The Kids In The Crowd - Music From The Documentary Soundtrack

With a quarter century of platinum-plated pop-punk hits under their belts, Montreal’s Simple Plan has entered the rock-doc phase of their career with the July 2025 debut of director Didier Charette’s The Kids in the Crowd. And the canonization efforts extend offscreen: The film’s accompanying soundtrack presents an extensive 38-track overview of how this group went from singing about listening to blink-182 and MxPx in their bedrooms (on the 2002 mission statement “Grow Up”) to recording duets with Sean Paul and Natasha Bedingfield. But beyond collecting all of the band’s TRL-era staples, The Kids in the Crowd digs deep into the archives to unearth raw demos of future stage-dive standards like “I’d Do Anything,” recorded back when the group was still sweating it out in Quebec’s late-’90s basement-venue circuit. And before taking us on a journey through their past, Simple Plan gives us a status update in the form of “Nothing Changes,” where lead singer Pierre Bouvier assures us that, despite all his band’s success and growth, he’s still just a kid at heart.