Season 5 Ep. 10 | Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication ( What Did They Mean )
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…
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