New Radicals broke up in 1999 – just months after the release of their 1998 single ‘You Get What You Give’. On Wednesday, January 20, the band will reunite for the first time in 22 years to perform their hit single as part of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ virtual “Parade Across America” inauguration event, Rolling stone reports. New Radicals closes the parade that takes place after the swearing-in.
“If there is one thing on Earth that could possibly get the band together, even if only for a day, it is the hope that in such a dark time our song could be even the tiniest beacon of light”, New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander said in a statement.
During the campaign, the song became Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff’s favorite music. Joe Biden shared how the song became important to their family during the last days of his son Beau Biden.
“Over breakfast, Beau would often let me listen to what I thought was his theme song, ‘You Get What You Give,’ by the New Radicals,” Biden wrote in his memoir. Promise me, Dad. “It is a great honor to re-perform the song after such a long time as we all have deep respect for Beau’s military service and we hope that Joe and Kamala will bring our country back to us in this time of crisis, Alexander added. .
The inauguration day celebrations will also feature performances from Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Demi Lovato, John Legend and others.
“You Get What You Give” was named one of Pitchfork’s “Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s.”