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Crazy Girl" is a song recorded by the Eli Young Band, an American country music group. It was released in March 2011 as the fifth single of their career, and the first from their album Life at Best. It won song of the year at the 2012 ACM Awards. The song became their first number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and was named the Number 1 country song of 2011 on the Billboard Year-End Hot Country Songs chart.

The music video was directed by Brian Lazzaro and premiered in March 2011. A live music video was directed by Mason Dixon. The music video features a man and a woman, presumably a couple. The man rescues the woman from a psychiatric hospital. As they are about to leave the hospital, the video cuts to a guard behind them with his hands on his hips. Finally, this man, part of the Eli Young Band, wakes up on the tour bus with his girlfriend curled up beside him.


Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in the first production and co-lead Ginger Rogers became an overnight star. Rich in song, it follows the story of Danny Churchill who has been sent to fictional Custerville, Arizona, to manage his family's ranch. His father wants him there to focus on matters more serious than alcohol and women but Danny turns the place into a dude ranch, importing showgirls from Broadway and hiring Kate Forthergill (Merman's role) as entertainer. Visitors come from both coasts and Danny falls in love with the local postmistress, Molly Gray (Rogers' role).


The musical opened at the Alvin Theatre on October 14, 1930, and closed on June 6, 1931, after 272 performances. It was directed by Alexander Leftwich, with choreography by George Hale and sets by Donald Oenslager. This musical made a star of Ginger Rogers, who, with Allen Kearns, sang "Could You Use Me?" and "Embraceable You" and, with Willie Howard, "But Not for Me". Ethel Merman, in her Broadway debut[1][2] sang "I Got Rhythm", "Sam and Delilah", and "Boy! What Love Has Done To Me!" and "became an overnight sensation...that launched her fifty year career."[3] Also of note is the opening night pit orchestra, which was composed of many well-known jazz musicians, including Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey.[4]


In 1992 the show appeared on Broadway in a heavily revised version. It was given a new title, Crazy for You, and a completely new plot, and interpolated with material from other Gershwin stage shows and films, specifically songs written for the Fred Astaire movies of the 1930s such as "Nice Work If You Can Get It" from A Damsel in Distress and "They Can't Take That Away From Me" from Shall We Dance.


The two-time Olympic champion and Emmy-winning television commentator Dick Button starred as Danny in a 1958 production, which also co-starred Jane Connell as Kate and Gordon Connell as Pete; it interpolated Gershwin's "They All Laughed" and "Nice Work If You can Get It" into the score.


The pit orchestra included "Red" Nichols, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden.[11][12] Roger Edens was the onstage pianist for Ethel Merman. It was conducted on opening night by George Gershwin himself.[13] The 1953 biopic The Glenn Miller Story recreated the "I'm Biding My Time" scene, with Miller (Stewart) playing trombone in the orchestra.


The 1932 RKO Radio Pictures production was very unlike the stage play except for its score. The film was tailored for the comic talents of Wheeler & Woolsey, a then-popular comedy team. In 1943, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a lavish version starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. In 1965, MGM once again made the musical into a film, for Connie Francis. Unlike the previous two versions, the title was changed to When the Boys Meet the Girls. It co-starred Herman's Hermits, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Louis Armstrong, and Liberace. A number of Gershwin songs were retained, including "Embraceable You", "Bidin' My Time", "But Not for Me", "Treat Me Rough", and "I Got Rhythm".


If "b*tches be crazy," then bros be lazy because a man calling a woman crazy is one of the most unoriginal, overused, generalized, dismissive labels you can give a woman. It seems whenever a woman is engaging in some kind of irrational behavior, there is always a man there to label her as totally psycho.


Just to clarify, yes some women are mentally unwell, just like some men are mentally unwell, but I'm not talking about those people. I am talking about generally mentally stable people who have feelings.


When a guy gets angry, smitten, or cries, he is called passionate, romantic, and sensitive. When a woman gets angry, smitten, or cries, she is called a crazy b*tch. Sure, sometimes relationships can drive you mad. But, having feelings doesn't mean a woman is "crazy." It means they are human.


I don't mind admitting my lovesick moments. The first one was in seventh grade when every week I would call a boy and hang up when he answered. (Eventually, that boy asked me to be his girlfriend then dumped me after two days, yet I continued to obsess over him for three years.)


More recently, I've spent embarrassing amounts of time on social media looking for clues to whether or not he liked me (word to the wise, if you have to research it that much, the answer is most likely no).


It was the kind of "crazy" that made my busy, usually-mature-adult-self waste hours trying to break into his email accounts because I had an intuitive feeling that he was lying to me again, and then made me scream and cry and throw things when my detective work proved my intuition was right again.


You may have heard the term "gaslighting" before. If not, gaslighting is a psychiatric term that came from the classic movie Gaslight and is a form of mental abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making a victim doubt his or her own memory, perception, and sanity.


So even if it's him who keeps saying "Yeah I totally mailed that letter," and her who keeps finding the letter sitting on the kitchen table, she is somehow manipulated into feeling "crazy" for nagging him.


So if you're reading this while taking a break from trying to crack his Facebook password because you don't trust him after catching him sending flirty messages with a co-worker but he convinced you that "You're crazy, it was just a joke", please know you are not crazy.


I ended things with the guy who frequently lied to me. It wasn't easy, but the more he called me "crazy" the more I realized the craziest thing I was doing was staying with a person I didn't fully trust.


And if you're the one calling someone else crazy, step back and see if you're doing anything to create the "crazy." Are they really being outrageous and irrational, or are they simply reacting to your wrongdoings?


What constitutes a crazy woman? If you ask some men, they'll say we're all effing crazy...to which I usually respond with, "Well, it's your fault!" I am then, at least by the men in my life, defined as crazy.


But to tag women as "crazy" is more than just saying she's crazy in the same way everyone else is. It's almost as if it's a brand unto itself, an adjective that speaks volumes, and those volumes are plucked right out of Fatal Attraction.


As my friend Sabrina explains it, "An actual crazy woman is someone along the lines of Gone Girl. However, 'crazy' gets thrown around a lot for a lot lesser crimes, mainly because we have emotions ... being called crazy when actually, you're just sad, mad, angry, disappointed, or hurt. You wanted to act like an asshole and get away with it and I called you out on it? Sorry, I'm not 'crazy' because I inconvenienced you."


"A 'crazy' woman is someone who just can't hear or accept the truth of a situation. It's like there is something standing in the way of rationale, so she keeps digging and digging, and it feels like she's enjoying pushing you to the brink."


"I would say that a 'crazy' woman is defined by her relationship expectations being in direct conflict with actual reality, resulting in the punishment of unwitting and undeserving men without exercising anything that resembles reason or accountability."


"After years in my business, I can say that a 'crazy' girl is one who gets a tattoo on her neck. She may seem OK at first, but for some reason any girl who gets tattooed there has some serious underlying amounts of crazy just waiting to bubble over. It's a strange marking of sorts."


"I used to date a woman who would threaten suicide every time we got into a fight. She'd usually run to the roof of the apartment building and threaten to jump, but one time she locked herself in the bathroom with a knife to her throat. I'd say that's crazy."


He saw me play and said, "What you're doing is what my brother and I want to do for our band." I'm like, "Well, I don't really co-write." He said, "Well, I'm going to ask you until you say yes. You don't know me, but that's me." I'm like, "I'm not doing this!" (laughs).


And he kept calling me and calling me, and finally, I said, "Look, I've got this verse/chorus of a song." It was called "How to Keep the Sky From Falling." And I said, "I don't really have verses. If you want to try to write the verses, go for it." So I basically recorded it on a cassette, played it for him, gave him the cassette. He called me five hours later with eight different verses written. I'm like, "Wow, this guy's serious." And they were really good. I said, "You know what? OK, let's do it."


... He came up (to Martha's Vineyard, where Cohen was vacationing) and said, "Do you have any ideas?" I said, "Well, I had this idea that I started writing for my ex-girlfriend, but I never finished it. I showed him, and that was "Crazy For This Girl." We started writing it on a little porch of this house that we rented in Martha's Vineyard. We were so into it that when we drove back to New York, we basically dropped our bags off in my apartment and picked the guitars up. We were like, "We need to finish this song right now." We finished it that night.

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