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Crazy (Seal song)

"Crazy" is a song written by the English singer Seal and British songwriter Guy Sigsworth. It was produced by Trevor Horn for Seal's debut album, Seal (1991) and became his first commercial hit. It reached the top five in the United Kingdom, while becoming his first top ten single in the United States. It has since been covered by several artists, including Alanis Morissette, whose version was released as a single from her 2005 compilation album, The Collection.

"Crazy"
Single by Seal
from the album Seal
B-side
  • "Sparkle" (7" single)
  • "Krazy" (CD maxi)
Released26 November 1990 (1990-11-26)[1]
Recorded1990
StudioSarm West (London)
Genre
Length
  • 4:30 (single version)
  • 5:57 (album version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Seal
  • Guy Sigsworth
Producer(s)
Seal singles chronology
"Killer"
(1990)
"Crazy"
(1990)
"Future Love EP"
(1991)
Music video
"Crazy" on YouTube

Background and composition

Seal wrote "Crazy" in 1990 inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. In 2015, Seal said of the song's conception in 1990: "I felt the cycle had reached its apex. I felt the world changing and I felt profound things happening."[4]

According to the song's producer Trevor Horn, "Crazy" was made over the course of two months: "Crazy wasn't an easy record to make, because we were aiming high."[5]

The song's signature is a keyboard mantra that continually swells and swirls, driven by bass-heavy beats and wah-wah pedal guitars played by Simply Red guitarist Kenji Suzuki. Its floating, ambient stylings established a sound years before The Politics of Dancing by Paul Van Dyk or William Orbit's work with Madonna and All Saints. Orbit produced a remix of the track for the single release. Seal's vocals are deeply melodic and soulful, at times with a characteristic rasp, while at others soaring high above the backing track. In an interview with Q, Seal told:

I had no doubt about 'Crazy'. I always thought it was a potential No. 1—even though it never was! It's the first song I wrote on the guitar, and the first song where I said everything I wanted to say in a concise way. Before that my songs had been too long. But as soon as I wrote the hook, I knew it was a potential hit.[6]

Release and commercial performance

In the United Kingdom the song was released as the first single from the album Seal in November 1990 (see 1990 in music)[1] and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in January 1991[7] and is Seal's biggest solo hit there.[8] The single sold over 200,000 copies, thus earning a BPI Silver certification.[1] It won Seal a number of awards including the 1992 Ivor Novello award for songwriting.[9]

The single was released in the United States in 1991, debuting at number eighty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 in mid-June; it peaked at number seven in late August and remained on the chart for nineteen weeks, until October.[10] It reached the top five on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and the top twenty on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart.[11][12] It was the most commercially successful single from Seal and was Seal's biggest hit in the US until "Kiss from a Rose", which reached number 1 in 1995. In August 2003 an acoustic version of "Crazy" charted at number four on Billboard's Hot Digital Tracks chart.[13]

Critical reception

Larry Flick from Billboard felt that the UK newcomer "comes on like a cross between Terence Trent D'Arby and Lenny Kravitz on this keyboard-driven funk'n'soul jam."[14] The Daily Vault's Jason Warburg stated that it is "an obvious club track with its propulsive synthesizer melody and driving rhythm section. The Shaft guitar part closing out the bridge is a nice touch, too, demonstrating just how effectively Seal has grafted synthesized dance music onto its funk roots."[15] Pan-European magazine Music & Media called it "adventurous techno-pop by this promising UK singer who sang on Adamski's recent hit single Killer. Produced by Trevor Horn, this classy, galloping mix of funk, soul and pop is currently riding high on the UK charts. Europe should be next."[16] Bob Mack from Spin noted Seal's "stirring vocal that's being compared to Marvin Gaye" and added that "based on a '70s cop-show-type bass synth line, "Crazy" flows natch enough that you hum along on first listening."[17] Siobhan O'Neill commented on the song in the 2010 book 10,001 Songs You Must Hear…, "Full of drug and dance scene references, "Crazy" blends soulful lyrics and husky vocals with Horn's trademark sweeping orchestration and a voguish electronic backing—a combination that, in the wake of this and Massive Attack, became the template for a whole strand of dance music."[18]

Music video and use in other media

The single's music video, directed by Big TV!, features multiple re-creations of Seal himself performing the song against a primarily white background. A female dancer appears just before the bridge of the song, and at the end Seal holds a dove while snow falls on him. The video received heavy rotation on MTV Europe.[19]

The song is played during a party scene in the film Naked in New York (1993),[20] is heard in a Baywatch episode, in the trailer for the film The Basketball Diaries (1995) and featured in a scene in Clockers, released in 1995. It is also heard in the middle of "True Calling", the second episode of Season 6 of TV's Cold Case. It was also used as a theme song for the ABC-TV series Murder One, which was transmitted during the 1995–1996 television season. It is also heard in the film Mystery Date. The song featured in the 1999 Robbie the Reindeer film Hooves of Fire, where it is performed by a seal.

Track listing

  • 7"
  1. "Crazy" – 4:30
  2. "Sparkle" – 3:36
  • CD
  1. "Crazy" – 4:30
  2. "Crazy" (extended version) – 5:09
  3. "Krazy" – 6:26 (producers: Trevor Horn, Tim Simenon)
  • CD maxi-single
  1. "Crazy" (7" mix) – 4:30
  2. "Crazy" (William Orbit Mix) – 5:25
  3. "Crazy" (acoustic version / instrumental version) – 6:57
  4. "Crazy" (a cappella mix) – 3:27
  5. "Sparkle" (extended version) – 6:23
  6. "Krazy" – 6:27
  7. "Crazy" (Do You Know the Way to L.A. Mix) – 3:50
  8. "Crazy" (Chick on My Tip Mix) – 6:47

Charts

Cover versions

The hard rock band Talisman covered the song on their 1995 album Life, and a version by power metal band Iron Savior is included as a bonus track on their 2002 album, Condition Red.

Two cover versions were released in 2003: one by punk covers band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their 2003 album Take a Break, and another by alternative metal band Mushroomhead as a hidden track on their 2003 album, XIII. In 2004, the song was covered by Brooklyn Bounce.

Indie artist Brian Eaton covered the song on his 2011 pop/rock album, Graphic Nature.[50]

French pop singer Tal covered this song for her debut album, Le droit de rêver, in the deluxe edition released in 2012.

Alanis Morissette version

"Crazy"
 
Single by Alanis Morissette
from the album The Collection
Released31 October 2005 (2005-10-31)
Recorded2005
Genre
Length
  • 3:39
  • 5:22 (alternative take)
LabelMaverick
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Glen Ballard
Alanis Morissette singles chronology
"Eight Easy Steps"
(2004)
"Crazy"
(2005)
"Underneath"
(2008)
Music video
"Crazy" on YouTube

Alanis Morissette covered the song for a Gap advertisement in 2005, and a James Michael-produced remix of her version, which was originally produced by Morissette's longtime collaborator Glen Ballard, was released as a single from her greatest hits album, The Collection (2005). Her version is briefly heard over an establishing shot of Central Park in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada. Morissette said of the cover, "it's poking fun not only at how I've been perceived but also at what I've accurately been perceived as."[53] She called the main line in the song, "You're never going to survive/Unless you get a little crazy", "one of the simplest, yet most profound statements."[54]

Chart performances

Released in the US in mid-October 2005 (see 2005 in music), Morissette's cover was less successful than Seal's original; it failed to chart on the Hot 100, instead debuting and peaking at number four on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart (which comprises the most popular songs yet to enter the Hot 100) in late November.[55] It was another top ten hit for Morissette on the Adult Top 40 chart and was popular in nightclubs, becoming Morissette's second top ten Hot Dance Club Play hit after "Eight Easy Steps" (2004). It reached number twenty-nine in Canada and the top forty across much of Continental Europe, but in the United Kingdom it became Morissette's lowest peaking single, reaching sixty-five.

Music video

The single's video was directed by Meiert Avis, who directed the video for Morissette's "Everything" (2004), and shot in Los Angeles, California in the week ending 24 September.[56] In it Morissette is seen walking the streets at night, performing the song in a club and obsessively following a man (played by Chris William Martin) and his girlfriend. Eventually, Morissette confronts the man at a party. During a 22 October appearance on the UK television show popworld, Morissette said the video's final shot, which is of a photo showing her and the woman close together, is supposed to reveal to the audience (who, before this point, are meant to believe the man is her ex-boyfriend) that she was actually following the woman.

Track listing

  1. "Crazy" (Claude Le Gache Club Mix) (Edit)
  2. "Crazy" (Eddie Baez Coo Coo Club Mix) (Edit)
  3. "Crazy" (Monk Mix of Meds) (Edit)
  4. "Crazy" (Interstate Mix) (Edit)
  5. "Crazy" (Claude Le Gache Mixshow)

Charts

Chart (2005–2006) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[57] 61
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[58] 20
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[59] 4
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[60] 3
Czech Republic (Rádio Top 100 Oficiální)[61] 22
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[62] 6
Germany (Official German Charts)[63] 38
Greece (IFPI)[64] 22
Italy (FIMI)[65] 3
Italy (Musica e Dischi)[66] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[67] 40
Scotland (OCC)[68] 43
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[69] 12
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[70] 57
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[71] 31
UK Singles (OCC)[72] 65
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[55] 4
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[73] 10
US Dance Club Play (Billboard)[73][74] 6
US Dance Singles Sales (Billboard)[73] 6
US Pop 100 (Billboard)[73][74] 95

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States 10 October 2005 (2005-10-10) Maverick [75]
United Kingdom 31 October 2005 (2005-10-31) CD [76]

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Crazy is a song written by the English singer Seal and British songwriter Guy Sigsworth It was produced by Trevor Horn for Seal s debut album Seal 1991 and became his first commercial hit It reached the top five in the United Kingdom while becoming his first top ten single in the United States It has since been covered by several artists including Alanis Morissette whose version was released as a single from her 2005 compilation album The Collection Crazy Single by Sealfrom the album SealB side Sparkle 7 single Krazy CD maxi Released26 November 1990 1990 11 26 1 Recorded1990StudioSarm West London GenrePop funk 2 dance rock 3 Length4 30 single version 5 57 album version LabelZTT UK Sire US Songwriter s Seal Guy SigsworthProducer s Trevor Horn Guy SigsworthSeal singles chronology Killer 1990 Crazy 1990 Future Love EP 1991 Music video Crazy on YouTube Contents 1 Background and composition 2 Release and commercial performance 3 Critical reception 4 Music video and use in other media 5 Track listing 6 Charts 6 1 Weekly charts 6 2 Year end charts 7 Cover versions 7 1 Alanis Morissette version 7 1 1 Chart performances 7 1 2 Music video 7 1 3 Track listing 7 1 4 Charts 7 1 5 Release history 8 ReferencesBackground and composition EditSeal wrote Crazy in 1990 inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 In 2015 Seal said of the song s conception in 1990 I felt the cycle had reached its apex I felt the world changing and I felt profound things happening 4 According to the song s producer Trevor Horn Crazy was made over the course of two months Crazy wasn t an easy record to make because we were aiming high 5 The song s signature is a keyboard mantra that continually swells and swirls driven by bass heavy beats and wah wah pedal guitars played by Simply Red guitarist Kenji Suzuki Its floating ambient stylings established a sound years before The Politics of Dancing by Paul Van Dyk or William Orbit s work with Madonna and All Saints Orbit produced a remix of the track for the single release Seal s vocals are deeply melodic and soulful at times with a characteristic rasp while at others soaring high above the backing track In an interview with Q Seal told I had no doubt about Crazy I always thought it was a potential No 1 even though it never was It s the first song I wrote on the guitar and the first song where I said everything I wanted to say in a concise way Before that my songs had been too long But as soon as I wrote the hook I knew it was a potential hit 6 Release and commercial performance EditIn the United Kingdom the song was released as the first single from the album Seal in November 1990 see 1990 in music 1 and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in January 1991 7 and is Seal s biggest solo hit there 8 The single sold over 200 000 copies thus earning a BPI Silver certification 1 It won Seal a number of awards including the 1992 Ivor Novello award for songwriting 9 The single was released in the United States in 1991 debuting at number eighty three on the Billboard Hot 100 in mid June it peaked at number seven in late August and remained on the chart for nineteen weeks until October 10 It reached the top five on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and the top twenty on the Hot Dance Music Maxi Singles Sales chart 11 12 It was the most commercially successful single from Seal and was Seal s biggest hit in the US until Kiss from a Rose which reached number 1 in 1995 In August 2003 an acoustic version of Crazy charted at number four on Billboard s Hot Digital Tracks chart 13 Critical reception EditLarry Flick from Billboard felt that the UK newcomer comes on like a cross between Terence Trent D Arby and Lenny Kravitz on this keyboard driven funk n soul jam 14 The Daily Vault s Jason Warburg stated that it is an obvious club track with its propulsive synthesizer melody and driving rhythm section The Shaft guitar part closing out the bridge is a nice touch too demonstrating just how effectively Seal has grafted synthesized dance music onto its funk roots 15 Pan European magazine Music amp Media called it adventurous techno pop by this promising UK singer who sang on Adamski s recent hit single Killer Produced by Trevor Horn this classy galloping mix of funk soul and pop is currently riding high on the UK charts Europe should be next 16 Bob Mack from Spin noted Seal s stirring vocal that s being compared to Marvin Gaye and added that based on a 70s cop show type bass synth line Crazy flows natch enough that you hum along on first listening 17 Siobhan O Neill commented on the song in the 2010 book 10 001 Songs You Must Hear Full of drug and dance scene references Crazy blends soulful lyrics and husky vocals with Horn s trademark sweeping orchestration and a voguish electronic backing a combination that in the wake of this and Massive Attack became the template for a whole strand of dance music 18 Music video and use in other media EditThe single s music video directed by Big TV features multiple re creations of Seal himself performing the song against a primarily white background A female dancer appears just before the bridge of the song and at the end Seal holds a dove while snow falls on him The video received heavy rotation on MTV Europe 19 The song is played during a party scene in the film Naked in New York 1993 20 is heard in a Baywatch episode in the trailer for the film The Basketball Diaries 1995 and featured in a scene in Clockers released in 1995 It is also heard in the middle of True Calling the second episode of Season 6 of TV s Cold Case It was also used as a theme song for the ABC TV series Murder One which was transmitted during the 1995 1996 television season It is also heard in the film Mystery Date The song featured in the 1999 Robbie the Reindeer film Hooves of Fire where it is performed by a seal Track listing Edit7 Crazy 4 30 Sparkle 3 36CD Crazy 4 30 Crazy extended version 5 09 Krazy 6 26 producers Trevor Horn Tim Simenon CD maxi single Crazy 7 mix 4 30 Crazy William Orbit Mix 5 25 Crazy acoustic version instrumental version 6 57 Crazy a cappella mix 3 27 Sparkle extended version 6 23 Krazy 6 27 Crazy Do You Know the Way to L A Mix 3 50 Crazy Chick on My Tip Mix 6 47Charts EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 1990 1991 PeakpositionAustralia ARIA 21 9Austria O3 Austria Top 40 22 5Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 23 1Canada Top Singles RPM 24 9Denmark IFPI 25 10Europe Eurochart Hot 100 26 1Finland Suomen virallinen lista 27 18France SNEP 28 5Germany Official German Charts 29 2Greece IFPI 30 4Ireland IRMA 31 6Italy Musica e dischi 32 8Netherlands Dutch Top 40 33 1Netherlands Single Top 100 34 1New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 35 8Norway VG lista 36 3Sweden Sverigetopplistan 37 1Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 38 1UK Singles OCC 7 2US Billboard Hot 100 11 12 7US Hot Dance Music Maxi Singles Sales Billboard 11 17US Modern Rock Tracks Billboard 11 12 5Chart 2003 PeakpositionUS Hot Digital Songs Billboard 13 4 Year end charts Edit Chart 1991 PositionAustralia ARIA 39 46Austria O3 Austria Top 40 40 19Belgium Ultratop 41 23Canada Top Singles RPM 42 63Europe Eurochart Hot 100 43 9Netherlands Dutch Top 40 44 5Netherlands Single Top 100 45 11New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 46 34Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 47 5UK Singles OCC 48 38US Billboard Hot 100 49 75Cover versions EditThe hard rock band Talisman covered the song on their 1995 album Life and a version by power metal band Iron Savior is included as a bonus track on their 2002 album Condition Red Two cover versions were released in 2003 one by punk covers band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their 2003 album Take a Break and another by alternative metal band Mushroomhead as a hidden track on their 2003 album XIII In 2004 the song was covered by Brooklyn Bounce Indie artist Brian Eaton covered the song on his 2011 pop rock album Graphic Nature 50 French pop singer Tal covered this song for her debut album Le droit de rever in the deluxe edition released in 2012 Alanis Morissette version Edit Crazy Single by Alanis Morissettefrom the album The CollectionReleased31 October 2005 2005 10 31 Recorded2005GenreElectronicdance pop 51 disco rock 52 Length3 395 22 alternative take LabelMaverickSongwriter s Seal lyrics Guy Sigsworth music Producer s Glen BallardAlanis Morissette singles chronology Eight Easy Steps 2004 Crazy 2005 Underneath 2008 Music video Crazy on YouTubeAlanis Morissette covered the song for a Gap advertisement in 2005 and a James Michael produced remix of her version which was originally produced by Morissette s longtime collaborator Glen Ballard was released as a single from her greatest hits album The Collection 2005 Her version is briefly heard over an establishing shot of Central Park in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada Morissette said of the cover it s poking fun not only at how I ve been perceived but also at what I ve accurately been perceived as 53 She called the main line in the song You re never going to survive Unless you get a little crazy one of the simplest yet most profound statements 54 Chart performances Edit Released in the US in mid October 2005 see 2005 in music Morissette s cover was less successful than Seal s original it failed to chart on the Hot 100 instead debuting and peaking at number four on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart which comprises the most popular songs yet to enter the Hot 100 in late November 55 It was another top ten hit for Morissette on the Adult Top 40 chart and was popular in nightclubs becoming Morissette s second top ten Hot Dance Club Play hit after Eight Easy Steps 2004 It reached number twenty nine in Canada and the top forty across much of Continental Europe but in the United Kingdom it became Morissette s lowest peaking single reaching sixty five Music video Edit The single s video was directed by Meiert Avis who directed the video for Morissette s Everything 2004 and shot in Los Angeles California in the week ending 24 September 56 In it Morissette is seen walking the streets at night performing the song in a club and obsessively following a man played by Chris William Martin and his girlfriend Eventually Morissette confronts the man at a party During a 22 October appearance on the UK television show popworld Morissette said the video s final shot which is of a photo showing her and the woman close together is supposed to reveal to the audience who before this point are meant to believe the man is her ex boyfriend that she was actually following the woman Track listing Edit Crazy Claude Le Gache Club Mix Edit Crazy Eddie Baez Coo Coo Club Mix Edit Crazy Monk Mix of Meds Edit Crazy Interstate Mix Edit Crazy Claude Le Gache Mixshow Charts Edit Chart 2005 2006 PeakpositionAustralia ARIA 57 61Austria O3 Austria Top 40 58 20Belgium Ultratip Flanders 59 4Belgium Ultratip Wallonia 60 3Czech Republic Radio Top 100 Oficialni 61 22Finland Suomen virallinen lista 62 6Germany Official German Charts 63 38Greece IFPI 64 22Italy FIMI 65 3Italy Musica e Dischi 66 2Netherlands Single Top 100 67 40Scotland OCC 68 43Spain PROMUSICAE 69 12Sweden Sverigetopplistan 70 57Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 71 31UK Singles OCC 72 65US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Billboard 55 4US Adult Top 40 Billboard 73 10US Dance Club Play Billboard 73 74 6US Dance Singles Sales Billboard 73 6US Pop 100 Billboard 73 74 95Release history Edit Region Date Format s Label s Ref United States 10 October 2005 2005 10 10 Hot ACtriple Acontemporary hit radio Maverick 75 United Kingdom 31 October 2005 2005 10 31 CD 76 References Edit a b c SEAL CRAZY Silver Tuesday 1 January 1991 BPI Archived from the original on 7 February 2009 Retrieved 8 January 2009 Tracie Ratiner December 2009 Contemporary Musicians Profiles of the People in Music Gale Cengage Learning ISBN 978 0 7876 9616 0 Breihan Tom 28 March 2022 The Number Ones Seal s Kiss from a Rose Stereogum Retrieved 10 October 2022 Seal s debut single Crazy a magnetic dance rock swirl 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