Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean lovingly refers back to the band’s hit “I Need It That Method” as “the tune that is senseless” — however he admits the group fought their label to maintain the model we all know right now.
McLean, 45, completely opens as much as Us Weekly concerning the 1999 hit single within the newest episode of “Anatomy of a Tune,” revealing, “The file label truly fought us on the unique model as a result of they felt that due to the lyrics it didn’t make sense. That they had us go in and rerecord the refrain.”
In line with McLean, the label’s different refrain went: “No goodbyes / No extra lies / I find it irresistible after I hear you say / I need it that method.”
Whereas the band did file the label’s model, they’d a special imaginative and prescient for the tune. “It simply didn’t really feel proper,” says McLean. “We went with our intestine and we fought the label on it tooth and nail.”
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The Backstreet Boys adopted their instincts and went ahead with the model followers now know and love — which incorporates the enduring “Inform me why” lyric. “By the grace of God, we made the suitable choice,” McLean tells Us.
“I Need It That Method” in the end turned the Backstreet Boys’ signature tune and nonetheless stays wildly standard a long time later. It peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Scorching 100 after its launch and was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards in 2000, together with Tune of the 12 months and File of the 12 months.
AJ McLean Frazer Harrison/ACMA2019/Getty Pictures for ACM
The tune’s memorable music video, which takes place on the Tom Bradley Terminal of Los Angeles Worldwide Airport, additionally has a captivating historical past. Filmed in April 1999, it was the second — and final — time a video was set on the terminal earlier than the 9/11 terrorist assaults in September 2001. Since then, restrictions have been put in place stopping anybody from filming movies on the airport.
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“It was a very, actually cool expertise,” McLean tells Us, occurring to recall the parody video made by Blink-182 in response to the success of the tune. “That’s the most important type of flattery, and people guys are superior. They’ve develop into associates over time.”
Howie Dorough, Kevin Richardson, Nick Carter, AJ McLean and Brian Littrell of The Backstreet Boys carry out on June 16, 2018. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Pictures
No matter its historical past, McLean is happy with “I Need It That Method” and is aware of the band made the suitable selection lyrically. “It was a second,” says McLean. “That tune will eternally go down in historical past because the tune that is senseless.”
To listen to extra from AJ McLean concerning the sudden historical past of the Backstreet Boys’ largest hit, watch the unique video above.
