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Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California”. the video is a quasi-chronology of the evolution of rock music; the band performs the song on a stage, but in a variety of outfits representing important figures and movements in the history of rock music. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California”.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California” • the video is a quasi-chronology of the evolution of rock music; the band performs the song on a stage, but in a variety of outfits representing important figures and movements in the history of rock music.
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California” • However, in the June 2006 issue of UK Classic Rock magazine, bassist Flea was quoted as saying, "We mainly did eras, not actual people: rockabilly, British Invasion, psychedelia, funk, glam, punk, goth, hair metal, grunge, and ourselves being the sum of all those parts". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani_california
Psychedelia: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Glam: Motley Crue
Punk: Sex Pistols
Goth: Misfits
Hair Metal: Poison
Grunge: Nirvana
All of these references are allusions • If we don’t have the background knowledge to recognize allusions, the author's intentions are not met and we as an audience “miss the point”.