Gregg Alexander is American musician, singer-songwriter and producer. He may not be as famous publicly anymore because he works “behind cameras” now, but he has written and produced hit songs for several artists
Gregg Alexander’s music marked my life in many ways.
To me, this guy is a genius. His compositions either reduced me to tears or increased my joy.
For those who never heard of him, Gregg Alexander was the frontman of the 1990s band New Radicals. A brilliant band from the imagination of Gregg that vanished way too fast.
New Radicals became huge when he released “Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too” in 1998, one of the most EPIC alternative albums of that decade fully written by him.
Someday we’ll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we’ll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we’ll know
Why I wasn’t meant for you.
The New Radicals became famous but Gregg didn’t like the superficiality of the music industry, the invasion of his privacy, the exposition that ruined his creativity and in 1999, just one year after the song “You Get What You Give” neared the top of the Billboard charts, he disbanded The New Radicals, turned his back on fame and fortune and simply walked away.
At that point, he moved to London, where he aimed to find a way to remain musically creative but also anonymous.
Gregg had penned about a half-dozen pan-European hits, including “Murder on the Dance Floor” for QUEEN Sophie Ellis-Bextor, “Lovin’ Each Day” for Ronan Keating and “Lost Stars” for Adam Levine.
He also co-wrote the song “The Game of Love,” for Santana and Michelle Branch, etc…
I have to confess I just found out he wrote those songs, curiously happened to be records I adored, especially “Murder on the Dance Floor”, “Lovin’ Each Day” and “Lost Stars”.
Lost Stars that he wrote for Adam Levine got an Oscar nomination back in 2014.
I loved that song the moment I heard not knowing it was Gregg’s, but after paying attention to the melody, the sound, even the way Levine’s sing it is 100% Gregg Alexander.
In other words, PERFECTION!
1998 “Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too” still playing on my Spotify, in fact it’s playing right now because the style, the voice, the lyrics, the whole thing is memorable.
Yet, the ballads of the album are my ultimate favourites, I consider “You Get What You Give” to be a song that beautifully ended the 1990’s
Health insurance rip off lying
FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they’re multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson,
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You’re all fakes run to your mansions
Come around we’ll kick your ass in!
This song is like a standing 5 min ovation towards the ’90s, and it basically says: “Thanks for the ’90s, guys. Everything goes downhill from here on.”
Championed by a soulless media misleading
People unaware they’re bleeding
No one with a brain is believing
It’s so sad you lost the meaning…
Essence and transcendence is what lacks in music today.
Real artists are supposed to observe life and not the other way around
This guy is one of my musical heroes. I salute you today, Sir!
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