“You Get What You Give” by New Radicals, Monday, September 11, 2023
Years ago, I was singing karaoke and my friend started giggling. I was singing “ Lost Stars ” by Adam Levine and the line “Yesterday I saw a lion kiss a deer” got this friend rolling on the dirty 노래방 floor. Admittedly, it’s a funny line for a pop song. And besides colorful Taylor Swift revenge lyrics, pop music has been mostly scrubbed of quirkiness by the late ‘10s. Back in the ‘90s and even into the ‘00s, the pop charts were littered with head-scratching lines. However, that eye-rolling line in Begin Again wasn’t written by Levine or co-star Keira Knightly . That line came from the lead singer of a one-hit wonder in the ‘90s, Gregg Alexander or New Radicals . FOUR A.M., WE RAN A MIRACLE MILE. New Radicals broke up the year after releasing their debut record, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too . The album contained two singles, “ You Get What You Give ” and “ Someday We’ll Know .” Musically, the two hits sound like typical ‘90s pop rock. Listeners can mistake the band for The