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New Radicals have released new music for the first time in 25 years, in support of Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign.The Los Angeles band are best known for their 1998 hit single ‘You Get What You Give’, but famously separated just months after its release.To support Harris’ current campaign for the presidency, they’ve shared new music for the first time in a quarter of a century. The new songs are two covers: one of Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ and one of ‘Lost Stars’ from the Begin Again soundtrack.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s hit song ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ originally included a lyric about hitting a bong, co-writer Gregg Alexander has revealed.Alexander, who is a member of New Radicals, is credited as a co-writer and co-producer of Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 song, which has recently enjoyed a huge resurgence after soundtracking an already-infamous nude scene in Saltburn.‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ was almost New Radicals’ debut single, the band’s frontman Gregg Alexander has revealed in a recent interview with The Guardian. Alexander explained that the song was initially intended to be New Radicals’ debut single, instead of their 1998 anthem ‘You Get What You Give’.“The record company wanted something urgently and I didn’t have the time or the budget to finish both.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ was almost New Radicals‘ debut single, the band’s frontman Gregg Alexander has revealed. Listen to a snippet of his original demo below.Alexander is credited as a co-writer and co-producer of Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 song, which has recently enjoyed a huge resurgence after soundtracking an already-infamous nude scene in Saltburn.Back in January, ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ reached its original position of Number Two on the UK singles chart (it is currently at Number 20), and broke into the Billboard 100 in the US for the very first time.Ellis-Bextor has since made her US TV debut, announced a run of North American headline shows and performed live at the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards off the back of her surge in popularity.However, during a new interview with The Guardian, Alexander explained that the song was initially intended to be New Radicals’ debut single, instead of their 1998 anthem ‘You Get What You Give’.“I almost flipped a coin between the two songs,” the singer-songwriter told the publication.“The record company wanted something urgently and I didn’t have the time or the budget to finish both.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor is gearing up to tour around North America for the first time and adding more cities for fans to see her perform “Murder on the Dance Floor” live.

Peter Kay, 49, has lamented the “backlash” caused by "cancel culture" nowadays when he appeared on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show yesterday.The star’s comments on BBC Radio 2 come as fans continue to take to Twitter today to complain about difficulties with booking tickets for his upcoming tour. Peter and Zoe, 51, were co-presenting her BBC show following the comedian’s exciting announcement that he would be going on tour after 12 years of absence from the stand-up scene. Ever the funnyman, Peter played a game with Zoe which involved listening out for commonly misheard lyrics in songs.One song that the pair played for Radio 2 listeners was You Get What You Give by New Radicals.The lead singer Gregg Alexander can be heard singing the lyric “what’s real can’t die”. However, Peter pointed out that the “can’t die” sounded remarkably similar to the name of Liverpudlian comedian Sir Ken Dodd.“Hang on, it’s coming up now - Ken Dodd,” Peter said in time with the music, as Zoe burst out laughing. “It goes on for ages! He must be a fan of Ken Dodd, he just shouts it out randomly,” Peter joked.“It’s so true! Like the Diddymen,” Zoe said in reference to the mythical race made famous by comedic legend Ken. The Diddymen have existed in Merseyside mythology for years and refer to a miniature race of people.While they started as an unseen joke, the characters eventually went on to appear onstage with the comedian, and were played by either children or adults with dwarfism.“Oh, you can’t say that now,” Peter told Zoe about the reference, “No, it’s not allowed.” “Oh, is it not?” Zoe said in a hushed tone. “No,” Peter reiterated as the song continued to play.“Can’t say anything!” Peter said.

New Radicals reunited for the first time in 22 years during a virtual event celebrating president Joe Biden’s inauguration today (January 20).The Los Angeles band are best known for their 1998 hit single ‘You Get What You Give’, but famously separated just months after its release.Appearing on stage together for the first time in over two decades, New Radicals took part in the Parade Across America broadcast which was streamed shortly after president Biden was sworn in at the US Capitol.“When we heard ‘You Get What You Give’ was a Biden family anthem, we pledged if Joe won we’d get together and play our little song – both in memory and in honour of our new president’s patriot son Beau,” frontman Gregg Alexander said to introduce the

Rolling Stone reported. The name-dropping, vaguely political one-hit-wonder was Doug Emhoff’s walk-on song during campaign rallies for his wife, VP-elect Kamala Harris, and Biden.