"Good Times" is a song recorded by the American rock band All Time Low for their seventh studio album, Last Young Renegade (2017). It was released as the fourth and final promotional track on May 31, 2017, and later serviced to American adult radio on June 26, 2017, through Fueled by Ramen as the second and final official single from the album.
Background: "Good Times" was the first song written for Last Young Renegade, composed shortly after the April 2015 release of the band's previous album, Future Hearts. Lead singer Alex Gaskarth co-wrote the song with its producers, Andrew Goldstein and Dan Book. The band described the song as being "about looking back on all the things that made you who you are." Guitarist Jack Barakat called it the "best song" Gaskarth had "ever written." The nostalgic theme of the track reportedly "set the tone for the entire Last Young Renegade album."
Genre and Length: The song is classified as pop rock and has a length of 3 minutes and 45 seconds.
Commercial Performance: "Good Times" debuted at number 37 on the Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart dated July 29, 2017, marking the band's first entry on that chart. It eventually peaked at number 13, becoming the band's highest-ranking single on any American pop-based airplay chart.
Critical Reception: Critical reception was mixed. Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic called the song "peppy" and compared it favorably to the work of The All-American Rejects and 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." Sophie Trenear of The Edge similarly described the song as offering "a wave of crassly-forged nostalgia set to the beat of something resembling accessible."
Charts: The song peaked at number 13 on the US Adult Pop Airplay (Billboard) chart.
