Warped (song)

"Warped"
Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album One Hot Minute
B-side	"Melancholy Mechanics"
Released	August 21, 1995 (1995-08-21)
Genre	Funk metal[citation needed] hard rock[1]
Length	5:04 (album version) 4:19 (edit)
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Anthony Kiedis Flea Dave Navarro Chad Smith
Producer(s)	Rick Rubin
Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology
"Soul to Squeeze" (1993) "Warped" (1995) "My Friends" (1995)
Music video
"Warped" on YouTube

"Warped" is a song by American alternative rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1995 album, One Hot Minute. It was released as the first single from the album in August 1995. It is the first track on One Hot Minute, beginning with an unusually quiet intro, before suddenly kicking into a very heavy, crunching riff, and ends with a mellow, melodic outro. Anthony Kiedis' vocals are distorted and echoed throughout, and contrast dramatically with the rapping present on the band's previous material, especially on their more fast-paced songs such as this; short lines are stretched to fill an entire measure. The musical style is of an unpredictable and unsettling nature, which is generally maintained throughout the entire album. The lyrics describe Kiedis' confused feelings about drugs, starting already in the first lines with: "my tendency/for dependency/is offending me".

Despite being the album's first single, neither the song nor the accompanying video was included on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits compilation. The B-side "Melancholy Mechanics" also appears on the soundtrack to the 1996 movie Twister as well as on the Japanese pressing of One Hot Minute. During live performances of "Warped", the band sometimes played a sample of the song "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction (former band of then-guitarist Dave Navarro) at the end of the song.