What Happened to The New Radicals? The Truth Behind the Band Breakup

The New Radicals are performing at Joe Biden's inauguration, and if you're curious where the '90s band has been all these years, here's the answer. Tomorrow, Joe Biden will be inaugurated and this means most of us can breathe a sigh of relief. A period of healing is coming, and in celebration, Lady Gaga, J.Lo,

The New Radicals are functioning at Joe Biden's inauguration, and if you are curious where the '90s band has been these kind of years, here's the resolution.

Gina Vaynshteyn - Author

Tomorrow, Joe Biden can be inaugurated and this means maximum of us can breathe a sigh of relief. A duration of healing is coming, and in party, Lady Gaga, J.Lo, Justin Timberlake, Bon Jovi, and others were invited to perform. One inauguration performance invite we didn't see coming is The New Radicals. You know, the guys who released the one hit marvel, "You Get What You Give." (And sure, they're going to be performing that tune.)

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The New Radicals handiest got here up with precisely one album ("Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too"), and that was once in 1998. So what precisely happened to them? It turns out, they didn't cross quietly into that good night (stuffed with all the one-hit wonders of the '90s). They broke up ahead of the 2000s could get a divorce with them.

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What happened to The New Radicals?

The frontman of The New Radicals, Gregg Alexander, made up our minds it used to be time for the band to break up after one album as a result of he necessarily figured they'd by no means come out with another hit as good as "You Get What You Give." He in fact released a Press Release about it that said he could be that specialize in other tasks. It used to be additionally clear that Gregg didn't feel like being a pop famous person — it was once tiring, and the way of life wasn't for him. So, the band stopped appearing.

Gregg stated

"It was an experience playing the artist, but I accomplished all of my goals with this record, and I'm ready to move on and make the next step in my career. I've been writing songs for and working with artists as varied as R & B acts to Belinda Carlisle intermittently for the last nine years, and I'm looking forward to starting the day-to-day creative process of building a successful production company. I view myself much the same as a just getting started Babyface or Matthew Wilder (No Doubt producer), who dabbled in performing, but whose real calling was being a producer."

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He went on, writing, "I'm going to be turning thirty next year, and realize that the fatigue of traveling & getting three hours sleep in a different hotel every night to do boring 'hanging and schmoozing' with radio and retail people, is definitely not for me ... now I can do what I do best."

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Gregg actually said The New Radicals was once a one-hit wonder band: "Over the last several months, I'd lost interest in fronting a 'One Hit Wonder' to the point that I was wearing a hat while performing so that people wouldn't see my lack of enthusiasm." 

But Gregg has performed "You Get What You Give" here and there, like at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival in 2015. But the band apparently by no means were given back in combination for any other occasions...until now.

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Why are The New Radicals performing at the 2021 inauguration?

Gregg Alexander said Biden's inauguration used to be the one reason he'd even imagine having The New Radicals reunite and carry out. "If there’s one thing on Earth that would possibly make us get the band together, if only for a day, it is the hope that our song could be even the tiniest beacon of light in such a dark time," Gregg mentioned. Plus, on a more emotional word, "You Get What You Give" used to be Beau Biden's struggle music when he was battling most cancers.

“During breakfast, Beau would incessantly make me concentrate to what I believed was his theme song, ‘You Get What You Give’ via the New Radicals. Even regardless that Beau never stopped preventing and his will to are living used to be more potent than most – I believe he knew that at the present time may come. The words to the track are:  This entire rattling world can fall aside. You’ll be good enough, follow your heart," Biden stated, per Rolling Stone.

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It sounds like "You Get What You Give" will without end have way more meaning than just being that one one-hit wonder from the '90s. 

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