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Simple Plan’s ‘I’m Just A Kid’ becomes viral in new TikTok trend

AUTHOR: Dominika | 18. April 2020 | 1 comment

In a completely unexpected turn of events, Simple Plan’s 2002 hit single ‘I’m Just A Kid’ recently became viral after thousands of users began using the song in a new trend on the social media platform TikTok. The ‘I’m Just A Kid’ challenge on TikTok lies in recreation of one’s childhood photos in 2020 with a cut to the old photo.

Over the past couple of days – because of this new TikTok trend, Simple Plan’s song has been used on over 680 000 times for more and more recreations of people’s past, as most are stuck in self isolation with nothing on their hands. Overall, the I’m Just A Kid challenge itself has been viewed over 43 million times. According to Sebastien, because of the popularity of ‘I’m Just A Kid’ on TikTok, the song has now also become trending on Spotify.

Simple Plan themselves were very pleasantly surprised with the sudden viral use of their first ever single and shared a few of their favorite TikTok creations on their Instagram [see them here]. Check out what SP had to say about this unexpected viral fame:

“In the midst of all the chaos, craziness and bad news of the last weeks, watching this happen and catch fire has been truly magical for us. It’s definitely a little ironic to go viral in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, but we are so grateful for every family, sibling, kid, parent, couple and animal-owner who’s taking part in the #imjustakidchallenge on @TikTok and sharing these amazing videos.

It’s pretty incredible to watch a song we wrote almost 20 years ago bring people together and make them smile. Thank you for sharing these memories and if you haven’t made one yet, what are you waiting for? We can’t wait to see yours!”

– Simple Plan (source) –

Apart from the tens of thousands of TikTok users, this trend has also become popular amongst many prominent internet stars – including David Dobrik, James Charles or the Dolan twins. But the video that the Simple Plan fans will most likely appreciate the most was done by one of Simple Plan’s best friends, Patrick Langlois (their former photographer, merch guy and webmaster). Patrick decided to hop on this trend just a few days ago – recreating his old picture with Chuck – even in self-isolation. Check it out:

@patrick_langlois

I think I’ve mastered this Tik Tok challenge ##imjustakidchallenge ##imjustakid ##simpleplan

♬ I’m Just a Kid – Simple Plan

And below you can check out a compilation of some of the examples of TikTok’s viral I’m Just A Kid challenge:

LISTEN: Pierre Bouvier featured on Silverstein’s new song ‘Take What You Give’

AUTHOR: Dominika | 6. March 2020 | 1 comment

A few weeks ago we informed you that Silverstein’s new album ‘A Beautiful Place To Drown’ would include multiple guests, including Simple Plan’s lead singer Pierre Bouvier.

The album finally dropped today, March 6th 2020, and you can finally listen to ‘Take What You Give’ by Silverstein feat. Pierre Bouvier below. Pierre sang on the bridge and the outro chorus (check out mark 2:00):

Lyrics to the song can be found below. Let us know what you think of ‘Take What You Give’!

Silverstein – Take What You Give

[Verse 1: Shane Told]
Took a deep breath underwater
Watched the waves go by over and over
All the right things at all the wrong times
Sink when I should swim, too late to rewind
I don’t know what I want or what I expected
I don’t know how I got to feel so rejected
It’s the way that it is
You can’t take what you give

[Chorus: Shane Told]
I count the days I tried to listen
I should have quit
‘Cause every time I keep on missing
The point of all of this
Sad truth, bad news
Is that all I get?
It’s the way that it is
You can’t take what you give
It’s the way that it is
You can’t take what you give

[Verse 2: Shane Told]
It gets harder waiting for it
Tell me when’s it gonna hurt and I’ll try to ignore it
I wanted something new but nothing is changing
I gotta stop searching for something worth saving

[Bridge: Pierre Bouvier]
It’s no use trying to remember
Can’t forget what I already know
This moment feels like forever
This current never lets me go

[Outro Chorus: Shane Told & Pierre Bouvier]
I count the days I tried to listen
I should have quit
‘Cause every time I keep on missing
The point of all of this
Sad truth, bad news
Is that all I get?
It’s the way that it is
You can’t take what you give
It’s the way that it is
You can’t take what you give
It’s the way that it is
You can’t take what you give
It’s the way that it is
You can’t take what you give

VIDEO: Watch The Maine cover Simple Plan’s ‘I’m Just A Kid’ in Prague

AUTHOR: Dominika | 12. February 2020 | no comments

Last night, February 11th, the American rock band The Maine performed in Prague, Czech Republic for the very first time. And thanks to the always present Simple Plan fans at local rock shows, we have found out that during the gig at the Futurum Music Bar, the band actually performed a small cover of Simple Plan’s classic hit ‘I’m Just A Kid’.

Our reader Josef even managed to film a bit of this cover on his phone and you can now check out the footage he sent us below. Kudos to all the fans who sang along!

Travis Clark revealed secrets behind the song-writing process with Chuck and Pierre in new Alternative Press interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 5. February 2020 | no comments

In a brand new interview for Alternative Press, We The Kings’ lead singer and also a talented song-writer Travis Clark talked about his recent writing collaborations with other artists – such as Avril Lavigne, Machine Gun Kelly or Simple Plan. For Simple Plan, Travis has been writing with Pierre and Chuck in California on and off for almost year and half during countless songwriting sessions. All that mostly for Simple Plan’s upcoming album.

During the interview, Travis was asked about his collaboration with both Simple Plan and State Champs on their collaborative song ‘Where I Belong’ and how the songwriting process worked “with so many minds in one room trying to put together a song”. This was Travis’ answer:

“So we knew that the tour was going to happen, and then Simple Plan had this idea. They were just like, “Hey, we’re all friends with each other. It would be really cool to attach a song to this tour and have us all be a part of it.”

With “Where I Belong” specifically, I think Pierre [Bouvier, Simple Plan vocalist] and Chuck [Comeau, Simple Plan drummer] had an overall skeleton idea of the song. And they brought Derek [DiScanio, State Champs vocalist] in to write some of the production and some of his lyrics that he sang in the second verse. And then they basically had that song finished and completed other than the recording of it. They were like, “Trav, would you want to do the bridge?” And all of our voices sound relatively similar to each other, so you want to piece it together part by part. And so we all decided that it’d probably be best if I sang the bridge and did that together so that every person had their part in it. But as far as the rest, We The Kings didn’t record any drums or guitars. We didn’t do anything other than sing vocals. And I think it was probably similar for State Champs.”

– Travis Clark [Alternative Press interview] –

Working with Simple Plan was mentioned one other time during the interview and that was when Travis was asked about what his take on collaborating with someone is and how he approaches the way the ideas come about. Travis explained that sometimes is just comes organically after listening to the artist’s story and background (such as Avril Lavigne and her battle with Lyme disease) and the lyrics just roll out. However, according to Travis, with Simple Plan, sometimes ideas came from collective brainstormings and finding just the right word or phrase that the song could be written around. See how Travis explained this interesting process below:

“And other times, it’s different. When I was working with the Simple Plan dudes, it was myself, Pierre and Chuck. And Chuck would sit there, and he would just scroll through his phone and have all these one-word or two-word ideas that could eventually [become the] title of a song. It was funny because it really would kick-start the whole writing session. We did a couple [of] songs that could only exist because he said one word.”

– Travis Clark [Alternative Press interview] –

Pierre Bouvier to be featured on a song on Silverstein’s new album

AUTHOR: Dominika | 9. January 2020 | no comments

The Canadian rock band Silverstein recently released new information about the release of their long-awaited new album entitled ‘A Beautiful Place To Drown’ which will be released on March 6th 2020.

As a part of the release date announcement, Silverstein also revealed the entire traklist of the album, which also includes a number of interesting collaborations – including one with Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan. The song is called ‘Take What You Give’, which appears as the last song on the record. It is currently unknown whether Pierre also contributed to the writing of the song, or whether he was only asked to sing on it. We shall hopefully find out in March.

Simple Plan of course have a long-standing relationship with Silverstein, who they’ve toured with in Europe back in 2006. In 2015 Pierre even appeared on Shane Told’s podcast and in 2018 the lead singer even mentioned in an interview that the 2006 tour with Simple Plan was in fact one of his favorite ever.

Check out the full tracklist of Silverstein’s new album ‘A Beautiful Place To Drown’:

1. BAD HABITS (FEAT. INTERVALS)
2. BURN IT DOWN (FEAT. CALEB SHOMO)
3. WHERE ARE YOU
4. INFINITE (FEAT. AARON GILLESPIE)
5. SHAPE SHIFT
6. ALL ON ME
7. MADNESS (FEAT. PRINCESS NOKIA)
8. SAY YES!
9. STOP
10. SEPTEMBER 14TH
11. COMING DOWN
12. TAKE WHAT YOU GIVE (FEAT. PIERRE BOUVIER)

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