Kiedis should not be trying to sing, his voice sucks, he should be trying to sound funky because that's the only thing he can pull off without sounding absolutely dreadful. It would be like if Lemmy just started trying to pull off ballads and Motorhead switched from heavy metal to Steel Dan type jazzy soft rock wankery.
Another thing they've had trouble with recently is originality, Stadium Arcadium had pretty much everything lifted from other artists work, slightly improvised to avoid sounding exactly like Jane's Addiction.
Pretty much the majority of what they've released since BSSM has been meh, but this was absolutely dreadful.
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