"She Drives Me Crazy" is a song co-written and recorded by Canadian

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artist

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. It was the second single off his eighth studio album '' Now or Never''. A remix of the track featuring rapper

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was previewed in November 2020, and released on June 21, 2021.

Background

Kissel told ''The Boot'' that during the process of making his album '' Now or Never'', "I ad written"That's Country Music" and " Drink About Me," which was in the queue to be the first single, so I had a lot of powerful songs. I had "I'm Not Him, I'm Not Her," that I knew was gonna be on the album. I had "Coffee With Her." But I didn't have that uptempo pop banger, as I call it". Kissel remarked that on his way to write the song with fellow songwriters

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and Karen Kosowski, he "was listening to pop music the whole way, just to get excited". He said after writing the song in 45 minutes, they were "feeling great about it, but it was so pop-heavy" and said "Oh my gosh, this is not a country song" and proceeded to add a major

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riff to the song. Later that day, they wrote the track "Hummingbird" on a 1950s

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so they "could tell the country gods that we still love country music".

Commercial performance

"She Drives Me Crazy" was certified Gold by

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on July 14, 2020, with over 40,000 sales. As of November 2020, the song had received over 5.2 million streams through

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Music video

The official music video for "She Drives Me Crazy" was directed by Emma Higgins and Brett Kissel and premiered January 30, 2020. It featured a nearly all-female cast including Kissel's wife Cecilia, and their daughters Mila and Aria.

Chart performance

"She Drives Me Crazy" reached a peak of number 12 on the ''Billboard''

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chart dated July 18, 2020. It also peaked at number 78 on the ''Billboard''

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, his fifth-highest charting entry on that chart.

Certifications

References

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