This week the video of the hit californication of the group hot red chillies passed billion views on YouTube.
The music video for the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2000 hit, Californication, features the members of the band (Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante) and their avatars traversing a fictional open-world video game.
So far in 2022, the topic recorded an average of over 290,000 daily visitsaccording to YouTube.
This year, YouTube celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first song to break the billion barrier: Psy’s hit called gangnam stylewhich remains in the top five most viewed music videos on the platform.
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californication it was the band’s fourth single from their 1999 studio album of the same name. It peaked at number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks.
The official video of californication was uploaded to YouTube in October 2009, several years after its original release.
Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the 5 minute 21 second video is a reflection on the dark side of California, including Hollywood, ending with an image of a virtual game landscape of California destroyed by an earthquake.
the story of the song
californication he is easily recognizable by the mix of guitar and bass in his intro and music video.
According to Anthony Kiedis, It was one of the hardest songs to write for the record, and they had to work hard to finish it in time, until one day the singer came to the studio saying that he had it all figured out and that he used the same compositional process as under the bridgeas if it were a poem. was inspired by Visors of carnage from The Cure.
The theme references a deterioration of Western society, talks about pornography and plastic surgery, and even elements of pop culture such as Star Wars, Star TrekCelebrity Skin magazine, Kurt Cobain and the album From station to station by David Bowie.
a great gift
The milestone of one billion YouTube views for the band comes the same week announced a 2023 tour of North America and Europespanning 23 dates, with guest artists including The Strokes, St. Vincent, Iggy Pop, The Roots and King Princess.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers recently wrapped up their biggest 40 stadium tour to date, and released two chart-topping albums this year, unlimited love Y The return of the dream canteen.
The band returned to #1 in the US and UK charts, after 15 years, with unlimited lovesomething I haven’t had since Arcadian stadiumsince 2006.
This milestone was thanks to successes Black Summer Y These are the ways, published in February and end of March.
In England, unlimited love it became the fifth Red Hot Chili Peppers album to reach number one. before they were Speaking of which (since 2002), Live in Hyde Park (2004), Arcadian Stadium (2006) and I’m with you (2011).
A minor detail nothing of the disk was the return of legendary guitarist John Frusciantewho had just left the group after Arcadian stadium. Also, unlimited love It had production from the aforementioned Rick Rubin, who had worked with them on classic records such as Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), californication (1999), Speaking of which (2002) and Arcadian stadium (2006).
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