SIMPLE PLAN, Tik Tok, Performing At My Wedding! (Pierre Bouvier)
Lightweights Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Pierre Bouvier, lead singer of SIMPLE PLAN, has sold over 10 million albums world wide. We discuss the recently MASSIVE Tik Tok trend using their song "I'm Just A Kid", married life, performing at my wedding, band beef, the early years, the current years, and everything in between.
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| 0:00.0 | Pierre. Yes. Can you perform it my wedding? I'm just kidding. I would have done it. Seriously |
| 0:05.0 | I could have it's right up the street, but I'm on tour I think because it's in August right? |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah, should we move the date? Should we move the tour? Yes! Yes, I'll just call the offspring in some 41 say I got to go play Joe's wedding |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, take your refunds would be easy. Oh, yeah lead singer of the band simple plan selling over 10 million albums releasing six studio albums |
| 0:21.6 | Performing at the winter Olympics and a former marine biologist |
| 0:25.9 | Pierre |
| 0:26.9 | Bouvier. Bouvier. Bouvier. Yeah, yeah. Have you watched The Simpsons? Yeah, of course. You know that Marge is |
| 0:34.1 | Made in name. What's her maiden name? Bouvier. Yeah, you come from a line of celebrity. Exactly and then there's a couple different ones |
| 0:41.3 | John F. Kennedy's wife was Jackie Onassis, which was Jackie Bouvier was her maiden name. You're not related to these people at all, right? I hope so |
| 0:49.6 | I'm waiting to find out but not so far. I haven't really checked. I haven't really dove that deep |
| 0:54.0 | But maybe there's not a lot of Bouviers in North America. So your hair's a little blue. Oh, yeah, there you go |
| 0:59.3 | So you had a recent TikTok push with your song. I'm just a kid. Yes huge massive trend on TikTok |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, what kind of TikTok? What kind of kickback do you see from that 10 to 15 years later after the song's released? |
| 1:16.1 | Well, what's interesting is that I could tell you that on Spotify |
| 1:20.3 | I'm just a kid, you know, it was always a big song for the band, but it wasn't our biggest by far and it was like I would say probably |
| 1:26.8 | I would say back up like two three years ago |
| 1:29.3 | I'm just a kid was probably sitting at like 75 million spins or something like that |
| 1:32.8 | And then we had a few that were in the 100 million 150 and 200 million or maybe not close to that anyways |
| 1:37.8 | And now since then in the last two years, I'm just a kid has become our biggest streamer |
| 1:42.5 | So and that's all due to TikTok. That's crazy. Yeah, so it's become our biggest streaming song of all of our catalog |
| 1:49.1 | Does that that obviously blows up the other songs and did it helps everything and the brand? |
| 1:52.9 | I mean, I think a lot of people have discovered who single plan is through this |
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