Category Archives: new album

Deluxe edition to be released only on iTunes

AUTHOR: Dominika | 24. May 2011 | 2 comments

In the past, there have been many speculations on if the new Simple Plan album will also be available in a deluxe edition or not – that means including some special bonus features that you can’t find on the normal versions. The answer to the question is: yes and no. Simple Plan have announced in their new blog post that there will be a deluxe edition of Get Your Heart On!, but according to Coalition Entertainment it will only be available in a digital form – on iTunes (that means no physical copies of the deluxe version will be sold).

This special edition is now available to pre-order only on iTunes Canada Tato (and according to Hayley also on the British iTunes) for $12.99. The edition wis featuring 16 tracks (songs and videos) in total – compared to the 11 tracks on the normal version. The bonus music videos include Jet Lag and Can’t Keep My Hands Off You and the bonus songs are Jet Lag (feat. Marie-Mai), acoustic version of Loser Of The Year and also a song called Never Should’ve Let You Go.

The last mentioned song is a bit of a surprise, as you may remember its title from the recording process of Simple Plan’s album no.3 (yes, the self-titled one). The song has been written and recorded by SP, but unfortunately never made it to the actual record.

Track by track: You Suck At Love

AUTHOR: Dominika | 18. May 2011 | no comments

For the next few weeks, Simple Plan will be publishing these short videos, and talking (track by track, just like they did with the self-titled record) about each of the songs that made it to the album. And because the first song from the album is “You Suck At Love”, below you can check out in today’s video what exactly the song is about:

Special acoustic Simple Plan show in Japan

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. May 2011 | no comments

Simple Planhave announced today a very surprising news – just in a few days, the guys will be taking off on a plane on a way to Japan, where they are attending a special acoustic concert for only 300 people on Wednesday, May 25th. 150 pairs of tickets can only be won through Noize.tv. After this show, the guys will most probably be going straight to Europe, where they are scheduled to play few festivals and their own headlining shows.

And let’s stay with news about Japan for a while Our colleagues on SPB.com found out that the japanese version of Get Your Heart On! will include 13 songs in total – that means 2 bonus songs compared to the normal version of the album. The bonus songs will be Jet Lag (feat. Marie-Mai) and one, yet unknown song.

According to Chuck, the French version of Jet Lag will also be available on the versions of Get Your Heart On! released in all French-speaking territories.

Get Your Heart On! live for the first time in Montreal

AUTHOR: Dominika | 10. May 2011 | 3 comments

Yesterday’s evening must have been one of the most important in Simple Plan’s career – the guys had the first opportunity to play the new songs from their upcoming album Get Your Heart On! in front of their Canadian audience and therefore capture the first reactions to the new tracks and find out if all the 2-years-long work was not just a complete waste of time.

It has been pretty obvious for the whole day that the night was going to be very emotional for the guys in the band. ” Not gonna lie, I’m a bit nervous for tonight: never played the new songs before… Last night, I couldn’t fall asleep: my mind couldn’t stop practicing the new songs,” admitted Jeff to his Twitter followers before the concert. “The most stressful thing is that we don’t want to disappoint each other.”

Thankfully the night went on great. According to Le Journal De Montreal, Simple Plan started off the sold out show in Le National in Montreal, Canada with You Suck At Love, and then continued with the following: Can’t Keep My Hands Off You, Astronaut, Loser Of The Year, Anywhere Else But Here, Last One Standing, Summer Paradise, This Song Saved My Life, Freaking Me Out and Jet Lag – for the last mentioned song, the guys were joined by Marie-Mai, who sings on the French version.

The fans were informed this was an exclusive show and were asked not to record it. All this in order to keep the songs a mystery till the new record’s official release date.

Journal Metro wrote that the guys really did play only 10 songs out of 11 (from Get Your Heart On!), which means Gone Too Soon has not been played live yet. Also, it is now clear that the only ballads on the album will be “This Song Saved My Life” and “Astronaut”.

According to Canoe.ca, the fans reacted amazingly to all the new songs, but Freaking Me Out was definitely perceived by the audience as the best song of the show.

The rest of the show was then devoted to songs from the previous three albums.

Apart from their own songs, Simple Plan also came up with a cover versions of Cee Lo’s “Fuck You”, Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite” and Pink’s “Raise Your Glass”, check it out:

You can check out the first photos from the concert and from backstage in the gallery and keep checking back for updates during the whole day.

Webchat with Simple Plan

AUTHOR: Dominika | 4. May 2011 | no comments

In case you weren’t able to tune into the live webchat earlier today, below you can stream the whole thing.

The guys spoke about the new album cover, the upcoming Jet Lag video that premieres today (it will really be only the English version – the French one with Marie-Mai will be released a little bit later on), the upcoming show in NYC on June 21st, about the collaborations (e.g. K’Naan’s colab with SP on Summer Paradise promises a very islandy vibe) and also Loser Of The Year has been defined as: “A song about how no matter what you have, if you’re not with people you love, you’re just a loser of the year.”

Enjoy: