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Backstreet Boys clear up I Want It That Way lyrics confusion
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 5 June 2018
The Backstreet Boys have cleared up a mystery nearly two decades old. What way do they want it? And what is ‘it’ anyway? The mystery solving is all thanks to model Chrissy Teigen.
“I never wanna hear you say, ‘I want it that way’, cos I want it that way”, conclude the lyrics to the group’s 1999 single ‘I Want It That Way’.
An exasperated Teigen tweeted: “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’?”
Despite all the time there has been since the single was released for someone somewhere to come with a satisfactory answer to those questions, no one was able to help. So much so, Tegen eventually concluded for herself that: “It seems they both want it the same way but are fighting over who gets to say they want it that way”.
And there it might have ended. Except it turns out there are, in fact, people out there who know the answers. And those people are collectively known as the Backstreet Boys.
“Don’t wanna hear you say that you want heartaches and mistakes, or to be two worlds apart”, they tweeted. “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”.
Yeah, it’s not quite as catchy, is it? Still, try singing those words along with the original song here:
