If you’re looking for a feel-good pop-rock jam to increase your excitement for upcoming festivals this summer, Simple Plan‘s new single ‘Saturday’ may be something worth taking the time to listen to. The track’s “S A T U R D A Y night” chant is derived from a song by The Bay City Rollers, but Simple Plan have given the chant a modern twist – name-dropping Netflix “you and me baby, nothing but Netflix” – and although this is slightly cringe-worthy, it is easy to look past since the song remains utterly catchy.
Simple Plan can be caught ironically playing Friday 28th at Reading Festival and it’s easy to tell that ‘Saturday’ will be a hit with the crowds. It’s fast paced with backing vocals that are already reminiscent of a crowd, but will only be more appreciable once you’ve heard them live. ‘Saturday’ at first seems to be about all the sort of trouble you can get up to on a Saturday night but later reveals it’s about how, no matter what sort of trouble is available, the vocalist would “rather be alone with you on a Saturday night.”
If you’ve sold your soul to their earlier records then the song could be a bit of a disappointment, despite standing as a pleasant track in its own right. Although the new track suggests the anticipated album will only have a vague likeness to earlier records such as Still Not Getting Any., we kind of already suspected a new sound as Get Your Heart On, released in 2011, supplied us with a fresh one back then.
Bands are going to grow and change their sound over time, which is obvious in correlation to ‘Saturday.’ Is this single nothing more than a one-hit festival wonder, which you’ll be pining to delete once summer is over or will it stick around as one of the band’s classics? Make up your own mind and listen to the new single, available to download now.
Words by Zara Rowden
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