Songfacts®:

• Much of the lyrics are simply fun wordplay by lead singer Anthony Kiedis, but it does talk about a girl named "Dani," who was the "Teenage bride with the baby inside" on the Red Hot Chili Peppers 1999 song "Californication," and also appears in their 2006 song "Dani California." Kiedis says that "Dani" is a representation of every girl that he's come across in his life.
• "Waiting 4," an electro-house track by Peter Gelderblom, became one of the most popular songs in clubs worldwide during 2007 and peaked at #29 in the UK singles chart. It was based heavily around a sample from "By The Way," and The Red Hot Chili Peppers enthusiastically approved its release despite their usual hardline stance on the use of their music in samples.
• This song did very well in the UK, where the group's funkier fare is embraced. Along with "Dani California," it's one of their two song to reach #2 on the UK chart, the highest they've gotten. In America, their biggest hit is the ballad "Under the Bridge."
• The music video has nothing to do with the lyrics, telling a different story instead. In it, Anthony Kiedis climbs into a taxi, and when the driver realizes who he is, he starts to drive out of control and goes under a bridge. Anthony calls Flea and John for help, and they come and rescue him. At the end, Chad climbs into that same taxi, much to the delight of the driver.
  
  The team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris directed the clip. They've done several other RHCP videos, including "The Zephyr Song" and "Tell Me Baby."
• The taxi driver in the video is played by comic actor Dave Sheridan, reprising his character of Doug Wilson from Ghost World. "We got to do our own stunts and hang out with comic genius David Sheridan," Kiedis recalled to Louder. "He never broke character for the four days that we were shooting, and he never ran out of dialogue that wasn't side-splitting."
  
  Kiedis wanted Jim Carrey to be in the video, but Valerie Faris told him she knew someone better. "I was like, 'Better than Jim Carrey?'" Kiedis recalled. "Are you sure? But he ended up being the best choice we could have made."
  
  Sheridan repeated his cabbie role in the Chili Peppers video for "Universally Speaking."