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Chuck and Jeff discuss ‘Saturday’ as the “worst” Simple Plan song in a new interview

by Dominika | Jul 18th, 2018 | 1 comment

Our friends over at SPB finally released their own long-awaited interview with Chuck and Jeff from Simple Plan, that was filmed while the band paid a visit to Brazil with a NPNHJB anniversary tour earlier this year. Bruno from SPB decided to split the interview in 3 parts – one consisted of a game of facts about Brazil, in the second one was a “Who’s most likely to..” game and finally in the third part Bruno let the guys react to a number of tweets written by the members of the website’s team.

During the interview, the guys were asked which song they consider the worst Simple Plan song, to which Jeff immediately replied “Generation”, which can be found on Simple Plan’s self-titled record and was in fact the show-opener in 2008.

However, later on in the interview, the guys were shown a tweet from a fan taking a jab at Simple Plan for releasing the song ‘Saturday’ (‘Did Simple Plan really get together and say: ‘Hey guys, Saturday is such a great song!’ – because I can’t understand this.’ – @mariaclara_b) as an the first promo song for Taking One For The Team and after receiving quite a backlash, they opted not to have it featured on the actual record and pretty much not discuss it ever since. In the interview, both Chuck and Jeff agreed that it was a mistake and that Saturday might be the worst Simple Plan song and promised to perhaps one day reveal how the decision process about releasing this song came about.

Chuck: “That is the worst Simple Plan song.”
Jeff: “You know what? Before Generation – Saturday is the worst song.”
Chuck: “It’s a long story, one day we will explain what happened..”
Jeff: “Or not…”
Chuck: “I don’t think actually… the song doesn’t exist.”
Jeff: “.. It never happened.”
Chuck: “What song? I don’t know what Saturday is…”
Jeff: “It was sort of like a false start. And then you go back and do it again.”
Chuck: “It’s not on Spotify, so it doesn’t really exist.”
Jeff: “… we made sure it disappeared. “

If you need a reminder of Saturday, here you go, but after that make sure to check out the full interview with Chuck and Jeff for SPB below:

‘Saturday’ by Simple Plan on CBS Entertainment promo

by Dominika | Apr 8th, 2017 | no comments

For a while now, Simple Plan’s song ‘Saturday’, has been used on CBS Entertaiment promo for their Saturday night program schedule (big thanks to Tum for letting us know).

You may recall that ‘Saturday’ was released in the summer of 2015 as the first teaser track from Simple Plan’s fifth album Taking One For The Team, but since the overall reaction wasn’t very favorable and the song didn’t eventually fit with the remaining songs on the record, the band decided not to include it on the final version of the TOFTT album. Remind yourselves of the full song here and below you can check out the promo that aired on CBS Entertainment yesterday:

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

by Dominika | Feb 7th, 2016 | no comments

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.

‘Saturday’ #6 on Czech ‘Evropa 2’ radio’s chart!

by Dominika | Sep 27th, 2015 | no comments


Interestingly enough, even though Simple Plan’s song ‘Saturday’ will not be featured on their upcoming fifth studio album, and has not been promoted as a single, some radio stations decided to put it in their rotation.

What’s even more surprising is that despite the initial rather negative responses to this song, it seems to be doing really well on the ‘Evropa 2’ [Europe 2] radio station in the Czech Republic, where ‘Saturday’ currently holds position number 6 at the Evropa 2 Music Chart (big thanks to Aneta for the info)! This is very important especially since Evropa 2’s frequencies cover almost all of Czech Republic and therefore can be listened to from anywhere in the country. It is one of the most popular radio stations in the CR.

‘Saturday’ managed to surpass songs such as Pharell William’s ‘Freedom’ or Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Run Away With Me’. You can help Simple Plan keep this position and even put them all the way to the top of the chart by voting here [just click on the ‘vote’ button (next to the ‘play’ button) on the right side of the song’s title].

Recap of new Simple Plan interview from France

by Dominika | Sep 26th, 2015 | no comments

Spreadtheirsound recently released a brand new interview with Chuck, Seb and Pierre that was filmed in France. In the interview the guys talked about Saturday, new album and the band’s future. You can either watch the French interview on the video below or you can read through the short recap I prepared for you (big thanks to Sab for the help with the translations!)

– They chose Howard Benson to produce the next album because of the albums he produced before (My Chemical Romance’s, The All-American Rejects’…). Their styles match.

– “Saturday” released because SP likes to give songs for the fans waiting for their next album, and it’s a way for them to know how the fans might react to the album. They sampled “Saturday Night” by Bay City Rollers. The ressemblance was made on purpuse, it’s not a coincidence or plagiarism.

– They’re going to do some featurings for the next album because they find it fun to do and think it give a fresh sound to the songs.

– They invited other bands to appear in the BOOM video to please the fans and also to bind bands from the same music genre, new bands and old bands together.

– Releasing the book 3 years ago made them realized the progress they made together throught the years.

– They always try to convey positivity through their songs because they know well how music can help in life and how people might need a little positivity.

– How they picture themselves in 10 years of time: Pierre has no idea. Out of the guys, he might be the one who plans his future the least. Seb thinks they might still be a band, maybe a little slower, but they going strong. According to Chuck, they’ll keep on doing music as long as people still want to see them live.

– The hardest part of being in a band is to stay faithfull to your own style but always trying to bring something new.

– Before they release an album, they like to do a tour where they go to small venue as a warm-up and to connect with the fans.