Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers‘ ‘Californication’ video has reached over one billion views on YouTube.
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Launched in 2000 because the fourth single from the band’s 1999 album of the identical identify, the clip was posted to the platform in 2009. It was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.
Within the clip, the band star as avatars of themselves in a online game. In keeping with Selection, thus far in 2022, it has averaged over 290,000 every day views on YouTube, serving to to cross the one billion mark.
Earlier, this yr an precise online game based mostly on it was launched on each Home windows PC and mac0S.
Developer Miquel Camps Orteza stated on the time: “I needed to play that recreation so dangerous! It’s 2022 and I haven’t seen anybody [make] the sport, so I challenged myself to create it.”
The landmark video viewing comes simply two days after the band introduced a 2023 tour of North America, the UK and Europe, with The Strokes, Iggy Pop and extra all set to help.
The band, who returned in 2022 with two new albums – ‘Limitless Love’ and follow-up ‘Return Of The Dream Canteen’ – will proceed their international tour from subsequent March, which is able to see them head out on a run of dates which start in Vancouver, Canada.
North American dates run till the top of Could, earlier than the band head to the UK and Europe in June.
Amongst a collection of competition dates together with Pinkpop and Mad Cool, the band will then play two UK headline exhibits – a London date on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on July 21 and a Glasgow present at Hampden Park (rescheduled from this summer time resulting from sickness) two days later.
Additionally supporting the band at choose dates of the tour will probably be St. Vincent, The Mars Volta, The Roots, Thundercat and Metropolis and Color.
Tickets for all dates go on sale on Friday (December 9) at 10am native time. Purchase UK tickets right here and purchase North American and European tickets right here.