The New Yorker’s John Seabrook dove into the legend of the strange lyrics in a 2015 story supporting his book The Song Machine. It’s entirely unclear if the song is supposed to be a love song, a breakup song or possibly even about an alien emotion humans don’t even have the capacity to comprehend.Īrticles ― such as LA Weekly’s “What The Hell Is Backstreet Boys’ ‘I Want It That Way’ About?” ― have tried to get to the bottom of the mystery. The lines in the verses and the chorus of “I Want It That Way” repeatedly contradict themselves. The lead single on that album was “I Want It That Way,” which famously features lyrics that make no sense whatsoever. In 1999, the boy band sold nearly 9.5 million copies of their album “Millennium,” making it the best-selling American album for the year.
The last year of the last century was a great one to be a Backstreet Boy.
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