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"Otherside"
Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album Californication
B-side(s)	"How Strong"
Released	January 11, 2000
Format	CD
Recorded	1999
Genre	Rock
Length	4:15
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s)	Rick Rubin
Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology
"Around the World" (1999)	"Otherside" (2000)	"Californication" (2000)

"Otherside" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Released in 2000, it was the third single from the album Californication, and is a song that confronts the battles ex-junkies have with their demons. The video was created by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris in a black-and-white/monochrome Gothic style similar to Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, all influenced by German Expressionist art. Elements of Cubism and work by the graphic artist M.C. Escher are also seen in the video.

The video was created with a combination of miniatures, giant sets, puppets, forced perspective and green screen as described by the directors.

A cartoonish story line is juxtaposed upon the song; that of a young man's dream sequence. The band members appear dressed in black in unusual locations, with props intented to appear as surreal instruments. Throughout the video Anthony Kiedis with his short, platinum hair is seen in a castle tower. His stage persona is different and quite dark when compared to his more energetic performances in other videos. John Frusciante plays a rope down a long corridor as if a guitar, although reluctant wanting just to play his guitar normally. Flea is hanging on telephone wires and playing them as if they were a bass guitar, and Chad Smith is up on a tower with a rotating medieval clock that serves as his drum kit.

Jonathan Dayton: "We did look at Caligari, and we looked at a lot of German Expressionist film. But it was also very important to avoid 'Caligari.' It was both inspiration and something to work around, because it has such a strong, specific style, and there have been other videos that have completely ripped it off."

The red lips the protagonist uses as wings in the video was an element taken from a Man Ray painting.

Valerie Faris: "We didn't look at 'Calagari' all that much, really. We did, but then we just left it. We did look at a lot of the works of the futurist artists from the '30s, and the illustrations of the surrealists and from cubism. We were inspired more by paintings than by films…"

The video with commentary from Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, and the band can be seen here.

ACNielsen's Broadcast Data System (BDS) compiled a list of 40 most-played music videos of 2000, based on monitored data from MTV, VH-1, BET and CMT. The video for "Otherside" came in at #1.

CD single (2000)

1. "Otherside" (Album) – 4:16
2. "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)" – 4:43
3. "Road Trippin'" (Without Strings) – 3:25
4. "Otherside (Music Video)"

CD version 2 (2000)

1. "Otherside" (Album) – 4:16
2. "My Lovely Man" (Live) — 5:18
3. "Around the World" (Music Video)

CD version 3 (2000)

1. "Otherside" (Album)
2. "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)
3. "My Lovely Man" (Live)
4. "Road Trippin'" (Without Strings)
5. "Scar Tissue" (Music Video)
6. "Around the World" (Music Video)

CD version 4 (2000)

1. "Otherside" (Album)
2. "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)
3. "My Lovely Man" (Live)
4. "Road Trippin'" (Without Strings)

CD version 3 (2000)

1. "Otherside" (Album)
2. "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)

7" single (2000)

1. "Otherside" (Album)
2. "How Strong" (Previously Unreleased)

Clipland summary (German)

Preceded by "All The Small Things" by blink-182

Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single February 19, 2000

Succeeded by "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis | John Frusciante | Flea | Chad Smith
Hillel Slovak | Dave Navarro | Cliff Martinez | Jack Sherman | Arik Marshall | Jesse Tobias | D. H. Peligro | Jack Irons
Discography
Studio albums: The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) | Freaky Styley (1985) | The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) | Mother's Milk (1989) | Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) | One Hot Minute (1995) | Californication (1999) | By the Way (2002) | Stadium Arcadium (2006)
EPs, Live albums and compilations: The Abbey Road E.P. (1988) | What Hits!? (1992) | Live Rare Remix Box (1994) | Out in L.A. (1994) | Under the Covers: Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | The Best of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | Greatest Hits (2003) | Live in Hyde Park (2004)
Singles: 1984: True Men Don't Kill Coyotes, Get Up and Jump | 1985: Jungle Man, American Ghost Dance, Catholic School Girls Rule, Hollywood (Africa) | 1987: Fight Like a Brave, Me & My Friends | 1989: Knock Me Down, Higher Ground, Taste the Pain | 1990: Show Me Your Soul | 1991: Give It Away | 1992: Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Behind the Sun, Breaking the Girl | 1993: If You Have to Ask, Soul to Squeeze | 1995: Warped, My Friends | 1996: Aeroplane, Coffee Shop, Shallow Be Thy Game, Love Rollercoaster | 1999: Scar Tissue, Around the World | 2000: Otherside, Californication, Road Trippin', Parallel Universe | 2002: By the Way, The Zephyr Song | 2003: Can't Stop, Dosed, Universally Speaking, Fortune Faded | 2006: Dani California, Tell Me Baby, Snow ((Hey Oh)) | 2007: Desecration Smile, Hump de Bump
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