Simple Plan’s song “Boom” has been around for almost a year now [remember when SP first performed it at the SPF event last year?] but only ever since the song’s official release on iTunes and subsequently also its music video‘s release, more new info about this song started popping up online.
That’s why we can finally talk more about the song-writing sessions, during which ‘Boom’ was created, which have one name in common – Runner Runner.
Yes, we can now add two new names to the list of song-writers that Chuck and Pierre from Simple Plan worked with for the songs for their fifth album: musicians Nick Bailey and Ryan Ogren. In fact you may already know these two Americans, as they are both involved in two bands – Over It (rock/pop-punk/melodic hardcore) and Runner Runner (power-pop/pop rock). Besides playing in the two bands, Ryan and Nick also contributed to a couple of other artists’ records with their song-writing. They both previously wrote songs for Emblem 3, Big Time Rush or Issues.
It is interesting to know that while Simple Plan already stated that there would not be many song-writers other than Chuck and Pierre featured on the album, as they prefered the songs they wrote alone, at least one song with additional song-writers made the final tracklist.
