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Okay. Okay.
So
So for my project, I did
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
our HCP.
And there's some Californication.
Um,
And they released it in 99, but so I would say it
Probably influenced the 2000's a lot.
Mm.
And definitely influenced me a lot.
Go here. The Red Hot Chili Peppers
were one of the most
influential bands of the 90s and will go down as
one of the most influential bands of all time.
As you can see here.
Mhm,
mhm.
Go here.
This is just a little bit about them.
Yeah.
Although the Red Hot Chili Peppers began
their life of grunge in California
did not take long
for this group to influence mainstream media
Group began developing its sound in 1983,
but continues to influence popular music.
Even today,
I have listened to them my entire life. I have
before I could even remember anything when I was
one years old.
You know, my mom has a video of me humming
porcelain, which is on this album. Actually,
um,
they've been
as a band,
one of the most influential bands ever. And my life revolves around music. And
I wouldn't even say They're one of my favorite bands.
They just
have affected my taste so much.
And, uh,
okay.
Specifically California Californication.
It's the biggest song by them
that has affected me the most. And we'll get into that here.
Yeah,
still a little bit more about the band.
It's actually
terribly sad.
Um,
the founder of the band.
He overdosed,
and
it's kind of a running thing in the band for them to be,
um,
sorry my screen got messed up. It's a running thing in the band
that a lot of the members struggle with addiction,
specifically
opioids.
Um,
Flea wasn't an accident and he was taking painkillers. And then luckily, he got out.
But I remember it had drug problems,
and you can definitely see it
on this song. Specifically,
um,
they're not
talking much about drug use, but the album Californication, they really are
okay now. I think we'll get married to the song now.
Okay.
Um you know what she said?
The Sun Californication was released on an album called Californication.
It came out and
June eight,
Mhm.
The song is 5:30, and it's the first song on, and it's the title track.
Remember
vividly the first time
because I must have listened to this song before I could, like, remember.
But I remember the first time I ever really paid attention to listen to this song.
My family had just come home from
Arizona
because I lived in Colorado.
We're visiting here
and
just left the airport, and it was It came on the radio
and
it was captivating. I could still remember it vividly to this day.
I couldn't hear any of the words he was saying, but just the
the rhythm of everything. I loved this song, and I still do to this day.
Yeah,
um,
one of the main reasons I love this song are because of the lyrics and because of the
meaning to the song. A lot of people don't actually,
you know, it kind of goes over the head.
Some people just kind of think it's about California.
Some people think they're satirically harping
on like conspiracies about government,
and
that you hear most of these conspiracies
from like wack jobs in Southern California.
And the band actually recently
stated it's mainly about the dark side of
Hollywood that lies underneath the glossy surface.
This is a quote, and
it's
quite interesting listening to the song thinking
In that way I have a lyric here, the very first lyric of the song Psychic spies,
from trying to trying to steal your mind's elation and so
And current events. It's interesting when you think that this song came out in 99.
Yeah,
current events. I don't want to talk about that stuff, but,
um,
the first words of the song Psychic Spies From China try to steal your mind's elation
and Little Girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation.
If you want these kind of dreams,
it's Californication just saying like you find these things in California.
Um,
another layer that always stuck out to me was
pay your surgeon very well
to break the spell of aging
celebrity skin. Is this your chin
or is that warrior waging? Uh,
just
harping on
money buying
cosmetics and
plastic
surgery and whatnot, And,
uh,
I think we'll go next on the
word Californication.
Mhm.
What that
came from.
That's next. Okay,
The structure of the song and sounds
have been inspiring my own song, writing for years,
just a
guitar tone
and specifically the biggest thing, the metaphorical satire and the lyrics.
Everything in here
is
satirical, too
California, essentially. And there
they were.
They started in California, in Southern California, and they
have so much negative things and positive things to say about it. It's interesting,
I think, um,
metaphorical satire. Another example of the Lyrica
space. Maybe the frantic sorry
space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement.
And Cobain, Can you hear the spheres singing songs off station to station
as harping on
Cobain? Kurt Cobain, who
killed himself
with a shotgun?
Um,
they're jumping. They're jumping to
of the biggest current
conspiracy theories I have heard recently
that Oh, Cobain
wasn't it wasn't suicide. I've heard that conspiracy lately.
Um,
The moon landing was made in Hollywood that they were in water.
I've heard that conspiracy recently, and this was all in California.
Cations lyrics like 99
Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement.
And Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off station to station?
And although Iran's not far away,
although Iran,
it's, uh,
you know them actually confirming that this is about
you know
I said,
Here was it
here. It's about the dark side of Hollywood that lies in any of
them, confirming that that's what the song was about, saying all these things.
That's why I love this song so much and why it's so influential to me. Because
they,
you know, you're taking a
leap of courage essentially to do something like that
and a song when you when you
have that big of a platform and that many fans
and um
saying all these things, it gets fans
riled up. It's genius. It's like
mhm,
they're
adopting.
Here's the lyrics
video. It's like they're adopting this sort of anti
culture.
And I think even if none of these conspiracy things are true,
you get them.
They're going to be talked about forever.
And
I think that I think these lyrics are so
inspirational to me is that
you know they're they're harping on the entertainment.
These conspiracies, conspiracy theories are entertaining to people.
Nonetheless, if they're not true and
the metaphorical satire combined with,
they're a big band and they're saying these things, I want that sort of platform
and my own songwriting.
I hope that makes sense.
I feel like I said that part. But
my citations
and that is why I love Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers.