“You Get What You Give” is a song by American alternative rock band New Radicals. It was the first and most successful single from their only studio album, Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too (1998). Released on November 3, 1998, the song reached number 36 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Outside the US, it reached number five in the United Kingdom, number four in Ireland, and number one in Canada and New Zealand.
Composition
“You Get What You Give” has been described as an alternative rock,[1] power pop,[2][3] and pop rock song.[4] It is written in the key of D major with a moderate tempo of 120 beats per minute.[5] Gregg Alexander said the central theme of the song was “remembering to fly high and be completely off your head in a world where you can’t control all elements”.[6] Alexander wrote the song after having a dream in which he heard music coming from a house and walked in to find Joni Mitchell, who told him, “Have a seat.” Mitchell would later, in real life, go on to praise the song as one of her favourites.[7]
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