forget the Marilyn Manson line, isn’t there a line in the New Radicals song about health insurance sucking?

you’ve got the music in you

Gregg Alexander was raised a Jehovah's witness, ran away to LA, got a deal with Jimmy Iovine at age 16, put out two unsuccessful records and got dropped twice, put out the New Radicals album and had a huge hit he was 28 then quit being a rock star to just write songs

peak gen x to walk away from insane corporate success because it make you feel so bad inside

he says Purple Rain changed his life

flailing around in the worst aspects of the music business for ten years, making a band for fun when you're burnt out and then quitting after putting out a worldwide smash hit whose lyrical message gets totally ignored is quite the mic drop though

he didn't really quit the music biz at all, he just stopped being a frontman and wrote songs behind the scenes under pseudonyms, taking the money but being too embarrassed to put his name on it

every night we smash a Mercedes-Benz

oh god it just occurred to me You Get What You Give is probably as old as Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow was when they played it at Clinton inauguration

and sums up the triumphs and failures of its generation in a similarly neat way

yesterday's gone

"The music video for "You Get What You Give" was filmed in the Staten Island Mall, New York. Gregg Alexander said he chose this setting because he sees the shopping mall as a metaphor for society - a fake, controlled environment engineered to encourage spending."

he also wrote this perfect song

ok I've been informed the New Radicals song is 22 years old and the Fleetwood Mac song was only 15 years old at the Clinton inauguration