Californication (song)
Californication is the fourth individual one extracted the album of the same name of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is a song protestor against universalization, like much of other songs of the album. She also speaks about pornography and refers several to the pop culture, in particular with Star Trek, Star Wars, Kurt Cobain, singer of the group Nirvana, the album Station to Station of David Bowie but also with the charges of lies with regard to the landing on the the Moon of the missions Apollo.
Video clip
The video clip is rather strange, it alternates filmed sequences of the group and passages which take the form of a Video game seen since the player. These sequences present many resemblances to video games such as Grand Theft Auto, Crazy Taxi, SSX Tricky, Resident Evil and Donkey Kong 64.Various scenes of the clip let think that this one is held with San Francisco. It also should be noted that those have particular characteristics, represented by notes which post in a column on the left screen with each time a character is selected, with the image of what one could see in a video game. The characters are noted as follows:
: the instrument differs for each character, it acts of the song for Anthony Kiedis, of the battery for Chad Smith, low for " Flea" , of the guitar for John Frusciante.
However each of the four characters knows an evolution different from the others.
John begins his course on the Hollywood Walk off Famed. He runs up against a celebrity and jumps over three security guards and collects an asterisk, symbol of the group. Later, it goes in a movie studio, crosses the turning of a science fiction film, of a skin flick and stops finally on a plate where is apparently made a biographical film on Léonard de Vinci (John is particularly interested by the Italian genius and all its work). He observes one of the flying machines created by Vinci being used and conceals it. One then sees it on this machine in the scene in the sky. In the scene of the earthquake, it is found blocked by a collapsed building, it thus changes direction and jumps through a giant donut.
Chad, as for him, starts by descending a hill to snowboard, fall into a ravine and lands on a train. Later, one still sees it in snowboard on a bridge which seems to be the Golden Spoils Bridge. Then, at the time of the scene in the sky, one sees it always carrying out figures in snowboard. In the scene of the seism, a building which crumbles lack to crush it.
Anthony begins his course in the ocean, swimming in the middle of the sharks and other swimmers, it recovers an asterisk. It leaves water by overlapping a shark and lands in its car. On the number plate the inscription " is reproduced; GERMS" , reference to the group of punk The Germs with which Anthony grew. Later, it leads in San Francisco, under water then change through a giant donut. The car falls from a cliff and lands on a dragonfly, controlled by Flea. Finally, it falls and is found in a field of poppy where the flowers which surround it push until reaching an enormous size but it finds an asterisk. At the time of the earthquake, he escapes from accuracy from the crash landing of a bus.
Flea is him in a forest of mahogany tree where the access to an asterisk is blocked to him by a bear. Thanks to a carriage of mine, it finds another asterisk kept this time by a pregnant teenager. It is undoubtedly about Dani, the Californian young girl whose history starts here, she continues in the song " By the Way" on the album éponyme to finish in the song " Dani California" , first extract of the album Stadium Arcadium . It is found then encircled by a horde of logger but change at the top of a mahogany tree and all the other trees collapse. A little later, it overlaps a dragonfly at the time of the scene being held in the sky and recovers Anthony in his fall. At the time of the seism, it avoids, him also accuracy, the fall of another building.
The play finishes with the fall of each of the four characters in the center of the ground, where they find a cube which they touch. The characters in synthesized image change then and the real members of the group reappear.