"Hold On" is an anti-suicide song that talks about coping with life; Joel Madden wrote it after receiving letters from fans, who said the band helped them through difficult periods of their lives. "Say Anything" originated in 1999 under the name "Time After Time", when it had a different set of lyrics. "Emotionless" was written about the realization the Madden brothers would not talk to their father again. Madden said; "We have to come to our own kind of closure. It’s kind of a song we wrote for ourselves". During the group's appearance on 2002 Warped Tour, The Used were aware Good Charlotte needed a drummer and introduced them to Chris Wilson. Shortly after this, Wilson became the group's drummer. In July 2002, the group filmed a video for "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous"; it was directed by Bill Fishman and features appearances from 'NSYNC vocalist Chris Kirkpatrick, Tenacious D guitarist Kyle Gass, and Minutemen bassist Mike Watt. In the video, the group perform inside a mansion, before police surround the building. The band are arrested and appear in a courtroom. The song was released to modern rock radio on August 13 that year and was released as a CD single on September 9. It includes the tracks "Cemetery", "The Click" and an acoustic version of "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" as B-sides. "The Young and the Hopeless" was released on October 1, 2002, through Epic and Daylight Records. The music video for "The Anthem" premiered on MTV's "Total Request Live" on January 15, 2003; it was directed by duo Smith N' Borin and was filmed in Huntington Beach, California, in December 2002 over a 16-hour period. The clip depicts the group riding down a street on lowrider bikes with cameras fixed to the bikes' handlebars and shows the band members partying with their friends. Members of New Found Glory, Mest, and Home Grown appear during the video. On February 28, 2003, "The Anthem" was released as a single. The CD single includes acoustic versions of "Riot Girl", "The Young & the Hopeless", and "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" as B-sides. "The Young and the Hopeless" was released in the UK in February. The group filmed a video for "Girls & Boys" with Smith N' Borin during a two-day break in New Zealand later that year.