I Just Wanna Live

Infobox Single
Name = I Just Wanna Live


Artist = Good Charlotte
from Album = The Chronicles of Life and Death
Released = November 15, 2004
Format = CD single
2x7 vinyls
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Recorded =
Genre = Pop rock
Rap Rock
Length = 2:46
Label = Epic
Writer =
Producer = Jay Orpin, Eric Valentine
Last single = "Predictable"
(2004)
This single = "I Just Wanna Live"
(2005)
Next single = "The Chronicles of Life and Death"
(2005)|

"I Just Wanna Live" is the second single from Good Charlotte's third studio album, "The Chronicles of Life and Death". It was one of the songs that Sony paid radio stations to play in the 2005 payola scandal. [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1506321/20050725/index.jhtml?headlines=true]

Track listing

#"I Just Wanna Live" – 2:47
#"S.O.S." (live from Sessions@AOL) – 3:31
#"The World Is Black" (live from Sessions@AOL) – 3:15
#"I Just Wanna Live" (video) – 3:16

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Trivia

*The song references the band's breakthrough hit, "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous".
*The song Good Charlotte play in the bar at the start of the video is "Mountain", another song on the album "The Chronicles of Life and Death".
*Reference is made to the Paris Hilton sex tape, "1 Night in Paris".
*The video pokes fun at Ashlee Simpson's "Saturday Night Live" lipsynching disaster, with Joel Madden "forgetting" the words to the song, parodying the dance Simpson did, and the magazine covers claiming Madden was sick at the time.
*It was the last video Chris Wilson shot with Good Charlotte. He left the band several months later for "personal health reasons".
*The song is featured in the Xbox video game "Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 3".
*The song is featured in the Gamecube video game "Donkey Konga 2".

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