1 hits, according to Billboard, placing him just behind Paul McCartney (32) and John Lennon (26) for the songwriter with the most chart-topping hits. "Sometimes you over-think things,” Kevin Richardson said in this same Huffington Post interview, adding, "sometimes you just got to go with what feels right.”Īnd that right there seems to be the explanation for most of Max Martin's hit songs: they feel right to our ears, but for our minds, there's something just a little bit off.
“And then the president of JIVE records at that time ― I mean he’s a genius ― but he and some of the A&R people wanted to change the lyrics.” The boy band did record an alternate version of "I Want It That Way," but it just didn't have the same feel as the, some may say, nonsensical original version. “Well it’s funny, we actually were OK with the lyrics when we heard it first,” Nick Carter told the Huffington Post. The popular 90s boy band appeared on Watch. Carter explained that the band had enough power at that time to decide which version they wanted. However, throughout those 17 years, they've also been trying to figure out what Swedish songwriter Max Martin was trying to say about love. The Backstreet Boys revealed that even they dont understand the lyrics to their hit song I Want It That Way. The Backstreet Boys knew at the time that I Want It That Way made no sense and then purposefully didn’t change the lyrics: Jeff Kravitz via Getty Images The Backstreet Boys in 1999. BSB ruled the chart with this pop song off their 1999 album, Millennium, a song that's so undeniably good that it's still beloved in this new millennium. Turns out, like so many others, the Backstreet Boys have no idea what "I Want It That Way" is about.
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