Twisted Younginz
Twisted Younginz
Twisted Younginz
Season 5 Ep. 10 | Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication ( What Did They Mean )
30 minutes Posted Dec 20, 2021 at 1:56 am.
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Even though they regularly sat atop the charts in the early '90s, the Red Hot Chili Pepper's fortunes started to fade as the decade wore on. Myra & Mojo discuss the June 8, 1999 release of Californication. This track makes references to topics such as pornography. ("hardcore soft porn") it also mentions plastic surgery ("pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging") and even some pop culture references, including Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain and David Bowie. The "spheres" are a reference to Music of the Sphere's, an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies as a form of Music ("Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off station to station?").  It also has other cultural references such as The Beach Boys  ("They're just another Good Vibration"), Star War ("and Alderaan's not far away"), and Star Trek ("Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement").  Also, the phrase "First-born Unicorn" refers to Dorothy Stratten, whose life was covered in the book The Killing Of The Unicorn.