(You Drive Me) Crazy

"(You Drive Me) Crazy"
A picture of a blonde female standing in front of a black background. She has her hands positioned on her hips, and is smiling. Above her head there are the words "BRITNEY SPEARS" in green, "(YOU DRIVE ME) CRAZY" in orange, and "(THE STOP REMIX!)" in white.
Single by Britney Spears
from the album ...Baby One More Time
B-side"I'll Never Stop Loving You"
ReleasedAugust 24, 1999 (1999-08-24)
RecordedMay 1998[1] (album version)
May 1999 (The Stop! Remix)
Genre
Length3:16
LabelJive
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • David Kreuger
  • Per Magnusson
  • Max Martin
  • Rami
Britney Spears singles chronology
"Sometimes"
(1999)
"(You Drive Me) Crazy"
(1999)
"Born to Make You Happy"
(1999)
Music video
"(You Drive Me) Crazy" on YouTube

"(You Drive Me) Crazy" is a song by American singer Britney Spears from her debut studio album, ...Baby One More Time (1999). Written and produced by Max Martin, Per Magnusson and David Kreuger with additional writing by Jörgen Elofsson and remix by Martin and Rami Yacoub, it was released as the album's third single on August 24, 1999, by Jive Records. It was featured on the soundtrack of the 1999 teen romantic comedy film Drive Me Crazy. The song garnered positive reviews from music critics, some of whom praised its simple formula and noted similarities to Spears's debut single, "...Baby One More Time".

"(You Drive Me) Crazy" was a commercial success and peaked inside the top ten on the singles charts of seventeen countries. In the United Kingdom, it became Spears's third consecutive single to peak inside the top five, while it reached number ten in the United States's Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number one in Belgium (Wallonia) and Iceland. An accompanying music video, directed by Nigel Dick, portrays Spears as a waitress of a dance club and she performs a highly choreographed dance routine with the other waitresses. The video premiered on MTV's Making the Video special. It features cameo appearances of actors Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier, who star in the movie Drive Me Crazy, which is named for the song. As part of promotion for the song, Spears performed the song at the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards and 1999 Billboard Music Awards. It has also been included on five of her concert tours.

  1. ^ "The story behind Britney Spears' "Sometimes'". jorgenelofsson.com. Retrieved April 29, 2021.