Topics: Music, TikTok, Conspiracy Theories
A woman reckons she's found a hidden meaning to the Red Hot Chili Peppers song 'Californication' after listening to the lyrics.
Some songs stand the test of time because decades after they were released they're still bangers while others can come and go in terms of their relevance.
One woman is sure that when the 1999 song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers first dropped, it contained hidden messages within the lyrics which are spookily relevant today.
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Taking to her TikTok page @thatconspiracygirll, she played the song for her followers accompanied by images of the modern world as she nodded along to the beat.
The song opens with the lyrics: "Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation, and little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation.
"And if you want these kind of dreams it's Californication, it's the edge of the world and all of Western civilization.
"The sun may rise in the East at least it's settled in a final location, it's understood that Hollywood sells Californication.
"Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging, celebrity skin, is this your chin, or is that war you're waging?"
These were accompanied by pictures of the likes of Greta Thunberg, headlines saying China was stealing people's data and images of celebrities.
Other lyrics she posted included the line 'born and raised by those who praise control of population' accompanied by a big picture of Bill Gates, whose nefarious and definitely not bogus plans to microchip and mind control us all using vaccines during the Covid-19 pandemic seems to have been a failure.
People took to the comments to poke holes in this conspiracy theory that the future is proceeding all according to the plans of our new Machiavellian overlords the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
One said 'it's not a prediction as much as history repeating over and over', while another lamented that 'it was written so long ago and nothing has changed'.
Someone else said she 'completely jumbled the lyrics omg' while a fourth joked 'babe wake up the TikTok conspiracy theorists discovered RHCP'.
There were quite a lot of people pointing out that while the lyrics might sound pretty similar to what's going on today it's not because the Red Hot Chili Peppers could predict the future or that there's some grand design behind it all to make Californication the prescient tune of our times.
Some compared the song's lyrics to The Simpsons and their seemingly uncanny ability to predict certain events, though the writers of the show have said their apparent ability to tell the future is more to do with having so many episodes.
As far as they're concerned it'd be weirder if they hadn't predicted a few things over the years.
