It didn’t take long and after Friday’s announcement by Simple Plan about an exciting new music project being released on November 5th, the band revealed today that the project will in fact be their brand new single – a song titled “The Antidote”. On Instagram, Chuck confirmed that this song will be the first song off the new record.
The band is extremely stoked to have new music out next week. Check out what the band and Chuck himself wrote about the new release below:
“It’s been a long, long time coming and we couldn’t be more ecstatic to finally announce that our new song, “The Antidote”, is coming out on November 5th! We’re so excited for you to hear it and can’t wait to know what you think. You can pre-save it now at the link in our bio!
Thank you all for being so patient and always supporting us. It means the world to us and we’re so grateful. We’ve got tons of exciting news coming, so get ready! We’re only getting started. Let’s go!” 🤘⚡️🤘
“Feeling pretty emotional today to finally announce that we have a new song coming!!! 🤘⚡️🤘 It’s called “The Antidote” and it will be out on November 5th! You have no idea how good it feels to be able to share this news with you. I couldn’t be happier and more excited! So much more is coming…Let’s go!! 👊👊👊 You can pre-save now at the link in my bio. Thank you for your patience and I hope you enjoy the new music! 🙏🙏🙏
Below you can also check out the full version of the artwork for the new single in high quality:
To make sure you get “The Antidote” saved into your favorite music streaming library – such as Spotify or Apple Music – right on the release date, make sure to pre-save it below. Are you excited about “The Antidote”?
It took over a year and a half, dozens of canceled shows and lots of nerves but finally, after all that the covid pandemic has brought, Simple Plan were finally able to once again step on the stage for the first time in forever – at Riot Fest in Chicago, IL yesterday, September 19th 2021.
Many fans have been wondering how come Simple Plan have canceled their appearance at the Pop Punk’s Still Not Dead tour with New Found Glory, yet they still decided to go ahead and perform at such a huge festival. The answer is simple – the danger of any of the crew contracting COVID-19 (and therefore endangering the cancelation of more dates) is way smaller at one outdoor festival than it would have been at a month-long tour, where they would have likely interacted with a lot more people in much smaller and enclosed spaces for a much longer time.
But let’s get going with the Riot Fest recap, yeah? The band kicked off their set at 5:30pm local Chicago time and what did the setlist looked like:
1. I’d Do Anything
2. Shut Up!
3. Jump
4. Addicted
5. Boom!
6. Your Love Is A Lie
7. Welcome To My Life
8. Jet Lag
9. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You
10. Crazy
11. Where I Belong
12. What’s New Scooby Doo?
13. I’m Just A Kid
14. Perfect
And do we have any first-hand scoops from the show? Of course we do! Our long-time reader May was there and she let us know that Pierre mentioned on the stage that the band will be releasing “new stuff in a few weeks” – turning the band’s “soon” into something slightly more concrete and less vague. According to May, Pierre did not specify whether that meant new song or new album, but we can definitely count on the word “music”.
In our gallery you can finally have a look at some of the first photos posted on Simple Plan’s official accounts from their appearance at Riot Fest:
And finally, get a glimpse at what being at a Simple Plan show in 2021 is like and check out this video capturing the band performing I’m Just A Kid at Riot Fest yesterday. Enjoy:
It’s official: yesterday, July 25th 2019, Simple Plan finally moved on from the song-writing stage and officially began the recording their 6th studio album.
Jeff Stinco confirmed this information on his Instagram yesterday, by posting a picture of him with some of his music equipment. As far as what studio SP decided to use for this recording session, we can only guess from Jeff’s geotagging of his studio picture, which says “North Hollywood, California”. Hopefully quite soon we should be getting some more information about where exactly the guys are recording their new album as well as with who.
You can check out the full picture Jeff posted in our gallery, where we’ve already dedicated a whole album to all future photo updates from the studio.
We’re really excited about all the upcoming updates: more info about the new music, more photos and hopefully the guys will get back into their old vlogging habits. Stay tuned!
To keep track of Simple Plan’s progress on their new album and make sure you don’t miss any important news about it, keep checking our special section about the 6th album for everything we know about it so far!
Our colleagues over at SPB made quite the discovery recently, as they uncovered some never seen before sketches and rejected illustrations for what later on became the artwork behind the GYHO era. You will sure find some of the illustrations familiar from the Get Your Heart On! album, as well as from it’s sidekick EP (Get Your Heart On! – The Second Coming) and various other places, such as merch, website, etc.
There illustrations were created by Simple Plan’s graphic designer Fred Jerome and illustrator Simon Mallette St-Pierre and the rejected ones include depictions of a tour bus, a dragon, a dog, a heartbroken devil and many many more. Check out over 20 images filled with these excellent drawings in our gallery:
It is no secret that Marie-Mai wasn’t Simple Plan’s first choice when it came to the final decision about which female singer would be featured on the French version of Simple Plan’s song ‘Jet Lag’. While the English version had Natasha Bedingfield, Simple Plan also wanted to release a French version of the song for the French-speaking countries, such as Canada or France and needed the perfect voice for the part.
Canadian singer Coeur de Pirate (real name Béatrice Martin), who co-wrote the song with Chuck Comeau and Pierre Bouvier was actually the band’s first choice. But why exactly did the version with her not make it to the official French single and Simple Plan went with Marie-Mai instead? Coeur de Pirate explained it in a recent interview for the Dutch website Artiesten Nieuws [thanks Susan for the translation]:
“[Simple Plan] wanted to release the single around the time my own album ‘Blonde’ was supposed to come out and it wasn’t exactly planned like that originally. After a small discussion, I finally said ‘ok whatever’ and then someone else got chosen.
This is not the first time an artist worked on a song with Simple Plan, but his version wasn’t eventually used as a single. On the same album – Get Your Heart On! – fans can find the version of Summer Paradise that features Canadian-Somali rapper K’Naan. When it came to the time when Summer Paradise was supposed to be released (ahead of summer 2012), K’Naan’s record company realized it would collide with the release of K’Naan’s own new single, which led to Simple Plan having to re-record the song with a different artist. That artist being Sean Paul. Ironically for K’Naan – Sean Paul’s version of the song became of one Simple Plan’s greatest hits to date. A version of the song that isn’t even featured in the official tracklist of the fourth album.
Of course, over time, similarly to Summer Paradise, we also got to hear plenty of versions of Jet Lag, as Simple Plan like to perform this song with whichever female artist is around when they are performing [read more about all the female singers who were featured on Jet Lag over the years in this section]. Coeur de Pirate got to perform the song live with Simple Plan at the Simple Plan Foundation benefit event in 2013 [watch it here] and the recorded version of Jet Lag feat. Coeaur de Pirate also already made its way on the Internet. So in case you haven’t heard it yet, check it out below:
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