The Good Times and the Bad Ones

"Fallin' (Adrenaline)" was released as the lead single from the album on September 29, 2020.{{cite tweet|url=https://twitter.com/whydontwemusic/status/1306593945187577861|title=FALLIN'. OUR NEW SINGLE. OUT 9/29...|user=whydontwemusic|number=1306593945187577861|date=September 17, 2020|accessdate=September 17, 2020}} The song peaked at number thirty-seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/why-dont-we/chart-history/hsi/|title=Why Don't We – Chart History: The Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=October 13, 2020}} "Lotus Inn" was released as the second single from the album on December 4, 2020.{{cite tweet|title=12/4/20|user=whydontwemusic|number=1334226223916937217|date=December 2, 2020|accessdate=December 2, 2020}} "Slow Down" was released as the third single from the album on December 18, 2020, it also contains an interpolation from the guitar riff of 1979 By The Smashing Pumpkins.{{cite tweet|title=this song happened so fast that I think we just need to slow down tonight... come hang with us live on youtube tonight at 7:30pm PT before we premiere the music video for slow down. https://WhyDontWe.lnk.to/SlowDownLivestownLivestream|user=whydontwemusic|number=1339684651045044226|date=December 17, 2020|accessdate=December 18, 2020}}

Sara London of RIFF Magazine gave the album a mixed review, writing that "they've got a long way to go to cultivate a voice of their own" and that "it seems more like they're siphoning the aura of others rather than creating their own" while also adding that "there are five singers and it's difficult to tell one from the other." She ended her review by saying "even though most of the album is hot off the production line at the teenybopper pop factory, there are glints of originality in songs like "For You" and that "for the casual bubblegum pop listener, it'll suffice for a passably amusing album."{{cite web | url=https://riffmagazine.com/album-reviews/why-dont-we-good-times-and-the-bad-ones/ | title=ALBUM REVIEW: Why Don't We have some 'Good Times and the Bad Ones' on new LP | date=11 January 2021 }} Writing for Atwood Magazine, Nasya Blackshear felt that the while the album "didn't reinvent the world of pop, it did reinvent Why Don't We" and that "the album is light-hearted and an easy listen making a solid transition from tween to teen/young adult music," although she did feel that "the tracklist order feels a bit up and down."{{Cite web|url=https://atwoodmagazine.com/wdyr-why-dont-we-the-good-times-and-the-bad-ones-album-review/|title = More Than Just a Boy Band: A Track-by-Track Review of Why Don't We's 'The Good Times and the Bad Ones'|date = 19 January 2021}}

Matt Collar of AllMusic opined that the album "could use a few more uptempo songs to keep things from sounding samey" but felt that it speaks to the band's "deepening pop maturity."{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-good-times-and-the-bad-ones-mw0003450709|title=The Good Times and the Bad Ones - Why Don't We | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|website=AllMusic}}

The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 38,000 comprise album sales (making it the top-selling album of the week), 7,500 comprise SEA units (equating to 11.34 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and a little under 500 comprise TEA units.{{Cite magazine|title=Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' No. 1 for Second Week on Billboard 200|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9515712/morgan-wallen-dangerous-the-double-album-tops-billboard-200-week-two/|access-date=2021-02-09|magazine=Billboard|language=en}}

{{Track listing

| headline = The Good Times and the Bad Ones {{nobold|– Standard edition}}

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Fallin' (Adrenaline)

| writer1 = {{hlist|Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo|Corbyn Besson|Cydel Young|Daniel Seavey|Derrick Watkins|Elon Rutberg|Jonah Marais|Kanye West|Malik Jones|Michael Dean|Noah Goldstein|Sakiya Sandifer|Thomas Bangalter|Wasalu Jaco}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|Daniel Seavey|Jaycen Joshua}}

| length1 = 3:36

| title2 = Slow Down

| writer2 = {{hlist|Billy Corgan|Besson|Seavey|Marais}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|Seavey|Joshua}}

| length2 = 3:08

| title3 = Lotus Inn

| writer3 = {{hlist|Seavey|Marais}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|Seavey|Joshua}}

| length3 = 3:15

| title4 = Be Myself

| writer4 = Seavey

| extra4 = {{hlist|Seavey|Joshua}}

| length4 = 3:33

| title5 = Love Song

| writer5 = Seavey

| extra5 = {{hlist|Seavey|Joshua}}

| length5 = 2:31

| title6 = Grey

| writer6 = {{hlist|Seavey|Marais}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|Seavey|Joshua}}

| length6 = 4:37

| title7 = For You

| writer7 = {{hlist|Besson|Seavey|Marais}}

| extra7 = {{hlist|Skrillex}}

| length7 = 3:22

| title8 = I'll Be Okay

| writer8 = {{hlist|Seavey|Marais}}

| extra8 =

| length8 = 3:22

| title9 = Look At Me

| writer9 = {{hlist|Besson|Seavey|Avery|Marais}}

| extra9 =

| length9 = 1:57

| title10 = Stay

| writer10 = {{hlist|Seavey|Marais}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Timbaland}}

| length10 = 2:47

| total_length = 32:12

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese edition bonus tracks{{cite web|url=https://wmg.jp/why-dont-we/discography/23858/|title=Why Don't We / ホワイ・ドント・ウィー「The Good Times and The Bad Ones / ザ・グッド・タイムズ・アンド・ザ・バッド・ワンズ」 {{!}} Warner Music Japan|work=ワーナーミュージック・ジャパン {{!}} Warner Music Japan|access-date=January 27, 2021|language=ja-JP}}

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 43:12

| title11 = Fallin' (Adrenaline)

| note11 = Goldhouse remix

| writer11 = {{hlist|Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo|Besson|Young|Seavey|Watkins|Rutberg|Marais|Kanye West|Jones|Dean|Goldstein|Sandifer|Bangalter|Jaco}}

| extra11 = {{hlist|Seavey|Joshua}}

| length11 = 3:46

| title12 = Fallin' (Adrenaline)

| note12 = live

| writer12 = {{hlist|Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo|Besson|Young|Seavey|Watkins|Rutberg|Marais|Kanye West|Jones|Dean|Goldstein|Sandifer|Bangalter|Jaco}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|Seavey|Joshua}}

| length12 = 3:38

| title13 = Fallin' (Adrenaline)

| note13 = acoustic

| writer13 = {{hlist|Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo|Besson|Young|Seavey|Watkins|Rutberg|Marais|Kanye West|Jones|Dean|Goldstein|Sandifer|Bangalter|Jaco}}

| extra13 = {{hlist|Seavey|Joshua}}

| length13 = 3:36

}}

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