So You Want to Dance
2- Bottle Your Crazy Up
by Eileen Carey
https://soundcloud.com/eileencarey/bottle-your-crazy-up
The radio release of “Bottle
Your Crazy Up,” written by Bart Almond and Amy Dalley and produced by
Travis Allen of Nashville Tracks, shot to the top of a number of radio and
internet charts including all the New Music Weekly Country charts in late 2014,
made the impregnable Music Row charts to the Top 20, and it crossed over into
their AC/Hot AC charts reaching into the Top 10 of NMW charts in early 2015. It
was the second single off my third career album release, Let It Go. It resulted
in my being awarded a New Music Award
The song and which the video narrative
faithfully follows, is of a friend suggesting to another friend that showing
too much, and trying too hard to quench the pain of a recent breakup was not
going to land that someone worth landing. BYCU is a spirited song of good
common sense and advice in matters of the heart. Itspeaks of a woman telling another not
to rebound after a breakup on her first date. She advises her friend not to
drink the tequila, to be on her best behavior, save the crazy for later.”
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Everything about Bottle Your Crazy Up was
big. The song, the video, the production, dancers, cast and crew size in the
making of the video; everything was big. It was the first music video that I
co-authored a story script for a production of that size. As I often say I came to Los Angeles to make
films, and in a sense I do so by creating my music videos.
The official music video of Bottle Your Crazy Up was directed by
Denice Duff, who was amazing and from whom I learned so much. The
cinematographer was Frankie Guererro, and Sevier Crespo and Jamie Fisher
produced the video, Shot primarily at the world-famous Cowboy Palace in
Chatsworth, California. The high-spirited video co-stars, with myself, actors
Jason Tobias (All Is Not Quiet) and Ava Capra and features Julie Michaels, from
the Patrick Swayze film Road House. There are scenes as well at Burbank
Equestrian Center, Hollywood’s most exclusive horse stables.The video received 65,000 + Youtube views and still
attracts new views today.
The Official Music Video of Bottle Your Crazy Uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ejUG9kEGvs
Denise later released a really cool ‘Behind the Scenes of Bottle Your Crazy Up’ in January of 2015 as well, which further increased
the views of the original.
“Performed by Eileen Carey. Starring Eileen Carey, Ava Capra,
Jason Tobias, and Julie Michaels. iPhone footage the making of the music video
shot on the Red camera in Chatsworth and Burbank, California” – director Denise
Duff
Behind the Scenes of Bottle Your Crazy Uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdxBKB-3z5M&t=4s
BYCUis the kind of song that begged for a line dance mix, which was the track that
we used and created for the video. My experience with a past country dance
promotion of “Out With The Girls” a Producer’s Choice LA Music Award Dance
Single of 2010 from my Movin’ On album, had impressed me with the possibilities
that line-dance afforded a country artist’s music. Especially for an up tempo Country-Pop
singer-songwriter like myself.
Music is about people, especially
Country. It grew out of the need for people to get together at the end of a
work week. Line-dancing is definitely about people getting together.
We launched the dance mix of “Bottle Your Crazy Up” with
Wildhorse Entertainment International Superstars of Country; and it reached,
#1 on their Download Chart and held the position all of July 2015.
Wildhorse did a great job of getting it out to the dance instructors and choreographers
worldwide. My favorite dance walkthrough video was” choreographed by Randy Pelletier of the One Eyed Parrot
Dance Club in the UK, on October 13, 2014
Walkthrough of the
line dance “Bottle Your Crazy
Up”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAuGdoBCYRA
And
the full dance performance of the32 Count / 4 Wall High Beginner
Line Dance Choreographed by Randy Pelletier in September of 201 received 2800 +
views in 2015.
The Steps:https://www.copperknob.co.uk/stepsheets/bottle-your-crazy-up-ID100347.aspxThe Dance:
One Eyed Parrot Dance Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyex3bDKVXQ
I was able to visit a
number of dance clubs during my radio station tour of the Central U.S. states
like Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio and Tennessee. I enjoyed visiting the Wildhorse
Saloon and got to visit with
Bottle
Your Crazy Up
Tonight’s the night first date in a long time
You had your share of girl’s night out
Now we talk trash and we love to man bash
We all know what’s really going down
You wanna feel like a girly girl
You wanna guy to rock your world
I know you didn’t ask me
But if I were you this is what I’d do
Don’t order the tequila
Cause you know how you get
Don’t talk about your ex
You aint over him yet
You can wear the short skirt
But I’d skip the heels
And don’t go on about how ya feel
Just for tonight
Bottle your crazy up
Bottle your crazy up
Don’t be mad
I’m just trying to remind you
You know I know
Just what you mean
A little less might work in your favor
Remember that guy in New Orleans
He saw too much of everything
You were just trying to get more beads
I know you didn’t ask me
But if I were you this is what I’d do
Don’t order the tequila
Cause you know how you get
Don’t talk about your ex
You aint over him yet
You can wear the short skirt
But I’d skip the heels
And don’t go on about how ya feel
Just for tonight
Bottle your crazy up
I’m not saying don’t be yourself
But you think this guy is something else
So don’t get wild
And get drunk tonight
Don’t order the tequila
Cause you know how you get
Don’t talk about your ex
You aint over him yet
You can wear the short skirt
But I’d skip the heels
And don’t go on about how ya feel
Don’t order the tequila
Cause you know how you get
Don’t talk about your ex
You aint over him yet
You can wear the short skirt
But I’d skip the heels
And don’t go on about how ya feel
Just for tonight
Bottle your crazy up
Bottle your crazy up
Oh yeah
Go!
Go girl!