The song This Song Saved My Life, also known as the final song of Simple Plan’s latest album “Get Your Heart On!” is definitely one of the songs that are very meaningful to many Simple Plan fans. That’s because it’s about them – it sums up what they feel like when they listen to a certain song of their favourite band or how the song helps them go through rough times, how it changes their lives.
Apart from Chuck and Pierre (Simple Plan’s main songwriters), also Toby Gad (who previously wrote famous hits like “Big Girls Don’t Cry” or “If I Were A Boy”) helped to shape this song into what it is today. The most important contribution, though, were the fans: Simple Plan posted a message on Twitter asking their fans to tell them how their music makes them feel. And using their words they came up with This Song Saved My Life. A few of the fans then had a special opportunity to lend their voices to the song itself in the recording studio and the song was born.
Toby Gad Productions has now published an amazing video showing the writing process of This Song Saved My Life:
