Album: The Young And The Hopeless (2002)

Charted: 8 20

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• Always see it on T.V.
  Or read in a magazines
  Celebrities want sympathy
  All they do is piss and moan
  Inside the rolling stone
  Talkin' about how hard life can be
  
  I'd like to see them spend a week
  Livin' life out on the street
  I don't think they would survive
  If they could spend a day or two
  Walking in someone else's shoes
  I think they'd stumble and they fall
  (they would fall, fall)
  
  Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
  They're always complainin'
  Always complainin'
  If money is such a problem
  Well they got mansions
  Think we should rob them
  
  Well did you know when you were famous you could kill your wife
  And there's no such thing as 25 to life
  As long as you've got the cash, to pay for Cochran
  And did you know if you were caught and you were smokin' crack
  McDonalds wouldn't even want to take you back
  You could always just run for mayor of D.C.
  
  I'd like to see them spend a week
  Livin' life out on the street
  I don't think they would survive
  If they could spend a day or two
  Walking in someone else's shoes
  I think they'd stumble and they fall
  They would fall
  
  Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
  They're always complainin'
  Always complainin'
  If money is such a problem
  Well they got mansions
  Think we should rob them (rob them)
  (They would fall, they would fall)
  
  Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
  They're always complainin'
  Always complainin'
  If money is such a problem
  You got so many problems
  Think I could solve them
  
  Lifestyles of the rich and famous
  We'll take your clothes, cash, cars, and homes just stop complainin'
  Lifestyles of the rich and famous
  Lifestyles of the rich and famous
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Comments: 39

• Jennifer from Moline, IlI like this song a lot because it's true! And yeah they r rich and famous but that dusint mean they can't still write a song about it!!
• Jacob from Chicago, Ilthis one their awsome songs and since they are rich and famos they know what they are talking about
• AnonymousOK this song ROCKS! they maybe rich and famous themselves but they know what it feels like to watch some twit like paris hilton say "my lifes sooo hard" and shes drivin a nice car and is wearing dimonds. SO dont bag on them bout that. oh and its true what they sing. If they were to live in a smalltown and try to get by on almost nothing they would fall.
• Brittany from Townsville, AustraliaLike Ashley and Madison, yeah it dosen't sound like Good Charlotte it's more emo then befor, it's more Linkin Park and Fall Out Boy and Simple Plan, it just aint Good Charlotte. WHERE HAS THE OLD GOOD CHARLOTTE GONE!!!. YEAH why make a song called 'Lifestyles Of the Rich and Famous" when they are rich and famous (with a little bit of help this song). But I still love this song.♫♪♫♪
• Hannah from Madison, WiI think it's really hypocritical that Good Charlotte could chastise those who are "rich and famous" when they sold their souls (and any musical talent they may have had)to become rich and famous.
• Ashley from Newton, Ksgood charlotte rocks!!...personally though...i like the "older" good charlotte, their new stuff doesnt sound like them at all.
• Madison from Blackwell, Okgood charlotte rocks!!...personally though...i like the "older" good charlotte, their new stuff doesnt sound like them at all..more like green day or sumthin..
• Jordan from --, Inlove the song. it is ironic but still, they have a point. most famous people like paris hilton think that they're better than everyone else.
• Hannah from Maple Grove, Mnthe MV for this song is hilarious!!!!
• Jorge from Codoba, South Americafor once someones lyrics that come fromt he new millenium have some truth, two thumbs up for idea, the rest all sucks
• Rebka from Crapville, WyThis song is very true!!! It's also funny how GC is a famous band, and they sing this song. I think they're making fun of themselves as well as the whole hollywood scene. I hate most celebrities. They think just because their plastic face is on a magazine, that they are better than any other person. I love this song!!
• Melissa from Toledo, OhI agree with Lauren from pa, y come on a site of a band you hate to put them down. Why would you come on the site just to say they sold out or that u hate them... I don't get it.
• Maria from Nowhere, OtherI think Rach from England has a good point!
  "Does it matter what genre they r in anyway? Its the music that counts!"
  its impossible for everyone to agree on one genre that they are in, i mean, people that listen to britney probably think they're hardcore, people that listen to metallica probably think they're pop and someone else might think they're country... lol :P
  theres no point in arguing about it...
• Sandra from Detroit, MiGood Charlotte is a good band and I enjoy them, just wish they hadn't kind of sold out on Chronicles of Life and Death. But Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was their first song I heard, and I liked it
• Lauren from Prospectpark, Pai love this song along with GC. and all you GC haters, why do you bother to look up their songs just too say you hate them. doesn't make sense to me.
• Tony from Bolingbrook, IlI agree with you Rabi from Zionsville in I think it is nuts that they would do that
  I think it is odd that they would even say something bad about rich and famous ppl
• Rach from Norfolk, Englandyeah Avril aint punk! Gc have never said they are punk either so waht u going on bout? GC r a pop-punk band! No one called them punk!
  For goodness sake grow up! Does it matter what genre they r in anyway? Its the music that counts!
• Rach from Norfolk, EnglandGC wrote this song after there first album! It did ok but not nough to get them rich and famous, so don't start saying tha they how ironic it is!
  They had had the chance to meet rich people and they didn't like what they saw! These rich and famous perople were complaining about being famous. This upset the gc guys cos they would have willing taken their place.
  Good Charlotte rock and i'm a proud fan!
• Christa from Makati, OtherThis song is very true. If you don't think that, read newspapers, watch television, etc...
• Matt from Millbrae, Cai think emma mite like good charlotte...just a hunch...
• Renee from Sydney, AustraliaI can see how people might hate GC, but those people can't see two feet in front of them.
• Renee from Sydney, AustraliaI think certain people should just give GC a break. They wouldn't have made a band if they didn't love doing it, and they only do it for the fans, cause if they had no fans they couldn't anyways. These songs are just about what the band have noticed in life, and since everybody lives, that's what they sing about.Give them a break cause GC rox!!!!!!
• Rach from Norfolk, EnglandGood Charlotte wrote this song after releasing their first album, which rocks. They ahd had the chance to hang out with celebraties and they were dissappointed. All the celebrities seemed to do was moan. At this time GC just wanted to be a successful band. They couldn't understand why these people were moaning. They had achieved their goals, GC still hadn't achieved their goals. All they wanted to do was to play muic, tour and make a differance to peoples lifes. Gc do complain about things, doesn't everybody, but they never complain about their fans, they love talking to the fans, they occassionly complain when the press print rumours about them, wouldn't you?
  GC relaise that they can only be in a band because of the fans so they see the fans as the main players in the band. Other celebrities seem to have forgtton this.
  
• Amanda Couch from Manhattan, Ksthe band GC is original. They have their own style and they do what they do for the fun of doing it and not for the money. I dont care what all you haters say Im proud to say...
  
  "I LOVE GOOD CHARLOTTE".
• Matt from Millbrae, CaOriginal??? Good Charlotte (and almost every other poor excusefor a band today)rips off the styles of great bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. God won't you people learn that the only rock bands today worth listening to are Green Day, Velvet Revolver, Nickelback, Switchfoot, the Vines, and the White Stripes?
• Chase from Pasadena, CaI do not know any non-white kids who like this song.
  
  Terrible.
• Jeremy from Charlottetown, CanadaGC is the most original band ever. Ive never heard punk artists rip conformity and write lyrics about feeling alone. Like i said, soooooo original.
• Rob from Castaic, Cathese guys are pathetic. any magazine with gc in it and they're complaining. i read a blender magazine in the dentists office and guess what, they were complaining about being hated. i hate them because they get decked out in tatoos and studs and look like tough punkers even though they're as poppish as can be. and now that emo seems to be in style in the music world, they seem to have gone completely emogoth... come on people, these guys are sellouts and really just pathetic
• Brooke from Armagh, PaFirst of all i would like to say that GC's first album was a lot better. It kind of sucks that they went totally mainstream, but im not like all the other fans who would desert them after they get famous. FIRST GC ALBUM ROCKED!! :)
• Naomi from Oswestry, Englandlifestyles of the rich and famous rocks,gc have talent
• Amber from Birmingham, AlThey did not write the song to get rich and famous. They just do what they love
• Kathryn from Wiltshire, EnglandThey didn't write this song to get rich and famous. They're more interested in writing songs for their fans and performing live. Love this song!
• Alex from St Louis, Moits an awesome song but totally ironic
• Gabe from Utica, NyI don't think there can be any other song talking about celebrities in general in a better way. This song is awesome!
• Will from Portland, OrThats as ironic as "New kids from the Block" naming their album "hangin' tough"
• Will from Portland, OrHow can thesse guys sell out if they started out playing pop music anyways?
  
  How ironic that they sing about lifestyles of the rich and famous, seeing that they are rich and famous. And they probably piss and moan in the rolling stone
• Levy from Starkweather, NdThey wrote that song before they sold out.......
• Bobby from Salmon, Idi liked the song
• Rabi from Zionsville, InI fnid it odd that GC wrote a song complaining about rich and famous ppl when this song was written to get rich and famous.

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