“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?
