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So, essentially, I really hate the Chili Peppers.
Except I quite like some songs. I particularly their silly, scratchy funk numbers; Love Rollercoaster, Aeroplane; this kind of nonsense. It doesn't take itself seriously, and is better for it.
So whilst the jury's out for me (I can't say I hate them 100%, more like 95%), I can categorically state that I hate Anthony Kiedis.
The rest of the band are, relatively, musically talented; I enjoy Flea's bass riffs, for instance. I want to shoot Kiedis, though; he sings like a man obsessed with his own vowel sounds - the same vowel comes out a billion different ways over the course of a song, and when he finds a particularly awkward pronunciation, he gurns harder to make it more obvious. It's childish and irritating - he's got no consistency, and I find his absurd pronunication really, really annoying.
Also, I find the band surprisingly anodyne, and not in any way edgy; I get the feeling that their rough edges have been smoothed off in the past few years.
Ah yes, I've found an easy and highly perjorative way to explain it: in my first year at University, Californication was the choice record of an archetype classified as a "Gap Year Casualty". It's fairly self explanatory, I feel, and entirely apt. Supposedly "people of the world", they were in fact no less anodyne or more interesting than the rest of us. |
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