New Radicals have released their first new original song in nearly 28 years. The track, titled "One Night Only (Break Loose Break Free!)," surfaced on 31 July 2025 as part of a partial soundtrack drop for an upcoming film of the same name Vulture.

The song serves as the title theme for One Night Only, a romantic comedy set in a world where premarital sex is illegal and the plot turns on a search for love on the least romantic night of the year. The film is due out 7 August, according to Rolling Stone.

The soundtrack portion released on Friday includes the New Radicals track alongside a King Princess cover of "Love Is in the Air" and a preview of Este Haim's score for the film Rolling Stone.

"One Night Only (Break Loose Break Free!)" runs 3 minutes and 37 seconds and is the band's first original song since their 1998 debut album, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too Rolling Stone. Frontman Gregg Alexander disbanded New Radicals the following year, in 1999, despite the album having produced a major radio hit in "You Get What You Give."

The band's name has surfaced periodically since. New Radicals reunited in 2021 to perform at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration parade. In 2024, Alexander rerecorded "Lost Stars" and "Murder on the Dance Floor" — songs he wrote or co-wrote for other projects — under the New Radicals name. But neither of those was a new composition, which makes "One Night Only (Break Loose Break Free!)" the first freshly written track to carry the band's name in decades.

For a group that walked away at the height of its visibility, a new song attached to a film soundtrack is an unorthodox return path. It is also, on the evidence, a deliberate one: the track was written as the movie's theme, not as a standalone single, which means the reunion was driven by the project rather than the other way around.