2012Released
3:50

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This whistle-laden live-for-the moment tune finds Kesha reverting back to the irreverent pop-rap style of her debut release, Animal. The queen of the white-trash outcasts does not pull any punches as she spits nonchalant cuss-filled rhymes. "I'm fresher than that Gucci. Them boys, they want my coochie," she raps. "I say no, I'm no hoochie, our homegirl hating, I say, 'Who's she?'" Kesha explained in her official track-by-track commentary: "'Crazy Kids' is an anthem for people like me, my animals and many people in the world who are crazy and not afraid to show it, and actually proud of it."

Kesha's longtime collaborators Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, Benny Blanco and Cirkut, supplied the grimey beat. They are the same trio who produced the first two singles from Warrior, "Die Young" and "C'Mon."

The lyrics were inspired by a birthday party of Kesha's, which she described as, "one crazy night." "That particular birthday was really bad... and fun. But at the end of the night, I was having so much fun, at like 7 a.m.; I was literally jumping by myself on a mini trampoline going 'I'm having so much fun.' And then, for my birthday party, I got a tattoo artist, so everybody [who] came could get a tattoo to remember the night," she recalled to MTV News. "And so I couldn't figure out what to get so I just got 'fun' tattooed on my foot. So now I have a tattoo to remember that night." Kesha added that she was also inspired by her equally crazy fans. "As I look around the room, there's a lot of kids with glitter and wild style and you like to express yourself, right? I feel like for those of us that like to express ourselves and aren't so concerned with being super-duper normal, that you're called kind of crazy a lot," she said. "And instead of it being a negative thing, I wanted it to be an anthem like, 'Yeah we're crazy!'"

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Crazy Kids.
CKey
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
128BPM

Album

The album Crazy Kids is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Crazy Kids.
Kemosabe Records/RCA Records
(P) 2012 Kemosabe Records

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