{"id":192,"date":"2012-01-19T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T07:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2012-01-19T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T07:30:05","slug":"i-want-it-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/192","title":{"rendered":"I Want It That Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re old enough, you probably remember this little hit from 1999.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4fndeDfaWCg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But have you ever thought about what the song actually means? Well, I made the mistake of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>What on earth is it talking about? I don&#8217;t think that, at any point during the song, they actually explain what &#8220;that way&#8221; is that they want it. So, as with many things that are incredibly vague, it must be an allusion to sex. They just didn&#8217;t want to say it explicitly, because that would make it a dirty song and would tarnish their squeaky-clean image in the minds of millions of teenage girls.<\/p>\n<p>I think the difficulty is that depending on who they&#8217;re talking about, &#8220;that way&#8221; refers to different things. In the first part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou are my fire<br \/>\nThe one desire<br \/>\nBelieve when I say<br \/>\nI want it that way\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s probably talking about anal sex when he says he wants it &#8220;that way.&#8221; He really wants his girlfriend to penetrate him anally, most likely with a dildo or some similar contraption. The man&#8217;s G-spot is in the anus, after all. I know only because I read that online somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>And after he laments that she never reaches his G-spot, they start talking about the girl&#8217;s vague desires in the second part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut we are two worlds apart<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t reach to your heart<br \/>\nWhen you say<br \/>\nThat I want it that way\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now what she wants is probably a threesome with another guy. But when she suggested this, the Backstreet Boy of your choice was horrified, being terribly homophobic and unwilling to be in a situation where he might potentially have to touch another man&#8217;s genitalia. And now they are &#8220;two worlds apart&#8221; after the horrible fight they had about how he&#8217;s so closed-minded and that it&#8217;s just a penis and he should get over it. He probably yelled back that she didn&#8217;t go for a threesome with a girl when he suggested it, so now why does he have to consider a threesome with a guy?<\/p>\n<p>And then she probably used his desire for anal sex against him, saying that that&#8217;s something that only gay men do. Which is totally wrong, but it&#8217;s a misconception that many people have anyway. He probably started yelling something about how he always reaches her G-spot, even though he has to go through contortions to get his penis to reach the damn thing because it&#8217;s in such an inconvenient location. I mean, the front wall of the vagina? How many men have penises shaped like hooks? He had to thrust at this ridiculous angle just to even graze the thing. And there&#8217;s only so many times he could do that come-hither motion with his fingers before getting cramps. Since he&#8217;s working so damn hard to reach her G-spot, why can&#8217;t she just shove her dildo up his ass to reach his? It didn&#8217;t seem like such a big favor to ask.<\/p>\n<p>So, alas, the couple split up, unable to fulfill each other&#8217;s sexual desires. And now they&#8217;re at the airport, attempting to flee the country to find women who are more open-minded and willing to engage in anal sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re old enough, you probably remember this little hit from 1999. But have you ever thought about what the song actually means? Well, I made the mistake of doing so. What on earth is it talking about? I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-backstreet-boys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}