As it was announced last week, Simple Plan have teamed up with Taka from the Japanese band ONE OK ROCK and together they recorded yet another version of Simple Plan’s hit song – Summer Paradise!
Check out the new version of the song below and let me know which version of Summer Paradise have you liked the best so far – with K’Naan, Sean Paul or Taka?
You may remember that almost a month ago, I informed you about the possibility of some new Simple Plan tracks coming our way since Simple Plan would be releasing a new special Japanese edition of their latest album “Get Your Heart On!”. The rumors were indeed true and already on March 27th, this new version of “Get Your Heart On!” will be released – with a little surprise!
Back in February, when Pierre and Chuck were in the recording studios LA, they met up with Taka – a vocalist in the Japanese rock band ONE OK ROCK, to record a special new version of their latest single – Summer Paradise (see the original picture of Pierre, Chuck and Taka in the gallery). The single feat. Taka will be released already next week – on March 20th according to Warner Music Japan (March 19th according to Chuck) – have a look at the revamped cover of this single here.
This is Simple Plan’s third studio version of Summer Paradise that features another male vocalist – after the original version with K’Naan and the most recognised version – with Sean Paul. Simple Plan will meet ONE OK ROCK again at the PunkSpring festival in Japan, where both bands are scheduled to perform.
Below you can check out the full tracklist of the Japanese edition of “Get Your Heart On!” that also includes some other bonus tracks – like the “naked” version of Astronaut (released previously on the Summer Paradise single) and a couple of live versions of GYHO songs.
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Get Your Heart On! (Japanese edition)
1. You Suck At Love |
As you know already, Simple Plan are nominated with their latest single “Summer Paradise” in the category “SOCAN Song Of The Year” at the Canadian Radio Music Awards that will be held on March 20th in Toronto, Canada.
And if you wanna help Simple Plan win this award, by voting for them in this category! Just click on the image link below, fill in your name and email and you will be forwarded to the voting site that includes a number of categories at this year’s Canadian Radio Music Awards. Choose “SOCAN Song Of The Year” and help Simple Plan win over Carly Rae Jepsen, Marianas Trench and Mia Martina.
You can vote only once per one email, so make sure to tell all your friends: tweet about it, post about it on Facebook and help Simple Plan win this very honorable award! The voting deadline is March 20th.
The VIMN International Media Networks today announced the most played music videos on 60 MTV channels all across the world in 2012. The highest spots on the list feature artists like Gotye, Carly Rae Jepsen, Maroon 5 or Katy Perry.
Among the list of 50 most played music videos was also Simple Plan’s video for “Summer Paradise” (feat. Sean Paul). MTV played this song over 10 000 times, for which Simple Plan have now received a Platinum award.
After receiving this exciting news, Chuck took to Twitter to thank everyone who helped the band make it this far: “Thank you so much for all the amazing support, MTV! And of course, thanks to all the Astronauts for being the reason why this could happened in the 1st place! You mean everything to us!
Congratulations!
Simple Plan sure chose their 3rd single off Get Your Heart On! very wisely – “Summer Paradise” keeps getting praise left and right and this time around, it even has a chance to win the SOCAN award for Song Of The Year at the Canadian Radio Music Awards, for which it was just nominated for! You may also remember that “Jet Lag” by Simple Plan was nominated for this award last year, but the award eventually went to Fefe Dobson.
This year, Simple Plan will be competing with “Summer Paradise” in this category against such artists as Carly Rae Jepsen (“Call Me Maybe” and “Curiosity”), Marianas Trench (“Fallout”) and Mia Martina (“Burning”).
The Canadian Radio Music Awards will be presented at the Canadian Music Week on March 20th in Toronto, Canada.
And while we don’t know yet if Simple Plan wins in the Song Of The Year category or not, we already know that the band will be awarded with the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award for their on-going charitable efforts.