![]() ![]() The song was certified double Platinum in Japan and Sweden, Platinum in Australia, Belgium, Germany and New Zealand. ‘I want it that way’ topped the charts in several countries around the world including Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain and Switzerland. In the UK, it also topped the Official Charts Company and was certified Platinum for sales over 600,000 copies. Songwriter/s: Andreas Carlsson – Max MartinĬhart Rankings: The band’s most successful song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 charts, the Adult Contemporary, US Mainstream Top 40, US Mainstream Top 40 Recurrents and the Top 40 Track charts. ![]() He wants things to be one way but they are both living is two different worlds and there is no guarantee that she wants things “That” way. This is what it means by: “Am I, your fire? Your one, desire, Yes I know, it’s too late, but I want it that way, tell me why, ain’t nothin’ but a heartache, tell me why, ain’t nothin’ but a mistake, tell me why, I never wanna hear you say, I want it that way.” The girl and him are not together but he want to be with her. She may not feel “that” same way about him. He is afraid if he tells her how he loves her “that way” she won’t love him “that” same way. They are “two world apart” and he can’t “reach to her heart.” So, he is keeping his feelings to himself at first. The only way that could change is if he gets rejected. This explains the: “You are, my fire, the one, desire, Believe, when I say I want it that way.” The man is secretly in love with the woman and is saying he wants her and only her. You want to reveal your true feelings for them, but you don’t know how they feel about you or how they will react. It is about loving someone who doesn’t really know that you love them. This isn’t about an official relationship between a man and woman. Regardless if she wants things to be the same way he does, he will still continue to love her and want things to be “that” way even if they never will be. But, she may not feel the same way about him. When Max came up with the original idea for the song, it already had the line ‘you are my fire, the one desire.’ We tried a million different variations on the second verse, and finally we had to go back to what was sounding so great, ‘you are my fire, the one desire.’ And then we changed it to ‘am I your fire, your one desire’, which made absolutely no sense in combination with the chorus – but everybody loved it! Basically the song is about a guy who’s in love with a woman but he doesn’t want to get rejected. When asked about the story of the song, co-writer Carlsson said: “There’s really not much story, although our hero seems concerned about his relationship. “Songs that still stand the test of time today if they played on the radio.This midtempo ballad finds the guys gushing expressions of romantic affection, according to songwriter Carlsson the song was inspired by Metallica song ‘Nothing Else Matters’. “We just got some amazing hits that are, I think, timeless,” he adds. He told ABC Audio last year, “Looking back at it, especially some of the stuff that we recorded in the early years, I feel like we got very blessed to have a team of writers and producers, including Max Martin, who’s the Svengali of music, I think, for the past three decades.” Later this month, Backstreet Boys will celebrate their 30th anniversary, and Howie says one reason he thinks they’ve lasted so long is because songs like “I Want It That Way” are so good. The song and its video have been parodied numerous times, it’s been sampled by rappers, gone viral on TikTok, been the subject of debates on Twitter and has been heard in ads, movies and TV shows. Its famous video is one of just a handful from the ’90s to have hit 1 billion views on YouTube.Īnd while even Carlsson and Backstreet’s Kevin Richardson have admitted that “I Want It That Way” doesn’t make much sense, it’s still iconic. The song, co-written by Max Martin and Andreas Carlsson, was also nominated for three Grammys and has been RIAA-certified triple Platinum in the U.S. While the song was never actually a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 - it peaked at #6 - it topped the charts in 25 other countries and became the group’s signature song. On April 12, 1999, “I Want It That Way” was released as the first single from Backstreet’s album Millennium. Tell me why we’re still singing Backstreet Boys‘ “I Want It That Way” 24 years after its release? Because, like so many of their hits, it’s “timeless.”
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