ARTIST · POP / ALTERNATIVE

New Radicals

Bucket-hat optimism with lyrical bite—California studio maximalism in a compact era.

Alternative rock
Pop rock

Updated 27 October 2026

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Biography

Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too stitched 70s singer-songwriter DNA to programmed drums.

Gregg Alexander retired the band name at peak buzz to focus on writing and production.

The single's celebrity name-checks sparked headlines yet hook survived the noise.

Lossless streams reveal talkbox sparkle, live-room bass, and gang shouts.

New Radicals were essentially Gregg Alexander and a changing group of musicians, and their only album, Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too (1998), included You Get What You Give and Someday We’ll Know. Alexander used the song to criticize the music industry.

He disbanded the group in 1999 and became a successful songwriter and producer, co-writing The Game of Love for Santana and Michelle Branch. The band’s songs keep appearing in films and television.

Interesting facts about New Radicals

01 American alternative rock project formed in Los Angeles in 1997.
02 Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too (1998) included You Get What You Give.
03 Won BMI Songwriter Awards through Gregg Alexander's post-band catalogue work.
04 The band made only one album.
05 Gregg Alexander became a songwriter for other artists after the band ended.