Category Archives: 6th album

Simple Plan’s next single to be ‘Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)’

by Dominika | Apr 1st, 2022 | no comments

The recently announced new SP song that the fans will first get to hear next Friday, April 8th 2022, will be the first track of Simple Plan’s upcoming album ‘Harder Than It Looks’ called ‘Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)’. And in fact, it will also be the band next official single. The band has announced it alongside the single’s artwork on their social media today. 

Make sure to pre-save ‘Harder Than It Looks’ on your favorite streaming platform for the new song to be immediately added to your library upon its release. 

So what do we know about this song so far? According to Chuck’s comment today, it is “one of his favorites on the album”. Pierre has also mentioned this song recently in his Billboard interview, where he talked about this song’s lyrics somewhat seeming as a “premonition” of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite it being written way before it. Generally, he described this song to be about “life and love”. 

Make sure to stick around on April 8th to listen to ‘Wake Me Up (When This Nightmare’s Over)’.

 

Simple Plan to release new album on blue & pink marble vinyl

by Dominika | Apr 1st, 2022 | no comments

Simple Plan’s 6th studio album, which is set to be released on May 6th, will not only be released digitally and on physical CDs, but fans will also be able to purchase special limited editions of the record on vinyl!

On multiple online music websites, you can already pre-order the Harder Than It Looks vinyl – in 2 beautiful variations: a blue or pink marble vinyl. 

We are currently unsure of the actual look of the vinyl as multiple websites keep using different images for the actual marble disc. Besides the ones in the header above (which can be found on the Impericon website – blue & pink for about 31 €), we also found a different pink design on the Rough Trade website (for $24.99 – however already sold-out):

The tracklist will be split in half on each side of the vinyl, each containing 5 songs. It seems there won’t be any bonus tracks on these vinyls.

While the band hasn’t announced the release of these vinyls yet, all of the music websites we’ve found that offer the pre-order of these vinyls seem to be stating October 28th 2022 as the release date. 

Will you be grabbing one too?

Simple Plan to release a new song next week!

by Dominika | Mar 30th, 2022 | no comments

Not even a day after Pierre Bouvier let it slip during a livestream on Instagram that Simple Plan would be releasing a brand new song from their upcoming album ‘Harder Than It Looks’ (out May 6th) “in just a few weeks”, the band came out with an announcement today.

On Instagram, the band shared an illustrated image with a date that refers to April 8th 2022, which is the assumed release date of the already predicted new song. The image, which we assume will be used on the song’s artwork, depicts a rigged little boy from the back, holding on to his teddy bear. 

Which song will it be? There are no clues to it as of yet, but surely the band will let us know in time. In the meantime, you can go back and check out the already released tracklist of the songs that will be featured on the album and guess which of the songs might this illustration be tied to. Any guesses?

Tracklist for Simple Plan’s new album is out!

by Dominika | Mar 17th, 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’

by Dominika | Mar 16th, 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