Taking One For The Team Simple Plan

• 1 Opinion Overload 03:19
• 2 Boom! 03:10
• 3 Kiss Me Like Nobody's Watching 03:23
• 4 Farewell (feat. Jordan Pundik) 03:21
• 5 Singing In The Rain (feat. R. City) 03:43
• 6 Everything Sucks 03:32
• 7 I Refuse 03:19
• 8 I Don't Wanna Go To Bed (feat. Nelly) 03:09
• 9 Nostalgic 03:06
• 10 Perfectly Perfect 03:07
• 11 I Don't Wanna Be Sad 03:14
• 12 P.S. I Hate You 03:03
• 13 Problem Child 03:41
• 14 I Dream About You (feat. Juliet Simms) 03:09
• Total Runtime 46:16

Info for Taking One For The Team

Das Warten hat ein Ende: Fünf Jahre nach ihrem letzten Album "Get Your Heart On!" haben Simple Plan die Veröffentlichung ihres neuen Albums bekannt gegeben. "Taking One For The Team” erscheint am 19. Februar 2016. Es ist das fünfte Album der Pop-Punkband aus dem kanadischen Montréal. Im März 2016 wird sich das Quintett mit dem neuen Album auf Tour in Deutschland begeben.

In den vergangen Monaten hatten Simple Plan ihre Fans bereits über die Fortschritte im Studio auf dem Laufenden gehalten, über den Vlog #SPAlbum5. Außerdem verkürzten sie die Wartezeit mit der Vorab-Veröffentlichung mehrerer neuer Songs: "Saturday“, "Boom“, "I Don't Wanna Be Sad" sowie jüngst die Single "I Don’t Wanna Go To Bed" (feat. Nelly), die nicht zuletzt mit dem "Baywatch"-Musikvideo inklusive Auftritt David Hasselhoff für Aufmerksamkeit sorgte (s.u.). und auch auf dem neuen Album zu finden ist, ebenso wie "Boom“ und "I Don't Wanna Be Sad“.

Simple Plan kommentieren: "Wir freuen uns ungeheuer, unsere erste Tour mit dem neuen Album 'Taking One For The Team’ bekannt geben zu können, das am 19. Februar erscheint! Diese europäischen Shows sind die ersten von vielen internationalen Touren, die wir noch bekannt geben. Wir können es kaum erwarten, bis unsere Fans das neue Album hören und wir zurück ‚on the road’ sind!"

Pierre Bouvier, vocals
Sebastien Lefebvre, guitar & vocals
Jeff Stinco, guitar
David Desrosiers, bass & vocals
Chuck Comeau, drums

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One day last year, Simple Plan's Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau were sitting in the recording studio trying to come up with lyrics for a track they planned to include on their new album, Get Your Heart On!. Not only did they want to write a song about the emotional power music can have in one's life, they also wanted to capture the sentiment behind the thousands of pieces of mail the band receive at their Montreal headquarters each month from fans all over the world who write to express what Simple Plan's music has meant to them. As Bouvier tells it: 'These letters are pretty overwhelming and humbling at the same time so we wanted to somehow pay homage to those fans. We were sitting there going, ‘I don't know, what do you think they would say?' and Chuck says, ‘Why don't we just ask them?'' The following message was posted on Comeau's Twitter feed: 'We decided to write a song about you guys…Can you tell me how our music has made you feel through the years?'

'Within seconds, the responses started coming in,' Comeau recalls, still marveling at the moment. 'It was a deluge, like a hurricane of answers.' Based on those Tweets, Bouvier and Comeau constructed what is perhaps the first song ever written entirely via Twitter: the poignant album closer 'This Song Saved My Life.' 'Every word is taken from the hundreds of messages we got from our fans,' Comeau says. It's a tribute to these loyal souls (25 of whom showed up from all over the world at a studio in Vancouver to sing on the track after the band tweeted an invite) who have faithfully followed the Canadian quintet since its inception in 1999, through three studio albums, two live albums, and tours to nearly every corner of the globe, including visits to Russia, Israel, Poland, Jakarta, Estonia, South Africa, and The Philippines, as well as extensive sold-out headlining tours of the U.S. and their native Canada.

Simple Plan's connection with its fans has translated into a string of hit singles, including 'I'd Do Anything,' 'Addicted,' and 'Perfect' from their 2002 double-platinum debut No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls, 'Welcome To My Life' and 'Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me)?' from 2004's platinum Still Not Getting Any…, and 'When I'm Gone' and 'Your Love Is A Lie,' from 2008's Simple Plan, which debuted in the Top 3 in Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and Canada, Top 10 in Hong Kong, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Australia, and Germany, and Top 20 in Spain, Finland, and France. Overall, Simple Plan have sold nearly four million albums in the U.S. and Canada and more than 7.5 million albums worldwide.

Now the band are back with Get Your Heart On!, a gloriously fun, boundlessly melodic slice of poppy modern-rock that finds Simple Plan returning to the revved-up energy of No Pads and Still Not Getting Any after taking a slight detour with a darker, more beat-driven sound on their previous album.

'We love and are very proud of our third album and I feel like it was a record we had to make because we wanted to do something different,' bassist David Desrosiers says. 'But now it's time to get back to the high energy songs. We were really itching to have a batch of fast-up tempo songs, because they are really fun to play live.'

One of the first songs written for Get Your Heart On! was album opener 'You Suck At Love.' The chorus' instantly catchy melody and tongue-in-cheek punchline resonated with fans immediately when the band unveiled the song during a string of memorable performances at last year's Bamboozle Roadshow and was a key moment for the new album.

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