Red Hot Chili Peppers Release ‘Not The One’ Single

Red Hot Chili Peppers unveiled a new single entitled “Not The One.” The song is featured on Unlimited Love, a studio album due out next Friday, April 1 through Warner Records.

Unlimited Love marks the a pair of returns for RHCP as the album is the band’s first to feature guitarist John Frusciante since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium and first produced by Rick Rubin since 2011’s I’m With You. Frusciante rejoined the band in 2019, while Rubin produced such iconic Chili Peppers albums as Stadium Arcadium, 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik and 1999’s Californication.

“Not The One” features Flea on both bass and piano. Credits for “Not The One” and the 16 other songs on Unlimited Love are attributed to all four band members: Frusciante, Flea, frontman Anthony Kiedis and drummer Chad Smith. Red Hot Chili Peppers previously released Unlimited Love singles “Black Summer” and “Poster Child.”

Kiedis explained the genesis of “Not The One” during an appearance with Zane Lowe on his Apple Music 1 program:

“Flea had put together a drum machine and bass song in his cobweb covered garage. It was not what you hear today for ‘Not The One’, because the bridge was the verse and the chorus was the bridge, and it was completely inverted. Every day after band practice, I ride home and I listen to what we’ve done that day over and over and over and over hoping that it sparks something or that I hear the right melody or something, anything. In that case, I started hearing that entire song on the way home, but completely inverted from the way he had arranged it. When you start something, you get a little bit married to it.

“I came in the next day and I said, ‘Flea, I know this is not what you had in mind, but is it all right if I sing the verse over the chorus and the chorus over the bridge?’ He’s like, yeah, do whatever you want. I was like, ‘Really?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, yeah, whatever.’… because he wrote a beautiful thing. I thought maybe he wanted to keep it as it was written. On this particular day, he was so supportive and that was super helpful. I think I was going through a very lonely and introspective month. This idea came out about I think I know who you are, but maybe I don’t. You think you know who I am, but maybe you don’t and especially in intimate relationships, like we know we all present something and people always have an idea, but what would happen if we just showed each other our very worst from the very start?”

Red Hot Chili Peppers launch an extensive world tour in support of Unlimited Love in Seville, Spain on June 4. Stream “Not The One” below: