Music Review: Bebe Rexha "I'm Gonna Show You Crazy"

Bebe Rexha

I’m Gonna Show You Crazy

Album: TBA

Year: 2014

          Bebe Rexha is tired of being judged for her behavior in the gloomy   “I’m Gonna Show You Crazy.”

              Broody synths open the single, setting a shadowy tone. She shuts the music off. It’s too much noise. She gets up from the chair and tries to read. Nothing works. She can’t calm down. Her mind keeps going and it won’t stop. She decides to need to talk a professional who can straighten out her problems. It makes her feel off. Her therapist’s answer is to give her medication. (“There's a war inside my head/Sometimes I wish that I was dead, I'm broken/So I call this therapist/And she said girl you can't be fixed just take this.”)

                In the pre-chorus, she says she analyzes every angle of a situation until, overturning the surface and sinking into the bottom. Medication is only going to mask it. It’s not going to solve anything. Now, she wants to prove how insane she actually is. (“I'm tired of trying to be normal/I'm always overthinking/I'm driving myself crazy/So what if I'm f*cking crazy/And I don't need your quick fix/I don't want your prescriptions/Just 'cause you say I'm crazy/So what if I'm f*cking crazy/Yeah I'm gonna show you.”)

             In the chorus, she’s going to live out every derogratory name and fit the label. (“Loco, maniac, sick bitch, psychopath/Yeah I'm gonna show you/I'm gonna show you,/I'm gonna show you/Mental out my brain, bad sh*t go insane/Yeah I'm gonna show you/I'm gonna show you.I'm gonna show you.”)

                Her therapist told her to it’s within her. She has a void that needs to be filled. As she walked around the city, she realizes she’s fine. Everything else going on around here lead to questions and it’s the answers she wants to find. (“I've been searching city streets/Trying to find the missing piece like you said/And I say child don't need to cry/There's not a single thing that's wrong with my mind.”)

                   The pre-chorus and chorus are sung again to close the single.

               Rexha owns her depression. She’s gotten excluded for it and has had enough. She’s working her through way it. It’s other people’s problems with her that bother her.

             The somber  “I’m Gonna Show You Crazy” is done being trapped by stereotypes.