Thursday, July 11, 2019

Retro Video of the Week: "You Get What You Give" by New Radicals

New Radicals were a flash-in-the-pan band in the late '90s, founded by lead singer and songwriter Gregg Alexander.  The band was kind of a collective, with various musicians performing at various times.  In October 1998, they released their only album, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too.  And then, on July 12, 1999 -- 20 years ago tomorrow -- Alexander announced that the group was disbanding.

Of course, if you know any New Radicals song, it is likely "You Get What You Give," a catchy alt-pop song with societal themes and that famous jab at various other musicians at the end of the song (Beck, Hanson, Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson).  The song was the band's only charting hit in the U.S., reaching #36 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it was also a hit worldwide, going #1 in Canada and New Zealand, #5 in the UK, and Top 40 in Austria, Australia, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.  And the video features Alexander wearing his trademark bucket hat.  Does it get any more '90s than that?

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