Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California

Dani California by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“Dani California” is the first single from the American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ninth studio album, Stadium Arcadium.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California Lyrics

Getting born in the state of Mississippi
Papa was a copper
And her mama was a hippie

In Alabama she would swing a hammer
Price you got to pay when you pick the panorama

She never knew that there was
Anything more than poor

What in the world what does your
Company take me for

Black bandana sweet Louisiana
Robbin’ on a bank in the state of Indiana

She’s a runner, rebel and a stunner
running everywhere sayin’
Baby what ‘cha gonna

Looking down the barrel of a
Hot metal 45
Just another way to survive

California rest in peace
Simultaneous release
California show your teeth
She’s my priestess; I’m your priest
Yeah yeah

She’s a lover baby and a fighter
Shoulda seen it comin’ when
It got a little brighter

With a name like Dani California
The day was gonna come
When I was gonna mourn ya’

A little loaded she was

Stealin’ another breath
I loved my baby to death

California rest in peace
Simultaneous release
California show your teeth
She’s my priestess; I’m your priest
yeah yeah

Who knew the other side of you
Who knew what others died to prove
Too true to say goodbye to you
Too true to sad sad sad

Push the fader gifted animator
One for the now and eleven for the later

Never made it up to Minnesota
North Dakota man was gunnin’
For the quota

Down in the badlands
She was savin’ the best for last

It only hurts when I laugh
Come too fast

California rest in peace
Simultaneous release
California show your teeth
She’s my priestess; I’m your priest
Yeah Yeah

California rest in peace
Simultaneous release
California show your teeth
She’s my priestess; I’m your priest
Yeah yeah

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California Review and Song Info

The single debuted on the The Billboard Hot 100 at #24 and peaked at #6, becoming the band’s third single (after “Under the Bridge” and “Scar Tissue”) to surpass the top-ten. In addition, “Dani California” became the second song in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, after R.E.M.’s 1994 hit “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?”, and also charted at #1 on the Mainstream Rock charts.

The song won two Grammy Awards, one for Best Rock Song and the other for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. The song was also nominated for Best Short Form Music Video.

In the song, lyricist Anthony Kiedis laments the early death of Dani, a poor, young girl from Mississippi who became a bank robber and lived a hard, fast life. The character Dani also appeared in the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2002 single “By the Way”, as well as the song “Californication” as it alludes to a “Teenage bride with a baby inside/Gettin’ high on information”; although there is no mention of her. The character’s story comes to an end in “Dani California”, with her death.

The song is among the few tracks the Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded which have broken the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
It was a success, with “Dani California” accumulating over 500 weeks collectively on over 20 charts.

The music video for “Dani California” premiered on MTV on April 4, 2006. Directed by Tony Kaye (who was only accepted after initial choice, Mark Romanek declined), director of American History X, the video is a quasi-chronology of the evolution of rock music; the band performs the song on a stage, but in a variety of outfits representing important figures and movements in the history of hard rock.

Released April 4, 2006 (Latin America), April 28, 2006 (Europe), May 1, 2006 (UK), May 2, 2006 (US)
Recorded March - December 2005 at The Mansion in Los Angeles, California
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4:42
Label Warner Bros. Records
Writer Kiedis/Frusciante/Flea/Smith
Producer Rick Rubin

source wikipedia.org

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