The Guardian reviews Beyoncé's Crazy in Love

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Beyoncé’s 2003 smash hit is widely considered her debut solo single – eclipsing its largely forgotten predecessor, Work It Out, released a year earlier on the soundtrack to Austin Powers: Goldmember.

Crazy in Love confirmed that we were to believe the hype. The announcement of her arrival via those unforgettable blaring horns, sampled from the Chi-Lites’ 1970 hit, Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So), erred on regal fanfare, inspiring endless struts across makeshift dancefloors-turned-catwalks to this day. 

Its creation involved more serendipity than the slick execution expected from anything usually helmed by Beyoncé. The day the song’s producer, Rich Harrison, was due to play her the demo, he was hungover from prematurely celebrating its success. Beyoncé wasn’t keen on what she heard but gave him two hours to finish writing it while she went out. The chorus came from Beyoncé catching her dishevelled reflection in the mirror and remarking that she was “looking so crazy right now” and the famous “uh-oh uh-oh” hook was improvised. Even the inclusion of her then boyfriend, now husband, Jay-Z, was last-minute addition: “I asked Jay to get on the song the night before I had to turn my album in,” Beyoncé told Entertainment Weekly. “Thank God he did.”.

 In 2018, Rolling Stone named the track the greatest song of the 21st century. It is timeless, covered across the years by indie bands, orchestras and even as a 1940s-style swing number. The most famous redux was, in true Beyoncé fashion, by Beyoncé herself: a sultry, slowed-down remix for the 2014 film 50 Shades of Grey.

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/15/greatest-uk-no-1s-ever-beyonce-crazy-in-love

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One of her absolute bests! Flawless!

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But wow, what a moment