The New Radicals & Gregg Alexander
The New Radicals was Gregg Alexander. Gregg Alexander was the New Radicals. He wrote and produced all of their songs. He is the distinct and sometimes haunting vocals heard on all their songs. In 1999 the New Radicals and Alexander were on a straight shot to musical stardom with songs like “Mother We Just Can’t Get Enough”, “Someday We’ll Know” and of course “You Get What You Give”. A big tour was booked everyone was seeing dollar signs. But something happened. Alexander pulled the plug. I remember my tenth birthday was the exact day when Alexander announced that the group was done. What happened? No one can know for sure but it is easy to guess that Alexander saw himself becoming part of the machine that he despised and tried to speak out against in his youth through music. The New Radicals were branded a one-hit wonder and faded to black. But like with most great art Alexander’s music still lives on in some recess.
Note: Bad/Good- The advertisement before the video/the lyric “Did the captain of the Titanic cry?”
