guitarist Kyle Gass, and Minutemen bassist Mike Watt. In the video, the group perform inside a mansion, before police surround the building. The band are arrested and appear in a courtroom. The song was released to modern rock radio on August 13 that year and was released as a CD single on September 9. It includes the tracks "Cemetery", "The Click" and an acoustic version of "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" as B-sides. The Young and the Hopeless was released on October 1, 2002, through Epic and Daylight Records. The music video for "The Anthem" premiered on MTV's Total Request Live on January 15, 2003; it was directed by duo Smith N' Borin