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"She Drives Me Crazy"
#1 weeks: 1
weeks: 1989-04-15
genre: pop rock
artist: Fine Young Cannibals
album: The Raw and the Cooked
writers: Fine Young Cannibals
producers: David Z, Fine Young Cannibals
label:
formats: 7" single, 12" maxi, CD maxi
lengths: 3:38

"She Drives Me Crazy" is a song recorded by the Fine Young Cannibals, included on their 1989 album The Raw and the Cooked. The song peaked at #5 in the band's native UK in January 1989 before hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. on April 15, 1989. It also made number 3 on the Dutch Top 40. A remixed version was released in 1997.

During a short time in 1999, the song was used temporarily (because of legal issues with the theme song) as the theme for Rush Limbaugh's radio show, and is currently used by WSB Radio's Clark Howard.

The unique snare drum "pop" sound was created by recording the snare drum portion separately. A speaker was then placed on top of the snare drum, and a microphone below. The original recording of the snare drum part was played back through the speaker and re-recorded.

This song is one of five songs played on the main menu of the arcade game compilation Namco Museum 50th Anniversary.

Two music videos were produced for the video, one by Philippe Decouflé and one by Pedro Romhanyi. Similar to Decouflé's only other music video, New Order's "True Faith", his version includes extensive choreography and performers in unusual costumes, including two identical dancers with completely different colored-outfits, as well as a person with a television on their head. This version received several nominations at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Video.

Dolly Parton recorded a cover of the song for her 2008 album, Backwoods Barbie, titled "Drives Me Crazy." It was released as a single to Adult Contemporary stations in January 2009.

The song was parodied twice: In 1989, by "Weird Al" Yankovic as "She Drives Like Crazy" on the soundtrack album "UHF"; and in 1991 by Guns and Moses as "They Drive me Brady", which featured audio snippets of The Brady Bunch.

The Muppets parodied the song with additional lyrics by Jim Lewis for the 1994 album Kermit Unpigged.[1] A music video (directed by Jim Yukich) featured cameo appearances by celebrities such as Fran Drescher, John Landis, Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Collins, Pam Tillis, David Hasselhoff and Helen Hunt. In the UK version there were still some American stars, but it was edited to include more of Ozzy Osbourne, along with some UK stars like Gloria Hunniford and even a member of Eastenders.

Sesame Streetparodied the song andthe group performing it as "C Drives Me Crazy" by the "Fine Young Camels".

British a cappella group The Flying Pickets covered the song on the album The Original Flying Pickets.