Michelle Branch and Gregg Alexander Release Reimagined ‘The Game of Love’

Grammy Award-winning artist Michelle Branch and New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander share a new, reimagined version of “The Game of Love,” produced by Alexander. The new version brings Branch back together with Alexander, the song’s original writer and producer, for their first collaboration since the song initially came out in 2002. The release of “The Game of Love” heralds a brand-new era of music for Branch, with her Everywhere and Back Again EP arriving November 6 via BMG.

The project celebrates Branch’s 25-year career and brings her iconic catalog into a new era through reimagined recordings featuring friends, peers and special guests.Everywhere and Back Again revisits the songs and cultural moments that have defined Branch’s career, while looking firmly toward the future. The EP will feature reimagined recordings of some of Branch’s most beloved songs such as “The Game Of Love” and “Everywhere,” “All You Wanted”, “Goodbye To You,” “Breathe” and more.

Each track will feature collaborations with acclaimed artists from across genres, with additional names to be announced soon! The project reframes songs Branch first wrote and released as a teenager through the voices and perspectives of artists who grew up alongside her music.

“Getting to hear these songs, many I wrote as a teenager, performed by friends and peers that I so greatly admire has been such a ‘pinch me’ moment as a songwriter,” Branch shares. “Suddenly these adolescent songs about love lost and found take on an entirely new meaning and weight when sung by artists of all different genres and in a different era. Being able to celebrate a 25 year career while firmly believing my best work is still ahead of me is the dream of any artist. And having fans that have grown up beside me who are still listening and still care after all these years is the greatest gift. Thank you all for helping me celebrate.”

The reimagined version of “The Game of Love” with New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander kicks off the new project, which sees the pair collaborating together more than two decades after Branch’s Santana collaboration HERE which won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart. “The Game of Love” was originally written by Alexander, who also wrote The New Radicals’ nearly lost hit, “Murder On The Dancefloor,” which was originally earmarked to be their 1998 debut single, but instead sat in the vault until released as a 2001 single by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

After being used in a pivotal scene in the box office and viral hit film Saltburn in 2024, the song had a resurgence, again reaching #2 on the UK chart, going platinum in America and making its first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart two decades after its initial release.