By the Way (song)
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| Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers | ||||||||||||||||
| from the album By the Way | ||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Time" "Teenager in Love" |
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| Released | June 10, 2002 | |||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" vinyl, CD | |||||||||||||||
| Genre | Funk rock,alternative rock,rap rock | |||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:37 | |||||||||||||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Flea, Frusciante, Kiedis, Smith | |||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Rick Rubin | |||||||||||||||
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| "Waiting 4" | |
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| Single by Peter Gelderblom | |
| Released | July 5, 2007 (bootleg) December 3, 2007 (official) |
| Format | Digital download |
| Genre | Electro house, electronic rock |
| Length | 3:15 |
| Label | Data |
| Writer(s) | Flea, Frusciante, Kiedis, Smith |
| Producer(s) | Rene Amesz, Peter Gelderblom |
"By the Way" is a song by American funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is the title track and the first single released from the band's eighth studio album of the same name. The song was the band's sixth number 1 hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, staying at the summit for 14 weeks, tying it with "Dani California" as the band's second longest stay at the top, behind only "Scar Tissue", which was at the top for 16 weeks. It also spent 7 weeks at number 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, their fourth song to top this chart.
Regarding its release, guitarist John Frusciante noted: "It wasn't really our decision to put that song out first, but our managers thought it was an exciting song and their enthusiasm convinced us. I guess they thought that it combined the wild part of our sound with the melodic part of our sound." Vocalist Anthony Kiedis elaborated: "I thought that single was an über-bombastic assault of non-commercialism. For it to be so well received [in the United Kingdom] was shocking to me, but thrilling at the same time."
"By the Way" has been performed at almost every show since its first performance in 2002, making it one of the band's most performed songs ever with well over 350 performances and counting.
The music video was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, a couple who have directed many other music videos for the band.
The video starts off with Kiedis calling for a taxi. He gets in the taxi and the cabbie (played by Dave Sheridan) realizes he has him as his passenger. To please him, the driver puts a copy of the "By the Way" single into the taxi CD player, making Kiedis smile mildly. Suddenly, the cabbie begins driving out of control as he lip-syncs the song while driving rambunctiously throughout the streets of L.A. After he locks the car door, an uncomfortable and apprehensive Kiedis attempts to make a call on his cell phone, but the cabbie brakes so hard that Kiedis loses grip of it. The cabbie snatches the phone and throws it out the window, then drives the car in a cloud of dust and backs up under a bridge.
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