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Get Your Heart On! available for streaming tomorrow!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 14. June 2011 | 1 comment

Three years of waiting for some new Simple Plan music are now over, ladies and gentlemen. Even though the album won’t physically come out till next week, tomorrow at 10am GMT AlterThePress.com will be streaming the whole Simple Plan’s album “Get Your Heart On!” online (unfortunately the stream is available for UK locations only & to those, who pre-ordered). So let’s do a little recap of everything you can look forward to.

Get Your Heart On! is officially being released on June 21st 2011 as the 4th Simple Plan’s studio album, following the band’s previous records: No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls (2002), Still Not Getting Any… (2004) and Simple Plan (2008). Simple Plan started working on Get Your Heart On! back in 2009, but they didn’t hit the studio in Vancouver till July 2010, where they were being mentored by the album’s producer Brian Howes. This is where they had to decide which of the 60 songs that they have written for the album, they would keep: which would end up on the final version of the record. The band chose 11 songs (needless to say the deluxe digital version of the album includes 2 bonus tracks; the French version of Jet Lag and also the song Never Should’ve Let You Go, which has been already recorded in the process of the making of the self-titled (3rd) record.

Tracklisting of the album:
01. You Suck At Love
02. Can’t Keep My Hands Off You (feat. Rivers Cuomo)
03. Jet Lag (feat. Natasha Bedingfield)
04. Astronaut
05. Loser Of The Year
06. Anywhere Else But Here
07. Freaking Me Out (feat. Alex Gaskarth)
08. Summer Paradise (feat. K’Naan)
09. Gone Too Soon
10. Last One Standing
11. This Song Saved My Life
12. Jet Lag (feat. Marie-Mai) [BONUS]
13. Never Should’ve Let You Go [BONUS]

The tracklisting says it all: the album composes of lots of special guests. Jet Lag features two female singers: Natasha Bedingfield from the UK and Marie-Mai from Canada, who helped the song turn into a bi-lingual song with 2 versions: English and French one. Apart from these two ladies, the album features three male guests: the Somalian/Canadian singer/rapper K’Naan lent his voice to the song Summer Paradise, you can also hear All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth in the second verse of Freaking Me Out and Rivers Cuomo from Weezer guest stars in the track no.2: Can’t Keep My Hands Off You.

And the collaborations didn’t end with just singers: the album also features a large number of song-writers, who helped Chuck and Pierre co-write some of the songs. These talented people include for instance Jim Irvin, Michael Warren, Julian Emery, Claude Kelly or David Hodges.

The first music video released from Get Your Heart On! was for the song Can’t Keep My Hands Off You. Yet at the same time this song was not said to be an official single – the clip only accompanied the premiere of the Disney movie Prom, which features the song on its soundtrack. The second music video is finally for the first official single: Jet Lag which also started the very first changes on Simple Plan’s official website with the so-called Jet Lag Airlines. After that another series of changes took over SimplePlan.com and the band introcuded themselves as The Simple Plans (aka The Beach Boys), The SP’s (aka The Ramones), The Simple P’s (aka Run DMC) and Plan! (aka Wham!) and showed us a little bit different side of the last few decades of our music industry.

Astronaut has already been confirmed as the upcoming second single (and also the third, or perhaps fourth (if you count Jet Lag twice) music video). This song has also already given the name to the Simple Plan fans (who really wanted to have their own unique name): the Astronauts.

The album finishes with an epic ballad entitled This Song Saved My Life, which not only features Simple Plan’s fans’ vocals, but most importantly their stories and feelings about how the band, song or music in general has saved or changed their lives. Pierre and Chuck co-wrote this song with their fans via Twitter and came up with a song that will surely become one of the most important songs for all fans of Simple Plan.

One thing is clear though: tomorrow all the songs (except for the bonus tracks) will be available for streaming via pre-order or AlterThePress (UK only). The waiting worth three years is finally over and we can look forward to the next few years of Simple Plan touring all around the world… And have no worries, they will come to your country too. Just keep calm… and get your heart on! :)

Track by track: Freaking Me Out

AUTHOR: Dominika | 8. June 2011 | no comments

Chances are you have probably already heard the song Freaking Me Out as it has already “officially” leaked onto the internet. But what you might not know yet is what exactly it is about. The guys from Simple Plan answered this question in the new video from the “Track by track” series, this time, about “Freaking Me Out”:

First preview of the booklet of Get Your Heart On!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 6. June 2011 | no comments

Simple Plan have just published on their official website the first sneak peak of the booklet for their upcoming album Get Your Heart On!, which is being released only in a few days. The sneak peak shows the part of booklet which includes the official lyrics to the song Astronaut and you can check out its full version in the gallery:

So, what do you think of the first peak on the booklet? :)

Partial lyrics to Summer Paradise and This Song Saved My Life revealed

AUTHOR: Dominika | 30. May 2011 | no comments


The forementioned website Superadrianme.com published not only a video and photographs, but also revealed one very interesting thing: it gave the fans a chance to read for the first time partial lyrics to two new Simple Plan songs from their upcoming album Get Your Heart On! (by the way, the album cover art can now be found thanks to SPB.com in high quality)

The first song is “Summer Paradise”, on which Simple Plan have joined their forces with K’Naan. Accoridng to those, who have already listened to the song, its style could be compared to the music of Jason Mraz or Jack Johnson.

Summer Paradise is aptly named to describe the sentiment of people from cooler climate nations who would like to get to somewhere warm during the cool wintry season, and the sad feeling when leaving to go back to the cold weather after meeting someone special. The lyrics “I’ll be there in a heartbeat”, “how can you show me paradise when I’m leaving”, “someday I will find my way to where your name is written in the sand” and “summer paradise with you” demonstrate this sentiment and feeling.

The second song is the famous “This Song Saved My Life”, which Simple Plan composed along with their fanbase, making it the first song ever to be written through Twitter:

The last track in this new album entitled “This Song Saved My Life“ about the emotional power music can have in one’s life has captured the sentiments behind the thousands of fan mail the band received at its Montreal headquarters each month. The band’s vocalist Pierre Bouvier shares that ”these letters are pretty overwhelming and humbling at the same time so we wanted to somehow pay homage to those fans. We were sitting there going, ‘I don’t know, what do you think they would say?’ and Chuck says,’Why don’t we just ask them’”. Chuck comeau poster on his twitter feed “We decided to write a song about you guys …. can you tell me how our music has made you feel through the years?” From the responses they received, Bouvier and Comeau constructed their first song ever written entirely via twitter. 25 of their fans from around the world also contributed to the chorus singing ‘this Song saved my life” in parts of the song. With lyrics such as “trapped in a hole where everyone hates me” and “I was broken, choking, lost, bleeding ……. this song saved my life”, this song encapsulates how people use music to cope with life and sometimes music saves lifes.

First Get Your Heart On! review: 74%

AUTHOR: Dominika | 27. May 2011 | 2 comments

Critics have never been fond of Simple Plan. Not at all. For example on the music server AbsolutePunk, the reviewes on Simple Plan’s third album were really bad. “Simple Plan” got only 24% with reviewers comments like: “As Bouvier begs and pleads for the subject of the song to stay and croons, “You know it’s not the end,” the listener begins to wish it was,” and as such this album has been labeled as “by far their worst effort”.

Although, with the coming of the 4th Simple Plan’s studio album Get Your Heart On! (that is being released on June 21st), it seems like something has changed severely. The first review (by Joe DeAndrea on AbsolutePunk) of the yet un-released new Simple Plan record has given it 74% and marked it as “the best album of their career, and one of the best in the genre thus far in 2011!”

When it comes to the songs, according to DeAndrea K’Naan’s collaboration on Simple Plan’s “Summer Paradise” sounds like “a song that Plain White T’s wish they could write..”, “You Suck At Love” is considered to be “the biggest hook the band has ever written” and the slowest tracks like Astronaut and Gone Too Soon are also apparently very catchy and strong.

A lot of people have been confronting the upcoming All Time Low’s record (that by the way includes Time Bomb, written by SP – and on the other hand, Alex (ATL) sings on the new SP record): and it seems like Simple Plan’s Get Your Heart On! could actually be a winner of this little competition. Although Dirty Work (All Time Low) and Get Your Heart On! (Simple Plan) both got 74% in their AbsolutePunk’s reviews, the “lasting value” of Simple Plan’s record is thought to be much higher (SP: 9,5/10 – ATL: 6,5/10).

Even though this review has been pretty harsh at Simple Plan at times: e.g. their lyrics are still considered to be absolutely “ridiculous”; he overall image of Simple Plan’s new album from DeAndrea ‘s point of view looks very promising. Even fans, who were already lucky enough to hear most of the songs from it say their greatest comeback: with music that indicated a return to their roots, but to the next level: witty, fun and real.