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First Get Your Heart On! review: 74%

by Dominika | May 27th, 2011 | 2 comments

Critics have never been fond of Simple Plan. Not at all. For example on the music server AbsolutePunk, the reviewes on Simple Plan’s third album were really bad. “Simple Plan” got only 24% with reviewers comments like: “As Bouvier begs and pleads for the subject of the song to stay and croons, “You know it’s not the end,” the listener begins to wish it was,” and as such this album has been labeled as “by far their worst effort”.

Although, with the coming of the 4th Simple Plan’s studio album Get Your Heart On! (that is being released on June 21st), it seems like something has changed severely. The first review (by Joe DeAndrea on AbsolutePunk) of the yet un-released new Simple Plan record has given it 74% and marked it as “the best album of their career, and one of the best in the genre thus far in 2011!”

When it comes to the songs, according to DeAndrea K’Naan’s collaboration on Simple Plan’s “Summer Paradise” sounds like “a song that Plain White T’s wish they could write..”, “You Suck At Love” is considered to be “the biggest hook the band has ever written” and the slowest tracks like Astronaut and Gone Too Soon are also apparently very catchy and strong.

A lot of people have been confronting the upcoming All Time Low’s record (that by the way includes Time Bomb, written by SP – and on the other hand, Alex (ATL) sings on the new SP record): and it seems like Simple Plan’s Get Your Heart On! could actually be a winner of this little competition. Although Dirty Work (All Time Low) and Get Your Heart On! (Simple Plan) both got 74% in their AbsolutePunk’s reviews, the “lasting value” of Simple Plan’s record is thought to be much higher (SP: 9,5/10 – ATL: 6,5/10).

Even though this review has been pretty harsh at Simple Plan at times: e.g. their lyrics are still considered to be absolutely “ridiculous”; he overall image of Simple Plan’s new album from DeAndrea ‘s point of view looks very promising. Even fans, who were already lucky enough to hear most of the songs from it say their greatest comeback: with music that indicated a return to their roots, but to the next level: witty, fun and real.

Mini-news from the last few weeks

by Dominika | May 22nd, 2011 | 2 comments

Because there has been a lot of very short news about Simple Plan in the last couple of weeks and due to much more important news (about the new album, music videos, singles etc.), there just wasn’t time to post about them, I have decided to sum them up in one article. Check them out:

Simple Plan and Marie-Mai in Francie
Simple Plan’s official website published a very interesting news about the upcoming SP show in France, on June 7th: Simple Plan will welcome to the stage of this very intimate concert their fellow canadian singer Marie-Mai and together they will perform their first single Jet Lag for the first time outside Canada.

Canada Sings to air on Global TV in August
Few weeks ago, Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan finished the shooting of a new Canadian TV competition show called “Canada Sings” (which is being compared to a cross-over between Idol and Glee), which he attended as one of the judges, alongside Jane Arden and Vanilla Ice. According to Canadian Business, Global TV will start airing the show this summer – on August 10th 2011.

New photos from the Get Your Heart On! photoshoot
The official Simple Plan website has been through a lot of changes in the past couple of days, thanks to which we now have lots and lots of new photos, which were taken to promote Simple Plan’s new album Get Your Heart On! and as such were used in the website’s design. You can now check them out in the gallery.

Where are Simple Plan heading in November?
That’s a really good question. A lot of rumours about the upcoming brazilian festival called SWU (taking place in November) have been spreading around: mostly about which particular bands will be performing on the festival. People are talking about Foo Fighters, MGMT, and also about Simple Plan as the hot candidates. Though, none of the speculations have been confirmed yet. Plus, we have to take in account the fact, that Simple Plan are also rumoured to do a European tour in November with You Me At Six.

Intimate SP show for MusiquePlus
As a part of the promotion of their new album, Simple Plan will perform on an intimate show on June 20th (one day before the album’s release) in L’Astral, in Montreal. The whole show will be documented by MusiquePlus two days later. Fans can win 30 pairs of VIP tickets through MusiquePlus and as such be able not only to attend the show, but also personally meet the members of the band.

David on stage with Face To Face
It’s no mystery that David loves to sometimes play onstage with other bands than Simple Plan. For example, last year, you could’ve seen him play drums for the song “Looks Minus Substance” with The New Cities. But this week, David switched to another band, his teen idols, Face To Face, to play bass with them on their recent show. You can check out David making his “dream come true” on YouTube.

EW’s review of “Jet Lag”
Simple Plan’s first single “Jet Lag” is doing very well – and not only on the radio charts. The American magazine Entertainment Weekly has recently published a short review of the song, giving it a “B+” rating, marking it as a “loud and surprisingly lovely pop-punk pounder about intercontinental relationships.”, and adding that “with the next Blink 182 album still MIA, this will do just fine.” As the critics are usually not very fond of Simple Plan’s work, we should take this review as a huge success.

“Untitled” music video yet again to prevent from drunk-driving
And a little cherry on top: in the state of Virginia, special ceremonies are being held three times a week for the young drivers-to-be and their parents, in order to inform them about the possible consequences of risky driving. To draw the attention of the young people, the policemen decided to begin the ceremony with the showing of Simple Plan’s music video for the song Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me?). Among other things, the video deals with the effects that drunk-driving can have on entire families. This is not the first time that this video has been used to alert people from taking such risks while driving – Untitled has also been a part of the Don’t Drink And Drive campaign.

Simple Plan Foundation benefit event: recap & new album review

by Dominika | Nov 15th, 2010 | 1 comment

Source: Canoe.ca

Even though words cannot describe music like the music does by itself, if you want to check out what the new album is going to be like, make sure to read the article below, which recaps everything that went on on the Simple Plan Foundation benefit event, but also reviews the sample of the new album, that’s been played for the fans in its studio version:

The fourth album by Simple Plan will be released in March or April. During the press conference, where they talked about the foundation that bears their name, the band made the following announcement. “We came back from Vancouver a few days ago, where we finished recording the album,” said the singer Pierre Bouvier. “It’s been long enough, but the work is worth it. We are very happy.”

On the album, Simple Plan talk about “girls, partying, fans, life!”. “Our concept is to put songs on an album. The pieces are quite varied. Even if we say every time the new album is the best, this time, it is thought to be true!” says Jeff Stinco.

“We spent only one year writing,” says Pierre. “We wrote almost 65 songs, to keep only 12.” The quintet worked with producer Brian Howes (Puddle of Mudd, Hedley) on this new album. “He is very meticulous, like us. We spent a lot of time on the songs. ”

Among the new pieces, there is one called This Song Saved My Life, which includes the participation of fans. “We decided to write this song because of all the stories we received from fans,” said Pierre. “They were asked to write to us on Twitter to tell us how our band had changed their lives. And it was inspiring to write lyrics based on the messages.” Twenty-five of these same fans have traveled to Vancouver to record with the group. “We thought it was cheaper than the real singers!” says Chuck Comeau, laughing.

On Sunday at Club Sportif MAA downtown Montreal, fans of the band had the opportunity to hear a preview of this new album. By paying $100 for their entry, guests were entitled to a meal, could participate in an auction, preview the new album and watch an acoustic performance by Simple Plan. All in favor of Simple Plan Foundation.

The event, led by Eric Salvail, Simple Plan raised $125 000 for their foundation. The auction included all sorts of interesting items/experience, including a dinner with the band ($ 2,500), a music session with Simple Plan ($ 2,000) and a round of golf with Chuck Comeau ($ 2,100).

Before the premiere of five new songs from the upcoming album (“Even my mother has not heard them yet,” said Jeff), Pierre Bouvier asked the audience not to record these songs and not to put them on the Internet. “Can we trust you? Keep your cameras down!”

Even if the mix of the songs was not completed, one could realize by the first listen that the band had not lost his talent for designing catchy melodies. Young fans in the attendance even sung some choruses in choirs, which is always a good sign. To close the day, Simple Plan played seven of their songs acoustically, including Shut Up, I’d Do Anything, Welcome to My Life, Love Is a Lie, Take My Hand, Crazy and When I’m Gone.