Fred's Fun Fact: The Backstreet Boys

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fread show is on Fred's fun fact, Fred's learn so much, guys,
in light of the Battory Boys song that we just played.
Here's a fun fact. And if you're a real one,
you already knew this. But the version of the Battree
Boys I wanted that way that has become famous that

(00:22):
we all know that we all just sang along to,
that is not the original intended version of the song.
The original intended version of the song was called no Goodbyes,
and the words are completely different, and it sounds a
little something like this here let me fast forward a
little bit, but it's entirely different. It's the Millennium video.

(00:45):
This is what it was supposed to be. Every it
just doesn't hit the same in that way. What is

(01:13):
totally different. Bad Away makes sense. Yes, I love it

(01:35):
because you don't want any lies, you don't want any goodbyes,
and so he wants it that way. So and I'm
paraphrasing the story, and Rufio will of course correct me,
but it's something to the effect of Max Martin wrote
the song and it didn't make any sense because his
grasp of the English language is not as strong as
whatever he speaks. So that was they they recorded and like,

(01:59):
this song is make any sense, and so then they
rewrote the song to make it make sense, and that's
the version that made sense. And then they played both
for people and they were like, I don't like the
one that makes sense. I like the one that doesn't
make sense. It hits better. And so that's the one
they went with because if you listen to I want
it that way, it doesn't make any sense. But you
know what, that doesn't matter. Nope, because when I've had
a few cocktails and that one comes on in my

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house when I'm alone and having a dance party, you
just start scatting like Kiki I called Kiki and make
for stat just to you know, complete the experience more.
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