Backstreet Boys Finally Confirm The Most Famous Legend About Them (IWITW)

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/backstreet-boys-want-it-that-way_us_57e2f6abe4b0e28b2b520d73?section=women&

Up until this point, it's only been understood that the Swedish songwriter behind the hit, Max Martin, couldn't speak amazing English at the time and therefore didn't realize the song was so enigmatic. (Also the problem with his Britney Spears song "...Baby One More Time," as he thought "hit" meant "call.")

There is also an article about BOMT here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/britney-spears-hit-me-baby-one-more-time_us_563a8b8be4b0411d306f9f59

The track was written by Swedish songwriter Max Martin and Swedish-Moroccan songwriter Rami Yacoub, who worked for Stockholm's famous Cheiron Studios — a veritable hit factory — in the '90s. In Seabrook's telling, Martin and fellow Cheiron songwriter Denniz PoP wanted to work with Spears because she was new, and young, and they could shape her sound the way they'd wanted to do with other singers. So they gave her a song Martin wrote about a girl who just split up with her boyfriend, "Hit Me Baby (One More Time)."

The Swedes, Seabrook writes, thought that "hit" was brand new American teen slang for "call." The singer, then, is pleading for her ex-boyfriend to call her just one more time, because she's lonely. Nothing improper there!

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[Rebecca]

Backstreet Boys definitely made the right decision releasing the original version. Those lyrics make the song.