1.11
Aaaaaand another Berkeley nod – a line of women dive sideways into a pool in his 1944 films Bathing Beauties.
1.15
The synchronised swimmers are a professional water ballet team from the Inland Empire, Southern California. “Just to use the swimming pool was, I think, $25,000” recalls Bowden. “It meant we couldn't afford to heat it because it was too expensive, so that water was freezing - those poor girls.”
1.52
There were butted heads during the making of this video, as Kiedis and the band wanted to make something a lot more sexually provocative. “We wanted to go kind of hardcore with the tits and the ass,” said Kiedis. “Not in an exploitative way, but just in kind of a beautiful way, showing the extreme power and beauty of the female form and all of the energy within. But there was a woman working at Warner Brothers who was just so not into it. She was like, ‘No, no, you can’t use a woman like that.’ I was like, ‘Come on!’ It wasn’t out of a lack of respect, it was out of a love for sexual energy and all this stuff. She fought it and we kind of ended up somewhere in the middle. It was supposed to be a lot more racy and kind of sexually challenging than it ended up being because of this dispute, which is kind of a drag.”
1.55
They’re pretty strange trousers Kiedis is wearing, aren’t they? They’re like smart office trousers but silvery, like something Dr Evil might have worn to his interviews at Evil Medical School.