anthony wrote this song to describe his sexual relationship with his ex-girlfriend carmen, he describes her as having a sexual magik to her, and that when they made love it was deep, passionate, an erotic so this songs kind of like a tribute to her
@mrs.kiedis Finally somebody speaks the truth haha. I recently read Scar Tissue and yes, he wrote this about Carmen Hawk(e) (can't remember how to spell it). They didn't have the greatest relationship but the sex was apparently amazing, and they'd always seem to try and solve their problems through sex.
"I've always been for some mysterious reason excited about blood. It represents life. Sex is a powerful and creative energy. Music is pure magic. Something happens when you put a bunch of unexpected words together. It's four words, and there are four people in this band. It originally was just a song. But at the end of t he recording experience, when we said, "Okay, what is this record really about?" that stepped to the front of the line and said, "I'm your title." ...by Anthony Kiedis
Anthony mentions the idea behind Blood Sugar Sex magic in his auto bio, Scar Tissue. Some people correctly identified the ideas in it, but i think I should clarify. Yes the girl was his girlfriend a long time ago, but that was when the album came out, the early 90's. Blood Sugar refered to him shooting up on heroin, aka sugar for your blood. he had a thing for having sex with his girl when he was high on drugs, aka sex magic. aparently the combination worked pretty well
An ex girlfriend of mine used to get horny everytime she heard Anthony Keidis's voice. I swear, i got laid so many times because of this band... I love this song, its purely about sex (so was most of the album come to think of it). A great song to have sex to...
some of the album. and not to add to the graphic-ness but i totally agree with your ex-girl. this song is so sexual, soley sexual really, but i don't find it raunchy or anything, nowhere close to offensive or womanizing, nothing like that.. its still manages to be beautiful in anothonys beautiful way... and hey, when i here this track, and pretend anthony's singing it for me, i get a little heated too. but really, who wouldnt? hard to find extremely sexual songs that can turn on both sexes so well.