American rock band Good Charlotte faced "a lot of criticism from all sides" and felt out of place in the current pop scene and the pop punk genre they had come from, the members internalised this while they made the album.
Despite receiving favorable reviews, the album undersold expectations, charting at number 185 on the Billboard 200. The Young and the Hopeless received generally mixed reviews from music critics, who made comments about the songs' cliched lyrics. The band released Youth Authority to positive reviews in 2016, and in 2018 they released their latest album, Generation Rx. 
