Only a few times does an album come along that shakes the foundation of music forever..... but sadly SIMPLE PLAN'S album "Still Not Getting Any" isn't one of those.
This Canadian 5-piece outfit hits out with weak, diluted punk-pop, cluttered with terrible cliches and constructed with production seemingly the first consideration, the band's looks coming in second and a bunch of tunes that even McFly would have left on the editing floor lagging behind in an embarrassing third.
Unredeemable and dire throughout - working only briefly on the mildy rebellious but safe "Shut Up Shut Up", or "Welcome To My Life" - "Still Not Getting Any" taps into ye olde teen angst as'singer' Pierre Bouvier questions life deeply. "Do you ever feel like breaking down? Do you ever feel out of place? Like somehow you just don't belong And no one understands you? Do you ever wanna
runaway? Do you lock yourself in your room? With the radio on turned up so loud That no one hears you screaming!" he splurges at one point. Oh woe is he.
Selling a couple of million of records over in the States isn't always a yardstick for quality, and predictably Simple Plan's music blunders down blind alley after blind alley in search of the plot and simply sounds like the most formulaic crock of crap imaginable. It's desperate to get down with that all important "teen market" and - frankly - it's welcome to it.
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Simple Plan are a truly awful experience. They attempt to be purveyors of sugar coated pop, but their music is equally sickly and about as welcome as a dentist's drill. To sum(41) it up, the whole thing might work better as a visual experience, so it's no surprise it also comes with a bonus DVD. Not that this is much livelier either.
"The connection between us and our fans is the most important thing we have," explains bassist Desrosiers, as I prop matchsticks under my eyes and stay aawake as they pontificate on said DVD. Lead guitarist "Stinco" adds: "Without them, I would probably be working a nine-to-five job that I hate." The simple truth is Stinco may need to freshen up his cv sooner than he thinks.
For me to stick out listening to the whole album is a testament to my loyalty to W&H. It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it.
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