Otherside
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| Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers from the album Californication |
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| B-side | "How Strong" | ||||
| Released | January 11, 2000 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | 1999- | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 4:15 | ||||
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | ||||
| Producer | Rick Rubin | ||||
| Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology | |||||
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"Otherside" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, 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 probably dedicated to their deceased member Hillel Slovak, who died of a drug overdose; the lyrics "I heard your voice through a photograph / I thought it up and brought up the past / Once you know you can never go back" suggest that Anthony could never go back to heroin. It was the band's fourth #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was the second-highest charting single from the Californication album, reaching #14 in the US.
[edit] Music video
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.
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…"[citation needed]
[edit] Track list
CD single (2000)
- "Otherside" (Album) – 4:16
- "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)" – 4:43
CD version 2 (2000)
- "Otherside" (Album) – 4:16
- "My Lovely Man" (Live) — 5:18
- "Around the World" (Music Video)
CD version 3 (2000)
- "Otherside" (Album)
- "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)
- "My Lovely Man" (Live)
- "Road Trippin'" (Without Strings)
- "Scar Tissue" (Music Video)
- "Around the World" (Music Video)
CD version 4 (2000)
- "Otherside" (Album)
- "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)
- "My Lovely Man" (Live)
- "Road Trippin'" (Without Strings)
CD version 5 (2000)
- "Otherside" (Album)
- "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)
- "Road Trippin'" (Without Strings) – 3:25
- "Otherside (Music Video)"
7" single (2000)
- "Otherside" (Album)
- "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)
[edit] Sample clip
| Preceded by "All the Small Things" by Blink-182 |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single February 19, 2000 |
Succeeded by "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down |
