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Article: Gnarls Barkley, Driving You 'Crazy'
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- The Washington Post
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- September 22, 2006
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This is "Crazy": Gnarls Barkley's soulful single, summer's
inescapable anthem to incipient madness, has been covered by Nelly
Furtado. And Billy Idol. And the Roots. 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.
"Crazy" has also been covered by folk-soulman Ray LaMontagne,
power-popster Butch Walker, indie-pop duo Mates of State, Greg
Dulli's side project the Twilight Singers and Bryan Adams (Bryan
Adams?). The list goes on, and it keeps growing. Even Paris Hilton
has threatened a version, proving the perils of ubiquity.
What has inspired this reaction is a slice of psychedelic/ ...