For many times in the past now, we’ve been able to see Simple Plan perform their first single from Get Your Heart On! – Jet Lag – on stage with many different female singers from all around the world, even though the singers of the original versions were Natasha Bedingfield (in English) and Marie-Mai (in French).

But this time around, the tables have turned. Marie-Mai’s career started in 2003 when she was in the singing competition called Star Academie, and a couple days ago she has returned there – only this time as a guest, performing a few of her biggest hits – including Jet Lag. But as the guys from Simple Plan are not all in Canada right now, she got some help with the male vocals from one of the contestants.

You can check out their performance below:

Simple Plan really are doing well with Get Your Heart On! Not only is their latest single Summer Paradise topping the Australian music charts, their first official single off their latest record – Jet Lag – has just received a nomination on the annual Canadian Radio Music Awards in the “Song Of The Year” category!

Simple Plan’s Jet Lag will be competing against Alyssa Reid’s “Alone Again”, Martin Solveig & Dragonette’s “Hello”, Kristina Maria’s “Let’s Play” and Fefe Dobson’s “Stuttering”. The awards will be presented during a gala luncheon at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel on March 23rd as part of Canadian Music Week. Unfortunately, due to their busy schedule and a tour in Europe at that time, the boys won’t be able to attend this ceremony. Good luck boys and may the odds be ever in your favor!

It has already become sort of a tradition for Simple Plan to whenever they have the chance (and Marie-Mai or Natashu Bedingfield are not around), they always try to find a female singer to perform Jet Lag with them on the show they are scheduled to play. And last night’s New Year’s show at Niagara Falls was no exception: Simple Plan were accompanied by a Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk.

If this name doesn’t ring any bell to you, you may have heard at least about her songwriting skills: in her career, Chantal has written (or co-written) for a huge number of musical artists: from Avril Lavigne (He Wasn’t) to Gwen Stefani (Rich Girl). She is also married to the lead singer of the band Our Lady Peace (Raine Maida), that also performed at this event.

Make sure to check out the gallery for the first pictures of Chantal on stage with the members of Simple Plan.

Another collaboration which Simple Plan came up with for their song Jet Lag is the previously mentioned Indonesian band called Kotak that will be opening for Simple Plan on their two shows in Indonesia in January. Just like we saw it happen with the Chinese version of Jet Lag (feat. Kelly Cha), also this one has been released as a music video, including added scenes to the original recording directed by Frank Borin. This time, the song is in English with the little change from the original version that the music video does not only feature the female lead singer, but the whole band Kotak which consists of 2 women and 1 man. This way we can also interpret the music video as Pierre missing (and being missed by) a threesome of people :)

How do you like this version, when you compare it with the other ones?

Ever since the beginning, Jet Lag has been considered to be a very universal song. At first it was written only for two language versions: English and French – but as it turns out, it may spread to even more versions than we thought was possible. Do you remember last August when Simple Plan were headed to China to play a few shows, yet the concerts had to be cancelled due to Pierre’s swollen vocal chords? That’s where the Simple Plan were scheduled to perform Jet Lag live with a local singer called Kelly Cha, who sings her part in Chinese – and even the official music video was supplemented by new takes including this female singer. So this suprising duet has been post-poned till Simple Plan come back to China again – which is in January, when we can expect Kelly Cha to appear on stage with Simple Plan, performing Jet Lag together.

Below you can finally check out the new version of Jet Lag – feat. Kelly Cha:

What are your thoughts on this version? Which of the three language versions is you favourite? Who would you reccomend Simple Plan to do a duet with in your country (and in your language)?

Here is exclusively the official artwork of the new Summer Paradise single, that is being promoted in Australia (thanks a lot to Marly). This is the 3rd official single off Simple Plan’s album Get Your Heart On! How do you like it?