Watch Good Charlotte perform Rejects on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

It’s been a big week for Good Charlotte. Fresh from the release of their new single, the band hit Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (June 25) to perform Rejects.

Sounding absolutely killer from the late-night TV studios in Hollywood, the band kicked off their new era to celebrate the announcement of their eighth album Motel Du Cap. The pop-punk icons – Joel Madden (vocals), Benji Madden (guitar, vocals), Paul Thomas (bass) and Billy Martin (guitar, keyboards) – will drop the record on August 8 via Atlantic, with Joel explaining that it was inspired by “pure, unfiltered connection”.

Speaking with Rolling Stone, Benji said of Rejects and the general vibe of Good Charlotte in 2025: “Now, when we write we only set out to do one thing: express ourselves. We don’t premeditate any songs. We write a stream of consciousness. It’s something we kind of learned over the years as we thought back to when we made our first couple of records.

“We came all the way around to what was the best thing for us, which is just to let our feelings out and not try to control it too much. You don’t need to write 50 songs for a record; you need to write 12. Whatever came out in that moment is the whole portrait. We made this record completely unconsciously. We didn’t meditate, we made it. We just said, ‘We need to get some things out,’ and we hit record.”

Check out GC on Jimmy Kimmel Live! below:

Read this next:

• The 11 most underrated pop-punk bangers of the ’00s
• Keep it in the family: 23 bands whose members are related
• 14 of the saddest pop-punk songs of all time