(At one point, he recalls, he lived with rock revivalists The Darkness.) “There was a part of me that felt like it was going to fucking destroy me. And there’s something frayed and familiar about his demos — some leaked to the Internet, others he sent me as as attachments in emails leading up to our interviews — which are so full of passion that their potency rivals that of the versions other artists recorded.“Gregg’s greatest strength as a writer is soul-searching lyric and melody ideas that seemingly appear out of thin air,” Brisebois says. Club's Internet Culture Editor. In addition to working with Enrique Iglesias, Mel C, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, he’s als the writer behind chart-toppers like Santana and Michelle Branch’s Randall Colburn is The A.V. “Who’s to say where I or other artists would have gone in terms of trying to challenge the status quo?” he asks. “Gregg wanted to return to being a ‘day-to-day artist’ and not a ‘career rockstar.’ He was maybe just too generous, or even naive of a spirit for the job. He isn't on social media, and getting in touch with him is its own obstacle course if you don't have the proper channels. “If I had kept trying to assert things I think a lot of other people were feeling about where society, technology companies and big business were going, I think there would have been a concerted effort at some point to say, ‘We can't let artists think this is fair game for them to talk about anything but sex, drugs and rock and roll.’”In a way, “You Get What You Give” has become his hallmark, a crystallization of the beliefs he maintains about a society that’s more broken than ever. “When it actually started happening for real, and I wanted to talk about injustice and politics and meaningful things, there was no support system. The name Gregg Alexander may not ring a bell, but the sight of him in a floppy fisherman’s hat probably would. It’s unclear where, exactly, he calls home. He generously praises fellow altruists like Oprah Winfrey and President Barack Obama, recalling the time he met the latter at the former’s house prior to his presidency and urged him to do more for the Global Fund.He was coaxed out of retirement for the second time in 2014 with John Carney’s film “There was the disillusionment of a lot of the superficial aspects of the music business,” he says. It’s a drizzling autumn night in New York City when Gregg Alexander, known to the world as the mastermind and frontman of late ‘90s one-hit wonder New Radicals, appears. Alexander hasn’t granted a substantial interview since 2014, and before that, 1999. I find that truly infectious.”“The Game of Love,” originally demoed by Macy Gray (whose version is unreleased) and then Tina Turner (whose rendition was included on Santana’s He was still open to working with anyone who called enough times (the benchmark for how he picks working with new artists today), but he fell almost entirely out of the public eye, with the exception of appearing at a few industry gatherings in hopes of meeting his idols. ... Now, Alexander … ?Many consider The New Radicals a one hit wonder. Last week, as I waited in the lobby of a New York hotel to meet Gregg Alexander — the frontman of the 1990s band The New Radicals who, ... Alexander was now … (Of the most glaring: “Health insurance rip off lying/FDA big bankers buying/Fake computer crashes dining/Cloning while they're multiplying.”) He assembled the song as a writing exercise, with the goal of making each line top the last: “Four A.M., we ran a miracle mile” references his time living around L.A.’s Miracle Mile area and revels in miscreant frivolity; “We’re flat broke but hey we do it in style” serves as a nod to couch-surfing for two years around town and when he was dropped as a solo artist.He didn’t intend for its final stretch, an indictment of celebrities that name-checks Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson, to be the takeaway, though the media reaction fixated on it. It’s likely the same instinct that inspired him to hightail it out of the music industry when he discovered its more insidious nature and instead focus on charity work and the freedom that came with using other artists as a medium for his songwriting.All the meanwhile, he’s forged a remarkable career behind the scenes. “Nobody will ever know if five or six singles [would have come] out, whether it would have sold one more copy or 20 more million copies. I did read the following a few weeks ago:In 2008, Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Rick Nowels and guitarist Rusty Anderson—the bulk of the New Radicals lineup—reunited as The Not So Silent Majority to record the song "Obama Rock" supporting the election of U.S. President Barack Obama.I read somewhere that he is doing really well writing hits for other people.
Alexander was the one-man band behind The New Radicals, who created one of pop-rock’s most enduring songs when they dropped hit single “You Only Get What You Give” 20 years ago. That hadn’t happened in terms of being that political in, fuck, 20 years?” (Still, he faced no backlash from his targets: “Of course I didn’t.
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