“She Drives Me Crazy” is a song by British group Fine Young Cannibals, released in 1988 by London Records as the first single from their second and final album, The Raw & the Cooked (1989). The song was written by the group’s frontman Roland Gift with David Steele and produced by FYC with David Z.
“She Drives Me Crazy” peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band’s highest-charting single in their home country. It proved a bigger hit in the United States, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for one week and becoming the first of two chart-topping singles for the band on that chart (the other being “Good Thing”, released the following year). It also reached number one in several other countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, New Zealand and Spain. Two different music videos were produced for the song, directed by Philippe Decouflé and Pedro Romhanyi.
In 2018, Time Out magazine listed “She Drives Me Crazy” at No. 28 in their countdown of “The 50 Best ’80s Songs”. In 2023, Billboard magazine ranked it No. 77 in their “500 Best Pop Songs of All Time”. American country artist Dolly Parton included a reimagined country cover version on her 2008 album Backwoods Barbie.
