New Radicals broke out in 1999 – a few 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 inauguration event “Parade Across America” Rolling clip reports. New Radicals closes the parade that takes place after the swearing-in ceremony.
“If there’s one thing on earth that could possibly get us the band together, even if it’s just for a day, it’s the hope that our song can be even the smallest beacon of light in such a dark time,” the Gregg Alexander, frontman of New Radicals. said in a statement.
During the campaign, the song became the designated music for Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff. Joe Biden talked about how the song became important to their family during the last days of his son, Beau Biden.
“During breakfast, Beau regularly made me listen to what I thought was his New Radicals theme song ‘You Get What You Give,'” Biden wrote in his memoirs. Promise me, Dad. “Performing the song after such a long time is a great honor, because we all have deep respect for Beau’s military service and such great hope for unity and normalcy, Joe and Kamala, will return to our country in this time of crisis. bring, “Alexander added. .
The Inauguration Day celebrations will also feature performances by 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.”