One of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is in Los Angeles. He waves for a taxi. The song starts and singer tells us about how he's standing in line for some show. He is currently standing under bright lights presumably for the show titles. "By the way", he tells us, he wanted to wait for a girl named Dani, who promised to sing for him under the marquee.
Meanwhile, taxi driver hasn't caused an accident yet. He looks in his rearview mirror and realizes who he's driving, so he immediately busts out a Red Hot Chili Peppers CD and plays it. Sadly the video misses an opportunity by having the passenger yelling to shut it off. What's the matter, RHCPs? Can't poke fun at yourselves?
Suddenly the song gets a lot more rockin'. One of the band members rolls his fists on a stage they're playing on. Sadly the sudden uping of coolness of the song doesn't up the coolness of the taxi driver. Suddenly the taxi driver sings about corn cobs or something. See? You can't just drum on a wheel and say random stuff. Believe me.
Suddenly the Peppers start singing on their stage. They talk about skinning a flick. Ah, one of these kind of videos. Someone, presumably Dani, is like a DJ. Then it appears that the singer is barking instructions to a driver. Basically, get somewhere no matter what. Then the song tells us that a network interface card has to be beaten. I don't think I understand this song at all.
Taxi cab rider is being kidnapped. I wonder how often this happens. I bet people get taxi jobs just to meet people to abduct. The taxi driver runs off road but in this case it's to get away. The song at least makes a little more sense by returning to the chorus about waiting in line.
Abductee tries using his cellphone but is defeated by... taxi driver mildly easing up. Come on! Can't you hold on to a phone better than that? Not this guy's best moment. The song gets weirder as singer commands somebody to kiss a dyke. I don't think he means a barrier. The whoever is being sung too probably wants to hold one anyway. Now singer continues about something that's not on strike but he's going to bowl one anyway. One what? Is he singing about a pin? Now he says to bite a mic because it's not a stolen one. Why? What is he singing about?
More chorus is played. Taxi is driven into a obscure tunnel. Uh oh! Taxi driver gets out and pulls out some flares. For some reason, his victim is trapped in the car, so he text messages his band members. Taxi driver just twirls the flares around, probably like one of their older videos. Band mates get in a car and we get an action scene. Eventually the abductee is able to jump into the right car and taxi driver has to go find a new victim. The end.
As you can tell, this song confuses me. So I'm going to say this is a good song that's incomprehensible. Somebody could probably explain it too me but right now it at least sounds good. The video is ok. The best parts are when the band is on stage.
The awesome part is when the one band member rolls some punches as the song changes.
3 comments:
"He looks in his rearview mirror and realizes who he's driving, so he immediately busts out a Red Hot Chili Peppers CD and plays it. Sadly the video misses an opportunity by having the passenger yelling to shut it off. What's the matter, RHCPs? Can't poke fun at yourselves?"
Actually it looks to me like the driver got yelled at because he started driving like a crazy person. Anthony Kiedis is a reasonable man and does not want to die.
I couldn't tell you what this song is about. Usually I'm a big fan of listening to lyrics, but sometimes it's ok to just sit back and enjoy the way the thing sounds.
Awesome:
1: The cab driver's You Gonna Get Raped dance in the tunnel.
2: His totally chic puffy pants/fanny pack combo.
New song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0PQvtgSjss
Know what's sad?
It's been so long since Tales from the Duh, Tork didn't figure out the obvious inspiration for a key plot poin/running gag.
I miss the rp :(
I know. It was a key reason I picked this video but Tork was all like, "Dur dur dur dur herp derp."
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