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What do you think that Simple Plan and Willy Wonka have in common? No, unfortunately Johnny Depp will not be singing the female vocal parts in the next version of the song “Jet Lag”… But Willy Wonka’s candy will be involved.

Simple Plan have teamed up with The Willy Wonka candy company for their new campaign called “Rock with Wonka”, in which the citizens of Canada can create their own lyrics to the new “chocolate” version of Simple Plan’s song “Jet Lag” (Pierre, I hope you’ll forgive me for the image on the left… it was too tempting).

The winner of the chosen lyrics will then have an exclusive chance to record the new version of “Jet Lag” with Simple Plan in a recording studio.

The beginning of the lyrics that the contestants are to finish, looks like this:

The Australian version of the singing competition show The Voice has a very impressive variety of coaches, which include Seal, Delta Goodrem (who you may remember from one of the versions of the music video for “Save You”), Keith Urban and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte. Their job is to mentor the contestants who get into their teams throughout the whole journey of the show.

One of Seal’s protégés is 26-years-old Sam Ludeman, who performed a cover version of a Simple Plan song in the last night’s episode of the song. And what other song than “Summer Paradise” it could be, when this song has already become Australia’s summer anthem, and has managed to stay at the tops of local music charts for weeks.

After Chuck from Simple Plan had heard about one of their songs being played on The Voice, he contacted Sam himself via Twitter, congratulated him on his performance and invited him and the coaches from The Voice for their upcoming concert in Sydney, Australia.

Below you can noww check out Sam Ludeman’s version of “Summer Paradise” that he performed with at The Voice yesterday (thanks to SPB.com for the link):

Thanks to our colleagues over at SPB.com you can now check out the previously mentioned “naked” version of the song Astronaut, which has appeared for the first time on the digital single of Summer Paradise, that is now available on iTunes.

What do you think about this new version? Which “Astronaut” is your favourite?

If you’ve been reading SimplePlan.cz yesterday, you are already aware, that the radio station NRJ released a French version of Simple Plan’s song Summer Paradise (featuring Sean Paul). The band itself has not yet oficially commented on this new version but most probably it’s just another way how to better promote the band’s latest single in Europe.

If you’re not very fluent in French, thanks to Sab you can now check out the complete lyrics to the French version of Summer Paradise below:

Simple Plan – Summer Paradise (feat. Sean Paul) (French version)

I gotta find my way back
Back to summer paradise
Sean Paul – Simple Plan

Mon cÅ“ur s’enfonce et je m’envole dans cet avion qui m’emmène loin de toi
Et j’ai du mal à croire qu’on se quitte
Dis-moi que c’est bien la dernière fois

Mais un jour je te retrouverai ici, mon amour, sous l’ombre des palmiers
(Stay in my name)

‘Cause I remember every sunset
I remember every words you said
Le Soleil effleurait ta peau
On chantait la la ta ta ta
Je ne pense qu’à retourner
Back to summer paradise with you
And I’ll be there in a heartbeat,
(Quick time, quick time girl) oh, oh
I’ll be there in a heartbeat,
(Quick time, quick time girl) oh, oh
(Tell ‘em)

Dehors la neige ne cèsse de tomber
Il ne manque que toi pour oublier
Je rêve au sable et à la mer
J’ai tant besoin de toi à mes cotés
(Baby girl)

De cette vie si belle
L’été dans le ciel
Main dans la main
On oublie demain

‘Cause I remember every sunset
I remember every words you said
Le Soleil effleurait ta peau
On chantait la la ta ta ta
Je ne pense qu’à retourner
Back to summer paradise with you
And I’ll be there in a heartbeat,
(Quick time, quick time girl) oh, oh
I’ll be there in a heartbeat,
(Quick time, quick time girl) oh, oh
(Tell ‘em)

The promised that we made
To about our friends
Thinking about it
Sunshine under trees
Summer time on the beach
Oh fine we get closer
Under them trees
Baby girl, you really got to me

It’s 3 o’clock and we’re together
And the time doesn’t leave
In a heartbeat girl, sex on the beach
Don’t stand your world, ask me I’m rich
Loving you girl, is the best part of me

Mais un jour je te retrouverai ici, mon amour, sous l’ombre des palmiers
(Bring it back, brink it back – rewind)

‘Cause I remember every sunset
I remember every words you said
Le Soleil effleurait ta peau
On chantait la la ta ta ta
Je ne pense qu’à retourner
Back to summer paradise with you
And I’ll be there in a heartbeat,
(Quick time, quick time girl) oh, oh
I’ll be there in a heartbeat,
(Quick time, quick time girl) oh, oh
I’ll be there in a heartbeat

Did you think that the only song in which you’d hear Simple Plan sing in French, would be Jet Lag? You were pretty wrong. The French radio station NRJ has aired a brand new version of Summer Paradise – after the English version with K’Naan and the English one with Sean Paul, Simple Plan are coming up with a French version with Sean Paul!

We can only guess that this was most probably the song that Pierre spoke about in a recent interview and also which we’ve seen being recorded thanks to a couple of pictures.

Below you can check out a HQ recording of the French version of Summer Paradise from the NRJ radio (thanks to Charbel):

One of the usual effects that comes after the broadcast of the Juno Awards, is the increase of album and digital single sales of those artists, who either win or perform at the event – this effect is commonly known as the “Juno effect”.

Simple Plan were lucky to be in both of the forementioned categories, as not only they performed their latest single from their album Get Your Heart On! – “Summer Paradise” with K’Naan as the last act at the Juno Awards, but they were also the recipients of the Allan Waters’ Humanitarian Award for their hard work with the Simple Plan Foundation.

Thanks to all that, according to CTV’s statistics Simple Plan have become the most successful artists that attended/won the Juno Awards when it comes to the increase of the sales of their single Summer Paradise, which increased by 182%.

Below you can check out the statistics of all the artists who were affected by the Juno effect:

Album sales:

City and Colour – up 57%
Feist – up 100%
Lights – up 60%
Dan Mangan – up 52%

Digital track sales:

Blue Rodeo – “Lost Together” – up 79%
City and Colour – “The Grand Optimist” – up 104%
deadmau5 – “Raise Your Weapon” – up 65%
Feist – “The Bad In Each Other” – up 97%
Hedley – “One Life” – up 23%
Nickelback – “This Means War” – up 45%
Simple Plan – “Summer Paradise” – up 182%