Crazy Bitch

"Crazy Bitch"
Song

"Crazy Bitch" is a hard rock song by Los Angeles hard rock band Buckcherry. It is the first single from their third album, 15, and their first single to hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, debuting at #99 on May 6, 2006. As of July 22, 2006, the song has advanced to the #59 position. This song was inspired by Paris Hilton's use of a sex tape to rocket herself to stardom, and the bands own past with "Crazy Bitches".

Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
U.S. Modern Rock Tracks	13
U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks	3
U.S. Hot Digital Tracks	37
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	52
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	59

Music Video

The original music video was filmed at the Key Club in Los Angeles, which was made to look like a strip club. An open casting call (documented in a video on the band's site called "Behind the Bitch") was held, recruiting dancers and strippers for the low-budget video, which was directed by Ulf Buddensieck. The video exists in two versions, an X-rated one, and a "clean" version that has been aired on Fuse. The "clean" version, however, was not approved by MTV, who demanded more than 80 cuts, according to the July 13, 2006 issue of Rolling Stone.

On Sept 7, 2006, a law suit was filed that alleges that a minor was given alcohol to drink and filmed exposing her breasts, kissing another female and writhing against a pole while Buckcherry performed the song at the video shoot. According to the lawsuit, the music video was posted on the band's website and distributed widely online, as was a "behind the scenes" program that referred to the girl's first name, featured more nudity and had band members saying, "It's like watching seven hours of porn." Skip Miller of law firm Miller Barondess said, "We had a guy at the door checking IDs, and to get in, this girl had to show a fake identification showing she was over 18. There were signs telling minors to stay out. This woman filled out a release form with false information. And once it was determined this woman was underage, the video was removed." However, the lawsuit alleges that the minor was not asked for identification. Allen Kovac, Buckcherry's manager, said, "There was every opportunity for her not to be in that video. For whatever reason, the girl subverted those efforts, and now her mom is trying to blame everyone but her. This woman is now looking at them as a profit opportunity." A representative of Warner Music Group said it had no role in the video's original production, but that when the music company was contacted by the girl's mother, it immediately re-edited the video to exclude her and removed the original from circulation, hiring an outside group to strip it from websites that had posted it illegally.

In October of 2006 a new concept video was created for "Crazy Bitch" and the bands then latest single "Next 2 You".

Fan Video

On May 26, 2006, a fan video for "Crazy Bitch" was posted to YouTube, and it quickly spread, especially after the band posted the video on their MySpace page and Buckcherry.com. The band announced that they were accepting submissions from fans with their own videos, and would feature more interpretations of "Crazy Bitch" in the weeks to come, although, as of September, 2006, no other videos have been posted. The posted video was created by the teenaged members of a Maryland-based band, High Speed Stereo, directed by their bassist Justin Cousson and starring their "introverted, anti-social, occaisonally breakdancing, World of Warcraft playing riffsmith" Greg "One Man" Hood.[1] The video differs from most fan-made videos in its unusually high production values, which involved the use of two cameras and the song as a separate audio track as opposed to being recorded playing in the background.

The fan video was ultimately passed over in favor of an edited version of the original video. However, by the time the official video made its premiere, the song had already begun to slip from the charts.

External link

• Buckcherry's Official Website