This song is Good Charlotte's anthem for all the kids like them who didn't conform. Instead of studying hard, going to college and getting sensible jobs, they went off the path and pursued their passion to make music. This comes with great risk, as the 9-5ers of the world will declare you losers and doubt you. Good Charlotte is there with this song to give you the confidence to do your own thing.
"The Anthem" was written by Good Charlotte's leaders, the twin brothers Joel and Benji Madden, along with John Feldmann from the group Goldfinger. The Madden twins were only 23 when the song was released, so adult ridicule was still fresh in their minds.
Joel Madden described "The Anthem" to Sorted magazine as "a song about not living the way that you're supposed to live. Like I guess that in America everybody kinda looks at, to be successful you gotta go to college, get a job, a house, two cars, a wife and some kids. That's the American Dream or whatever. It's like, well, I could never go to college or whatever. I'm kinda proud of being looked down on because we've made something happen. We didn't have the most opportunities growing up." Guitarist Billy Martin added: "To us, it's a song saying that whatever goal you have, try and reach it."
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