A supergroup this is not, which is why the Gnarls Barkley album, "St. Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) is the underground producer of 2003's "The Grey Album," a provocative, unauthorized mash-up of vocals from Jay-Z's "Black Album" and instrumentals from the Beatles' "White Album," as well as the smash "Demon Days" album by Gorillaz.Ĭee-Lo (Thomas Callaway) made that name for himself as a founding member of the Goodie Mob, second only to OutKast in the first wave of Southern hip-hop, later releasing a pair of solo albums overlooked enough to get him dropped by his label. There is no Gnarls Barkley, just Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo. "Does that make me craaaaaazy? / Does that make me crazy? / Does that make me craaaaaazy? / Possibly."Īs the song progresses, the chorus shifts from confession to accusation ("I think you're crazy") to communal assertion ("Maybe we're crazy"). Yeah I was out of touch / But it wasn't because I didn't know enough / I just knew too much."Īlready epic-sounding - the string-supported melody is adapted from a '60s spaghetti-western theme - the song takes off with a soaring, hypnotic hook with such aching doubt attached that it's impossible to dislodge it from your mind once you've heard Cee-Lo Green sing it. What has inspired this reaction is a slice of psychedelic/troubled soul that begins: "I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind / There was something so pleasant about that place / Even your emotions have an echo in so much space. Even Paris Hilton has threatened a version, proving the perils of ubiquity. "Crazy" has also been covered by folk-soulman Ray LaMontagne, power-popster Butch Walker, ind ie -pop duo Mates of State, Greg Dulli's side project the Twilight Singers and Bryan Adams (Bryan Adams?). And the Raconteurs, who might well do it Saturday at the all-day Virgin Festival at Pimlico Race Course, where Gnarls Barkley will certainly perform it. This is "Crazy": Gnarls Barkley's soulful single, summer's inescapable anthem to incipient madness, has been covered by Nelly Furtado.
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