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• This song is about how music can bring people together. In Rolling Stone magazine, lead singer Anthony Kiedis said: "This is from the cup of love - not just love for the individual but for the act of reflecting the light from the heavens back into the world." >>>

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• This is one of the few Red Hot Chili Peppers songs that drummer Chad Smith initiated the writing process of. He started a drum beat, and guitarist John Frusciante simply followed. When Kiedis arrived at the studio to Smith and Frusciante jamming, he was blown away by what he heard. "The sound was so big. And sometimes Chad and John have this weird brotherly connection that's very strong. You know, they can get inside of each other, and I heard that happening and I was like, 'Wow,'" he recalled in the album commentary. "It had that sort of reverberating massiveness of the guitar and I just knew it was a song."
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• After nearly hitting the apex of the US albums chart with their previously release, By The Way, the Chili Peppers landed their first #1 with Stadium Arcadium. Kiedis told Billboard the album's success was due to their more inclusive approach to songwriting, explaining that "the chemistry when it comes to writing is better than ever. Always in the past, there was a little bit of struggle between Flea, John or myself as contributing writers - a struggle to dominate. But we are now confident enough in who we are, so everybody feels more comfortably contributing more and more valuable, quality stuff."
• For Stadium Arcadium, the band returned to The Mansion in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, where they recorded their 1991 breakthrough, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, with producer Rick Rubin. The former home of legendary Hollywood actor Errol Flynn, The Mansion not only earned the reputation as a recording studio - hosting acts like Marilyn Manson, System Of A Down, Slipknot, Linkin Park, and Maroon 5 - but as a haunted house. During their first stay, Chad Smith was so creeped out by the idea of ghosts that he refused to stay there overnight.