My first and only moment of rebellion had occurred three summers earlier, when, in the absence of parental supervision and high on hormones, I had practically run wild. I was hopelessly sheltered, and taught that someday I would grow up and marry a guy my parents found for me, have two and a half kids with him, and live happily ever after. Everything I knew about sex came from books by James Joyce, which my parents unknowingly let me read because A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was a Penguin World Classic. Sex education was unknown in most Indian schools at the time, and the very idea of a teenage girl masturbating was too shocking for anyone to talk about publicly. I had been brought up in such a repressed household and in such a repressed society that it didn’t even occur to me to touch myself. It happened early that summer, and it was a feeling I couldn’t explain I just waited till it went away. I also had another, secret source of guilt-my shame about touching myself and liking it. I wasn’t brilliant enough academically to satisfy their expectations, nor was I as docile and subdued as they felt a “good Indian girl” should be, and they heaped guilt on me for these shortcomings. I was the target of their violence often enough that it was a relief when they directed it against each other.
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I spent my afternoons reading alone in my bedroom, curtains drawn, while outside I could hear my parents fighting so violently that sometimes the neighbors had to intervene. I was 13 years old, in eighth grade, and horny. ]] Legacy ĭespite the song bringing much success for the band in the mid 1990s and appearing on a number of compilations including Big Ones, A Little South of Sanity, O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, and Devil's Got a New Disguise, the band rarely performed it during their constant touring until it was added to international shows on their 2007 World Tour due to overwhelming demand from fans.It was the summer of 1999. The video for "Crazy" was selected #23 in VH1's Top 100 Music Videos of All Time. This was the band's second Grammy win for Get a Grip and third Grammy award overall. The song also earned the band a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal in 1994. The song was the second highest chart performance for the band out of all the singles for Get a Grip. In addition, Jason London makes a short cameo at the end in a tag scene, reprising his character from the " Amazing" video. The final seconds of the video show the word "Crazy" spelled out in cursive in the cropland by the still-running tractor.Ī slightly altered director's cut of the video appears on the video compilation Big Ones You Can Look At. They persuade him to join them in their journeys, where they all go for a skinny dip in a lake, and nearly abandon him. They continue their joyride the following day, where they encounter a young farmer tilling land in the countryside.
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In the end, the girls win the dance competition. The video also shows the similarities in stage moves of Steven Tyler and daughter Liv. The video is noteworthy for its very risque and suggestive sexual scenes, many of which strongly suggest lesbianism in the characters. The two use their good looks to take advantage of a service station clerk, and needing money, enter an amateur pole-dancing competition. The video was very film-like and depicted the two as schoolgirls who skip class and run away, driving off in a blue Ford Mustang convertible. The decision to cast Liv in the video for "Crazy" was based on the video's creators having seen her in a Pantene commercial, with absolutely no knowledge her father was in the band. It featured the third appearance of Alicia Silverstone in the band's videos, as well as the career debut of Steven's then-teenaged daughter Liv Tyler. ]] Music video ĮnlargeA screenshot of Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler exiting a gas station photobooth in the music video for "Crazy"The video for the song (which was directed by Marty Callner) received heavy rotation on MTV and was one of the most requested videos of 1994.
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The song's lyrics are about a liberated woman who comes and goes, and whose "crazy ways" drive the narrator "crazy."