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| Single by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z | |||||
| Album | Dangerously in Love | ||||
| Released | May 14, 2003 | ||||
| Recorded | 2002 | ||||
| Genre(s) | Pop | ||||
| Length | 3:56 | ||||
| Label(s) | Columbia | ||||
| Songwriter(s) | Rich Harrison, Beyoncé, Eugene Record, Jay-Z | ||||
| Producer(s) | Rich Harrison, Beyoncé | ||||
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| Music video | |||||
 "Crazy in Love" on YouTube |
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"Crazy in Love" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Beyoncé featuring American rapper and songwriter Jay-Z. It was released on May 14, 2003 as the lead single from Beyoncé's debut studio album, Dangerously in Love.
Music video[]
Production and synopsis[]
The music video of "Crazy in Love", released in May 2003, was directed by Jake Nava and filmed in 5-7 May 2003. in downtown Los Angeles.[1] In MTV Making of the Video 2003 documentary, Beyoncé described the video's conception: "[It] celebrates the evolution of a woman. It is about a girl who is at the point of a relationship. She realizes that she is in love, she is doing stuff she would not normally do but she does not care. It does not matter she is just crazy in love."[2]
The opening sequence of the video features Jay-Z as a passenger in a car speeding along Mission Road in Los Angeles, where he encounters Beyoncé, standing in the middle of the road, at the Fourth Street bridge. Beyoncé performs in various dance sequences, beginning with her wearing a white tank top, denim blue shorts, and red high-heels. She performs an elaborate solo dance on a riser. The scene shifts to a gold set with a mock photo shoot, before moving into a scene with dancers detailing Beyoncé and dancing against a wall while wearing caps and full length pants. Jay Z appears and ignites a line of petrol leading to a car parked under the bridge, which explodes in flames. Jay Z performs his rap in front of the burning car, and Beyoncé dances beside him, wearing an exotic silk print over a fur coat, before kicking the valve off a fire hydrant. She continues to dance while the water is flying everywhere. The video ends with Beyoncé and her dancers wearing vibrant Versace dresses in front of a large fan. Their outfits contrast with the neutral colors of the background, the video. Carmit Bachar, then a member of The Pussycat Dolls, is one of the dancers.
Reception and accolades[]
The music video received acclaim by music critics. Cynthia Fuchs, writing for PopMatters commented that the photo shoot scene uses the routine used by Jennifer Lopez in the video for "Jenny from the Block" (2002) with hot lights, scary makeup, and inclusion of many shots of legs.[3] She wrote that: "Beyoncé's body becomes its undeniable emblem."[3] Tom Moon of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that Beyoncé "shakes every inch of her famously photogenic goddess frame."
The music video won three awards at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards in the categories of Best Female Video, Best R&B Video, and Best Choreography. It however lost to Good Charlotte 's "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" in the Viewer's Choice category.[4] Director Nava also won a Music Video Production Association award for the Best R&B Video in 2004.[5][6] During the same year, the video won the Best Collaboration award at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, where it was also nominated for the Best Female Video award.[7] "Crazy in Love" was nominated at the 36th NAACP Image Awards for the Outstanding Music Video award.[8] It won the Best International Video award at the 2004 MuchMusic Video Awards.[9] The song is also recognized as the Best Selling Mobile Ringtone in the United Kingdom for 2003[10] In 2014, The Guardian writer Michael Cragg included the clip for "Crazy in Love" in his list of the ten best music videos by Beyoncé. He offered high praise for it, saying "Aware of how much of a statement the song was, the video is a checklist of icon-making visuals, from the locations... the dance moves... to the part where she makes bubble blowing look like the sexiest thing a human could do."[11]
- ↑ Chin, Marcos (September 30, 2004). "Jake Nava". Vibe (InterMedia Partners). https://books.google.com/books?id=yyYEAAAAMBAJ&q=Beyonce+Crazy+in+Love+director+Jake+Nava&pg=PA150.
- ↑ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified. MTV. MTV Networks (June 2003).
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- ↑ Moss, Corey (August 28, 2003). "Madonna Smooches With Britney And Christina; Justin, Coldplay Win Big At VMAs". MTV News. MTV Networks. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1477729/justin-coldplay-win-big-at-vmas.jhtml.
- ↑ Burrell, Ian (September 2, 2003). "Women to the fore in Mobo nominations". The Independent (London). https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/women-to-the-fore-in-mobo-nominations-578644.html.
- ↑ "Beyoncé video rocks expanded Cads event: UK's Nava scoops top award for US-commissioned clip". Music Week. June 19, 2004. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-21811273_ITM.
- ↑ 音楽のことならMTVJAPAN.com | 邦楽・洋楽・イベントなどの音楽エンターテイメント (ja). MTV Japan. MTV Networks.
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- ↑ Gragg, Michael (February 2, 2004). "Crazy UK's top tone". The Age. https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/crazy-uks-top-tone-20040202-gdx8ab.html.
- ↑ Gragg, Michael (August 19, 2014). "Beyoncé: 10 of the best videos". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/aug/19/beyonce-10-of-the-best-videos-mtv-vmas.