Little Things

Joel and Benji Madden wrote this about their high school experience with girlfriends and popular kids.

The music video, directed by Nigel Dick, follows the band as they run amok in a high school, taking over the loudspeaker and springing kids from class to watch them perform. It was shot at Lorne Park Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and also featured a cameo appearance by actress/singer Mandy Moore. The clip was part of a package to present Good Charlotte as the next big pop band - a plan that didn't quite work. Joel told Alter the Press: "We put out this shiny single 'Little Things' with a shiny video with a big video director and they had pushed us in this shiny poppy kind of direction... and us being so young, we kind of went with it. At the time, we didn't know what we were even doing. We were from a small town and hadn't really been out in the world. When that didn't work, the label [Sony] just left us to it."

Before it officially became the band's debut single promoting their first album, the song was a local hit in Philadelphia when radio stations picked up the demo after the band was in town performing with the ska-punk Save Ferris in 1999. Its popularity attracted the attention of record labels, including Sony's Epic Records, who would sign the band shortly after.