“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. 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.” We don’t want you to want “it” that way – that’s the way we want it… for you to not want it that way. It seems they both want it the same way but are fighting over who gets to say they want it that way ĭon’t wanna hear you say that you want heartaches and mistakes… or to be 2 worlds apart. He doesn’t wanna hear it because he is the one that wants it that way? He wants to be the one to say it? Also what is “it”?

“I never wanna hear you say, ‘I want it that way’ cause i want it that way”.

It will also be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. We don’t want you to want “it” that way – that’s the way we want it… for you to not want it that way,” they responded from their group’s Twitter account. “Don’t wanna hear you say that you want heartaches and mistakes… or to be 2 worlds apart. Later that night, she got an answer from the boys themselves. “It seems they both want it the same way but are fighting over who gets to say they want it that way,” she continued in a second tweet.

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