- Released in 2000
- The song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood and the export of culture through the movie industry
- #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA
- #16 on the UK charts
- Hit #1 on both US Mainstream Rock Tracks for 2 weeks and US Modern Rock Tracks for 1 week.
- Band's fourth most performed song with over 490 performances.
- The song begins "Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation." Kiedis says in his book Scar Tissue that he got the inspiration for the line from hearing a woman on a New Zealand street ranting about "psychic spies in China".
- The track also makes references to topics such as pornography ("hardcore soft porn") and plastic surgery ("pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging") and even some pop culture references including Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain and David Bowie ("Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station to Station?"), The Beach Boys ("They're just another Good Vibration"), Star Wars ("and Alderaan's not far away") and Star Trek ("Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement"). This quote can also be interpreted to be about the conspiracy that Neil Armstrong's original landing on the moon was indeed staged. The phrase "First born Unicorn" refers to Dorothy Stratten, whose life was covered in the book The Killing of the Unicorn.
- The song featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005).
- In 2009, Brazilian singer Barbara Mendes made a bossa nova cover of this song in the album Rock Bossa.
- The song is available as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band 3
And the music video is just awesome
Making of the music video:
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