![]() ![]() Like most simple songs, it became extremely difficult to write. ![]() Martin, whose launch to fame included writing Britney Spears’ earliest hits, played Carlsson a very simple demo with the chorus and a few lyrics, including “You are my fire / the one desire.” (“Like poetry, Swedish style,” Carlsson said.) “It just has a special feeling to it,” he added.Ĭarlsson vividly remembers the morning in 1998 that Swedish pop phenom Max Martin walked into his apartment with an idea for a track called “I Want It That Way ” the two songwriters coincidentally lived in the same building in Stockholm and would occasionally collaborate. For “I Want It That Way,” he pinpoints the classic opening guitar riff, the “mellow but a little bit haunting” verses and the positive chorus “that opens up like the sun is coming out.” “The magic behind any song that stands the test of time is not that it’s just clever … it actually moves emotions and it makes you feel something,” Carlsson said. He acknowledged there’s just something different about how “I Want It That Way” strikes a nerve with listeners. “The fact that it continues to capture people 20 years after it was written, in a way that none of my other songs have done, is just astonishing,” said songwriter Andreas Carlsson, who has also co-written hits for ‘N Sync (“Bye Bye Bye,” “It’s Gonna Be Me”), Celine Dion (“That’s The Way It Is,” “I’m Alive”), Katy Perry (“Waking Up in Vegas”) and many more. ![]()
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