Hump de Bump by Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Hump de Bump" is a song by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 2006 studio album Stadium Arcadium.

The song is the fifth and final single released from the album. Originally expected to be the 4th single for the US, Canada and Australia, ("Desecration Smile" was the 4th single released internationally) the band decided to make the single and video a worldwide release thanks to the positive feedback on the song's music video. Read Full Bio"Hump de Bump" is a song by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 2006 studio album Stadium Arcadium.

The song is the fifth and final single released from the album. Originally expected to be the 4th single for the US, Canada and Australia, ("Desecration Smile" was the 4th single released internationally) the band decided to make the single and video a worldwide release thanks to the positive feedback on the song's music video.

Despite the change in musical style of the rest of Stadium Arcadium, "Hump de Bump"'s sound is similar to that of the band's earlier albums such as 1985's Freaky Styley. The track was originally titled "Ghost Dance 2000", as the bassline is similar to an older Red Hot Chili Peppers song, "American Ghost Dance", actually from Freaky Styley. The title was changed to "Hump de Bump" near the end of recording.

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Hump de Bump
by Red Hot Chili Peppers

(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)

Forty detectives this week
Forty detectives strong
Takin' a stroll down love street
Strollin', is that so wrong?
Can I get my co-dependant?

Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bop
Hump de bump doop bodu

Oh no

Bump de hump doop bodu
Hump de bump doop bop
Bump de hump doop bodu

Bump, bump

It must have been a hundred miles
Or any of a hundred styles
It's not about the smile you wear but
The way we make out

When I was an all-aloner
Nothing but a two-beach comber
Anybody seen the sky, I'm
I'm wide awake now!

Workin' the beat as we speak
Workin' the belle du monde
Believe in the havoc we wreak
Believin', is that so wrong?
Can I get my co-dependant?

Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bop
Hump de bump doop bodu

Bump de hump doop bodu
Hump de bump doop bop
Bump de hump doop bodu

Bump, bump

C'mon

It must have been a hundred miles
Any of a hundred styles
It's not about the smile you wear but
The way we make out

When I was an all-aloner
Nothing but a two-beach comber
Anybody seen the sky, I'm
I'm wide awake now

(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)

Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bop
Hump de bump doop bodu

Oh no

Bump de hump doop bodu
Hump de bump doop bop
Bump de hump doop bodu

Bump, bump

Listenin' to what I said
And try to get it through your head
A little bit of circumstance and
A chance to make out

Livin' in a citadel
It's hard enough to be yourself
Waiting for the bell to toll and
I'm wide awake now

It must have been a hundred miles
Or any of a hundred styles
It's not about the smile you wear but
The way we make out

When I was an all-aloner
Nothing but a two-beach comber
Anybody seen the sky I'm
I'm wide awake now

Lyrics © MoeBeToBlame
Written by: MICHAEL BALZARY, JOHN ANTHONY FRUSCIANTE, ANTHONY KIEDIS, CHAD SMITH

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Liquid San

6y↑2.8K

Wait, this isn't RHCP. These guys wear shirts.

dread true

Drop that, they wear shirts in more videos.
Just see these fast notes of Flea at 1:40
Real cool, hum

Listen again

t dowling

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ARCHIVOS UPI 3 DE ABRIL DE 1990

El cantante Anthony Kiedis condenado por agresión sexual, exposición indecente

El cantante principal de Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis, actúa en vivo en el escenario. Foto de archivo de CL Cornish / UPI | Foto de licencia

FAIRFAX, Va. - El cantante principal del grupo de rock Red Hot Chili Peppers fue declarado culpable el martes de agresión sexual y exposición indecente después de un concierto en los suburbios de Washington, DC

Anthony Kiedis, de 27 años, de Los Ángeles, fue acusado de tocar el rostro de una mujer con su pene después de un concierto en la Universidad George Mason en el condado de Fairfax el 21 de abril de 1989.

La mujer, una estudiante de GMU que trabajó en la junta de programas de la universidad, dijo que el incidente ocurrió fuera del vestuario de la banda después del concierto.

Los jurados de los tribunales de circuito recomendaron que Kiedis fuera multado con $ 1,000 por cada cargo. Podría haber recibido hasta 60 días en la cárcel.

El juez Michael McWeeny fijó la sentencia para el viernes. Según la ley de Virginia, McWeeny puede imponer la recomendación del jurado o reducirla, pero no puede aumentarla.

El juicio del Tribunal de Circuito fue una apelación de un fallo de un juez de un tribunal de primera instancia, que encontró a Kiedis culpable de ambos cargos y lo condenó a 60 días de cárcel.

Kiedis negó haber tocado a la mujer, pero otros dijeron que vieron el incidente y un miembro de la banda admitió que hizo una declaración alentadora.

Los fanáticos de la banda de rock, cuya música se describe como 'funk blanco', llenaron la sala del tribunal durante los dos días de testimonio.

El último álbum de la banda, 'Mother's Milk', incluye las exitosas canciones 'Knock Me Down' y un remake de la canción de Stevie Wonder 'Higher Ground'.

2 EN BANDA DETENIDOS DESPUÉS DE ATAQUE DEL VENTILADOR

Shirish Date Of The Sentinel Staff

EL ORLANDO SENTINEL

Política de privacidad

Fieles a su nombre, los Red Hot Chili Peppers estaban calientes, tan calientes que destrozaron su escenario, luego saltaron a la multitud para maltratar a una mujer vestida con un bikini durante una grabación de MTV en la playa.

La policía no se divirtió.

Tampoco MTV, que arrojó a la banda del set. Y tampoco la mujer de Virginia de 20 años, que presentó cargos contra dos miembros de la banda.

Los defensores de los Red Hot Chili Peppers dicen que el episodio del miércoles por la tarde en una grabación de MTV fue solo parte de su imagen, que a veces incluye subir al escenario con nada más que calcetines o pañales colocados estratégicamente.

Tal vez. Pero temprano el viernes por la mañana, los guardabosques del condado de Volusia decidieron que arrestar al bajista Flea y al baterista Chad Smith y acusarlos de comportamiento lascivo, batería y conducta desordenada eran parte de la imagen de los guardabosques.

"No voy a soportarlo", dijo el jefe de guardabosques Jon Kirvan, horas después de arrestar a la mitad de los miembros de la banda alrededor de la 1 am del viernes después de un concierto en el Hotel Marriott. "Esa podría ser tu hija".

El combate cuerpo a cuerpo del miércoles tuvo lugar durante la grabación de MTV para su programa de baile Club MTV. La banda estaba sincronizando los labios con la canción "Knock Me Down" cuando Flea, cuyo verdadero nombre es Michael Balzary, comenzó a golpear su bajo contra la batería de Chad Smith, según la policía, que parecía tener dificultades para darle sentido al punk. Espectáculo de la banda.

"Al final de un set, los miembros de la banda comenzaron a saltar en el escenario, empujando los micrófonos al piso del escenario, balanceando los instrumentos, tocando la batería y haciendo un comentario sobre la policía que este escritor no escuchó por completo", escribió El sargento de policía de Daytona. Robert Grim

"Uno de los miembros de la banda con una cabeza afeitada con una mata de cabello multicolor centrada en la parte superior de su cabeza levantó a una víctima blanca y la colocó sobre sus hombros", escribió Grim.

Smith se unió a Flea, se quitó parcialmente el traje de baño de la mujer y comenzó a golpearle las nalgas, según el informe del guardabosques Guy Grasso.

En ese momento, la mujer cayó a la arena, solo para que Flea se arrodillara sobre ella, comenzara a agarrarla y exigiera que le practicara sexo oral, dijo el informe de Grasso.

La seguridad de MTV sacó a Flea y lo acompañó a él y a Smith fuera de la propiedad del Motel Texan, la base de MTV durante las vacaciones de primavera.

Kirvan dijo que sus oficiales hablaron con la mujer el jueves y el jueves por la noche recibió una orden de arresto del juez de circuito Robert Miller.

"Anoche después de su actuación, si quieres llamarlo así, servimos las órdenes y los arrestamos", dijo Kirvan. "Si alguien ataca a alguien, haremos algo".

Flea, de 26 años, fue acusado de agresión, conducta desordenada y solicitud de cometer un acto antinatural y lascivo y puesto en libertad bajo fianza de $ 2,000. Smith, de 28 años, fue acusado de batería y liberado bajo fianza de $ 1,000. Todos los cargos son delitos menores.

Ni Flea ni Smith pudieron ser contactados para hacer comentarios el viernes.

La mujer declinó hacer comentarios.

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mack titan

43w

@thebaddog410 come on people... get it?

Florian Lebreton

44w

Parce qu'ils sont dehors et il y'a la police

Unborn Turnip

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Basi lo ah

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best episode of Everybody Hates Chris

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@terry dowling please. Shut up

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😂😂😂

terry dowling

12w↑1

Blood, Sugar, Sex, Dickheads

It just happened again. I read a news story about Flea playing the national anthem as a bass solo at Kobe’s final game with the Lakers and I went nuts. Every time I’m reminded that the Red Hot Chili Peppers exist, I lose my mind. It’s been a frequent occurence lately. They’re about to release a new record and the promo machine is gearing up.

25 years ago, when I worked at Epic, I had a fucked up experience with the Chili Peppers. The incident was about a 3 on the 1-10 scale of sexual harassment in the music business of the 80s and 90s, and I never consciously thought it was that big a deal. I wasn’t even aware of how intensely I hated them until a couple of months ago, when the kid that works the desk at my gym played “Can’t Stop.”

I was furious; I felt like my blood had been replaced with a million small bombs and all of them were about to explode. I threw my weights to the floor mid-rep and pounded to the desk. Just before I screamed the only words I could come up with — NO. MORE. CHILI. PEPPERS. — I realized I had to leave. I knew I’d be unable to restrain myself if I had to hear Anthony sing “mop tops are happy when they feed you” or “can’t stop, addicted to the shindig, chop top, he says I’m gonna win big.” When I calmed down, I thought about how overblown my reaction was, and allowed for the first time that maybe I didn’t hate them simply because they suck.

I heard stories about the Chili Peppers and the way they treated women long before Anthony was convicted of sexual battery and indecent exposure in 1989 and Chad and Flea were arrested for lascivious behavior, battery and disorderly conduct in 1990. No one in the music industry really gave a shit. As their legal issues made headlines, they left EMI, and every label, including Epic, wanted to sign them. I was horrified.

I initially refused to even go to a meeting with the band. The A&R guy was a friend, though, and after an hour of talking about it, I reluctantly agreed to attend. At the meeting, I did a credible impression of a person who didn’t think the Chili Peppers were complete shit; I talked enthusiastically about strategy, artist development and press campaigns, and I presented ideas on further establishing their image. None of them involved wearing socks on their dicks.

After the meeting, I took two of the Chili Peppers to the storage room, where we kept the box sets and CDs, to get the standard sign-with-us swag. As we looked in a cabinet, they pressed up against me and told me about all of the ways we could make a super sexy sandwich.

At first I thought they were joking. When I realized they weren’t, I ran from the storage room to my office, where I closed my door, sat down at my desk, and cried. I was humiliated and weirdly ashamed, and embarrassed that I was humiliated and weirdly ashamed. I thought I was a badass. Being a victim didn’t fit my self-perception.

When the Chili Peppers’ then-manager knocked on my door a few minutes later, I stopped crying and let him in. He offered an apology that sounded memorized; it was one he’d obviously offered many times before. The A&R guy apologized after the Chili Peppers left, and I decided to get over it. I told myself that I knew what I was getting into when I started working in the music business. I was used to the shit that happened late at night, back in Boston, when I was wasted and hanging out at gigs and after show parties. I wasn’t cool with any of it, but I accepted it, and even though the incident with the Chili Peppers took place when I was an executive at a major label, sober and doing my job at 2:00 in the afternoon, I decided to accept that, too. It was just the way things were.
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Most of the women I know who worked in the music business in the late 80s and early 90s put up with sexual harassment. We didn’t talk about it to our friends, for the most part, and not many of us took any action. We were ashamed or afraid or didn’t think we’d be believed. We thought we’d be blamed, or worse, we blamed ourselves. We didn’t want to be perceived as weak, and we thought that in order to succeed, we just had to put up with it. Sexual harassment came along with working in the music industry — it was an everyday reality — and a lot of us didn’t even realize that anything was wrong. Most of the reasons we kept quiet will never stop being reasons — shame and fear aren’t going to go away — but at least now we know when we’re being harassed.

I started writing about sexual harassment in the music industry in January, just after Amber Coffman tweeted about Heathcliff Berru. I knew I had something to say, but I didn’t realize that it was about the incident with the Chili Peppers until I heard “Don’t Stop” at the gym. I didn’t understand why my response was so extreme, and then, this weekend, I talked to people I was close to at Epic. One was my boss. I never told him what happened, and with the exception of two close friends, I never told anyone else. And that’s what disturbs me most.

Fuck the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the misogynistic culture of the music industry that kept me from speaking up in 1991. I wish I had. I’m not naive enough to think it would have made much of a difference, but if it kept just one person from having to hear “Californication,” it would have been a start.

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20w

Foi o que pensei kkkkkk

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Everybody hates Chris in Dunder Mifflin

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GodNotAvailable

3y↑770

Anthony was about 44 when this was filmed, he looks 28. I swear that man never ages.

Nelson Sanabria

#Veganism

Iva

14w

The Curious Case of Anthony Kiedis

IPA SOLÉ

17w

When the dood was 3, looked like he was 137. Maybe he is an ufo.

I'm Charming

19w

No stress when all you do is sing and dance and create art.

stacy

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bReak tHe spELL of agInG

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Copacetic

4y↑1.3K

john frusciante's hair must grow so quickly. It's long, he shaves it, you turn your head for a second, it's long again.

Joey Foral

23w

Anthony does age

Heather Mooney

25w

Lmao!

John Frusciante

27w↑1

That's how I work dude

M Richardson

51w

I keep trying to guess the year a video was taken by Frusciante's hair length. It's a lost cause, 😆.

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Damn chia pet needs a frusciante!

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Flea had such an important role in the song.

Mandy Cole

@dread true Mike Bone, 42, former copresident of PolyGram’s Mercury Records, lost his job Nov. 1, two days before allegations surfaced in the Los Angeles Timesabout his alleged misconduct in the office. In July 1990, while president of PolyGram’s Island Records, he allegedly propositioned his then administrative assistant, Lori Harris, 28, at a company party, and when he was rebuffed made it clear that her job was in jeopardy. The next morning he fired her. ”His attitude was ‘That was pleasure; this is business,”’ says Harris, who filed a harassment suit against Bone and Island Records in July, charging violation of the New York State human rights laws. ”I view him as kind of pathetic at this point,” she says, noting that she was unemployed for six months and still has found only part-time work. ”What’s ridiculous is that no one stopped him. Island Records and PolyGram don’t care what happened to me. They moved him from president of a company where he had been accused of harassing and firing his assistant to president of a new company (Mercury) where no one knew what he’d done. He got to start over.” Bone, who has denied Harris’ charges in the past, referred a reporter to his lawyer, who said Bone would not respond.

Jeff Aldrich, 41, recently RCA’s senior vice president of A&R, was let go in December 1990 as a result of multiple sexual harassment complaints. At a convention in Scottsdale, Ariz., Aldrich reportedly made passes at several female employees, throwing one of them onto a bed and physically molesting her. ”Conventions are about teasing, sexual kind of stuff,” says an employee, ”but he was crossing the line. He was sticking his hand down blouses and up skirts. So anyway, we all get back from the convention Sunday and on Monday there’s a very weird vibe in the office. The woman had complained that she wanted him out of there, and they did an inquiry.” Says an RCA executive, ”When some double-digit number of women complained, we knew we had to fire him.” Aldrich is now an executive in A&R at Giant Records. A remorseful Aldrich confirmed that he was ”fired from RCA for an incident that happened at a convention that had something to do with sexual harassment.” A spokesman for Aldrich said it is ”important to know it was while he was inebriated,” and he has since entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.

High-powered L.A. lawyer Abe Somer, 53, former head of the music department at the firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, recently settled a harassment suit out of court. His former secretary, Phyllis Finkbeiner, complained that Somer instructed her to bring the office mail to his house, where he greeted her naked at the door. A former summer associate at the firm alleged similar treatment in an affidavit supporting the suit. At a poolside meeting at Somer’s home, she said, he told her, ”You seem a little uptight. If Mick Jagger and (producer) Richard Perry were sitting here, I don’t know if they’d be comfortable with you. If they wanted you to kiss them or give them a hand job, you just do it.” Managing partner Bill Cole says Somer no longer has an office at the firm but is retained on ”of counsel” status. Somer is now part of the legal department at Rondor Music Publishing Co.Somer’s attorney speculated that the allegations were ”hearsay from disgruntled former employees.”

These stories certainly imply that women are routinely abused in the music business. They also say that men can be fired if enough women bring charges against them, even though the charges are untested in any court or other formal proceeding. And now that several lawsuits have hit the headlines, it seems the music business has reached a point of no return. But will any changes in the acceptability of babeage translate into real power and freedom for women?

”If we maintain our fearfulness and keep quiet about this,” says a female former executive at a major label, ”things are not going to change.”

She’s afraid to give her name.

— Additional reporting by Cheryl McCall, Joanna Powell, and Jean Rosenbluth

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Mandy Cole

@dread true Sexual Harassment: Music -- Our report on the state of the music industry

By Melissa Rawlins Updated December 06, 1991 at 05:00 AM EST

There’s a word for it in the music-video business, where male fantasies of young, compliant women are the very heart of commerce. ”That sexy-babe, bimbo kind of stuff that the labels always want,” says a woman who’s made rock videos for years, ”my friends and I in the industry refer to it as ‘babeage.’ It’s part of just an overwhelming predeliction for sleazy male behavior in this business.”

Babeage. What would rock & roll be without it? Just peek into the fantasy world of music videos. What you see isn’t real, but real people produce those videos, and the often graphic, violent sexuality they contain. So it’s no surprise that babeage is a buzzword. Insiders say that in the world of pop and rock-an insular world ruled by six major recording conglomerates, in which only one woman (Sylvia Rhone, chairman of Atco/East West) is at the top-sexual harassment is not just rampant but epidemic, more pervasive than in any other branch of entertainment.

Ugly stories come not just from the lowly but from people at all levels of the business. There’s Mary Cary, guitarist for Rosary, a female hard-rock band, describing a pawing studio owner who demanded sex in exchange for recording time. ”He told us that if we slept with him, he would get us a label deal, and he was just a sleazy little studio guy with no power.” And the notoriously raunchy band the Red Hot Chili Peppers, reversing the roles in an interview for Creem with journalist Nina Malkin, bombarded her with lewd questions about her sex life. (”They were just goofing,” their manager says.) At a radio industry convention last year, top radio consultant Randy Michaels hired a stripper, disguised as a waitress, to have her shirt ripped off during a panel on contemporary hit radio. And an executive at a major label made assignments to employees while playing pornographic tapes on his VCR — ”He did it just to humiliate us,” one woman said.

”The industry promotes the bimbo image very well,” says an ex-label executive, who left the business because of what she characterized as its unacceptably sexist environment. ”The man in music spends his day promoting bimbos on album covers, and the women in the office are viewed as just more of those bimbos. Not all men see it this way, obviously. But the violence is there. In this business, people are reduced to things, and it’s awful.”

That’s an attitude that often starts near the very top — in the offices, say, of an Abbey Konowitch, 40, who in the mid-’80s was vice president for video and artist development for Arista Records. In July 1987, Arista promoted a woman named Joanne Smat into Konowitch’s department, as national manager of artist development. Although several women alleged to Entertainment Weekly reporters that Konowitch verbally abused female coworkers, Smat is the only one willing to go on the record with charges. Because she has since married and left the music business to become an advertising executive, she no longer feels her career is threatened. Other sources, male and female, have confirmed Smat’s story but stressed that if Konowitch found out their names, their careers would be ruined.

“After a very short time it became apparent that there was a certain way Abbey operated, and that I was not going to be able to handle it,” says Smat. His method of operation, she says, included repeatedly asking such questions as ”Can I bite you?” ”Can I touch your thigh?” ”Can I bite your ass?” According to Smat, he predicted that she would sleep with him on a company trip to Maui. She decided to stay home. The day Konowitch began instructing an intern in ”shooting rubber bands at my ass,” Smat says, she was so fed up she walked out of the office.

She says she asked a female executive for advice and was sent to a vice president. He said he’d give her a transfer, effectively a demotion, to a secretarial position. In November 1987, she consulted lawyer Michael Holland.

”He knew of other cases where women had been physically fondled and the lawyers weren’t able to make (the charges) stick because of difficulties of proof,” she says. ”He basically said the law doesn’t work and you don’t have a choice.” ”I advised her that since she was considering other career options anyway, maybe she should just move on,” confirms Holland. Smat resigned in January 1988.

Konowitch declines to comment. His attorney denies Smat’s allegations and claims Arista has no record of any formal complaints or discussions of Smat’s charges. A woman who worked with Smat and Konowitch maintains, however, that there were several formal meetings between Smat and a top Arista manager. ”One of the vice presidents,” she says, ”called up every woman who worked with Abbey and said, ‘Does he really do these kinds of things?’ And all of us said yes. Their solution was to ask us if we wanted to transfer to other departments.”

”On a day-to-day basis Abbey would say gross things,” she says. ”If you asked him for a vacation day, he’d say, ‘Scratch my back and I’ll think about it.’ And he was serious. There were two ways you could handle it. You could just laugh or ignore it or swear at him, or you could really let it get to you. Joanne didn’t want to put up with it — and she shouldn’t have had to — and she complained.”

”Complaints were made by Joanne to me,” says Roy Lott, executive vice president and general manager of Arista Records. ”The situation was analyzed. I, and others, talked to various people. And we found no basis for taking any action against Abbey Konowitch.”

Konowitch’s career apparently has not been affected by any of the complaints. He is now senior vice president for music and talent at MTV, where he decides which bands’ videos get airtime. Last year he was selected as one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Power 101 (he was No. 25).

Other men in music facing harassment charges have fared less well.

Marko Babineau, 40, former general manager of the Geffen Records’ DGC label, resigned unexpectedly in September ”to be with his family.” On Nov. 14 his former assistant, Penny Muck, 28, filed suit against him for sexual harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and assault and battery. She charged, among other things, that Babineau touched her breasts and buttocks, ejaculated on a magazine he had placed in front of her, placed his erect penis in her ear, and ordered her to clean up his semen. Other women who worked for Babineau have told similar tales. His attorney has not returned this magazine’s calls.

dread true

I keep what I told in my last comment and your is very long anyway

Mandy Cole

Blood, Sugar, Sex, Dickheads

It just happened again. I read a news story about Flea playing the national anthem as a bass solo at Kobe’s final game with the Lakers and I went nuts. Every time I’m reminded that the Red Hot Chili Peppers exist, I lose my mind. It’s been a frequent occurence lately. They’re about to release a new record and the promo machine is gearing up.

25 years ago, when I worked at Epic, I had a fucked up experience with the Chili Peppers. The incident was about a 3 on the 1-10 scale of sexual harassment in the music business of the 80s and 90s, and I never consciously thought it was that big a deal. I wasn’t even aware of how intensely I hated them until a couple of months ago, when the kid that works the desk at my gym played “Can’t Stop.”

I was furious; I felt like my blood had been replaced with a million small bombs and all of them were about to explode. I threw my weights to the floor mid-rep and pounded to the desk. Just before I screamed the only words I could come up with — NO. MORE. CHILI. PEPPERS. — I realized I had to leave. I knew I’d be unable to restrain myself if I had to hear Anthony sing “mop tops are happy when they feed you” or “can’t stop, addicted to the shindig, chop top, he says I’m gonna win big.” When I calmed down, I thought about how overblown my reaction was, and allowed for the first time that maybe I didn’t hate them simply because they suck.

I heard stories about the Chili Peppers and the way they treated women long before Anthony was convicted of sexual battery and indecent exposure in 1989 and Chad and Flea were arrested for lascivious behavior, battery and disorderly conduct in 1990. No one in the music industry really gave a shit. As their legal issues made headlines, they left EMI, and every label, including Epic, wanted to sign them. I was horrified.

I initially refused to even go to a meeting with the band. The A&R guy was a friend, though, and after an hour of talking about it, I reluctantly agreed to attend. At the meeting, I did a credible impression of a person who didn’t think the Chili Peppers were complete shit; I talked enthusiastically about strategy, artist development and press campaigns, and I presented ideas on further establishing their image. None of them involved wearing socks on their dicks.

After the meeting, I took two of the Chili Peppers to the storage room, where we kept the box sets and CDs, to get the standard sign-with-us swag. As we looked in a cabinet, they pressed up against me and told me about all of the ways we could make a super sexy sandwich.

At first I thought they were joking. When I realized they weren’t, I ran from the storage room to my office, where I closed my door, sat down at my desk, and cried. I was humiliated and weirdly ashamed, and embarrassed that I was humiliated and weirdly ashamed. I thought I was a badass. Being a victim didn’t fit my self-perception.

When the Chili Peppers’ then-manager knocked on my door a few minutes later, I stopped crying and let him in. He offered an apology that sounded memorized; it was one he’d obviously offered many times before. The A&R guy apologized after the Chili Peppers left, and I decided to get over it. I told myself that I knew what I was getting into when I started working in the music business. I was used to the shit that happened late at night, back in Boston, when I was wasted and hanging out at gigs and after show parties. I wasn’t cool with any of it, but I accepted it, and even though the incident with the Chili Peppers took place when I was an executive at a major label, sober and doing my job at 2:00 in the afternoon, I decided to accept that, too. It was just the way things were.

Most of the women I know who worked in the music business in the late 80s and early 90s put up with sexual harassment. We didn’t talk about it to our friends, for the most part, and not many of us took any action. We were ashamed or afraid or didn’t think we’d be believed. We thought we’d be blamed, or worse, we blamed ourselves. We didn’t want to be perceived as weak, and we thought that in order to succeed, we just had to put up with it. Sexual harassment came along with working in the music industry — it was an everyday reality — and a lot of us didn’t even realize that anything was wrong. Most of the reasons we kept quiet will never stop being reasons — shame and fear aren’t going to go away — but at least now we know when we’re being harassed.

I started writing about sexual harassment in the music industry in January, just after Amber Coffman tweeted about Heathcliff Berru. I knew I had something to say, but I didn’t realize that it was about the incident with the Chili Peppers until I heard “Don’t Stop” at the gym. I didn’t understand why my response was so extreme, and then, this weekend, I talked to people I was close to at Epic. One was my boss. I never told him what happened, and with the exception of two close friends, I never told anyone else. And that’s what disturbs me most.

Fuck the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the misogynistic culture of the music industry that kept me from speaking up in 1991. I wish I had. I’m not naive enough to think it would have made much of a difference, but if it kept just one person from having to hear “Californication,” it would have been a start.

dread true

7w↑1

I'm a bassist, but in this song Frusciante is the man. Besides the fabulous percussion in the middle of th. song

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BigBad Bryant

5y↑559

Haha. John is so out of character in this video. He was feeling it.

Cassie Campbell

I was just thinking that, he was straight vibin

Al Pacino

12w

The Froooj looking like Justin Timberlake w a Strat

John Frusciante

24w↑4

Im back.

꧁BadAce꧂

24w↑1

he was under drugs influence

John Frusciante

25w

I was, what's the problem dude

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Screem

4y↑84

Dat bass tho

Mike Pevency

21w↑2

@Kali Scarlett Hahahahha can I has it

Kali Scarlett

31w

@peter janjanin can I has it?...

peter janjanin

2y↑5

I have the flea jazz bass and it's a great bass at a decent price

Sherez Jackson

6y↑256

EVERYBODY LOVES RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

Kerry Simpson

22w↑1

@Toasty Kibbles that's an thing lol

Kerry Simpson

22w↑4

I'm 16 and mostly everyone in my generation and below doesn't know them but I love them

Charles D. Smith

39w↑1

And raymond

Toasty Kibbles

46w

Sherez Jackson I met someone who doesn’t 🤦🏻‍♂️

S0UND

6y↑209

I love the addition of the trumpets. So simple yet genius.

peter janjanin

2y↑1

You obviously didn't hear anything up until Mother's Milk. The horns used to be a big part of their sound

Sh0o7erMcTV

@Lυaи GMDS and Craig Robinson

I make stuff

6y↑22

it is cool! flea started out as a jazz trumpet player!

Luan Gabrielson

6y↑1

Chris Rock...

Brenda Luna

6y↑301

can we please talk about how beautiful John is?

Kis-Toth Zsofia

15w

I want to be the cheerleader girl who is dancing next to him

the tall drummer

36w

Cobra Jin

44w↑1

I did think how young and good he looks with his head shaved. Old school.

Chloe MacLean

51w

always

little noodle

2y↑6

I'm in love with him :')

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Belencha Rodríguez

5y↑55

"White men CAN'T jump". Flea.

Nelkon Nsamba

28w

"Hold my beer" 😂🤣

drillz007

5y↑268

darryl from the office wtf are you doing

saiaddict

2y↑1

is was on the list to get in

Sci Fi Early 2000's Guy

2y↑5

Don't forget chris

Chris Iceheart

2y↑3

Thats what i thought

Shrip Val

5y↑159

just too used to seeing keidis half naked in most rhcp videos....he looks strange with a shirt on...

Matti Maki

Truu2

ThatOne Ginger

2y↑2

why now both at this point.

Archie Wolf

4y↑1

I think thats flea you talking about

OcelotDAD

22w↑31

It's weird that this is one of RHCP's songs with the least views. I always thought it's a banger.

Sinchi

21w↑1

OcelotDAD dude in most of rhcp songs there are two videos that are exactly the same, this one have 8,5 million viewis, the other one has 37 million views

Spens

5y↑100

I don't understand why y'all are hating, or saying RHCP is ruined for you now or whatever. This is one of my favorite songs by them, I mean how can you not groove to the bass, and sing along to the chorus on this one? And that trummpet at 3:40 common!

March

@Marty Gusto i agree. its fine if you have your own tastes

Marty Gusto

36w↑1

You and me enjoy it that's it why bother with ones who don't like it. Everybody's got their taste and prefs

peter janjanin

2y↑1

This is closer to their first albums

niconicolasnichonixo

4y↑544

"sorry man, you beeping"
"I didn't beep!"
"it's on vibrate"
lmaoo

Raisa Cherry

28w↑1

@Scoobert Doobert I adore ur username 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Raisa Cherry

28w

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Scoobert Doobert

2y↑3

I thought it said "something vibrated" still funny as'f 😂😂😂

MoonWalkerTexsRanger

2y↑2

sacré Darryl !

I am Miconis

2y↑17

"She on the list"
"What list?"
"She on every list"

She's on my list too..oh yea

Bob Bobbington

4y↑64

everyone's talking about Chris Rock but I just wanna know if the security guy at the start is the guy who played Darryl in the Office.

Maria M

1y↑5

And Doug judy in b99

Brandon Anders

4y↑2

Bob Bobbington duh.. Do you even watch the office

Fatima Mammadova

Yes it is!!!!

Dom Allen

4y↑136

Its the pontiac bandit

z2001lhcjer

50w↑3

RoSa RoSa....

J Miller

Thanks so fuckin much I couldn't think of where I seen him

Rajni Adhikari

2y↑2

Damn Judy!!

עומר בן אריה

lol i saw ittt!!

Ramses Gonzalez

4y↑6

Doug Judy!!!! lol

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FearsomeJoe

6y↑36

john frusciante kinda looks like justin timberlake

Guitarboy Pranjal

Naah!!!justin timberlake looks like john

Cheese on Toast

11w↑1

No. Justin Timberlake looks like John Frusciante

Angler Dave

that's what I thought

XxCrazyRedneckHackerxX

4y↑474

This song is so underrated

jin

7mil views. i dont think other people consider it underrated -_-

Bear Webb

2y↑1

XxCrazyRedneckHackerxX So is Turn It Again

George Kaftan

33 mil views, I think it's appreciated

slushpuppie19

3y↑3

guyyyssss
Stadium Arcadium is the best song from Stadium Arcadium

Tommy Brisbane

4y↑7

Wanted - One time machine so I can go back in time to be a part of this awesome music video.

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tristan atkins

3y↑41

I thought he said black party

Andrea Santinelli

1y↑7

Rhcp are black inside. Lol

Tracy Morgan

1y↑2

Block party lol

Said Sainz

Didn't he?

Petros KR

6y↑43

If you see this video clip in mute you'll think it's some kind of rap , hip hop or something

bass n' guitar Brazil

6y↑1

@*****
funk carioca não tem nada a ver com funk americano cara

Petros KR

6y↑3

in mute means without sound

Michaelzid Michael

6y↑10

THIS IS FUNK MAN!

Fabricio Cavalcante

1y↑6

Me deixa entrar cara, eu conheço o Maicão

Majessty _

3y↑42

I don't remember this episode of Everybody hates Chris..

MistaGitGud

4y↑18

I like the music video, but I think they would have been better off making a video for Wet Sand. Honestly the most underrated song they ever made, and possibly the best.

Roldi RB

50w

"Monarchy of Roses" is quite underrated too, though it has a video :'v

elena79rus

True.

stadioarcadio

3y↑69

This song is so underrated, not even Anthony himself likes it.

Gleb Guitarplayer

1y↑2

@Bradley Smith in Stadium Arcadium documentary.

Brandy Yolidio

2y↑1

I never heard that but I love the song, looks like he was feeling it to me

Bradley Smith

2y↑4

nonnanevrotica , when did he say that??

ha yes

3y↑69

This is definitely the Chili's most funkiest song

Levon Van der geest

11w

If you have to ask from BSSM

Pino Pinguino

16w

give it away*

Holden McInerny

33w↑1

ha yes i’m gonna argue that suck my kiss is funkier but this is still very funky

god himself

1y↑2

American Ghost Dance is almost the exact same song as this song but for some reason American Ghost Dance feels funkier

KingOfMints

Nah

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Leonardo Martins

5y↑342

Barraram o carinha que mora logo ali

ygor henrique

24w

Os br na área kkkkk

Renan Silva

24w

Kkkkkk

t dowling

38w

DAVI TORRES

44w↑1

kkkk

Caique Ramos

1y↑1

Passa um dólar ai

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momopirou

6y↑131

"-i didnt bip man
-it's on vibrate"
best reply ever. whish i did that job just to say that.

João Mars

6y↑15

Anthony Kiedis Gorgeous, hunk

Soraya Vidal

4y↑17

I love red hot chili peppers

Titi Dammett Kiedis

3y↑3

Soraya Vidal me too! 😍

Damián Iovacchini

6y↑23

Gotta miss Frusciante

Francie Says

6y↑11

Funk a delic

peter janjanin

1y↑1

George Clinton did produce their first albums.......

Ruby Louise

7y↑59

Oh I love Flea :')

Muamer Tursunovic

Hello beauty

peter janjanin

2y↑1

I just bought a Flea Jazz bass and he's basically the reason I'm playing a 78 Music Man in my profile pic

Seth Greene

5y↑8

I miss frusciante

lucatme

21w↑4

what kind of cringemare is this?
somebody pinch me, please

Oscar Temple

21w↑1

Anis Rahmat

6y↑28

So so so funky!💜💜💜💜

BassDownLow

2:07 they must've had fun switching instruments

Venis Pagina

4y↑13

missing fruciante rn

João Stark

He's back baby!

James Gilbert

19w↑5

You must be happy now.

Tyler Green

7y↑14

2 days ago I was given a piece of fleas bass string, it's so cool :D

Tracy Morgan

@11yearoldscene blood.

GET IT

11yearoldscene

6y↑3

.... What does it smell like...?

Sikamixoticelixer

6y↑50

Everybody hates Chris haha :D

pat qiout

thÿmoula

Nicole fj

5y↑5

Flea's bassline is just awesome!

Kali Scarlett

31w

I can play dat and imma doit for my school celeb

brëu

48w↑1

I love how nothing on this video makes sense at all

Dom

6y↑63

Lol, "It's on vibrate"

BilboMoseley

3y↑7

when u cri seeing Anthony 1 feet within a female specimine

Some Guy

6y↑11

Damn, RHCP is awesome

Matheus Emanoel

4y↑27

todo mundo odeia o crhis?

DAVI TORRES

44w

sim

soi boi

1y↑5

2:35
When you can't say California in the song so you put it on your bass drum instead

Issa Beganović

5y↑9

"What do you mean I'm not on the list?"
Face it Chris, you're a party killjoy!

SkipNThrill

2y↑5

this should have a billion views already,, loved it!

Etash Kamtikar

The teacher: no one will switch roles in the concert
backbenchers: 2:08

Connor Loughran

6y↑21

Two things:
1.) chick in green at 2:20 = DAMN
2.) are we just not gonna talk about the dude with only a slight amount of hair on the right side of his head?????

KYNEX

14w

When?

wet ham

2y↑2

oh, i love the early 2000's.

el snarj

wet ham such a long time ago. (Song was 2009........................

Piezano L0rd

3y↑4

This is how you make a booty jam. All you need is a funky bass line and guitar that is equally funky.

Skeve !

5y↑14

"I didn't beep! " its on vibrate 😂😂😂 woooo Craig you crack me up 😏

Xenxo Fernandez Rodriguez

22w↑4

Is that security man the pontiac's guy of Brooklyn 99

Tom Hargrave

21w↑1

it is the same guy, the pontiac bandit

slothyboi

21w

now that you mention it, they really look the same

la Bibou BANG

1y↑1

2019 from SELMIA #سلميه ALGERIA

Oliver Noden-Mayor

2y↑3

its weird this isn't my type of song yet I love it along with the rest of the songs like this in the Stadium Arcadium album

Henrion Arthur

0:26 HERE WE MEET AGAIN, PONTIAC BANDIT

Rafa Tripodi

23w↑1

que grande darryl antes de laburar en dunder mifflin era patovica

X YZ

4y↑4

I prefer John than Josh a lot better, just my point of view.

Jacobboy 224

9w↑1

Why is darell from the office hanging out with red hot chili peppers

St. Francis

4y↑6

Little dude from across the street!

Lauren Hayes

can I get a dolla

Jeffrey Heesch

5y↑4

Oh! Craig Robinson! I loved him on Coach!

andygrunge1

4y↑2

Chris Rock, a lenda.

ripplebear

1y↑2

Funk de bump. I always hear Micheal Jackson's wanna to be startin' something during the little drum break.. flea's bass line just about has the groove going!

t-roy 48

5y↑3

frushante's guitar work is amazing.

nheORIGINAL

6y↑15

wayne rooney playng the drums

Consolous

2y↑1

I'd say Flea, the bassist, looks more like Rooney

Salty Dog Dipper

5y↑1

Doesn't even look like Wayne Rooney.

YOUR UNDERTAKER

hahaha.... good one.

nheORIGINAL

kinda holligan seth rogen too

M McN

6y↑3

i always thought he looked like a mix of rooney and will ferrel

Emerson Ribeiro

6y↑25

Brooklyn 1986

Victoria Nutt

4y↑5

The guy at the start is Chris Rock!
He's also Marty from Madagascar!
I've only just realised that...

Legendarykewlboygaming123

4y↑3

Wish i was at that block party

Revi0li

2y↑1

Let’s take a minute to appreciate chad in the thumbnail.

blu byford

6y↑33

Craig Robinson hahaha

Kevin *********

"darryl fillban is the most complicated man i have ever met"

frank w

2y↑1

i diDnT BeEP

i t s o n v i b r a t e

Ndrew _

3y↑2

Everyone changes everything, 2:10 noice

PhantomRe3z

"I didn't beep!" "Somethin' vibratin'.."

gulliver

3y↑2

W E R E Y A G O I N ?

NintenX

9w↑1

i remeber when i was a kid, my dad split the stadium arcadium album with his friend, my family got the 1st disk, I have fond memories of listening to this albums on road trips to my uncle's house. I have to thank the chili peppers for getting me into rock music in the first place. They are without a doubt my favorite rock band and one of the best rock bands of all time. But this song in particular is my favorite of stadium arcadium. It perfectly describes the chili pepper's style of rock and funk to a tee. In all I just love this song with all my heart and im so glad lots of other people love this song and love the great work the chili pepper's do!