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New featuring rumour: Marie-Mai to sing on Jet Lag?

AUTHOR: Dominika | 15. April 2011 | 1 comment

Most of the Simple Plan fans are by now probably already aware of the fact that the 4th Simple Plan album will be filled with many collaborations: with a bunch of co-producers, producers, song-writers and singers – from Claude Kelly and Alex Gaskarth, to Rivers Cuomo. Though, not all the names of famous personalities, who have worked on the upcoming Simple Plan release, have been announced yet. As the band has said – there are still lots of surprises to come.

And one of them might have leaked onto the internet already: a French-Canadian singer Marie-Mai, who has been one of the top finalists of the singing competition Star Académie, was spotted at the shooting of Jet Lag on Toronto airport (Marie-Mai was apparently NOT on the set of Jet Lag, yet it is rumoured she WILL be singing on the song). Now, because Simple Plan have already mentioned there will be a guest appearence on Jet Lag, chances are Marie-Mai could be another interesting collaboration on the new Simple Plan record. And if she’s actually singing, that would make her the first woman to ever have a duet with Simple Plan.

Also, eTalk has recently aired a video including both artists:

Alex Gaskarth to be one of the secret collaborations on the new Simple Plan record

AUTHOR: Dominika | 26. March 2011 | 3 comments

It’s been already a few days since we found out that Simple Plan were one of the co-writers of the new All Time Low’s song “Time Bomb”. And what comes now seems like everything we’ve almost predicted:

In the latest interview that Alex and Jack from All Time Low did for Buzznet (thanks to Elisa for letting us know), Alex revealed not only a little bit about the process of writing Time Bomb and that it was in fact originally a fully-Simple Plan song, but also that Alex got to do something for the Simple Plan record too!

This is possibly one of the secret collaborations we’ve heard so much about! Make sure to check the interview with All Time Low below (the SP part comes at about 2:00 mark)

P.S.: I know it’s Jack on the picture with Pierre. There is just no other decent All Time Low/Simple Plan picture around.

Alex: Actually the song Time Bomb has a pretty cool story. It was a song that Simple Plan – well Chuck and Pierre from Simple Plan were originally coming up with Matt Squire, at the same time that I was writing with Matt Squire – like the same week. You know I would be there from 1 to 3 and they would be there 4 to 6. And basically what happened is that that I guess they hit some kind of a wall. And Squire was like “Check this song out! Maybe you’ll like it. Maybe you’d relate to it.” And so I listened to it and kind of changed it around. And then we wrote some stuff and it actually ended up working better for us than it did for them, so they were like “You know what? This is an All Time Low song. And that’s the problem, it’s not a Simple Plan song.” So we ended up using the song for ourselves. And I’m stoked ’cause it was a really cool opportunity to write with Chuck and Pierre.

Jack: “They are like the nicest dudes in the world. And they speak French.”

Alex: “Which is hot!”

Jack: “Which is the language of love and sex.”

Alex: “And I actually got to… I don’t know if they’ve announced it yet, but I got to do a little something on their record too, so that’s cool.”

New collaboration revealed: Toby Gad

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. March 2011 | 2 comments

Sources: TobyGad.com & CSP

Simple Plan have really invited a huge amount of amazing artists, songwriters and producers to make their 4th studio album the best yet. Another confirmed songwriter – Toby Gad – has (according to his official website) co-worked on more than one new Simple Plan song.

Toby Gad is a famous American song-writer and producer, who has written many hit songs for artists like Beyoncé (“If I Were a Boy”), Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Demi Lovato, The Veronicas (“Untouched”) and others. One of his greatest success is definitely a song nominated for the prestigious Grammy award: “Big Girls Don’t Cry”, by Fergie.

Yesterday, Toby has published a new picture of him, PIerre and Chuck from Simple Plan back from when they worked together in LA on the new SP album. Make sure to check out the picture in its full size in the gallery:

And, I’m still keeping the best for the end: in the video below, you can check out not only a recap of Toby’s most successful singles and all his collaborations, but also few shots of what it looks like when one is “co-writing” with Simple Plan:

Simple Plan one of the co-writers of All Time Low’s new song

AUTHOR: Dominika | 13. March 2011 | 4 comments

For the American band All Time Low it has always been a dream to play alongside bands who’s music they practically grew up on – and Simple Plan have always been on the top of the list. Their dream came true in summer 2010, when along with Simple Plan and other bands they played together many shows across the USA and few festivals in Europe. We can only guess that somewhere along the road, the impuls to write something together must have come.

The song “Time Bomb”, which will be featured on the new All Time Low’s record “Dirty Work”, and which the band started playing live only few months ago and which leaked online in its studio version only weeks ago, has been confirmed to be a masterpiece by not only All Time Low, but partially the members of Simple Plan too! The lyrics to the song have been written by Alex Gaskarth (lead singer of All Time Low), Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan, and also Matt Squire, who’s also worked on some other lyrics for Simple Plan on their upcoming album.

It’s very interesting that the authorship of Simple Plan has never been mentioned before even though the guys have supported the release of All Time Low’s Time Bomb from the very first day. Pierre told Alex in one of their Twitter conversations that he’s “loving the new song #TIMEBOMB”.

Now here’s a question… could All Time Low collaborate also on some Simple Plan’s lyrics? Could that be one of the top-secret collaborations we’re all dying to find out about?

Make sure to check out the All Time Low’s “Time Bomb”, co-written by Pierre and Chuck, along with its lyrics below:

PHOTOS: Faber Drive collaborate with Simple Plan

AUTHOR: Dominika | 11. March 2011 | no comments

As you already know, the canadian band Faber Drive invited the boys from Simple Plan – namely Pierre and Chuck, to help them co-write some songs for their upcoming third studio record. Yesterday, the boys met again and this time also published a short article about it on their blog and added two photos from a 10-minutes log video of their writing session – hopefully we will once get to see it too:

Yesterday we met Chuck and Pierre from Simple Plan at our hotel and spent the afternoon and evening in one of the rooms working on a new tune. We have nothing but awesome things to say about those guys and their talent as writers!! Stoked for their new album coming out soon!

One thing I noticed was how crazy fast the sun goes down here. We shot a 10 min iPhone vid of us working and below is a screen shot of the start of the video, and one of the end of the video. It pretty much went from daylight to night in about 10 min flat!!!