Chosen song for music video - Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

On Friday 20th of September, Ellie, Max and I came to a conclusion as to what song we were going to use for our music video. We agreed on Californication as we all liked the song and had some great idea's as to what we could do for the actual music video. We also learnt about a man called Theodore Adorno who's views on culture had relevance to the song and could have helped us come up with even more idea's as to what we could do for the music video and an understanding of the song itself and what it's talking about.

The song 'Californication' focuses on the darker side of Hollywood. The song focuses on the deterioration of society and how 'plastic' and 'fake' the world is, much like Hollywood - according to the Peppers. The RHCP's started their band together in Hollywood and therefore have a strong understanding of the people and culture's in Hollywood.

Many of the lyrics continue to explain about the plastic unrealistic image that Hollywood portrays and the young forever image it sells to young people. 
For example:
"Little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotations." - Becoming famous.

"Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging" - The Hollywood 'young' image.

"And buy me a star on the boulevard, It's Californication." - Dreaming of endless possibilities.

"Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement." - The image that Hollywood sells is manufactured and fake. 

Theodore Adorno shares the same views as the song Californication about the manufacturing of cultures and the inappropriate images and promises it expresses. Adorno said that the culture industries produce 'unsophisticated' products that replace critical art forms which then makes people forget about the important things such as the question of social life and the meaning of it altogether. He also said that people are too materialistic and like things purely because of how much they cost, or if everyone else has one. A lot of the things Adorno says here are very relevant to the song Californication and it was therefore, extremely important that we learnt and studied about him and it will be a big help when coming to shoot the video and to write about it.