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Coeur de Pirate explains reasons behind her not being featured on the French version of Jet Lag

AUTHOR: Dominika | 30. November 2016 | no comments

It is no secret that Marie-Mai wasn’t Simple Plan’s first choice when it came to the final decision about which female singer would be featured on the French version of Simple Plan’s song ‘Jet Lag’. While the English version had Natasha Bedingfield, Simple Plan also wanted to release a French version of the song for the French-speaking countries, such as Canada or France and needed the perfect voice for the part.

Canadian singer Coeur de Pirate (real name Béatrice Martin), who co-wrote the song with Chuck Comeau and Pierre Bouvier was actually the band’s first choice. But why exactly did the version with her not make it to the official French single and Simple Plan went with Marie-Mai instead? Coeur de Pirate explained it in a recent interview for the Dutch website Artiesten Nieuws [thanks Susan for the translation]:

“[Simple Plan] wanted to release the single around the time my own album ‘Blonde’ was supposed to come out and it wasn’t exactly planned like that originally. After a small discussion, I finally said ‘ok whatever’ and then someone else got chosen.

This is not the first time an artist worked on a song with Simple Plan, but his version wasn’t eventually used as a single. On the same album – Get Your Heart On! – fans can find the version of Summer Paradise that features Canadian-Somali rapper K’Naan. When it came to the time when Summer Paradise was supposed to be released (ahead of summer 2012), K’Naan’s record company realized it would collide with the release of K’Naan’s own new single, which led to Simple Plan having to re-record the song with a different artist. That artist being Sean Paul. Ironically for K’Naan – Sean Paul’s version of the song became of one Simple Plan’s greatest hits to date. A version of the song that isn’t even featured in the official tracklist of the fourth album.

Of course, over time, similarly to Summer Paradise, we also got to hear plenty of versions of Jet Lag, as Simple Plan like to perform this song with whichever female artist is around when they are performing [read more about all the female singers who were featured on Jet Lag over the years in this section]. Coeur de Pirate got to perform the song live with Simple Plan at the Simple Plan Foundation benefit event in 2013 [watch it here] and the recorded version of Jet Lag feat. Coeaur de Pirate also already made its way on the Internet. So in case you haven’t heard it yet, check it out below:

Music video for ‘Perfectly Perfect’ to reveal stories of diverse couples

AUTHOR: Dominika | 18. October 2016 | 1 comment

For a while now, Simple Plan fans have been aware that the band is releasing the song ‘Perfectly Perfect’ as their 3rd official single from Taking One For The Team. Uptil now, though, it was unknown when the band would start working on an accompanying music video.

Yesterday finally the band released a call to their Canadian fans on Twitter with a link to a Facebook post, which promised to reveal the details of their new music video for ‘Perfectly Perfect’ and how the fans can be a part of it. Unfortunately, the post is geo-blocked to the local residents, but that doesn’t stop us from getting to know what it contains!

The concept of the music video will be based on black and white images of couples of all ages (over 17 years old), nationalities, sexual orientations and gender identity, who will be asked to share their stories on camera, in order to represent the positive message of the song [read more about the meaning of ‘Perfectly Perfect’ here].

The music video will be recorded on October 22nd in Montreal, Canada and the fans interested in participating in the video have been asked to send a picture of themselves and their partner with a short description of themselves to the following e-mail address: spvideo2016@gmail.com.

This won’t be the first time that Simple Plan fans will be able to take part in a Simple Plan videoshoot. The fans were previously involved in such videos as ‘Opinion Overload’, ‘Singing In The Rain’, ‘Jet Lag’, ‘Boom’ and of course most notably ‘This Song Saved My Life’

Simple Plan revealed artwork for new single ‘Perfectly Perfect’

AUTHOR: Dominika | 27. September 2016 | no comments

After weeks of the fact that ‘Perfectly Perfect’ was Simple Plan’s third single of Taking One For The Team was just an information confirmed in various interviews, the band has officially stepped in and announced their new single yesterday. And with that they also showed their fans for the first time what the artwork that will be accompanying the single looks like.

Simple Plan decided to use this Chady Awad’s gorgeous picture from the show in Paris, France (March 13th 2016) for the artwork of ‘Perfectly Perfect’, which perfectly fits the feel of the song itself.

Check it out:

Besides that, Pierre, Chuck, Jeff all decided to write about the song’s lyrical meaning in their Instagram posts yesterday. As you can see, there is not just one clear meaning behind the song, but there’s more. Let Pierre, Chuck and Jeff explain to you better what ‘Perfectly Perfect’ is about:

“Perfectly Perfect is about being in love with someone and seeing beauty in every part of them, even the parts they don’t like about themselves. People tend to focus too much on their flaws. When we see a picture of ourselves we tend to comment on the things we hate, when in reality nobody really notices, especially when you love the person. All the little “flaws” become things that make you special and different. Most of us in the band are now married or in long term relationships and this song was definitely inspired by that. For me personally, the song really reminds me of my wife. I know she has plenty of things about herself that she would like to change, but those are all the things that make her who she is and I love her.” – Pierre

“I would add that I hope this songs helps people feel better about who they are. I know physical appearance can be a huge insecurity for a lot of us. We wrote this song because a lot of times, these insecurities and fears are not rooted in reality. They are caused by a warped perception of ourselves and how the world sees us. I know this because I wrestle with the same thing all the time, just like everyone. I don’t care how good looking someone is, deep inside there’s always something that bugs them about how they look, about their body or how they think people look at them and judge them. We create all these doubts in our minds and we carry that weight around with us and it’s not healthy. It really breaks my heart when a fan tells me they don’t want to take a picture with me “because they look like shit right now” or when I see fans’ photos posted with their faces covered or hidden. I hope music can help some of you feel better and deal with all the hardships life can bring. I dedicate this song to all our fans who have to live with these type of insecurities on a daily basis. We write music for you. We love you and we want you to be happy and proud of who you are. You’re perfectly perfect to us.” – Chuck

“There are a lot of things going on in Simple Plan world this week but one of the things I care the most about is the release of our new single, “Perfectly Perfect”. Chuck and Pierre wrote some very nice thoughts about the meaning of the song. I’d like to add that this song has a special meaning to me: being a compulsive perfectionist, I’m just starting to realize that part of beauty lies in its imperfection. I make mistakes while playing music and sometimes they become magical moments. My little ones do really dumb things sometimes that turn into happy accidents. My relationships are complex and imperfect yet they fill my life with so much joy. I often meet fans that are conscious about themselves: my dad always used to say that I won the first race of life (you know, the one in your mother’s belly?) and that this clearly made me unique, special, incredible, spectacular. We all won the first race of our lives. This weekend, someone asked me how it felt to have fans look at me with so much passion: I answered that I felt the love deeply and that I felt the responsibility to give back. I give back through music and through the time I spend talking with you guys (and girls). It might sound cheesy but I mean it: you guys are imperfectly perfect to me ;-) lots of love.” – Jeff

Simple Plan confirm ‘Perfectly Perfect’ as 3rd TOFTT single in a new interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 17. September 2016 | no comments

At first, SimplePlan.cz brought you the news that ‘Perfectly Perfect’ may be Simple Plan’s new single, when the Thai radio station Eazy FM 105.5 started putting the song in their rotation two weeks ago. Just moments after that, that news became all the more believable when Warner Music Philippines released a lyric video for the song, making the fans very anxious that it may truly be the band’s new single.

However it wasn’t until now, that the members of Simple Plan finally opened up about ‘Perfectly Perfect’ being their 3rd single from Taking One For The Team (after ‘I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed’ and ‘Singing In The Rain’). When in Thailand, Chuck, Seb and Jeff did an interview with the radio MET 107, in which one of the questions was regarding their new single, that this radio station has also already picked up.

Check out the transcript of this part of the interview below:

Interviewer: “We play your single a lot. And right now, your latest single, ‘Perfectly Perfect’ is now on air as well. Can you say something about your latest single?”

Chuck: “Yeah, you know what? It just came out. And I think it’s actually the first place in the world – in Asia – where it’s an “official” single. It’s a song about.. you know, like when lots of times when you’re dating someone, you’ll hear them being super insecure about their bodies or who they are and everything. And it’s kind of a song that says sometimes what you think is imperfect on you or what you’re insecure about is actually this thing about the person that’s actually a super cool thing. So I think that’s kind of what the song’s about. It’s trying to tell people out there that it’s cool to embrace who you are and be proud of who you are. Because lots of times, the people that are really close to you, that’s what they love the most about you. It’s a cute kind of romantic song.

Jeff: “I thought the song was about me..? I’m really disappointed right now.”

Check out the full new interview with Chuck, Jeff and Sebastien, where at mark 6:41, the members of Simple Plan discuss ‘Perfectly Perfect’:

As of right now, it is unknown when the band is planning to shoot and release a music video for this song. But if you were the one in charge of the concept, what would the video be about?

Lyric video for ‘Perfectly Perfect’

AUTHOR: Dominika | 2. September 2016 | 1 comment

After we discussed earlier today that Simple Plan’s ‘Perfectly Perfect’ is slowly getting into radio rotation in Asia, this news is coming as another proof that this song is very likely to be Simple Plan’s new single!

Simple Plan have just revealed that Warner Music Philippines created a lyric video for ‘Perfectly Perfect’, which you can check out below. Will a full-on music video follow? We shall wait and see!