Aerosmith, Crazy | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 27^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we highlight “Crazy” performed by iconic rock band, Aerosmith.  

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 27^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we break down “Crazy” performed by Aerosmith.

“Seems like we’re makin’ up more than we’re makin’ love / And it always seems you got somethin’ on your mind other than me / Girl, you got to change your crazy ways.” Word. “Crazy” appears as the 11^th track on Get a Grip, the multiplatinum album by iconic rock band, Aerosmith. “Crazy” was written by the dynamic front man, Steven Tyler, guitarist and backing vocalist, Joe Perry, and Canadian songwriter, Jim Vallance. Late Canadian record producer Bruce Fairbairn produced the no. 17 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Besides earning top-20 honors on the pop charts, “Crazy” earned the band a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

Steven Tyler exhibits a huge personality on “Crazy,” beginning with his charming “Come here baby” in the intro. Furthermore, he delivers high-flying vocals throughout the course of the gem.  The melodies in the verses are a selling point – tuneful and rhythmic. The lyrics are memorable too.  In the first verse, he sings, “Girl, you’ve been givin’ me that line so many times / It kinda gets like feelin’ bad looks good.” In the second verse, he adds, “You’re packing up your stuff / And talking like it’s tough / And trying to tell me that it’s time to go, yeah! / But, I know you ain’t wearin’ nothing under that overcoat / And it’s all a show, yeah!” Yeah! The pre-choruses are none too shabby either – “That kinda loving turns a man to a slave / That kinda loving sends a man right to his grave” – while the chorus marks one of the biggest selling points:

“I go crazy, crazy

Baby, I go crazy

You turn it on, then you’re gone

Yeah, you drive me crazy

Crazy, crazy for you baby

What can I do, honey?

I feel like the color blue.”

Adding to the lyrical excellence is the bridge section.  The instrumental is marvelous as well, led by mean-sounding guitars and bluesy harmonica.  There is a fabulous instrumental break, with a scintillating guitar solo.  All told, “Crazy” is a stellar song from the Aerosmith collection.  It’s crazy as in crazy good!

Aerosmith // Get a Grip // Geffen // 1993

Aerosmith, Crazy: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 27 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Geffen; cottonbro studio, Harry Shelton, Kool Shooters, Lucas Pazeta, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Teddy Yang, Wesley Souza from Pexels]