Songoftheday 7/29/22 - I apologize For all the things that I've done, I've known that I've been a fool for far too long...

 

 

"Crazy" - K-Ci & Jojo

from the albums Save The Last Dance (Original Soundtrack) and X (2000)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #11 (three weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 21

 

Today's song comes from R&B sibling duo K-Ci & JoJo, whose second album after leaving Jodeci It's Real had sent it's title-ish track "Tell Me It's Real" all the way to #2 on the American pop and R&B charts in the summer of 1999.  A year later, the brothers came back with a track from the movie Save The Last Dance that also will serve as the lead single for their third release as a duo, X. "Crazy", written by the Hailey brothers with Lincoln Browder and producer Darrell Allamby, has K-Ci and JoJo not taking a breakup well at all, with a three minute rant about how nuts they are, without giving the reason on the split which is pretty sus (I suspect cheating). Their mechanically distorted voices (a la Roger Troutman) twist around how awful they feel, to basically begging her to stay just for that reason. The music video has the pair placed into scenes from the movie...

"Crazy" came a notch from making the top ten on Billboard magazine's pop Hot 100 chart in March of 2001. Despite its big success there with the song also climbing to #4 on the Mainstream Top-40 radio chart, "Crazy" stalled all the way down at #63 on Billboard's R&B chart. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in the UK (#38) and the Netherlands (#39). The X album, released in December of 2000, peaked at #20 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, and #3 on the R&B Albums list, going on to sell over a million copies. 

K-Ci & JoJo's follow-up single, "Wanna Do You Right", was a retro soul ballad with a Teddy Riley co-write and produced by Roy Hamilton. While it missed the Hot 100 altogether, the song did marginally better on the R&B list at #60 and #21 on the older-skewing Adult R&B radio format. A third effort, "All The Things I Should Have Known", co-written and produced by Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, went to #30 on the dance-oriented Rhythmic Airplay radio chart. 

In 2002, the duo returned with their fourth and final studio album for MCA Records, Emotional. The set's sole radio success, "This Very Moment", got a push from being in the LL Cool J movie Deliver Us From Eva and went to #53 on the R&B chart and #10 on the Adult R&B list in 2003. In 2006, K-Ci Hailey released a solo album, My Book, which got little notice, stalling at #57 on the R&B Albums sales chart. 

The brothers' most recent album as a duo, My Brother's Keeper on eOne Records, arrives in 2013, and went to #77 on the Billboard 200 and #20 on the R&B Albums list. Two years later, they reunited with Jodeci for one more album, The Past, The Present, The Future, which went to #2 on the R&B Albums chart and #23 on the Billboard 200. 

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and here's K-Ci & JoJo performing "Crazy" on The Tonight Show...

Up tomorrow: Singer is in a romantic triangle tangle.