Taking One for the Team

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Singles

"I Don't Wanna Go to Bed" was released October 16, 2015 as the album's official lead single.[9] The song features pop and funk influences in a stylistic departure from the pop punk and pop rock of the group is earlier work. A Baywatch-inspired music video premiered October 15, 2015 – a day before the song's digital release.[7] It has since peaked outside the top 50 on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 54.[10]

"Singing in the Rain" was released as second single from the album on March 25, 2016.[11][12] However, the single version of the song does not feature R. City.[13] The music video for "Singing in the Rain was released on April 12, 2016; set in the 1960s, it was a tribute to the movie That Thing You Do.

"Perfectly Perfect" was announced as the third official single on September 26, 2016.[14]

Other songs

The first song released from the era was "Saturday" on June 22, 2015.[15] In September 2015, drummer Chuck Comeau revealed the song would not be featured on the album.[16]

"Boom" was released August 28, 2015 as the second promotional single after its music video premiered a day earlier.[17][18]

A third buzz track, "I Don't Wanna Be Sad", was released September 18, 2015.[19] Initially presumed to be the album's first official single, it was later announced to be a promotional track only.

The band released the album tracks steadily leading up to the release date. A music video for "Opinion Overload" was released on February 5, 2016.[20][21] "Farewell" was released on February 14, followed by[22] "I Refuse" on February 15,[23] "Nostalgic",[24] "P.S. I Hate You"[25] and "Perfectly Perfect".[26]

At the end of the album, Canadian sports announcer Bob Cole calls a fictional ice hockey game featuring Simple Plan, concluding with, "Oh my goodness, can you believe it? Just like that, Simple Plan have won the game!".[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 65/100[27]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars[2]
Kerrang! 3/5 stars[28]
Consequence of Sound D+[3]

Taking One for the Team received generally favorable reviews from music critics. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 65 based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[27]

Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic called the record "pure, no-frills, feel-good fun, a start-to-finish crowd-pleaser for fans of that classic pop-punk sound." He concluded about the band's musical stance they made with their album: "When music is presented this directly, and after so many years holding firm to a particular style, it's hard to root against them […] Simple Plan -- whose members were in their late thirties at the time of recording -- are the comeback underdog team, winning whether critics like it or not."[2] Collin Brennan of Consequence of Sound commended the band for their longevity and continuation to deliver "earnest sentimentalism" through "heavy music for people who don't like heavy music" but was heavily critical towards their attempts at different soundscapes on "Singing in the Rain" and "I Don't Wanna Go to Bed", concluding that "[W]hen their punches land, you want to bless these guys for sticking to their guns and not growing up. But the misses are real and painful, and they make Taking One For the Team a far more embarrassing listen than it needed to be."[3]

Track listing

All writing credits per booklet.[29]

No. Title Length
1. "Opinion Overload"   3:19
2. "Boom!"   3:10
3. "Kiss Me Like Nobody's Watching"   3:22
4. "Farewell" (featuring Jordan Pundik) 3:21
5. "Singing in the Rain" (featuring R. City) 3:42
6. "Everything Sucks"   3:31
7. "I Refuse"   3:18
8. "I Don't Wanna Go to Bed" (featuring Nelly) 3:08
9. "Nostalgic"   3:06
10. "Perfectly Perfect"   3:07
11. "I Don't Wanna Be Sad"   3:13
12. "P.S. I Hate You"   3:03
13. "Problem Child"   3:41
14. "I Dream About You" (featuring Juliet Simms) 3:09
Bonus tracks

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[30] 12
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[31] 18
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[32] 45
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[33] 105
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[34] 4
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[35] 59
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[36] 30
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[37] 21
Scottish Albums (OCC)[38] 37
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[39] 11
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[40] 10
UK Albums (OCC)[41] 44
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[42] 4
US Billboard 200[43] 94
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[44] 15

Personnel

Personnel per booklet.[29]

References

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