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I Want It That Way peaked at number one in New Zealand, Canada, Germany and the UK, among other countries, but only made it to number six on the US Hot 100. It went to number one in NZ, but not the US The band followed orders and re-recorded it, but the new version didn't sit right so they reverted to the original (phew). The video went on to reach meme-status (or whatever the 90s version of a meme was?) and has since been parodied by Blink-182, Weird Al Yankovic and radio shock jock Howard Stern.īand member Kevin Richardson told ELLE in 2016, "When we finished recording the song and the label executives heard it, they didn't think it made 100 per cent sense, lyrically - and they actually asked us if we could go back in and rewrite and re-record some of the lyrics to make the song make a little more sense, meaning-wise, and we actually did that." And we didn't feel like we lived up to it," he added. " like it wasn't the greatest music video - at all. It was kind of like we didn't want to do it. I think we felt that it was super cheesy and it was something that was unnecessary. I Want It That Way was released in the summer of 1999, at. I don't remember travelling but I remember coming in and working up a choreography routine at the last-minute. The first video for their next album, Millennium, showed just how much their mindset had changed. Nick Carter told US Weekly in 2017, "I just remember having to film the music video in between doing a lot of stuff. Get this: the band didn't like the video either.
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There's dancing, blue steel and a whole lot of aeroplanes.