I was watching Much Music (the Canadian equivalent to MTV) today, and almost fell out of my chair as I was blown away by sheer stupidity and ignorance.

There was a VJ standing on a street in Toronto somewhere talking to a girl and her friend, both of whom looked to be in their mid teen years. Loosely transcribed (just enough to get the point across, really), here is the conversation that unfolded:

"We're about to play Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.. what do you think it's about?"

"Umm.. California Vacation!!"

"Um. Do you like video games and stuff?"

"Yeah!"

"Well you'll probably like this video then, it looks like a video game.."

I think the guy kind of gave up on trying to get anything meaningful out of the conversation shortly after he asked her why she was wearing a pacifier tied to a string around her neck, and all she could say was, "I dunno, it's coooool."

The music video for this song is actually really awesome, incidentally, not as dreamy as the one for "Otherside", but it's good, quite good.

Sometimes it's so painful when people completely miss what a song is about. I mean, it's so obvious that this song is about oranges and how some people so cruelly pick them before they're ready, you know?