Category Archives: new album

Writing process for the new album is DONE!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 19. May 2010 | 3 comments


Here we go!! After whole 10 months (with few breaks) in Los Angeles Pierre and Chuckem yesterday officially wrapped the writing process of the lyrics for the new Simple Plan album. Chuck announced it on his Twitter profile yesterday:

Just finishing our last day of songwriting for the album…for now…lol. big meeting next week to figure out a plan for studio, recording!

As always you will be the 1st to know everything! 10 months of writing has been amazing!! we are soooo excited about the songs!

Well that should mean that in June, the guys should be in the studio already – and then they have the whole summer for recording and few months of post-production after that. Which means they should have the album out in late fall 2010. Exciting, isn’t it? Now let’s sum up what we know about the upcoming album already. Here are the basic facts:

– Simple Plan collaborated on the lyrics during the writing process with Claude Kelly, Rivers Cuomo, Matt Squire, Jim Irvin, Julian Emery, Michael Warren and maybe even more song-writers

– we already know few song-titles – the only one which is confirmed by the band (by Chuck in particular) is “This Song Saved My Life” – which is a song that is based on fans’ feelings about Simple Plan, about how the band has helped them through the years in the worst periods of their lives

– there are also other song-titles we are aware of, though we don’t know if they are for old or new songs and if they even are going to be on the new album ot not. These titles include: Paralysed, You Suck At Love, Famous For Nothing and Astronaut

– speaking of the songs, the direction that the album should be going for (according to Chuck again) should be “fun”. The album is supposed to be based on fast and funny songs that should be similar to the No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls times (also, it wouldn’t be SP if the album didn’t include some serious songs as well) and we can also expect songs like Jump (from Still Not Getting Any…)

Next week should bring us more answers to our questions on the upcoming album and we should also finally find out the date when the guys would be hitting the studio, so don’t forget to check SimplePlan.cz for the latest updates. :)

Simple Plan work with Weezer’s lead singer!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 11. May 2010 | no comments


It hasn’t been even a day since we’ve learned about another songwriter that Simple Plan are working with for the new record, and now here we have another one! This time the collaboration has been officially confirmed by Chuck Comeau himself on his Twitter:

In the presence of greatness! Working with @RiversCuomo today. Childhood idol. Weezer rules!

Yes, Simple Plan are really working with the singer, lead guitarist and song-writer of the band Weezer – Rivers Cuomo! Seems like in order to write their best record yet, Simple Plan are trying to gather as many talented song-writers as they can! If this “simple plan” worked, we should be able to find out hopefully this fall.

New collaboration for the new album revealed

AUTHOR: Dominika | 10. May 2010 | no comments

Source: SPB.com

From the last few posts related to the upcoming Simple Plan album, you already know few names of songwriters and producers that have worked with Pierre and Chuck on the new album. We’ve talked about Claude Kelly, Matt Squire, Jim Irvin and Julian Emery.

Now, we found out from our brazilian colleagues that Simple Plan have worked about a month ago on one song with the songwriter Michael Warren, who is recently known for his collaboration with the singer Tony Braxton. The song should we a part of the new album.

About the new album, the phase of writing should be in its final stage and in few weeks, the boys should be finally heading to studio. And with studio on the horizon, there should be more blogs, vlogs and photos from the studio coming up, so we have a lot of things to look forward to :)

Simple Plan’s collaboration with Claude Kelly

AUTHOR: Dominika | 30. April 2010 | 6 comments

Chuck and Pierre are back in LA for few more weeks writing songs for the upcoming Simple Plan album. For a few months now, the American song-writer Claude Kelly (who wrote songs for example for Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson or Adam Lambert) has been working with Chuck and Pierre on some lyrics. And apparently these three boys are having a lot of fun during their “work” – here you can check out a video, that Claude posted on Twitter yesterday, where Pierre and Chuck help Claude with his fake new debut single “I’m Black!”. Don’t forget to watch the video till the very end.

I’ve also uploaded a photo of Claude with Chuck and Pierre from yesterday to the gallery, then two pictures of Seb’s new accessories and finally Patrick’s photoshoot picture, which he currently has set as his default Twitter pic:

New Simple Plan’s song-titles

AUTHOR: Dominika | 27. April 2010 | 1 comment

Source: SPB.com & SP Crew

Our colleagues from SPB.com revealed a title of another song that was written by Pierre and Chuck. Once again – it’s not sure if the song is a new song or an old song and if it’s even gonna be used on the upcoming album, but anyway – the guys collaborated on it with Mitch Allan from the band SR-71 (who already worked with e.g. Bowling For Soup) and the song’s called “Famous For Nothing”

Also, Chuck talked about his favourite song they wrote for the upcoming album\ during yesterday’s webchat with the SP Crew members (official SP fanclub) – and if you remember this post, you already know that there should be a song on the new SP record about the Simple Plan fans and about how the SP songs have changed their lives. And according to Chuck, the name of this song should be “This Song Saved My Life” .