As with most things in life, this could be improved by substituting Blu Cantrell for Simple Plan…
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Brad Shoup: “I wanna get a song on Glee/So fuckin’ bad…”
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Jonathan Bogart: First thought: oh good, it’s leaning more towards Sean Paul than Simple Plan. Second thought: oh shit, that means Jason Mraz.
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Alfred Soto: Sean Paul pipes up to remind us of a market share he once owned. Simple Plan and their acoustic guitars remind us that Club MTV once existed.
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Iain Mew: I seem to have developed this syndrome where all cod-reggae songs immediately remind me of Olly Murs’s “Please Don’t Let Me Go” and as a result I can’t bear to listen to them. Including Sean Paul does not stop this being one such song. The only exception is “Please Don’t Let Me Go” itself, which instead makes me think of Jason Mraz. Simple Plan’s attempt at breezy whistling is anger-inducing in its own right too, though.
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Jer Fairall: The last Simple Plan single we covered featured Natasha Bedingfield for no good reason. This one has Sean Paul, ostensibly on hand to lend this piddly little attempt at lite reggae some tepid credibility. At this point, Simple Plan is less a band than an object lesson in what happens when a one-trick act is left to outlive its usefulness, and any B-listers they snare along the way only end up shining a light on their own irrelevance in the process.
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Anthony Easton: What did I do to deserve Simple Plan making a comeback? Seriously, did we not discuss this a few years ago and decide that it was a poor idea, and did we not have a supplementary meeting that worked out Sean Paul quotas?
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Jonathan Bradley: For a moment there, “Jet Lag” had me thinking I didn’t hate Simple Plan.
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