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I'm Gunna Show You Crazy is a song by American singer songwriter Bebe Rexha from her debut extended play I Don't Wanna Grow Up which experienced a renewed popularity in 2019 due to TikTok videos.

Origin

On April 21st, 2015, Bebe Rexha released the official music video for her song "I'm Gonna Show You Crazy" to YouTube (shown below). The video garnered over 37.8 million views and 450,000 likes in four years.

Spread

On May 3rd, 2019, TikTok user @kaxcos uploaded a video using a sound clip of the song in which she re-enacts a scene from the movie The Shining (shown below, left). The video gained over 222,700 likes and 47,600 shares in three weeks. On May 6th, TikTok user @caleb.finn uploaded a duet with @kaxcos in which he pretends he's on the other side of the door. The video quickly became popular and accumulated over 1.3 million likes and 429,300 shares in three weeks (shown below, right).

That week, many TikTok users rewatched the @caleb.finn's video multiple times leading some users to make TikTok videos about getting the song stuck in their head. On May 13th, @??suzy uploaded a TikTok video about the ear-worm (shown below, left). The video garnered over 88,400 likes and 2,200 shares in two weeks. On May 19th, TikTok user @sijesns uploaded a video of fan art based on @caleb.finn's video (shown below, center). The fan art video accumulated over 464,900 likes and 11,500 shares in a week. Due to the duet's popularity Bebe Rexha shared some of the TikTok videos using her song to her Instagram stories. On May 22nd, @caleb.finn posted a video about being in her Instagram stories (shown below, right). The video gained over 767,200 likes and 14,000 shares in two days.

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