“And it’s making me sick – feeling nostalgic..” – the lyrics from the the song Nostalgic, sometimes precisely sum up our feelings whenever we hit yet another anniversary of the release of a Simple Plan record, realizing how fast the time flies and how old we all really are already.

It’s true – Simple Plan released their latest, 5th studio album, ‘Taking One For The Team’ exactly three years ago on this day, February 19th. In those three years, Simple Plan toured the whole world a couple time, released a number of singles from this album, including ‘I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed’, ‘Singing In The Rain’ and ‘Perfectly Perfect’ and currently are in the process of making a follow-up album.

Besides these radio songs, the band also teased the release of this record in the summer of 2015 by putting out a video for ‘Boom!’, which despite not becoming an official single, has still managed to capture many people’s hearts and… let’s face it: their dancing & rocking moves too. Similarly, we also got a music video for ‘Opinion Overload’, one of the heavier songs on the album, which also was not chosen to represent this album on the radio waves.

On this album, Simple Plan once again featured various interesting vocalists, who were supposed to give the record a little bit of a different feel. Rapper Nelly laid some guest vocals on the song ‘I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed’, musical duo Rock City then appeared on ‘Singing In The Rain’, while the voice of Jordan Pundik from New Found Glory can be heard on ‘Farewell’ and the only female artist – Juliet Simms – sang beautifully on the final track – ‘I Dream About You’.

Looking back, how do you feel about Simple Plan’s last studio effort? Which songs are your favorite? And would you like for the band to head a similar direction with their next record?

Time flies so fast – it feels like yesterday when we were welcoming Simple Plan’s latest album on its release day, February 19th 2016 – but today ‘Taking One For The Team’ already celebrates its second anniversary!

This album came out after months of writing, recording and post-production – and even second recording sessions, which many fans recall as the “pop-punk sessions”, when Simple Plan went back to studio in November 2015 to add a bit more rock and pop-punk to the already finished record. That is where tracks like ‘Farewell’, ‘Opinion Overload’ or ‘Nostalgic’ were created.

Similarly to their fourth album, Simple Plan once again featured various interesting vocalists on this record, who were supposed to give the record a little bit of a different feel. Rapper Nelly laid some guest vocals on the song ‘I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed’, musical duo Rock City then appeared on ‘Singing In The Rain’, while the voice of Jordan Pundik from New Found Glory can be heard on ‘Farewell’ and the only female artist – Juliet Simms – sang beautifully on the final track – ‘I Dream About You’.

As far as singles are concerned, Simple Plan chose to go with some of their more poppier tracks on the album. At first, they went with ‘I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed’ (feat. Nelly) as their first single from TOFTT, which was later followed by ‘Singing In The Rain’ and ‘Perfectly Perfect’. Besides these tracks, the song ‘Opinion Overload’ also got its own accompanying video despite the fact that it has not been named a single and therefore wasn’t put on radio play.

Looking back, how do you feel about Simple Plan’s last studio effort? Which songs are your favorite? And would you like for the band to head a similar direction with their next record?