From the Good Charlotte blog :

We had a very strange End to 2009. We went in the studio for over 2 months recording a record we scrapped. We lost A DEAR DEAR Friend. I kind of lost my mind. For a moment. Such is life though right? What you do with these situations, thats where YOU decide what your gonna make of yourself right? Right...

So here we are. We decided we are the Luckiest Guys in the world to get to live our dreams like this. Getting to be creative everyday and make music...

When we got back from the last trip to Australia, we had pretty much finished recording the record. I went into the studio to hear some roughs and it just wasn't right. I couldn't figure it out. i was so lost. I love the songs, i love the lyrics, so what was the problem. i was just so bewildered. devastated actually. this had never happened. i felt crazy...

I told our manager to just PAUSE everything and i need time to think. i called all the boys immediately and called an emergency meeting. everyone sat down. and i just said "Guys, we gotta start over"

i was expecting everyone to freak on me and say "What?!" but Billy was the 1st to speak, and right away he said "I knew you were gonna say That, my gut is telling me the same thing" lets do it. Everyone agreed. While we were working with one of the most successful, biggest producers in the Business, all he seemed to focus on was "Commercial Success" of the record and all everyone seemed to talk about was the RADIO...

SO we are gonna keep working on this record and we are going to try and step up our communication, VIA this Blog.

tl;dr here. benji goes on and on and on

posted by GossipGander \\ tags: cd and dvd releases, joel / benji madden