Red Hot Chili Peppers
One Hot Minute

THE REVIEW

This album is horrendous. It's absolute zero, it's nothing, actually, this album doesn't exist.

For me, the review could end here, but then you would bombard me with 1/5 ratings and make fun of my picture on the personal profile, so I will see to add a little something.

So, One Hot Minute was released in 1995 produced by the usual (for the band) Rick Rubin.
At first glance, it appears completely immersed in an artwork (from the cover, to the print on the disc, to the lyrics booklet) fairy-tale style, made of handwritten words and characters that feel very much like USA cartoon style from the late '60s.
Something that the Smashing Pumpkins would also pick up around 1996, and for the typeface also in 1998, with the difference that their double Mellon Collie was full of sensible and very dreamy music, which perfectly matched the "package".

There is no rock 'n' roll, there is no noteworthy funk, the pop is still in the experimental phase and will spill over into the coming years but above all, musically, there is nothing particularly worth remembering.
It is truly to be blamed, more for the result than for the intentions to be honest, the attempt of the 4 peppers to blend a bit of funk with chart pop: for example, in Aeroplane (one of the singles extracted from the album) the structure of the whole song, but especially the chorus, seems like it came out of an album of a boyband that passes off their music as rock (today you see trillions of them, just make the horns gesture in front of a camera and declare you love Nirvana to pieces, then it doesn't matter if you release syrupy serenades).
And then, crucially, there is not much harmony between the three band veterans and yet another guitarist changed on the fly and all this is felt in the poor quality of the music.
Mainly, it must be said that Dave Navarro is to this album as wwwhatemoorenet is to Missy Elliott.

The only exceptions that deserve a listen, but not too serious one, are Warped, where Kiedis' slowed-down voice is nice and original and My Friends, the only episode of rock, even if it's still mtv rock let's be clear.
One of the many problems of the Red Hot is the singer's voice which, at first listen enchants, at the second is quite charming, at the third it annoys, and live, simply, it almost never delivers.
In this work, then, nausea rises already at the second listen.
The lyrics of the songs have nothing of depth or interest (I don't want to be mean on purpose, it's just the evidence of the facts) an example is the first verse of track n. 6:
"I'm a little pea / I love the sky and the trees / I am a tiny little ant / I'm nothing"

I don't think anything else is needed, enjoy not-listening.