#crazier

La miglior vendetta? La felicità.Non c’è niente che faccia più impazzire la gente che vederti felice. Alda Merini The best revenge? Happiness.There’s nothing that drives people crazier than seeing you happy. Alda Merini

My history with this song:

This is technically the first Taylor song I ever heard, because I watched the Hannah Montana movie in theatres, but the song mostly is drowned out by dialogue so it didn't stick with me then. Every time I listen to this I'm like: that's pretty! And then I basically forget about it immediately.

Thoughts:

While melodically lovely, there's something just kind of missing from "Crazier" for it to fully work for me, lyrically. It has some good images but drops the ball sometimes, opting for vague filler-y lyrics like "And you made it so real." Also, to be honest, the bridge is a bit of a let down, rehashing points from earlier parts of the song and not especially high in musical tension.

I do think it's a notable entry in the value of passion theme – "Crazier" is a song that specifically evokes love by describing how destabilizing it is: "You lift my feet off the ground / You spin me around / You make me crazier, crazier / Feels like I'm falling and I / I'm lost in your eyes. / You make me crazier, crazier." It's a sort of proto-"Treacherous" in that way, if much less rich in nuance.

Favourite lyric: "Every sky was your own kind of blue" is a nice line.

Favourite melodic line: I really love the verse melody! "I'd never gone with the wind / Just let it flow / Let it take me where it wants to go." I also think the melody feels especially evocative of that particular line, "flo-o-ow" and the way she goes back up in the last bit, like the wind really is taking her wherever.

Round 1, Duel 137 🧡🖤