Gregg Alexander ended New Radicals after their lone album, 1998’s acclaimed Perhaps You’ve got Been Brainwashed Too, however went on to develop into considered one of pop’s most profitable behind-the-scenes songwriters. He co-wrote hits like Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Homicide On The Dancefloor,” Santana and Michelle Department’s “The Sport Of Love,” and the Oscar-nominated Start Once more track “Misplaced Stars,” recorded by Keira Knightley and Adam Levine. On the conclusion of New Radicals’ run, Alexander was disillusioned with the lifetime of a rock band frontman, and he is hardly ever given interviews or carried out since their 1999 tour opening for Goo Goo Dolls.
In 2021, nonetheless, New Radicals reunited for the primary time in 22 years to carry out at President Joe Biden’s digital inauguration parade. New Radicals’ huge hit, “You Get What You Give,” was Beau Biden’s “theme track” throughout his battle with most cancers, and the president wrote about its significance in his memoir. Previously couple of years, Geese, Benee, Gus Dapperton, and different Gen Z artists have additionally coated the track.
Alexander just lately launched his personal variations of “Homicide On The Dancefloor” (in 2024) and “The Sport Of Love” (final month), giving followers an opportunity to listen to these songs in his personal voice.
Now there’s an precise new New Radicals track. Alexander and Danielle Brisebois have been the band’s solely everlasting members, and so they continued working collectively after the venture ended, co-writing songs together with “Misplaced Stars” with Brisebois’ husband, Nick Lashley (to not be confused with Nick Lachey).
On Friday, they launched “One Evening Solely (Break Unfastened Break Free!).” Alexander, Brisebois, and Lashley co-wrote and carried out it, and it is the primary newly recorded track credited to New Radicals since 1998. (To be pedantic: Alexander and Brisebois launched their very own model of “Misplaced Stars” in 2015, however not below the New Radicals identify. When it was reissued in 2024, it was retroactively credited to New Radicals earlier than disappearing from streaming companies. So if you wish to name this the primary New Radicals track in 11 years as an alternative, I will not argue. Anyway…) The brand new observe serves because the theme for One Evening Solely, the upcoming Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner romcom through which premarital intercourse is against the law apart from one evening every year. Its punchy piano-driven pop-rock and spoken-word bits aren’t too far faraway from Perhaps You’ve got Been Brainwashed Too.
King Princess and Este Haim, who’re each a part of the film’s intriguing forged, additionally contributed to the soundtrack. King Princess coated John Paul Younger’s 1977 hit “Love Is In The Air,” whereas Este Haim reteamed together with her Suncoast collaborator Christopher Stracey to compose the movie’s rating. “One Haim Solely Plus A Stray (Rating Suite),” a medley of their work, is streaming alongside the New Radicals and King Princess tracks. Verify ’em out under together with the trailer.
