Drive You Mad

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"Drive You Mad"
Single by Amy Shark
from the EP Night Thinker
Released14 July 2017 (2017-07-14)
Genre
Length3:32
Label Wonderlick Entertainment/Sony Music Australia
Songwriter(s) Amy Shark [1]
Producer(s) Dann Hume
Amy Shark singles chronology
"Weekends"
(2017)
"Drive You Mad"
(2017)
"I Said Hi"
(2018)
Music video
"Drive You Mad" on YouTube

"Drive You Mad" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter Amy Shark. It was released on 14 July 2017 as the third and final single from her extended play Night Thinker . Shark said "Drive You Mad" is her favourite song off the EP. [2]

Contents

Shark explains the song "It was a realisation I had of me as a person. A bit of me acknowledging to people close to me that I know I'm not easy, I'm not the easiest daughter or friend or wife, I know I'm hard work. Hence the "drive you mad". It's like an ode to them." [3]

In August 2017 Shark explained "I remember the particular day I wrote "Drive You Mad" was a real self-help day. I was looking at myself going, “wow, you’re being a real bitch to everyone,” – you know when you take a real hard look at yourself? There were so many arguments, and one day I was like, “I probably was a bit harsh there... I was just having this big realisation of how [imperfect] I am as a human, and I don’t know, it just sort of came out as "Drive You Mad"." [4]

Music video

The music video for "Drive You Mad" was directed by Shark (a.k.a. Amy Billings) and released on YouTube on 31 July 2018. [5] The clip plays on the theme of being hounded by one's own skeletons, both metaphorically and physically. [2]

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2017 it was nominated for Best Video for Billings. [6] [7]

Track listing

  1. "Drive You Mad" - 3:30

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Australian Artist (ARIA) [8] 15

Release history

CountryDateFormatVersionLabelCatalogue
Australia31 July 2017 Digital download OriginalWonderlick /Sony Music Australia G010003702229B

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