5 Reasons Why People HATE Red Hot Chili Peppers 

LOVE EM OR HATE EM? You know where I stand, but are the criticisms valid? Sound off in the comments!

1. They're Faith No More fans 2. They're Faith No More fans 3. They're Faith No More fans 4. They're Mr Bungle fans 5. They're Mike Patton fans On a serious note, some reasons I can think of: 1. Anthony's voice 2. Lack of quality since SA (or, in some people's cases, BSSM) 3. Nonsensical lyrics 4. The whole 'funk and metal don't go' thing 5. Allegations/certain sexual partners of Anthony

Fun random ass fact: The song Reckoner by Radiohead, more specifically the riff, Thom has said was inspired by seeing the Chili’s and John Frusciante’s playing style (mainly Scar Tissue). So even Radiohead like them

Their live improv with Frusciante is often absolutely incredible.

I've loved RHCP since I 1st heard "Higher Ground" in the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers movie when I was a toddler! the RHCP have been a band since 1980 & they deserve respect!

Why does Anthony Kiedis sound like his mouth is lined with syrup tho (Also thx u for the shoutout I’ve been waiting for this video for years)

The way they fired josh was a little depressing

One of my favorite bands of all time. Can’t wait to watch this😂.( knowing that you love them helps though)

AK's ego indeed hasn't always made him look good in the past but I think he's been through a lot of change, spiritually speaking. Now he just seems a bit goofy and goofy is fine. He's cool.

It sucks that this band gets hated on. I will always love them.

One of my favorite chili peppers lyrics- "there's a devil in my dick, there's some demons in my semen."

I love RHCP and am happy to see John Frusciante back with them.

I love the chili peppers and grew up on them, but Anthony sleeping with a 14 year old girl while in his late twenties and John’s possible implications in river phoenixs death are the immediate things which come to mind that irk me about the band. A lot of my friends who I try to get to listen to rhcp will cite those specific things.

It’s impossible for me to hate them. I get sometimes when people will say that because of the whole Anthony thing but other than that I mean good music is good music. I don’t care if they are one of the biggest bands in the world or if it’s a band that has 100 monthly listeners on Spotify, if I dig what the band is doing I’m here for it.

Don’t hate them; genuinely love a lot of their songs, and I really, really like what John Frusciante brings to the band. That said, the way they brought him back and just sort of dumped Josh Klinghoffer like yesterday’s garbage after 10 YEARS in the band just reeeeeally rubs me the wrong way

Favorite band of all time. I was born in '99, and was raised on BSSM, By The Way, Californication, and Stadium Arcadium. There's hundreds of incredibly nostalgic and warm memories associated, and John is one of the main reasons I got into playing guitar. I think everyone has certain bands/groups/singers ingrained in their makeup, RHCP is one of mine.

They might not mention California, by name, until 1999, but they do say "City of Angels" in Under the Bridge, back in 1991.

My all time favorite band. To those who criticize the lack of depth in their lyrics, try listening to "Throw away your television", "Death of a Martian" or "Goodbye Angels". There are many other songs I could point to, and even as I'm writing this other songs keep popping up in my head. You may still dislike the sound, Anthony's voice, or whatever it is that makes you dislike them, but lack of lyrical depth is hardly an issue with this band. Then again, not all their songs are exceptionally deep, but to a hardcore fan like me, that would just be plain boring! And I do dislike one of their songs exactly for the lyrics - "Hump de bump". Still.. Kiedis can hit or miss with lyrics, but when he hits, he hits pretty damn hard!

1) AK thanks for watching

my favourite band of all time, so diverse and interesting music! can't wait to hear their new album :) by the way, Anthony's lyricysm is in many cases more about the sound that the words make, not their meaning. the excerpt from 'Purple Stain' is a great example of that approach - the whole line about alligators doesn't really mean anything, but it's definitely fun to sing! another example could be 'it's such a waste to be wasted in the first place, i wanna taste the taste of being face to face with common grace' from 'This Velvet Glove' - it's so fun to sing along to and makes sense too. Anthony is capable of writing complex, meaningful lyrics (eg. 'Goodbye Angels', 'Don't Forget Me', 'Dosed', 'Factory of Faith', 'Encore', 'I Could Have Lied', 'Porcelain') - sometimes deep meaning is just not the effect he's going for. I mean, what the hell is Hump de Bump about? Nobody really knows. But is it funky and groovy and fun to listen to? Hell yeah

I just gave a "39 years of RHCP history in 10 minutes" presentation to my friends on a zoom presentation night and boy was it a ride. Love these guys but they deserve criticism sometimes, there's no denying that.

More than any band, when I'm low and down, cranking some of the Chili's blazing tracks never fails to get me surfing a wave of dopemine and straighten me up. There's a few songs I don't love (half of Stadium tbh) but that's the same with any band really. As long as they keep playing the music they love I'm happy. That's the most we can expect from our artists imo.

You could do "Why Do People Hate U2?". Lots of people specifically hate Bono for one reason or another (or make fun of him, like on South Park) and I feel like I've never heard a whole breakdown of why. I don't care for their more recent albums but do love their stuff from 80s/90s. Might be interesting to hear why a once beloved band that brought post-punk elements into the mainstream now makes so many people roll their eyes. There was that time when they put their album on every single person's iPhone which horrendously backfired for them-- rather than seeing "modern" and "up with the times" some people felt like their privacy/tech security was violated. It's kind of interesting because I feel like The Rolling Stones also stopped making interesting music from the 80s on yet aren't despised to that degree and there are plenty of other bands that have faded in quality in my opinion too (Smashing Pumpkins). Could be interesting to explore. If you already have, apologies-- just off the top of my head.

I think some of it is also because of the beef between Anthony Kiedis and Mike Patton that occurred both when Patton was with Faith No More and Mr. Bungle. Always felt the feud was kind of stupid despite really enjoying both RHCP and FNM.

I agree i do not like the red hot chili peppers

Highly anticipating your review of the album when it comes out… can tell it is gonna be a banger for the channel!

Used to hate this band while ironically listening to their tunes back then lol, but now i get it they are one of my favourite bands ever

I'm not a super big fan of RHCP, but I like a good number of their singles like Scar Tissue, Californication, Can't Stop, Dani California, and Snow (Hey Oh). Edit: Also my dad doesn't like them, maybe because of their sound. Same with the Foo Fighters. But Godsmack? Perfectly fine 😒

I absolutely love them. I understand the criticisms and there's definitely weight to it, but I can't stay mad at them. Their music is just too good to write them off. And if people really did pay attention, then they'll see their music is a lot more diverse and wide-range than they're given credit for.

Dark neccessaty is my fav song by them. Specially that bass line it's soo catchy whenever you think of it.

Their biggest " mistake " is long albums and same producer . They be bigger if albums they record lasted 45 -50 minutes .

Honestly this idea of fans wanting some kind of innovation from Artists or groups always seemed ridiculous what makes the Artists or groups them is them sounding like themselves

I had an RHCP LOGO shaped hole in my heart and I didn't know until I listened to their music, I didn't know I could feel the way they make me feel, I just got dosed by their magical drug I'm forever grateful.

My favorite joke referencing RHCP was in the Good place when they say that anyone who listens to or pays for tickets to see them goes to the Bad place 😂 As a huge Chili Pepper fan loved this video Jon!

Good analysis. I've been a RHCP fan since 1983, saw them live 3 times in clubs during the 80s when they were not yet popular. From the start, I loved their funkiness but also loved their evolution over the years. I've really tired of people who complain about bands who change as they get older and more refined. It happened to The Clash, The Replacements, The Chili Peppers, REM and others. I see it as just pathetic hipsterism.

My favourite band of all time, seeing them live in June in Manchester. I can get why people don’t like them, people just have a dislike for the big players in all fields and genres of music, I personally don’t like bands like Slipknot, Pink Floyd, Pearl Jam etc but it doesn’t take away the fact that they’re all massively successful bands with a lot of good songs. I think the hate comes from people not understanding why they changed their sound, all of the issues within the band since their inception - FLEA has said on multiple occasions he was going to leave the band … FLEA - RHCP aren’t who they are without Frusciante, the last 2 albums (I’m with you and the Getaway) are good, but lack that personal touch only Frusciante has ever been able to bring - it’s no secret their most successful songs and albums are those with the 4 current members. I think personally that every album is drastically different, even from 1999-2006 if you listen to maybe the first 2-3 singles from each album it’s clear they come from different albums and different playing styles, I think they’ll always be considered one of the best bands of all time and rightfully so, they’ve never sold out, they just got popular and as many know, getting popular nearly killed Frusciante.

I love RHCP, definitely one of my favorite bands and have been since I first got into them 8 or 9 years ago. But I can see where the criticism comes from. I think Black Summer is a perfect example of Chili Pepper tropes. It has strange, seemingly unrelated lyrics (“China’s on the dark side of the moon-“ is that political commentary?), Chad uses the same drum beat that’s all over Californiacation, By the Way, and Stadium Arcadium, there are a lot of familiar Frusciante licks, and Flea’s baseline is good but nothing new. That’s not to say it’s a bad song- it’s catchy as hell and Frusciante’s guitar tone is killer. But I felt like it was a lackluster first single with Frusciante back and played more into the band’s tropes than to what makes them unique. Or maybe it’s their tropes that make them unique? I don’t know. I’d love to hear what other people thing of Black Summer.

Love this band, theyve been a massive part of my life tbh, got me through alot of tough times 👌

I always hate the criticism that they went Mainstream. As a black girl from the suburbs I never would have even known about them if their music only stayed local! Love them they are my favorite band! ❤️🤟🏾🌶

The hate is definitely Kiedis-centric. He took a 14 year old girl with him for a few days during one of their mid 80's tours and used to treat John like shit the first time he was in the band although he was the one who really wanted John in the band at first. He got Mr. Bungle kicked off of several European festivals in 1999 and Big Day Out in 2000.

Then obviously you've never heard Faith no more

I feel like “up to my ass in alligators, let’s get it on with the alligator haters.” Is the perfect sentence to describe them lol. One line I never understood for sure was from their song “purple stain” in the lyrics he says “celluloid love got a John frusciante” and I’ll never understand that.

I've always found a lot of the criticism of RHCP kinda silly.

With regards to their lyrics, POWER OF EQUALITY is a beast of a lyric.. go check it out

They mentioned Hollywood a lot before 1999 but they actually never mentioned California itself before 1999

Pertaining to the "mainstream" point of view.. I always thought isn't it a good thing and one of the main purposes of being in a band is to evolve their sound and grow as a musical artist. Who the hell would want their favorite band to continually put out the same type of music album after album unless you are a ACDC fan lol. They literally sound the same on every single album and are boring. But most bands have a formula they stick with and even with the peppers they have their formula but at the same time continue to sound original and new on every album and that's why I've always been a fan. Even live theyre a jam band and into improv jamming and improving during their songs. They make their old songs sound new every show because they never play the same song the same way which keeps them sounding fresh.

I find the only reason people hate them is Anthony. They either don't like his voice or his persona

If someone hates the chili peppers, then they clearly have NO GOOD TASTE in music at all. Like, they’ve got no soul, no ears, no compassion. I really don’t get the hatred. It’s got to be due to jealousy? Due to no one else holding any of these career goals they have? Also they have HUNDREDS OF SONGS IN THEIR CATALOGUE. NOT EVERY SONG IS ABOUT CALIFORNIA, maybe listen to their catalogue, haters.

The reason I don’t like them is because Anthony kiedis slept with a 14 and 16 year old

I actually love the nonsensical writing.

My first cassette tape is Californication around 1999 or 2000, the opening song is Around the world, and i said what a badass guitar intro and my cousin tell me is a bass, what?? How bass sounds like that, and i blown away, and that's it, i started playing bass since

they did Josh dirty. should’ve had a bass, lead guitar, and rhythm guitar

You have to realize that there are four elements in the band. They're always going to give you the same thing in a different style. 12 albums in, and they get criticized for sounding too much like themselves? Critics can be really rude when reviewing something magnificent. They often feel they have to point out a flaw here or there. Perfection is impossible, so critics really have a lot to bitch about. I just think that RHCP makes the world a better place to live in this day and age and that's uplifting. Not many bands can do that these days.

Also, this video is super relevant right now, I don't know how many people around here know of Pat Finnerty, he's basically a parody of Rick Beato who does videos 'What Makes This Song Stink' which have been super entertaining, but his next video's gonna be on Dani California, and I'm super curious how many people are actually going to back him on that one

Josh klinghoffer is a good Guitarist for peppers

I've had an on and off again relationship with the RHCP throughout the decades... I do love their general sound they have going for them as a funky alternative rock pop rock band... but sometimes when they got so overplayed it would turn me off of them for a little bit but I'd come back eventually. During the Californication era, I enjoyed it as much as anyone but I had issue with how I thought of their sound and how they seemed to be making essentially Dad Rock by that era with their more mellower sound. The thing is, they are very good composers when they wanna be, particularly when John Frusciante is with them

I love the Chili Peppers, but some of them have made some sketchy life choices. I do believe it was an accident, albeit Lethal. However, I do want to know what really happened in the viper room the night River Phoenix died. Because everyone has played the cover up game for far too long.

People tend to overthink the lyrics alot and that's why they think it's bad. The point is not to focus on the lyrics and just to enjoy it. The lyrics aren't meant to make sense because it allows for every single different listener to interpret it in their own way. That's what makes the Chili Peppers so great, fuck making songs that only mean one thing to every listener, that shit is boring now.

i feel like most of these are caused by kiedis himself lol. he's the main reason everybody hates RHCP (and one of the main reasons i dislike some of their albums), but if you took him out it'd be a COMPLETELY different band. if i can say anything good about him, it's that he's irreplaceable. as somebody who really only likes the 3 albums they put out between 1991-1999, they definitely have talent and a chemistry together, but that doesn't mean anything if they keep making 70+ minute long albums of mid song after mid song.

I enjoy them but my only real criticism is how they tend to view the non-John stuff. It feels like they outright disown One Hot Minute despite much fan appreciation for it and it's almost like they dumped Josh to get the "real" band together. Imagine if John left for a 3rd time, like how lost would they be?

Easily my favorite band! They’ve been my musical obsession for a good while now. The criticisms I’ve seen against them seem more like people trying to present taste as fact, which doesn’t work, and the one’s that could hold water are less about the music, and more about the band. Either way, not gonna stop my love of the band and the rockin’ music they’ve crafted ❤️‍🔥

Very interesting video, with some equally interesting takes. Personally these have never really been factors for me, I've always enjoyed the RHCP but from californication through to stadium arcadium was when I fell in love with them, those 3 albums were fantastic, and by the way is one of my favourite albums of all time.

will you be updating your RHCP album ranking once Unlimited Love has dropped? 🙏

Asides from their songs: Cabron Zephyr Song Can't Stop and Porcelain. I like them. Not a die hard fan but I do like a few of their songs and albums.

A very good friend of mine (r.i.p. Katz Seki) saw their set in 1984 when keith morris from circle jerks sang with them after anthony was a no-show. He (Katz) was a prolific photographer in LA during the 80's and has pics of it but sadly he died a couple years ago so they may be gone :(

Do Bono.

It's none of these. It's their songs. Every song starts great, but then the groove never changes and the song just go on and on and I want it to end.

If you think Anthony’s lyrics are nonsensical, you aren’t paying enough attention

I feel that all of their albums up to and including Californication were innovative and in Blood Sugar Sex Magik’s case, an absolute masterpiece. The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, Mother’s Milk, and Californication are unbelievably fantastic albums as well. Stadium Arcadium has some bangers on it, but I think it would have been a better album had they cut it down to probably 17 or 18 tracks. I will say that, in my opinion, they’ve basically just been doing variations on the By the Way sound since Frusciante left the second time. I know a lot of people love By the Way, but I can’t stand it. It’s interesting because there was a rift within the band during the BTW sessions, from what I understand. Flea was pissed that Frusciante was basically writing the entire album himself and that his input wasn’t taken into consideration. Anyway, with this said, I can’t stand anything released after Stadium. It just sounds entirely too soft, clean, and neat for my taste. Nothing wrong with it if that’s you’re thing; more power to ya. I realize they’re not 20-some-year-olds anymore, running around with socks on their dicks, singing about partying on pussies and taking subways to Venus, but they could at least have music that’s got a little punch to it like Stadium did. Again, that’s just me, though.

I like RHCP, but I do have some problems with them: 1. Their gimmicks can be obnoxious, such as when they act all "masculine" and perform shirtless (especially in their early years) 2. Those controversies with Anthony Kiedis 3. Their lyrics can be nonsensical, but like you said, they can have meaning when the band wants them to 4. Some of their albums are overly long

Honestly, I know he isn't the best singer ever but he fits what they do. I know Kurt Cobain was a better song writer but he wasn't much of a better singer lol. Layne Staley and Chris Cornell blow Kurt away on most levels as far as front man go. Vince Neil and David Lee Roth weren't great singers yet they don't receive the amount of criticism as Anthony.

I fucking love the Chili Peppers. They’re extremely amazing. My favorite album by them is “One Hot Minute”. Followed by “Blood Sugar Sex Magic” and “Unlimited Love”.

The title should instead be "5 Reasons Why NateIsLame HATES Red Hot Chili Peppers" (just jokes of course)

The beginning chords of Otherside. 😍

Red hot chili peppers songs sound the same

You missed the most important fact. Anthony Kiedis is tone deaf. It’s outright obnoxious listening to him sing.

Loved the Chili Peppers since I was a kid. I was probably 8 or 9 seeing the give it away video on MTV and thought they seemed fun and cool. Then I got my first CD as one hot minute for my 13th birthday, Californication was released while a freshman in high school, Stadium comes out as I’m a young adult out on his own for the first time. . They’ve been there with me along almost every step of my life that I can remember, especially during such formative years. I love them with all my heart and always will. That being said, I still get why if they don’t mean any of that to someone else how they could seem lame. But as a massive fan, I blame the singles for them being so misinterpreted. Every “real” fan isn’t at their concert to hear scar tissue etc. . I’ll shut up now and go put 3 fingers in the honeycomb, just to know if she in fact does ring like a xylophone 🧐❤️‍🔥

Im old I like Uplift Mofo-bssm. Those albums came out when I was single digits but my dad played them. I saw them in concert when OHM came out and they phoned it in and after that, thats how Ive always seen them.

"I'm forever near a radio and I ask, 'What is this garbage?' and the answer always is the Red Hot Chili Peppers." -Nick Cave.

Good review in this video!

This is my reason for pursuing drums and bass for 20 years and falling madly in love with music.

Whenever I have a bad day, Dani California, is a go-to for me.... and within a few minutes all of the anger or ansgt that I might be having, slowly, poof! I feel so much better afterward... and

I mean they aren't the only, the first or the last band who make multiple songs about the place they live. That's just the kind of things people sing about.

i used to love that band, but when i turned 16 suddenly everything became so apparent. now i really saw the lyrics being disguised as deep, but just being gibberish that rhymes. also it didn't help, that they started to get radio and mtv play all day long. just became boring. last album i bought was by the way. never hated on them for getting big, i just moved on and went in a different direction.

If people have a problem with nonsense lyrics, I wonder why so many people like Antidotes by Foals. The lyrics on this album are literally random bullshit and I fucking love it

For a while I genuinely thought New Orleans was part of California due to the song Apache Rose Peacock, combined with the California obsession trope.

Lack of innovation is a funny criticism to make of the RHCP, especially in relation to the first 20 years of their existence. I like the sequence of 3 records in the '90s; 'Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic', 'One Hot Minute', and 'Californication'. I'd usually play particular songs, rather than listen to the entire album, but they were all different stylistically. I've not kept up with their output since the mid 2000s, as it did begin to feel that they were releasing sequels to 'Californication', rather than new albums, which got boring to me. But they had been playing for 20 years by then, and released about 7 albums, so they kept if fresh for a long time.

What they did to Mr Bungle was unacceptable

i used to love them a lot i would always listen to them on top of a lot of other music i liked. yall can call me sensitive for hating them because it happened a lot in the old times but i do not like them anymore and honestly though it is unfortunate i stopped listening to them i refuse to like people such as anthony especially as a younger listener. btw im hinting at the actions anthony partook in with a minor being in his 20s.

The thing that made me laugh about this video is technically it's "one thing people hate about Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis" 😂

In other words, why people hate Anthony

It's almost like around the nineties they stole a note from pearl jam, whom also made no lyrical sense

# 1: After Mother's Milk they left their area of strength and haven't stopped rewriting Under the Bridge disguised as "new" songs.

My husband and I both graduated in 1993 when RHCP were in their heyday. I didn’t like them then and still don’t like them. Something about their sound is like nails on chalkboard to me. I cannot make it past the first 3 seconds of any RHCP song. My husband however loves them and feels the same way about Jane’s Addiction as I do about RHCP and I LOVE Jane’s. So we always have a fun argument about why the other is better.

I think the problem with rhcp evolves highly around anthony. Like think about it. All the others are incredible with their playing and rated very high in their own thing. They make great melodies and music. Any band would anytime gladky take them. But anthony, he’s nothing without the band. I bet no other band would take him. His voice is wack and lyrics so confusing. And his character in the past was very troubled. And I’m saying this as a past huge fan of theirs. Love their 90’s records and their sound. Anthony in my opinion is bringing then down fully. Still glad I’m getting to see them next summer tho in europe.

i don't like them, but i think a lot of it for people is that they think they are over-rated. if people didn't think they were so awesome, more people that don't like them would like them. scooters are liked for what they are. if people went around talking about how cool they were, and awesome to ride, some people that do like them, would not like them as much.

I can understand why people don’t like them but they have mastered their art they write great songs with such simplicity they make it look easy. Not many have written great songs after four decades.

Great video!

I always wondered why I love RHCP when I hate on other artists lyrics. Anthony Keidis has a great play on words. His lyrics are always open to interpretation, sometimes its not clear but it might have a meaning. Either way, the listener can take it however they want. But his songwriting and play on words is out of this world. I couldn't create his lyrics and melodies and patterns if I tried. His songs are fun to sing, and even when it doesn't make sense, it does. He's a great song writer and front man. He's not a singer, but he sings. It's hard to describe. On paper you would think he's just another amateur but his singing, his rapping, his voice... it all works. Like really well. The Chili Peppers sound has no bounds, love that there is a song for everyone. They touch all genres in one way or another. It's hard to categorize them. The whole band is great. I love their energy, it's contagious. I definitely am addicted to them. They are all masters of their craft, the main 4 make magic together. Each one has their own sound and it's recognizable, even though they have gone through changes and evolutions. They have changed yet they never lost their essence. It's always something new but still RHCP. I never get bored of them. They have a song for every mood, every occasion... for everyone

"It is strange that some people expect them to be teenagers in their late 50's..." Well, they still dress and act like teenagers!