After years of fans not being able to listen to the most popular Simple Plan Christmas song and in fact also the first ever song they’ve ever released – My Christmas List on streaming platforms, the band finally made the track available to stream on Spotify today – just in time for the holidays.
If you’ve missed it, listen to the track here:
Over a year ago, just in the middle of the pandemic, Pierre Bouvier started working with a talented young singer Beckett McDowell, the son of the actor Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange), who happened to be Pierre’s neighbour.
Pierre produced a full album of songs for Beckett, often co-written by both Pierre and Chuck from Simple Plan. The first song of the album – “Weirdo” came out this month and Beckett recently revealed a little bit more about how his collaboration with Pierre came about and mentioned that the song was in fact originally written as a pop-punk Simple Plan song.
Only yesterday the music video for Beckett’s “Weirdo”, which also features a small cameo by Pierre, was released. Check it out below:
Thanks to our reader Julia we’ve learned that the British-American rock band As It Is released a brand new single this week called “I Miss 2003”, which the band formed as a love letter to the alternative scene from the early 2000s. In the lyrics, the band hid a number of references to bands from this era, such as Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Good Charlotte or Simple Plan.
Simple Plan in particular are referenced in “I Miss 2003” through their hit song “Welcome To My Life” (featured on the album “Still Not Getting Any”). The verse referencing Simple Plan goes as follows:
Check out what the band’s guitarist Ronnie Ish said about the inspiration for this song:
We wrote a love letter to the scene titled ‘I MISS 2003’ to pay homage to all the bands that paved the way for us to say what we want to say, the way we want to say it. IM’03 was the last song we wrote and recorded with ZJ to finalize ‘I WENT TO HELL & BACK’ [coming out 02/04/22] there’s an undeniable energy to it, it feels different but the scene’s DNA that runs through all our veins makes it feel all the same. Load up the car with all your friends and turn this shit up to ten. Hope it makes you feel something.”
Check out the full song below:
On Friday it has been exactly one week since Simple Plan released their brand new single “The Antidote” and on the same day the song has officially hit 1 million streams on Spotify. On Instagram the guys expressed their gratitude to their fans for listening to the new song and sharing it. Check out what they said below:
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Thanks to our loyal reader Mymie we learned that a Canadian web show called Le retour de 123 PUNK avec Rej Laplanche had Pierre Bouvier as a guest for an interview this week. The interview, which is in French is only available until November 12th through a private link, which you can aquire for free once you sign up for it here.
We asked Mymie to sum up for the most vital information that we would’ve learned in this interview, if we knew how to speak French. And surprisingly Pierre spilled some beans about the upcoming videoshoot for The Antidote and the new album:
Quite exciting, isn’t it? What do you think the concept of the music video will be like? Let us know in the comments below or on our social media!