| "Thinking of You (I Drive Myself Crazy)" | ||||
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| Single byNSYNC | ||||
| from the album'N SyncandThe Winter Album | ||||
| Released | February 15, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998 | |||
| Studio | Trans Continental Studio (Miami, Florida) | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:00 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Songwriters | Rick Nowels, Allan Rich,Ellen Shipley | |||
| Producer | Veit Renn | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Thinking of You (I Drive Myself Crazy)" onYouTube | ||||
"Thinking of You (I Drive Myself Crazy)" (titled "I Drive Myself Crazy" in the United States), is a song by American boy bandNSYNC. It was released on February 22, 1999, as the seventh single in the German market and the fourth single fromtheir self-titled debut album in the US. The track was also featured on the group's seasonal European album,The Winter Album. The song is notable as being one of the few songs where someone other thanJustin Timberlake andJC Chasez sang lead vocals;Chris Kirkpatrick sings the first verse in the US version, while Chasez sang Kirkpatrick's part in the European version. It was heard once in thePEN15 episode, "First Day".
The song was released on February 22, 1999, as the seventh single in the German market and the fourth single fromtheir self-titled debut album in the US. The track was also featured on the group's seasonal European album,The Winter Album.
The video was directed byTim Story and debuted on April 1, 1999, during an episode ofTRL. The version of the video featured on 'N the Mix is adjusted to feature the US version of the song.[1] The video shows members of the band in an asylum,Camarillo State Mental Hospital, which closed in 1997. The viewer gets to see each man's torment as he remembers the girl who put him there. Each member came up with his own storyline.
A flashback shows Kirkpatrick ignoring his girlfriend as he talks on the cell phone, so she gets up and leaves. He sees visions of his girlfriend walking past him. Timberlake's flashback shows him trying to give a necklace to a girl, but she returns it and leaves and embraces another guy.
Chasez sees the girl who cheated on him on TV, on a show reminiscent ofThe Jerry Springer Show. He gets mad and starts shaking the tv after watching it again. Lance Bass reminisces to a scene where he is plucking the petals off a flower. His girlfriend sidles up to him, pulls a few petals off, but then leaves him. Joey Fatone is with his girlfriend, when another girl walks by and kisses him. His girlfriend slaps him and then leaves.
In the asylum, Fatone continually slaps himself in the face with a flyswatter. The scenes in the asylum gradually get more frenetic, with their normal expressions changing to crazed expressions, Chasez who attacked the TV and being restrained, Bass ripping up flowers and Fatone running around in aSuperman costume. At the end the five are released, and the girls are shown being brought to the asylum instead, as the group run past and tease them.
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| Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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| Germany | February 15, 1999 | CD single | Sony | [16] |
| United States | March 16, 1999 | Jive | [17] |
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