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Crazy (Aerosmith song)

"Crazy"
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Single by Aerosmith
from the album Get a Grip
B-side "Gotta Love It"
Released May 3, 1994
Format Cassette, CD
Recorded 1992
Genre Blues rock
Length 5:16 (Album Version)
4:04 (LP Edit)
Label Geffen
Writer(s) Steven Tyler
Joe Perry
Desmond Child
Producer(s) Bruce Fairbairn
Aerosmith singles chronology
"Deuces Are Wild"
(1994)
"Crazy"
(1994)
"Blind Man"
(1994)
Music video
"Crazy'" on YouTube

"Crazy" is a power ballad performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith and written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Desmond Child. It was the final single from their massively successful 1993 album Get a Grip. It was released as a single in 1994 and peaked at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, #7 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and #3 in Canada. In the United Kingdom, it was released as a double-A side with "Blind Man", which reached #23.

The song's lyrics are about a woman who comes and goes, and whose "crazy ways" drive the narrator "crazy."

The video for the song was directed by Marty Callner and received heavy rotation on MTV. It was one of the most requested videos of 1994. It featured the third appearance of Alicia Silverstone in the band's videos, and was the career debut of Steven's then-teenaged daughter Liv Tyler. The decision to cast Liv in the video for "Crazy" was based on the video's creators having seen her in a Pantene commercial, with absolutely no knowledge her father was in the band.

The video is film-like and depicts the two as schoolgirls who skip class and run away, driving off in a black Ford Mustang convertible in a manner similar to the 1991 hit film Thelma & Louise. The two use their good looks to take advantage of a service station clerk, and needing money, enter an amateur pole-dancing competition. The video is noteworthy for its risque and sexually suggestive scenes. The video is edited to show the similarities in stage moves of Steven Tyler and daughter Liv. The girls win the dance competition, then spend the night in a motel. They continue their joyride the following day, where they encounter a young sweaty and shirtless farmer (played by model Dean Kelly) aboard a tractor tilling land in the countryside. They persuade him to join them in their journey, where they all go skinny dipping in a lake. The girls take off with his clothes and leave him behind at the lake. Naked, he chases after them, and rejoins them in the convertible. The final seconds of the video show the word "Crazy" spelled out in cursive in the cropland by the still-running tractor.


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