A pop-rock group that was formed in the late '90s but was heavily influenced by the rock and soul of the 1970s, the New Radicals are the creation of singer/producer/songwriter Gregg Alexander--a native of Grosse Point, MI (near Detroit). Growing up in Michigan, Alexander started listening to both rock and R&B extensively as a child and was only 12 when he acquired his first electric guitar. After high school, he traveled around the U.S. and lived in both New York and Los Angeles. It was in L.A. that he formed the New Radicals, which signed with MCA in 1997 and soon got to work on Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too--a 1970s-minded CD that came out in October 1998. Alexander did all of the producing and arranging and most of the songwriting on the promising album, which was the group's sole release -- after scoring the hit "You Get What You Give," he disbanded the New Radicals to focus on production work.
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Consider the fact that Maybe you've been brainwashed too,
Many will tell you otherwise.
I bet you trust your bank,
Just wait untill it tanks,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
Your parents had it planned,
We're almost like them?
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
Fun, racist professional sports,
Management gets the real rewards.
Multi national owned evening news,
If we believe we're fools,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
You watch 4.5 hours of tv a day
And we should listen to what you say?
Maybe you've been brainwashed too
Opinions on life and the world,
You eat at the Hard Rock abroad and you disrespect your girl.
Sexism is so ingrained
that women get the blame,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
Is it smug middle class satisfaction you peddle?
Better hope your car don't breakdown in the Ghetto.
Rich companies lobby best,
Use their products, prepare to lose a breast.
Why your sick mothers health insurance got
"Accidentally" cancelled is no mystery,
Somebody's paying the government a lot to have access to everybody's medical history,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
Greedy banks bought all the farms,
Chemical food, aren't our lives charmed,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
Teenagers baited, their money spent
With credit cards at 20%
Too broke to worry about the loan,
Their f***ing turning off your phone,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
And politics, a f***in joke,
Right and left - they're both a hoax,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
Just hope the "international" markets don't crash!
Rock N Roll! Some truth? Alas!
Careerist cowards sucking ass.
Is real investigative reporting dead?
Of course, but keep watching your CNN,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
The glitz, the glamor, all jokes aside.
If a sponsor pays enough, they'd turn a blind eye on third world genicide,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
"Bro, don't get heavy, the bills are paid!"
Twice a week (missionary style) we all get laid.
Middle management goes first, your out on your ass.
Most ignorance is bred at home,
Good Christian families? then why condone
Petty hatred of anything different or new,
Maybe you've been brainwashed too.
The fat girl hung herself in June,
No love at home, they thought she was strong.
Her classmates made up her own song
"Piggy Peggy ate everyone's pie"
The kids moved on, one teacher cried.
The kids switched targets the week after she died.
Well? human nature wont change much
Unless we make a shameful bunch
Of those we see so glaringly
Who show hate, ignorance, and hypocracy.
Don't be a coward-make a stand!
Get in their face-act like a ham.
Let people know it's not PC
To be greedy and judgemental under the guise of religion and democracy.
Get loud and stand up every time,
If you give a f*** about man kind.
Cause if human nature don't evolve soon,
Don't kid yourself, you're f***ing doomed.
Don't run away from change and growth.
Let's start right now, "I take the oath!"
But first accept one simple truth,
That maybe you've been brainwashed too.
So cynical, so hip, so full of s***, they told us to shut the f*** up and write another hit
