Released on March 2, 1985, through Geffen Records, it is a pop ballad with torch influences, and lyrics that talk about sexual attraction and desire.

The duo came up with "Crazy for You" after reading the script, and decided to use it in a scene in which the main characters – Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino – dance together for the first time.

Additionally, it has been covered by multiple artists, including Groove Armada and Kelly Clarkson, and featured in television series and movies like Full House and 13 Going on 30 (2004).

[1] Directed by Harold Becker, the film – also titled Vision Quest – stars Matthew Modine as a Spokane high school wrestler who falls in love with an older woman (Linda Fiorentino) renting a room in his father's house.

[2] Ramone decided to repeat what he'd done on Flashdance and compose the Vision Quest soundtrack of already published rock songs, such as Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" (1978), Red Rider's "Lunatic Fringe" (1981), and "Change" (1982) by John Waite.

[2][11] In Rock and Roll is Here to Stay: An Anthology, William McKeen wrote that in "Crazy for You" Madonna was telling women that it's acceptable to not only enjoy relationships, but to initiate them as well.

[14] Vision Quest premiered on mid-February 1985, right after "Like a Virgin" had dropped out from the Billboard Hot 100's first spot, and its follow-up "Material Girl" was climbing up the chart.

[16] Almost six years later, on February 18, 1991, a remix by Shep Pettibone was issued as single in the United Kingdom to promote The Immaculate Collection (1990), Madonna's first greatest hits compilation.

Instead, Geffen put together a clip consisting of footage from Vision Quest interspersed with "sultry" shots of Madonna singing the song, and added to MTV on the week of February 2, 1985.

[20] In Australia and the United Kingdom, Warner capitalized on the song and Madonna's popularity by releasing Vision Quest under the title Crazy for You.

[24] This opinion was shared by both David Marsh, and The Guardian's Jude Rogers, who nonetheless deemed the track "slightly soupy, but still sweet".

[7] Similarly, the staff of Cash Box magazine felt the song "displays [Madonna's] voice in a different context, one that is more mature and ultimately marketable", even if it's not as "infecitously danceable" as her previous works.

[25] Allen Metz and Carol Benson – authors of The Madonna Companion: Two Decades of Commentary – wrote that "Crazy for You" sounded like a "remake of sweet-sixteen Connie Francis tunes, dripping with old-fashioned, hand-held romance".

[29] For Matthew Jacobs from the HuffPost, even though it features Madonna's "strongest vocals" from the time, and "may still be her greatest love ballad, ['Crazy for You'] is dull by today's standards".

[30] Both Slant Magazine's Eric Henderson and Duane Dudek from the Star-News said "Crazy for You" exposed Madonna's early vocal weakness.

[31][32] At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards, "Crazy for You" was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, but lost to Whitney Houston's "Saving All My Love for You".

[36][37] Enio Chola from PopMatters said that "Crazy for You" became "the high-school slow dance song" of the 1980s, adding that, "although Madonna didn't have a hand in writing the ballad, it stings of her presence [...] [it] marked a new direction in which the pop-artiste would excel [...] Proved that she still possessed all of the same charisma and persona in a slowed-down sultry and subdued offering".

[43] By the end of the month, it gave Madonna her fifth consecutive top-ten hit in less than a year, a streak that began with "Borderline" in June of 1984, and continued through "Material Girl".

[44] On May 11, after spending three consecutive weeks at number two, "Crazy for You" reached the Hot 100's top spot, overthrowing USA for Africa's "We Are the World", and becoming Madonna's second US number-one.

[45][46] "Crazy for You" was the second number-one for Geffen Records, following John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over" (1980); the second for Bettis after "Top of the World" (1973) by the Carpenters; the first for Lind and Benitez, and the first from a movie since Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (1984).

[51] In Canada, the song debuted in the 70th position of RPM's Top Singles chart on the week of March 16, 1985;[52] two months later, it reached the first spot.

[72] On February 25, 2016 – second Manila concert of her Rebel Heart Tour – Madonna sang "Crazy for You" as tribute to the 30th anniversary of the EDSA Revolution.

[76] She's then "rescued" by her "younger self" – a dancer in the latex catsuit and braids from the "Human Nature" music video – and begins to sing "Crazy for You" as a "touching recognition of her bravery", as noted by PopMatters' Chris Rutherford.

[79][80][81] English electronic music duo Groove Armada recorded "Crazy for You" with vocals provided by Alan Donohoe – of art rock band the Rakes – for the compilation Radio 1: Established 1967 (2007).

[82][83] Also in 2007, the song was covered by American rock band New Found Glory for their album From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II, and by Lion of Panjshir for Through the Wilderness.

[86] On February 4, 2012, American singer Kelly Clarkson sang "Crazy for You" on the Bossier City concert of her Stronger Tour per fan request.

[88] However, according to authors Guilherme Bryan and Vincent Villari in their book Teletema: Volume I: 1964 a 1989, Warner Brazil's representatives did not obtain permission in time to include the song on the album.

[88] Pressings that had been distributed up until that point were removed from stores, and the soundtrack was quickly reissued with Sade's "Smooth Operator" (1984) in place of "Crazy for You".

[88] An instrumental version of the song plays during a party scene in "13 Candles" – 17th episode of the third season of American sitcom Full House, aired on February 9, 1990.

[90] "Crazy for You" was sung by Chris Griffin on "Long John Peter", twelfth episode of the sixth season of American animated television series Family Guy, aired on May 4, 2008.