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Tracklist for Simple Plan’s new album is out!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 17. March 2022 | 2 comments

Many news websites (including Kerrang) have already released the tracklist for Simple Plan’s upcoming 6th studio album ‘Harder Than It Looks’, which is set to be released on May 6th. According to the information available, the album will contain 10 tracks in total, only one of which will have a featuring artist (the already announced Deryck Whibley on ‘Ruin My Life’).

Let’s have a look at the song titles:

1. Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)
2. Ruin My Life (feat. Deryck Whibley)
3. The Antidote
4. A Million Pictures Of You
5. Anxiety
6. Congratulations
7. Iconic
8. Best Day Of My Life
9. Slow Motion
10. Two

As of right now, we have heard three songs so far – Ruin My Life, The Antidote and Congratulations. Not much is known about the rest of the tracks right now – the only one we can find a little information about is the first song off the album – ‘Wake My Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)’, which in the recent Billboard article, Pierre called a “premonition” of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite it being written and recorded before the world even knew about the viruse. According to Pierre the song was generally written about “life and love”.

Listen to Simple Plan’s new song ‘Congratulations’

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. March 2022 | 2 comments

To celebrate the announcement of the release of their upcoming 6th studio album ‘Harder Than It Looks’ (May 6th), Simple Plan released a brand new song, which will be featured as track number 6 on this album, titled ‘Congratulations’ and according to the band it is their latest official single.

The song is very up-beat quintessential Simple Plan and will keep you singing along all day long. You can have a look at the “dagger-in-a-heart” artwork for this song in our gallery and finally listen to the full song below through the official visualizer:

Congratulations
With a smile on your face
Talking sweet when you say
That you had no clue
You had no clue
But all this time, a perfect plan
To stick your knife in my back
Just like you hoped to
Like you hoped to
But you’re the one that’s gotta live with what you do
(You’re the one that’s gotta live with what you do)
Karma karma’s gonna come right back for
Karma karma’s gonna come right back for you
Congratulations
I hope you’re happy now
With the little that you got
Was it worth it?
But just remember
That what goes up comes down
It’s a long fall from the top
Congratulations
Congratulations
It must feel good, it must be nice
When your heart is cold as ice
And you feel nothin’
You feel nothin’
But is it hard to fall asleep
To close your eyes, do you see
The payback comin’
It’s comin’, yeah
You’re the one that’s gotta live with what you do
(You’re the one that’s gotta live with what you do)
Karma karma’s gonna come right back for
Karma karma’s comin’ back for you
Congratulations
I hope you’re happy now
With the little that you got
Was it worth it?
But just remember
That what goes up comes down
It’s a long fall from the top
Congratulations
Congratulations
You’re the one that’s gotta live with what you do
(You’re the one that’s gotta live with what you do)
Karma karma’s gonna come right back for you
Congratulations (congratulations, congratulations)
Congratulations
I hope you’re happy now
With the little that you got
Was it worth it?
But just remember
That what goes up comes down
It’s a long fall from the top
Congratulations
Congratulations
Congratulations
Congratulations

Simple Plan’s new album ‘Harder Than It Looks’ to come out May 6th!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 15. March 2022 | no comments

It’s a happy day in the Simple Plan fandom. After years of waiting, Simple Plan’s sixth studio album will be released on May 6th 2022. The band also finally revealed the title of the album – ‘Harder Than It Looks’ which once again perfectly fits into their history of double entendres in their album title names.

Besides the album title and the release date, Simple Plan also revealed today on their social media the official album artwork, which features all four members of the band in their “fake professions”, previously revealed on social media posts in the past few days. You can check out the full version of the album cover here.

This is Simple Plan’s first official release since 2016, when they released their 5th album ‘Taking One For The Team” (2016) and the first album after the departure of David Desrosiers in 2020.

Read below what Simple Plan said about their upcoming release:

“No more waiting. No more “soon”. The day has finally come! We’re incredibly excited to announce that our sixth album, “Harder Than It Looks”, is coming out on May 6th! 🤘⚡️🤘
We know it has been a long time coming and we want to thank all of you for your patience and support. We’re so stoked to finally be able to share all of this with you.

Starting at midnight local time, you can pre-save/add the new album and to celebrate, we’ll have another special surprise for you so make sure you come back here later tonight! 🎉🎉🎉”

– Simple Plan [on Instagram] –

Simple Plan tease new album concept with the photoshoot

AUTHOR: Dominika | 12. March 2022 | no comments

Over the past week, Simple Plan have slowly begun posting a bunch of very random photoshoots of their band members, which seem to be tied to the concept of their upcoming 6th studio album. These images all seemed to revolving around the topic of different type of work or occupations.

So far, Simple Plan have posted these photos of Sebastien (who is pictured slagging off, eating a donut in an office workspace) and Pierre (who is pictured as a construction worker) – you can find them all in our gallery. The band’s Instagram profile accompanied these images with descriptions such as “hard at work” or “can’t rush a genius”.

The title of the album is unknown yet but we’re more than certain that these images will be the key to it eventually. Can you already guess what play on words will the boys choose this time around?

Simple Plan and Sum 41 announce co-headlining U.S. tour!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 22. February 2022 | no comments

Just a couple weeks ago something totally unimaginable – now a reality! That’s what the newly announced co-headlining Simple Plan x Sum 41 tour across the United States is.

After announcing the Deryck Whibley featuring on the new Simple Plan single ‘Ruin My Life’, the two Canadian bands decided to make their U.S. fans very happy and finally return after many previous covid-related cancelations. The first part of the ‘Blame Canada’ tour will begin on April 29th in Raleigh, NC and will finish on May 27th in New Orleans, LA. The bands will then take a little breather in June and July (where they already have some festival obligations) and then get back to touring together for part 2 of their tour from July 29 in Tulsa, OK all the way to Denver, CO on August 18th.

The tour will celebrate the 20th anniversary of both bands’ debut albums – Sum 41’s album ‘All Killer No Filler’ (2001) and Simple Plan’s debut ‘No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls’ (2002).

As part of the upcoming tour, $1 of each ticket sold will help raise funds for the Simple Plan Foundation and Sweet Relief’s Covid-19 Fund. Since 2005 the Simple Plan Foundation has donated over $2M to various charitable causes in Canada to help young people in need. In 2020, Sweet Relief started the Covid-19 Fund to provide emergency financial assistance to music industry professionals who have been devastated by the pandemic.

Tickets and VIP packages officially go on sale Friday, February 25th at 10am local time. Pre-sale begins today here until February 24th at 10pm using the code JUSTAKID.

Check out the poster and all the dates below: