Even though many sources claimed so in the past, the first fully released song “Saturday” from Simple Plan’s upcoming (yet-untitled) fifth album, is in fact NOT the band’s first single from this album, just a teaser song, just like “You Suck At Love” was released early on during the GYHO era (however “Jet Lag” was the first official single). Simple Plan themselves confirmed this information in a couple replies on Twitter yesterday, saying: “Saturday is just a teaser since everyone waited so long! Can’t wait to show you our first single!”
As “Saturday” previously caused an uproar among many fans due to its “poppy” sound, this may come as very welcome news to some. It means that there will be a completely different song, which will be put on radios (although “Saturday” is being played on some already) and most importantly for which we can expect a full-on music video. Whether the next song the band plans to release this week is the new single is currently unknown.
Speaking of music videos – according to another reply from the official Simple Plan Twitter account, the band will be “filming a few videos in the next bit.” What’s interesting is that the account mentioned “a few” music videos, not just one. It may be that to save time and money, Simple Plan may film a couple of music videos in a course of a few days, which will then be released one by one throughout the year.
You may recall that Simple Plan did this once before during the GYHO era, when they filmed music videos for “Can’t Keep My Hands Off You”, “Jet Lag” and also “Astronaut” very close to each other before releasing the first one. This is helpful mostly because the band then wants to get back on tour and returning back to filming locations would be time and money consuming. This way they can have the videos backed up to release them when the right time comes.
Final mini-news is David related. If you don’t follow David on Instagram or Twitter, you may not know that a few weeks ago David took up a course on skydiving at Parachutisme Nouvel Air and 5 days ago he made his first official solo jump [see picture here]. David’s reasoning for this adrenalin-filled activity is simple: “The reason I’m doing this is I want to be able to get my own rig and travel the world with it so I can see the places we go to from the best angle there is… It is live Google Earth!”
