"By the Way" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their eighth studio album, By the Way. It was released as the album's foremost single and eventually a music video was made as an accompaniment.

The frenetic video was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, a couple who has collaborated with the band to create music videos on numerous other occasions. It is not a visual verbatim demonstration of the lyrical denotations, but rather a story all its own.

A wild cabdriver who is, apparently, a Chili Pepper enthusiast, "kidnaps" lead singer Anthony Kiedis upon realization of who he is. Kiedis, who appears apprehensive when the cabbie begins to lock the car door and drive fervently and ardently throughout the city (all the while swerving between countless other vehicles and visiting various places), pages fellow band member Flea who is with John Frusciante. At first, they are skeptical as to whether or not Kiedis is playing tricks or his message is indeed accurate; they ultimately dismiss it as a hoax. A subsequent page causes the two, who are passively eating lunch, to hastily embark on a wild voyage to retrieve their comrade.

Eventually, Frusciante and Flea's vibrant orange Ford Bronco advances on the taxi cab and, when side by side, Kiedis shatters the back-seat window, scrambles hurriedly out and soars, undamaged, into the back of the Bronco where the now reunited three-some turn precariously into another street before the cabdriver can pursue them to any further extent. Chad Smith (the only band member not yet shown in the video) is nearby, also beckoning for a taxi. He, ironically, gets into the same one; the cabdriver realizes his good fortune and speeds off. (Thanks Wikipedia)