Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside

Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“Otherside” was released in 2000, it was the third single from the album Californication, and confronts the battles ex-junkies have with their prior addictions.
It was the band’s fourth #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The video was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris in a black-and-white/monochrome Gothic style similar to Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, all influenced by German Expressionist art. Elements of Cubism and work by the graphic artist M.C. Escher are also seen in the video.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside Lyrics

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I dont
I dont believe its bad
Slit my throat
Its all I ever
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
Ive got to take it on the otherside

Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
Ive got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I dont
I dont believe its bad
Slit my throat
Its all I ever
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
Ive got to take it on the otherside

Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtrays full and Im spillin my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
Ive got to take it on the otherside

Scarlet starlet and shes in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread
Ive got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I dont
I dont believe its bad
Slit my throat
Its all I ever
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
Ive got to take it on the otherside

Turn me on take me for a hard ride
Burn me out leave me on the otherside
I yell and tell it that
Its not my friend
I tear it down I tear it down
And then its born again

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I dont
I dont believe its bad
Slit my throat
Its all I ever
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
Ive got to take it on the otherside

How long I dont believe its bad
Slit my throat
Its all I ever

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside Song Info and Review

B-side “How Strong”
Released January 11, 2000
Recorded 1999
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4:15
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer Rick Rubin

A cartoonish story line is juxtaposed upon the song; that of a young man’s dream sequence. The band members appear dressed in black in unusual locations, with props intented to appear as surreal instruments. Throughout the video Anthony Kiedis with his short, platinum hair is seen in a castle tower. His stage persona is different and quite dark when compared to his more energetic performances in other videos. John Frusciante plays a rope down a long corridor as if a guitar, although reluctant wanting just to play his guitar normally. Flea is hanging on telephone wires and playing them as if they were a bass guitar, and Chad Smith is up on a tower with a rotating medieval clock that serves as his drum kit.

Jonathan Dayton: “We did look at Caligari, and we looked at a lot of German Expressionist film. But it was also very important to avoid ‘Caligari.’ It was both inspiration and something to work around, because it has such a strong, specific style, and there have been other videos that have completely ripped it off.”

Valerie Faris: “We didn’t look at ‘Calagari’ all that much, really. We did, but then we just left it. We did look at a lot of the works of the futurist artists from the ’30s, and the illustrations of the surrealists and from cubism. We were inspired more by paintings than by films…”

source wikipedia.org

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