Chuck confirms “Singing In The Rain” for U.S. single in new interview and more

Joe DeAndrea from AbsolutePunk did another extensive interview with Chuck a couple days ago and as always, it’s a piece you’ll definitely want to read.

In the interview Chuck opened up about the negative backlash their early releases for this record (namely mostly “Saturday”) received online and the hard times the band had to go through mainly because of that. He also mentioned a different strategy the band is taking with the single that will be marketed for the U.S., which should be “Singing In The Rain”, a song with more of a reggae vibe, which will be featuring R. City (this is also the first interview where Chuck talks about this interesting collaboration). Besides this collab, Chuck also discussed how the featurings with Jordan Pundik and Juliet Simms came about and the differences between having a guest write his own parts and writing them ahead for him/her.

Another big topic of were the interview were the styles that can be found on the album – mostly ballads, pop-punk songs, pop songs and “weird” songs. Chuck spoke about how in the summer the band had most of the record ready but eventually realized they were missing some traditional classic Simple Plan songs, more in the pop-punk genre, which resulted in the pop-punk song-writing sessions, which produced three more songs on the album: “Opinion Overload”, “Farewell” and “Nostalgic”.

If you want to find out more, I wholeheartedly recommend you reading through the whole interview here.

Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan recently gave a very long interview to Joe DeAndrea from AbsolutePunk, which (as it’s common with Chuck’s interviews) was filled with interesting and new information.

And while you can check out the full interview (and I definitely recommend it!) here, below you can find a recap of the most important information that Chuck revealed.

Firstly, a brand new never-mentioned-before song-title of one of the recorded songs has been revealed. The song is called “Sad” and it is the one that Simple Plan used all the trumpets and saxophones on [read more on that here].

In the interview Chuck also discussed the recently mentioned soundtrack project for which the boys recently recorded a certain song. Turns out, the project is a soundtrack to a remake of a popular French-Canadian film called The Dog Who Stopped The War and apart from Simple Plan, artists like Celine Dion or Walk Off The Earth should also be featured in its soundtrack.

Chuck also mentioned that the main mixer of the new Simple Plan album is Neal Avron, who’s previously mixed albums of bands such as Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy or Yellowcard.

And finally, the interview also mentioned Chuck’s and Pierre’s song-writing sessions with 5 Seconds Of Summer. It seems like the two songs the guys wrote together may in fact end up rather on the next 5SOS record than on the Simple Plan one.