"Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too" is a wonderful and underrated 90s album. Not a perfect album, but so ambitious while also being a commercial success. Gregg Alexander wrote one of my favorite 90s ballads with "I Don't Wanna Die Anymore." I really struggled to know what to do with this song because I simply could not match the emotional energy of the original, so I decided to get messy (lazy) and fast with it, stripping it of essentially what I loved about the original. I'm not sure it works, but I encourage giving the original a listen.
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released January 11, 2021
Artist: New Radicals
Album: Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Year: 1998
Writer: Gregg Alexander
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