Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California”

the video is a quasi-chronology of the evolution of rock music; the band performs the song on a stage, but in a variety of outfits representing important figures and movements in the history of rock music.

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California”

• However, in the June 2006 issue of UK Classic Rock magazine, bassist Flea was quoted as saying, "We mainly did eras, not actual people: rockabilly, British Invasion, psychedelia, funk, glam, punk, goth, hair metal, grunge, and ourselves being the sum of all those parts".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani_california

Rockabilly: Elvis Presley

British Invasion: The Beatles

Psychedelia:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Funk: George Clinton and Parliament/ Funkadelic (P-Funk)

Glam:

Motley Crue

Punk:

Sex Pistols

Goth:

Misfits

Hair Metal:

Poison

Grunge:

Nirvana

All of these references are allusions

If we don’t have the background knowledge to recognize allusions, the author's intentions are not met and we as an audience “miss the point”.