Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)

Music video

The music video depicts a car crash on a rainy evening, where a young male drunk driver crashes his Toyota Camry head-on into a Trans Am driven by a female, resulting in her death. The drunk driver survives relatively uninjured and is arrested by the FBI and the BATF. The video was filmed near the famous tunnel in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. Vocalist Pierre Bouvier is seen singing at the crash scene and later at the hospital where the victim is.

The video shows the backstory of the crash, with clips of the victim's family: her brother playing video games, her sister doing homework, their mom washing dishes, and their dad working in his office. At the moment of collision, the family is violently thrown into walls, the boy falls out of a bedroom window, and the dad lands on his computer. In a joint letter with MADD, Simple Plan explained the events in the video. The other band members portray the emergency responders.

Reception and legacy

In 2025, Will Howard of Far Out Magazine placed the song at the top of his list of "Five pop-punk songs from the 2000s so bad they feel like parodies." He wrote that the band, which named their first two albums No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls and Still Not Getting Any..., decided to go serious, but whiffed so spectacularly that the song sounds more like naval-gazing self-pitying than anything by emo bands of the day. He criticized the chorus, quoting Bouvier's line "I've made my mistakes."

Did You Know?

• When performed live, Bouvier performs the guitar solo in the middle of the song.
• Lead guitarist Jeff Stinco plays a semi-acoustic guitar until the solo, when rhythm guitarist Sébastien Lefebvre and drummer Chuck Comeau also come.
• Bassist David Desrosiers' main role is backing vocals, with his bass taking a backseat until Bouvier's solo and the final chorus.