Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside [Official Music Video] [HD UPGRADE]
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Watch the official music video for “Otherside” by Red Hot Chili Peppers, from their landmark 1999 album Californication. Released as a single in 2000, “Otherside” became one of the band’s defining alternative rock hits, exploring addiction, loss, and the struggle to break free from destructive patterns.
Featuring Anthony Kiedis on vocals, John Frusciante on guitar, Flea on bass, and Chad Smith on drums, the song pairs Frusciante’s haunting guitar melody with one of Kiedis’ most emotionally direct vocal performances. The official music video, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, draws inspiration from German Expressionist cinema, placing the band in a surreal, black-and-white world of distorted architecture and striking visual imagery.
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Originally released on the band’s seventh studio album, Californication, “Otherside” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album marked the return of guitarist John Frusciante and helped establish a new era for Red Hot Chili Peppers, blending their signature funk rock influences with a more melodic alternative rock sound.
Alongside RHCP classics like “Californication,” “Scar Tissue,” and “Around the World,” “Otherside” remains one of the defining songs of the band’s late-’90s and early-2000s catalog.
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Otherside Lyrics:
How long, how long
Will I slide?
Well separate my side
I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
Slittin’ my throat
It’s all I ever
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up
And brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I gotta take it on the otherside
Well centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
The stranger things that never change my mind
I gotta take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on
How long, how long
Will I slide?
A-separate my side
I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
A-slittin’ my throat
It’s all I ever
Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray’s full
And I’m spillin’ my guts
She want to know
Am I still a slut?
I gotta take it on the otherside
A scarlet starlet and she’s in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Mmm-push the trigger
And I pull the thread
I gotta to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on
[Chorus]
How long, how long
Will I slide?
Separate my side
I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
A-slittin’ my throat
It’s all I ever
Turn me on
Take me for a hard ride
Burn me out
Leave me on the otherside
I yell and tell it that it’s not my friend
I tear it down, I tear it down
And then it’s born again
How long, how long
Will I slide?
Separate my side
I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
A-slittin’ my throat
It’s all I ever had
(How long)
I don’t
I don’t believe it’s sad
A-slittin’ my throat
It’s all I ever
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