Look Around

Look Around may refer to:

Look Around (Anthony Rapp album)

Look Around is the first full-length album by American actor/singer Anthony Rapp, known as a singer for his performance as Mark Cohen in the musical Rent and the film adaptation of the musical. It was released on October 1, 2000.

Track listing

Credits

Tracks 1-6, 8, 12

Additional musicians

Look Around (song)

"Look Around" is a song by the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, taken from their tenth studio album I'm with You (2011). It is the album's third single and the music video was released on January 25, 2012. On the band's website, however, it leaked a day early. The song is available for download on iTunes and a two track promo single was released, but no other info on a proper CD single has been released.

On December 2, 2011, drummer Chad Smith confirmed "Look Around" as the next single when he posted a photo on his Twitter page of his drum set and a toilet saying it was from the "Look Around" video. The Robert Hales directed video pans four different rooms, each containing a member of the band.

Background and composition

"Look Around" was written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith, Josh Klinghoffer and produced by Rick Rubin. It focuses on social commentary about the planet. In the song, the vocalist falls in love with a stripper, explaining "Hustle here/ Hustle there/ Hustle me bitch and you best beware/ It's emotional/ And I told you so." The outro of "Look Around," harkens memories of Californication opener "Around the World". Thomas Nassiff from Absolute Punk wrote that the outro "is a cluster of musicianship complemented by Kiedis’ familiar rap-ish vocals." Over a "green-mohawked mirror-ball boogie", Kiedis rock-raps a vision of golden rapture: "Soft walk to horizon/One big crash that no one dies in."