"19 and Crazy" is the title of a country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 song recorded by American country music duo Bomshel

Bomshel

Bomshel is an American country music duo founded in 2004 by lead singer Buffy "Buf" Lawson and fiddle player Kristy Osmunson. Signed to Curb Records in 2004, Bomshel's original lineup charted four single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and recorded an unreleased album called Bomshel Stomp...

, recorded on its debut album Fight Like a Girl

Fight Like a Girl

Fight Like a Girl is the debut album of American country music duo Bomshel. It was released on October 20, 2009 via Curb Records. Its lead-off single, the title track, peaked at #30 in June 2009, thus becoming the duo's first Top 30 country hit. "19 and Crazy" was released as the album's second...

, from which it was released as the second single. Kelley Shepard and Kristy Osmunson, who comprise Bomshel, co-wrote the song with Mark Irwin and Josh Kear

Josh Kear

Joshua Peter "Josh" Kear is an American songwriter. His credits include Carrie Underwood's number-one "Before He Cheats," for which Kear won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 2007 and Lady Antebellum's number-one "Need You Now," for which Kear won an Academy of Country Music Award for Best...

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Content

"19 and Crazy" is an up-tempo country song that centralizes on its female narrator, who states a desire to retain the lifestyles of her late teenage years.

Critical reception

Kevin J. Coyne of Country Universe gave the song a B rating. He stated that "the song has an incessant driving beat that straddles the fence between urgency and just plain annoyingly fast." Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave a positive review, saying that it was similar in theme to Mark Wills

Mark Wills

Daryl Mark Williams is an American country music artist, best known professionally as Mark Wills. Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label — Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute and And the Crowd Goes Wild — as well...

' "19 Somethin'

19 Somethin'

"19 Somethin'" is a song written by David Lee and Chris DuBois, and recorded by American country music singer Mark Wills. The song was released in September 2002, and spent six weeks at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart in early 2003. It also reached number 23 on the Hot 100 chart and was...

" but adding, "it's tempered by a sense of maturity by the opening stanza, where she realizes she[…]might tell her children not to do all of the crazy things that she did."

Music video

The video wad directed by Eric Welch, and features the duo on their touring. You see behind the scenes, as well as the actual concert.

Chart performance

"19 and Crazy" debuted at #55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

chart dated October 3, 2009. On the chart dated November 7, 2009, it became Bomshel's second consecutive Top 40 country hit. It peaked at #33 in December 2009.

Chart (2009)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	33