Aeroplane (Red Hot Chili Peppers song)
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| Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers | ||||||||||||||
| from the album One Hot Minute | ||||||||||||||
| Released | March 14, 1996 | |||||||||||||
| Format | CD | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Funk rock, alternative rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 4:45 (Album Version) 4:10 (Single Edit) |
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| Label | Warner Bros. | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Dave Navarro, Chad Smith | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Rick Rubin | |||||||||||||
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"Aeroplane" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1995 album One Hot Minute. It was the third single released from the album and a music video accompanied its release. Although the song was left off the band's Greatest Hits album, the music video was included on the accompanying DVD.
Despite its dark lyrical themes it is regarded as the most accessible and upbeat song on One Hot Minute, with a funk slap bass line and child choral vocals from Flea's daughter Clara and her classmates. The second verse of the song refers to American band Mazzy Star's song "Into Dust" and its lead singer Hope Sandoval with the lyrics "Hey girl, I'm turning into dust again/My melancholy baby/The star of Mazzy must/push her voice inside of me".
On the CD single, the live B-sides "Backwoods" and "Me and My Friends" incorrectly list John Frusciante and Chad Smith as co-writers of the songs. Both songs were written with Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons before John Frusciante and Chad Smith joined the band.
The single peaked number 8 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart where "My Friends" hit number 1 and "Warped" hit number 7. It was the only crossover hit from the album hitting number 30 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart where the other 2 singles failed to do. It was also the highest charting single in the UK from the album, peaking at number 11.
"Aeroplane" was the most performed song during the band's One Hot Minute tour. However, like all songs from the One Hot Minute album, with the exception of "Pea", it wasn't performed again following the departure of Dave Navarro until February 6, 2016, at Pier 70 in San Francisco, where the song was performed for the first time since 1997. While the song didn't make a full return to the band's shows, it has been performed a few times on The Getaway World Tour.
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