rock
Rock most often refers to:
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band
All Time Low
All Time Low is an American rock band from Towson, Maryland, formed in 2003. Consisting of lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Alex Gaskarth, lead guitarist Jack Barakat, bassist/backing vocalist Zack Merrick, and drummer Rian Dawson, the band to ...
for their seventh studio album, ''
Last Young Renegade
''Last Young Renegade'' is the seventh studio album by American pop-punk band All Time Low. It was released on June 2, 2017, and is their first release with Fueled by Ramen. The lead single, "Dirty Laundry", premiered on BBC Radio 1 on February 1 ...
'' (2017). Lead singer
Alex Gaskarth
Alexander William Gaskarth (born 14 December 1987) is an English-born American singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter for the American rock band All Time Low since its formation in 2 ...
co-wrote the song with its producers,
Andrew Goldstein
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and
Dan Book
Daniel Book (born July 20, 1983) is a platinum-selling, BMI Award-winning producer and songwriter, originally from Baltimore, Maryland. After moving to Los Angeles, he has racked up an impressive discography with notable label artists as well as ...
. The song was first released to digital retailers on May 31, 2017 as the fourth and final promotional track before the album's release. "Good Times" was serviced to American adult radio on June 26, 2017 through
Fueled by Ramen
Fueled by Ramen LLC is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by 300 Elektra Entertainment. The label, founded in Gainesville, Florida in 1996, is now based in New York City.
History
John Janick conceived of the l ...
as the second and final official
single
Single may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Single (music), a song release
Songs
* "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004
* "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song), 2008
* "Single" (William Wei song), 2016
* "Single", by ...
from ''Last Young Renegade''.
Background
"Good Times" was the first song written for the album, being composed shortly after the April 2015 release of their previous record, ''
Future Hearts
''Future Hearts'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band All Time Low, released April 3, 2015 Its nostalgic theme "set the tone for the entire 'Last Young Renegade''album," according to a post on the group's official
Twitter
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account. The band told iHeartRadio that the song is "about looking back on all the things that made you who you are." Guitarist Jack Barakat called "Good Times" the "best song" Gaskarth has "ever written," while drummer Rian Dawson remembers "being so excited about the new album because we were off to a great start," with the track.
Commercial performance
"Good Times" debuted at number 37 on the ''Billboard''
Adult Pop Songs
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chart dated July 29, 2017. This earned the group their first entry on the chart, and highest ranking on any American pop-based airplay chart after " I Feel Like Dancin'" reached number 39 on the
Pop Songs
Pop Airplay (also called Mainstream Top 40, Pop Songs, and Top 40/ CHR) is a 40-song music chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' Magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the Un ...
chart in 2011. The song has since peaked at number 13.
Critical reception
Neil Z. Yeung of
AllMusic
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called the song "peppy" and compared it favorably to the work of contemporaries
The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects is an American rock band from Stillwater, Oklahoma, formed in 1999.Plain White T's. Scott Heisel of ''Paste'' was more critical, writing that "Good Times" is "a bit of a slog, trying too hard to be anthemic." In a similar vein, Sophie Trenear of ''
The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known as the Edge or simply Edge,McCormick (2006), pp. 21, 23–24 is an English-born Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing voca ...
'' wrote that "Good Times" and album track "Ground Control" both "offer something of a wave of crassly-forged nostalgia set to the beat of something resembling accessible."