2013Released
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Interesting facts and trivia about I Want Crazy - Encore. By Songfacts®.

This single from the deluxe Encore edition of Hunter Hayes' debut album finds him crazy about a girl. "I don't want good and I don't want good enough," he sings. "I want can't sleep, can't breathe without your love . . . I don't want easy, I want crazy." Hunter debuted the song at the 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards on April 7, 2013.

Hunter told Radio.com he is honest about his emotions when penning such songs as this madly-in-love tune. "I'm a big fan of just letting everything out on the table. That's why I write songs, that's why I do what I do," he explained. "I'm a big fan of just saying whatever is on your mind. My filter's not that great. That's how I think through everything."

The song's music video was directed by Ends and shot in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, during a break in Hunter's tour with Carrie Underwood.. The clip follows the young singer and his love interest as they try to make time for one another, even when Hunter has to be away from home. "The video is about a long-distance relationship and the toughness of having a long-distance relationship, 'cause that's what kind of the song is about," Hayes said in a For The Love Of Music webisode. "It's about the crazy things you do for someone when you're crazy about them." He added, "It was awkward to act with someone I've never really met but that's acting, so I guess it was just hard to act. But I guess I related to this 'cause I relate to the song. I wrote the song and I guess that's kind of what I kept going back to." Another difficulty was that the weather didn't tie in what Hunter describes as a "summer song." "The biggest issue with shooting the video was we kind of shot it on a day when it was 40 [degrees] and raining," he said. "That was bad timing."

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of I Want Crazy - Encore.
G♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
103BPM

Album

The album I Want Crazy - Encore is released on.

Released By

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Atlantic Nashville
© 2013 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
℗ 2013 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States

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