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Just a Little Bit Crazy

album by Joyce and Banda Maluca

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ139249514 ↗
Source-derived summary

Just a Little Bit Crazy is a studio album by Brazilian bossa nova singer-songwriter Joyce and her band Banda Maluca released in 2003 on Far Out Recordings.

John L. Walters of The Guardian called it one of the best albums of 2003.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Just a Little Bit Crazy” is album by Joyce and Banda Maluca. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Just, Little and Crazy, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. For this dossier, Just, Little and Crazy is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Joyce and Banda Maluca” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q139249514. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Just a Little Bit Crazy”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Just a Little Bit Crazy primary sources, Just a Little Bit Crazy archive and Just research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Just a Little Bit Crazy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.