Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Red Hot Chili Peppers has a long history of incorporating heavy sexuality into both their music and their live performances. Once appearing nude on the cover of Rolling Stone, some of their song titles aren't even acceptable to mention in polite company.
Nonetheless, they have achieved far greater mainstream acceptance and acclaim than most funk and punk artists, garnering a 2012 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, thirteen #1 singles, some 80 million record sales around the globe, 16 Grammy nominations, 6 Grammy wins, the title of 'most successful band in the history of alternative rock on the radio', and a mention in the listing of the best-selling bands of all time.
Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Music

Their lyrics have touched on numerous subjects, including overt discussion of sexual intercourse, as well as death, and some less-weighty subjects, like friendship, teen troubles, and some social justice topics, like the pros and cons of fame, Native American struggles, and addiction.
Their stage act is, well, anything but boring. They've been sued for the death of a concert audience member (after a slip and fall accident) and Kiedis was convicted once of sexual battery and indecent exposure following some concert shenanigans. Flea and Smith also faced sexual misconduct allegations, for catching and spanking a woman during a performance at MTV's notorious Spring Break event. Smith gained himself a battery conviction for that stunt.
After that, along with some addiction struggles that weren't limited to their lyrics, they took a hiatus from recording and performing during the 90's. By '99, they'd regained some composure, releasing their next album, Californication, to much commercial and critical acclaim.
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Rock On

According to a recent interview with Smith and radio talk show host Eddie Trunk, "I don't know in the future how that's gonna look. We pride ourselves in putting out a really amazing performance. You want people to just walk away and be like, 'Wow, I haven't seen anything like that!' and when you can't do that anymore, you gotta really stop and go, 'We're not gonna be sitting on stools up there playing our songs'."
Flea had a different take when interviewed recently by TMZ, "That's just silly talk. We never look past the immediate future but um, were on tour right now, we're rockin' out, we're feeling the spirit, letting the music move us and to be honest since the day we started this band nearly 35 years ago, I've never ever known what's next or what's around the corner or anything and I think that the power of the band lies in that kinda just staying in the moment and staying with the energy that's moving."
Maybe they just "Can't Stop". We're cool with that.
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