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DANI CALIFORNIA SONGFACTS:
According to lead singer Anthony Kiedis, "Dani" is a representation of every girl that he's come across in his life. "Dani" also appears in the 2002 Red Hot Chili Peppers song "By The Way" and is the "Teenage bride with the baby inside" on their 1999 song "Californication."
This was the first single off Stadium Arcadium, the first Chili Peppers album in four years. In a Rolling Stoneinterview Flea said that the album was, "By far the best thing we've ever done." It was used in the Japanese film Death Note.
Rick Rubin produced this track. Rubin previously worked with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
At the Grammy awards in 2007, this won for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.
Bassist Flea, on the music video: "We mainly did eras, not actual people: rockabilly, British Invasion, psychedelia, funk, glam, punk, goth, hair metal, grunge, and ourselves being the sum of all those parts."
The bands that the Peppers dress up in during the video caused internet debate about who the actual bands were. Though nothing is official, it starts out in a '50s early rock setting, with Anthony Kiedis dressed as Elvis Presley. It then moves on to a stereotypical British rock band that you would see on The Ed Sullivan Showin the '60s. They move on to a stereotypical psychedelic rock band, then the funk era. The band is dressed as Parliamant/Funkadelic, complete with Flea dressed as one of his idols, Bootsy Collins, and the P-Funk Mothership stage prop. It moves on to a stereotypical glam rock band, then gothic band, most likely The Misfits based on the way Kiedis is dressed. Then it moves on to the punk movement, hair metal, and grunge. The grunge band is one of the more clear bands to identify, as Kiedis is dressed like his friend Kurt Cobain, of Nirvana. It ends with the Peppers as a sum up of all of these bands.
The video was directed by Tony Kaye, who also directed the controversial movie American History Xstarring Edward Norton and the Soul Asylum "missing children" video for "Runaway Train." #redhotchilifamily #redhotchilipeppers #chilipeppers #rhcp #anthonykiedis #flea #chadsmith