Idobi radio aired a pre-taped special last night, in which the guys from Simple Plan played their new album “Taking One For The Team” from start to finish and discussed each track. If you missed this show (or its replay), you can now check out the following recap of all the most interesting information the band members revealed.
Pierre and Jeff confirmed that ‘Opinion Overload’ was a song that’s meaning lies in the fact that it’s very tough to take criticism – whether it’s from your peers or your parents, but the final message of the song is “I wanna do, what I wanna do”.
An interesting secret meaning of the pretty-clear-love-song-on-the-surface ‘Kiss Me Like Nobody’s Watching’ was revealed during the show. According to Chuck, the within the hidden meaning touches the song touches the subject of gay marriage and the “I’m sick of hiding” attitude of the LGBTQ community.
During the special, the guys discussed staying at Chuck’s house in California during the recording process of this album, and how David in a very not david-esque fashion started waking up really early every day (between 5 and 6am), even before Sebastien. During this time, Alex from The Brooks also apparently helped David re-discover his own music instrument and David got a lot more into funk and R&B on his bassguitar, which is what created the funky bass material on ‘I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed’. Also, Sebastien apparently missed watching David record this part, which was a ‘fun party’, because for that one night he wanted to go out with his wife, which he regrets now.
Regarding ‘Perfectly Perfect’, Pierre first joked the song was about David “before he had his sex-change,” but then revealed that this song was in fact inspired by this Dove commercial, in which an artist draws people without seeing them by their own description and then he draws them again by a description of a stranger. The results showed that people are overly critical of themselves and see flaws where others see beauty. Pierre added that it’s personal to him too, as despite the fact that his wife often doesn’t see herself as beautiful, he always sees her that way.
The name Sophia that appears on “P.S. I Hate You” is a random name the band chose (“It could have easily been Olivia”) as a symbolism for someone who’s poisioning a relationship they’re in – cheats, lies and because of whom such relationship falls apart.