Tune into English: Beyonce’s Crazy in Love

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In 2003, while still with R&B group Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé released her debut solo single, the addictive Crazy In Love. A collaboration with her future husband, the rapper Jay-Z, the song’s signaturehorn riff was sampled from a minor 1971 hit by the Chi-Lites called Are You My Woman (Tell Me So). Initially, the singer dismissed the sound as “too retro”, but producer Rich Harrison managed to persuade her that it would be a hit. He wrote the song in just two hours, after Beyoncé arrived at the studio looking dishevelled and told him “I’m looking crazy right now”. Harrison played all the instruments on the track.

The lyrics are almost completely in the present simple and are about a girl falling in love for the first time. Her friends do not understand why she likes her new man, but as Beyoncé explained, “She’s doing stuff she wouldn’t normally do, but she doesn’t care.” Jay-Z’s contribution is a braggadocio rap, boasting about his own success.

Crazy In Love was the only song to top both the UK and US charts in 2003, and won two Grammy Awards. In 2018, Rolling Stone magazine declared it the “Greatest Single of the Millennium – so far”. 

I look and stare so deep in your eyes

I touch on you more and more every time

When you leave, I’m begging you not to go

Call your name two, three times in a row

Such a funny thing for me to try to explain

How I’m feeling and my pride is the one to blame

(Yeah, yeah) ‘cause I know I don’t understand

Just how your love can do what no one else can

Got me looking so crazy right now (x4)

Got me hoping you’ll page me right now, your kiss

Got me hoping you’ll save me right now

Looking so crazy, your love’s

Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love

Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh, no, no (x4)

When I talk to my friends so quietly

Who he think he is? Look at what you did to me

Tennis shoes, don’t even need to buy a new dress

If you ain’t there, ain’t nobody else to impress

It’s the way that you know what I thought I knew

It’s the beat that my heart skips when I’m with you

But I still don’t understand

Just how your love can do what no one else can

Got me looking so crazy right now (x4)

Got me hoping you’ll page me right now, your kiss
Got me hoping you’ll save me right now (hey)

Looking so crazy, your love’s (hey)

Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love

I’m looking so crazy in love’s

Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love

Young ‘Hov, y’all know when the flow is loco

Young B and the R-O-C, uh oh (oh)

Ol’ G, big homey, the one and only

Stick bony, but the pocket is fat like Tony Soprano

The ROC handle like Van Axel

shakephonies, man, you can’t get next to

The genuine article, I do not sing though

sling though, if anything, I bling yo

A star like Ringo, war like a Green Beret

Crazy bring ya whole set

Jay Z in the Range, crazy and deranged

They can’t figure him out, they like,
“Hey, is he insane?”

Yessir, I’m cut from a different cloth

My texture is the best fur, chinchilla

I been iller than chain smokers

How you think I got the name Hova?

I been realer, the game’s over

fall back, Young, ever since I made the change over

to platinum the game’s been wrap, one

Got me looking so crazy, my baby

I’m not myself, lately I’m foolish, I don’t do this

I’ve been playing myself, baby, I don’t care

‘Cause your love’s got the best of me

And, baby, you’re making a fool of me

You got me sprung and I don’t care who sees

‘Cause, baby, you got me

Baby, you got me (you got me so crazy, baby), hey

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