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THE REVIEW
Everyone grows and everyone changes. If, at 40-odd years old, a love story ends and you really didn't expect it, just when you were ready to start a family, it's understandable that your head would be crowded with thoughts, emotions, and words of a certain caliber; that's what happened to Anthony Kiedis.
And since behind his rebellious persona there's also a sensitive individual, I think it's obvious that his inner state has been reflected in the melodies of his album, without abandoning the primitive funky rhythms, see By the Way; so if the Red Hot give us romantic and melancholic sounds like Zephyr Song and Dosed, we have the duty to understand their little backstories.
In essence, the album isn't like Blood Sugar, but it is still full of new sonic experiments: one of many is the song Cabron, surely influenced by Mexican calypso rhythms.
The mere fact that they managed to change their style significantly, without miserably falling into the commercial, makes them even greater than they already are.
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The review highlights the emotional and musical growth of Red Hot Chili Peppers in 'By The Way.' Anthony Kiedis' personal struggles inspire a sensitive, melodic shift while retaining funky rhythms. The album includes experimental sounds like Mexican calypso influences and avoids commercial clichés, marking a successful stylistic evolution.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983, known for blending funk, punk and psychedelic influences; core figures include Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith.72 Reviews
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By Rivo
By The Way is a weak album, predictable, almost commercial. At times really boring.
Perhaps this is what happened to John Frusciante, the magical soul of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who has produced excellent work since returning to the group but may have run out of the 'spirit' of the past.
By 2Torri
In By The Way, they have become so commercialized that they would have been better off releasing a Greatest Hits like everyone does after years of success.
The time has come to hang up their instruments.
By let there be rock
Listening to Kiedis’s voice being all romantic at forty doesn’t feel great, even though the song is beautiful, but, damn, you’re the Red Hot Chili Peppers, you can’t do such a song!!
In all the Chili Peppers’ records, the great Balzary always made himself heard, but here, he’s not there, Flea’s bass isn’t heard!!
By RHCP87
"By the Way," seen as the work of a group of people seeking new sounds, arrangements, and melodies, seems like an album solid and rich with beautiful melodies and rhythmic accompaniments.
Frusciante did what no one else would have done, which is to focus his sound on more melodic tones, completely deviating from the blues base.
By Jack Darko
"By The Way is indeed a rock pop album, completely different from the previous ones, introducing a new type of music from the Red Hot."
"An album... succeeding fully in the experiment, offering the listener a great album, catchy, well-constructed, and above all, entertaining."
