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Thursday 15 March 2007

"The River" by Good Charlotte

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Adam Malcontenti-Wilson said...

"The River" is a song by the pop punk band Good Charlotte featuring Synyster Gates and M. Shadows of the band Avenged Sevenfold. The song was the first single off of the Good Morning Revival album in North America and the second single throughout the rest of the world. The band's episodes of GCTV, in which the band uploads a video to their website of behind the scenes in the recording studio, photo shoots, etc, feature different songs from the Good Morning Revival album. On December 8, 2006, the second episode was released on Good Charlotte's website. "The River" was featured in the video and can be heard playing in the background. On January 23, 2007, the third episode of GCTV was put up, containing footage of the making of the video.

The song was premiered January 4th, 2007, on their official website, and via the band's myspace.

A music video for the song was shot in mid December, 2006, in Los Angeles, California with director Marc Webb who has done the Motivation Proclamation and Festival Song videos for the band before. It features Good Charlotte performing alongside the concrete L.A. river bank that runs through the city, contrasted with classic images of the beauty and history of Los Angeles. The video clip shows the two sides of L.A., the excitement and glamour of L.A. that the band witnessed early on in their career and then the deeper/darker hidden side of L.A. that people and the band saw after living there for years. MySpace celebrity Jeffree Star, is featured in the background throughout the video.

There are two different videos for the song, one including M. Shadows and Synyster Gates, the other video is the version of the song without the members of Avenged Sevenfold featuring in it. On GCTV Episode 3 it shows the video shoot of "The River". The video featuring M. Shadows and Synyster Gates premiered on MTV on February 7th, 2007.

The original version of the video, that does not feature Avenged Sevenfold's guitarist Synyster Gates and vocalist M. Shadows was briefly shown on TRL, but the shortened clip made it's way onto Youtube

The music video for "The River" was added to United Kingdom music channels Kerrang! and Scuzz on 13th April 2007, indicating that it will be the second single in the UK from Good Charlotte and it will be released on 21st May 2007.