(You Drive Me) Crazy

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" (You Drive Me) Crazy " is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for her debut album, ... Baby One More Time (1999). Written and produced by Max Martin, Per Magnusson and David Kreuger with additional writing by JÃÆ'¶rgen Elofsson and remixes by Martin and Rami Yacoub, it was released as the third single of the album on August 23, 1999 by Jive Records. It was featured on the soundtrack of the teen romantic teen romance 1999 Drive Me Crazy . "(You Drive Me) Crazy" is a pop song. The song received positive reviews from music critics, some of whom praised the simple formula and recorded similarities with Spears's debut single, "... Baby One More Time".

"(You Drive Me) Crazy" was a commercial success and peaked in the top ten on the singles charts of seventeen countries. In the UK, it became Spears' third consecutive single to reach the top in the top five, while it reached number 10 on the US 'Billboard' Hot 100 and peaked at number one in Belgium (Wallonia). The accompanying music video, directed by Nigel Dick and describes Spears as a dance-floor maid and performs a very choreographed dance with the other waiters. The video airs on special MTV's Making the Video and features cameo appearances by actors Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier. As part of the promotion for the song, Spears performed the song at the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards and the 1999 Billboard Music Awards. It is also included in his five concert tours.

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Before recording his debut album, Spears originally envisioned it in the style of "Sheryl Crow music, but younger [and] more contemporary adults". However, the singer agreed with the appointment of his label producer, who had a goal to target teen audience at the time. He flew to Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, where half of the album was recorded from March to April 1998, with producers Max Martin, Denniz Pop and Rami Yacoub, among others. "(You Drive Me) Crazy" was written by JÃÆ'¶rgen Elofsson, while additional song and songwriting was performed by Martin, Per Magnusson and David Kreuger. Spears recorded vocals for the song in March 1998, at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. It was also mixed at Cheiron Studios by Martin. EsbjÃÆ'¶rn ÃÆ' â € "hrwall and Johan Carlberg played the guitar, while the bass guitar was done by Thomas Lindberg. Keyboard and programming are performed by Kreuger, and additional keyboards by Magnusson. The background vocals are provided by Jeanette SÃÆ'¶derholm, Martin, Yacoub and THE FANCHOIR, formed by Chatrin NystrÃÆ'¶m, Jeanette Stenhammar, Johanna Stenhammar, Charlotte BjÃÆ'¶rkman, and Therese Ancker. In May 1999, Martin and Spears went to Battery Studios in New York City, New York, to re-record the track vocals, due to the fact that a remix version called "The Stop! Remix" will be included on the original movie soundtrack of Drive i Crazy (1999). "(You Drive Me) Crazy" was released as a remix package as the third single from ... Baby One More Time on August 23, 1999.

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Composition

"(You Drive Me) Crazy" is a pop song. The composition of this song follows a simple formula and instills a synthesized edgy instrument, including recurrent cowbell, and has a rough sound similar to Spears's debut single "Baby One More Time" (1999). According to the music sheet published on Musicnotes.com by Universal Music Publishing Group, "(You Drive Me) Crazy" is composed in key C minor and runs through a fairly slow beat dance that infuses the metronome of 101 beats per minute. Spears vocals are considered highly processed when compared to previous songs, "Sometimes". Vocal range spans more than one octave, from low key G 3 to high note D ? 5 . The main chord of the song is Cm-A ? -G (vi-IV-III), with some deviations.

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Critical reception

This song received positive reviews from music critics. Kyle Anderson for MTV is considered "(You Drive Me) Crazy" as "a song that sounds the same [to '... Baby One More Time'] with some streamlined rock guitar that takes the main stage (even a solo). Spence D. IGN considers "(You Drive Me) Crazy" a "[Max] Marty's shiny pop song, while Caryn Ganz from Rolling Stone is called" (You Drive Me) Crazy "" hit more more "than ... Baby One More Time , along with" From the Bottom of My Broken Heart "and" Sometimes. "Musical critic Walt Mueller writes," When Spears started singing for this one, he sounds very similar to Janet Jackson. "Christy Lemire from the Associated Press notes that the song and" Stronger "are songs that" feel so good "that they" can be the theme song of the sequel "Karate Kid". "Evan Sawdey from PopMatters calls it a "tacky light" song, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic thinks of it as "dance-pop fluffy is best. "In the list compiled by Sara Anderson of AOL Radio," (You Drive Me) Crazy "was ranked ninth in Spears' best songs list. During the 2001 BMI Pop Awards, "(You Drive Me) Crazy" was honored with the Most Performing BMI Song Award.

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Performance chart

"(You Drive Me) Crazy" is a commercial success. The song peaked at number two on the Hot 100 Singles Europe, which was held from the top spot by R. Kelly's "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time". In the UK, it was Spears's third consecutive single to reach the top five positions. The track debuted and peaked at number five on the October 2, 1999, graphic edition, and remained on the chart for a total of eleven weeks. Finally certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), for shipments of over 200,000 units. According to Official Charts Company, "(You Drive Me) Crazy" is Spears' seventh best-selling single in the United Kingdom, with sales of over 275,000 physical units. The song peaked at number two in France and number four in Germany, becoming Gold certified in both countries for shipments of over 250,000 units. It also peaked at number one in Belgium (Wallonia), completing 1999 as the 17th best-selling single. "(You Drive Me) Crazy" is also able to reach the top in the top five in Belgium (Flanders), Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, while reaching the top ten positions in Denmark and Italy. Then in 2012, the song reached its peak at number 65 in the Czech Republic because it was played high.

In the United States, "(You Drive Me) Crazy" reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 on the November 13, 1999, and became Spears's second single to reach the top in the top ten in the country. In the same week, it peaked at number four on the Pop Songs component chart. On a chart compiled by magazine RPM , the song peaked at number three in Canada. However, on the Canadian Hot 100 composed by Nielsen Soundscan, it peaked at number 13. The latter revealed that "(You Drive Me) Crazy" is the 44th best-selling singles of 1999 in the country. The song peaked at number five in New Zealand but failed to reach the top ten in Australia, where it peaked at number 12 on the November 12, 1999 edition of the chart. However, the single was later certified Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) one of the best-selling singles of 2000 in the country. "(You Drive Me) Crazy" performed poorly in Japan, where he peaked at number 80, and remained on the chart for just two weeks. Despite the low sales, it is the 12th best-selling CD release in the country.

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Music video

The music video accompanying the song was directed by Nigel Dick and filmed on June 14 and 15, 1999 at AES Power Station in Redondo Beach, California. Spears conceptualized video care, and explained during an interview with MTV in 1999 that "it would be great to be at the club, and we are naughty waiters, and we went out and started dancing." At that time, Spears hopes that the video will take her "to the next level". To promote the movie Drive Me Crazy, actors Adrian Grenier and Melissa Joan Hart were invited to make a cameo appearance in the video, since the song had been included on the movie's soundtrack, however, Grenier did not want to go. Dick commented on this issue, saying, "I was instructed to call him and make sure he appeared in the video.I said, 'You know what, Adrian, I just think it would be great for your career, and Britney is a great girl and she is fun to work with. "Finally he came." Dick also revealed that he was impressed by the singer's work ethic, adding that he "came to the set perfectly." This music video was aired on MTV's Making the Video which aired on July 18, 1999.

The video opened with Spears as a dance club maid. He then goes with another waiter to their locker room, where they finish the makeup and change their costume. Spears, who now wears a sparkling green outfit, passes the corridor to the dance floor with her friends, and starts performing high-profile choreography, including a dance sequence that refers to the video of "Miss You Much" Janet Jackson, also called Spears in live performances from song on "Crazy 2K Tour". The Spears scene singing in front of a shining orange sign with the word "CRAZY" is also visible throughout the video. On August 24, 1999, the music video debuted at number four on Total Live Request. This is the longest run by a female artist in TRL , staying in the top ten for seventy-three days. This video was nominated in the Best Dance Video category at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards; it is lost, however, to Jennifer Lopez's "Waiting for Tonight" (1999). Alternative recording of the video can be found on Spears's first DVD compilation album Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (2004). Jennifer Vineyard of MTV commented, "Alternative audio gives the feel of Spears singing the song as a round, where the rhythm is synchronized but one layer of vocals just a little ahead of the other."

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Live shows and hover

Britney performed the song for the first time on "The Hair Zone Mall Tour" (mini-promotional tour) in New York City, USA on July 1, 1998. As part of the promotion for "(You Drive Me) Crazy" ' as a single, Spears featured it on the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards and at the 1999 Billboard Music Awards. It was also performed on five concert tours, the first being... Baby One More Time Tour (1999). The show begins with the introduction of dance by Spears dancers among the smoke effects. She appeared shortly after at the top of the stairs wearing over a pink vinyl tube and white vinyl pants with a pink knee patch. During a 2,000 foot tour, entitled Gila 2k Tour, Spears changed the opening sequence of the show; the show begins with a comedy drama where the dancers get out of the lockers and stay on stage until the bell rings. They all sit until a female teacher starts calling their names. After the teacher summoned Spears, she appeared at the top of the stairs in a smoke cloud, wearing top and white tops, to perform a short dance mix... "Baby One More Time". He then enters one of the lockers and appears on another one on the opposite side of the stage to perform "(You Drive Me) Crazy", which includes the sequence of the reference seat of Janet Jackson's "Miss You Much" music video ending with Spears saying " finally? ", quoting Jackson's phrase from the video. The song is once again featured in a dance-oriented form in the Ups!... I Did It Again World Tour (2000), while at the Dream In Dream Tour of 2001, the show featured Spears being captured by dancers. "(You Drive Me) Crazy" was also performed at The Onyx Hotel Tour (2004). For the tour, the song was remixed with an element of Latin percussion. "Crazy" will not be done by Spears for nine more years until it's put on her setlist in Las Vegas's Britney event residency: Piece Me.

In 2003, American musician Richard Cheese covered "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and put it in his album Tuxicity . American pop band Selena Gomez & amp; This scene paid tribute to Spears during their 2011 tour We Have Night. They feature "(You Drive Me) Crazy" along with medley hits that include "... Baby One More Time", "Oops!... I Did It Again", "I'm a Slave 4 U", "Toxic "and" Hold It Against Me ", mixed up similarly to Chris Cox Megamix which is included in Greatest Hits: My Prerogative . In the 2012 episode Glee "Britney 2.0", Marley Rose and Jake Puckerman perform a medley of songs with Aerosmith's "Crazy" (1993).

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Track list

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Credits and personnel

The credit for "(You Drive Me) Crazy" is taken from a single liner record.

Technical

• Recorded and mixed at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Additional recording at Battery Studios in New York City, New York.

Personnel

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Diagram

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Certification

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Releasing history

References

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