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Simple Plan to release a new song as a title song to season 2 of the TV contest ‘The Fashion Hero’

AUTHOR: Dominika | 10. December 2021 | 1 comment

‘The Fashion Hero’ is a TV contest, which first started in 2017 as a competition between unconventional models to see who will be the next face for a renowned brand’s advertising campaign. According to its executive producer and president, Caroline Bernier, “[The Fashion Hero’s] mission is to change the unhealthy and unrealistic standards of the fashion and beauty industry by bringing people who do not fit the traditional norms of the industry and giving them a chance to be selected by our international brands to model in one of their advertising campaigns.”

Season 2, which will be hosted by The Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean, is set to air in January 2022 and will be filmed in South Africa, where the final contestants, chosen from hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world, will compete in various disciplines and aim to win the competition.

In a brand new interview with Caroline Bernier, Pierre Bouvier has revealed that Simple Plan will in fact have a brand new song featured on the show as the title song and the band will also have a special Simple Plan challenge placed within the show.

“We’re gonna be premiering a new song, an exciting song, which I can’t tell its title just yet but a song that I think fits perfectly with the message behind The Fashion Hero. […]

It’s a song about overcoming all obstacles and becoming something great and start believing yourself. And sort of trying to beat all the odds. And this is exactly what I think The Fashion Hero is all about.”

– Pierre Bouvier [in an interview for ‘The Fashion Hero’] –

According to Caroline Bernier, “the name of the song is what the contestants will hopefully hope for”, making us wonder what the actual title could possibly be. Any guesses?

Caroline also mentioned that this Sunday, the show is filming some promo with Chuck Comeau at his house.

As far as the release of the full song – it has not been confirmed whether the song will premiere prior to the release of the show or with its release, which is currently set to January 2022.

You can watch the full interview with Pierre here:

And to get a better look at what The Fashion Hero is actually about, you can check out the official trailer for the new season below:

Big thanks to Natalie for letting us know about this news.

First look at the behind the scenes of Simple Plan’s music video for ‘The Antidote’

AUTHOR: Dominika | 20. November 2021 | no comments

Sebastien Lefebvre and Jeff Stinco got to California this week to join their Cali-based friends Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau. The purpose of their trip was simple: film the music video for their new single ‘The Antidote’.

Ahead of the videoshoot, Simple Plan fans from the area were asked to sign up and if chosen to attend one part of the videoshoot, which was supposed to be a concert scene. This filming took place yesterday, Friday November 19th 2021 at The Villas at the Marymount California University. This campus, as you can see on its introduction video, comprises of multiple villas and offers the MCU student’s a very comfortable residential housing. We don’t know about you, guys, but we’re getting some serious ‘Perfect’ vibes from the houses on the campus.

Not a lot is known about the concept of the video itself so far, the only thing we know is that it won’t just be a “concert video” but it should include an actual storyline as well. One of the special guests in the crowd was Chad Tepper, who recently did a song with Pierre.

During the day, Sebastien decided to film short clips throughout the videoshoot and posted them all in his Instagram reel today. Check it out for a couple sneak peeks:

After the concert filming session with the fans, the guys from the band gathered the fans, hung out with them for a while and Pierre even decided to do an impromptu acoustic session for the fans and played them some of the greatest hits including I’d Do Anything, Welcome To My Life, Perfect and even I Hate Everybody with Chad Tepper.

Check out a photo in our gallery that we’ve received from one of the fans Jacqueline and also have a look at the videos below that will give you a little look at what the acoustic session with Pierre was like later on:

Simple Plan’s new song “The Antidote” reached 1 million Spotify streams in 1 week

AUTHOR: Dominika | 13. November 2021 | 1 comment

On Friday it has been exactly one week since Simple Plan released their brand new single “The Antidote” and on the same day the song has officially hit 1 million streams on Spotify. On Instagram the guys expressed their gratitude to their fans for listening to the new song and sharing it. Check out what they said below:

“Thank you everyone for streaming, sharing and adding the song to your playlists. We’re so grateful for all of the love, it means the world to us and we can’t wait to share even more with you!

– Simple Plan [on Instagram] –

What can you do to help even more?

  • continue streaming the the song and listening to it on all the platforms available. You can find it on Spotify for example:

  • Play the official visualizer on YouTube on your TV and rock out to it at home – there, the video already has over 300 000 views:

  • add the song to relevant playlists, so that more people can discover it
  • share the links to the song on your social media
  • talk about it with your friends – let them now that Simple Plan are back with a bang and more is coming very soon!

Pierre reveals new info about The Antidote videoshoot & album details in a new interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 10. November 2021 | no comments

Thanks to our loyal reader Mymie we learned that a Canadian web show called Le retour de 123 PUNK avec Rej Laplanche had Pierre Bouvier as a guest for an interview this week. The interview, which is in French is only available until November 12th through a private link, which you can aquire for free once you sign up for it here.

We asked Mymie to sum up for the most vital information that we would’ve learned in this interview, if we knew how to speak French. And surprisingly Pierre spilled some beans about the upcoming videoshoot for The Antidote and the new album:

  • Pierre said that the videoshoot would take place Tuesday or Wednesday (yesterday or today) in Los Angeles
  • The video is supposed to be edited as soon as possible, so that the music video comes out maximum in just a few weeks
  • He also mentioned that Simple Plan will release 3 to 4 songs before the album comes out

Quite exciting, isn’t it? What do you think the concept of the music video will be like? Let us know in the comments below or on our social media!

VIDEO: Behind the scenes of making The Antidote in the studio

AUTHOR: Dominika | 10. November 2021 | no comments

With Simple Plan’s new single “The Antidote” picking up hype on playlists all around the world, the band decided to reveal a little bit more from the making of this song by releasing a video footage from the behind the scenes of recording this song in the studio in California back in the summer of 2019.

Check it out in full below: