Martin has written many hit songs, including star Britney Spears' ".Baby One More Time," The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face," and Backstreet Boys' other big hit, "Everybody." Those songs, however, weren't hits because of the lyrics, so much as the beats and voices behind them. The amusing reason is that it was written by Swedish songwriter Max Martin, who barely spoke English at the time.
The lyrics have been analyzed multiple times and the Backstreet Boys themselves have confided that the song doesn't make much sense. The actual meaning of "I Want It That Way " has always been a source of confusion, however, even in the United States. Along with that, it explores multiple Tokyo Vice expat characters trying to fit into the Japanese way of life, including Elgort's Adelstein and Keller's Samantha Porter, who are both striving and struggling to live and work there as Americans. The show addresses the various societal archetypes as well, including the subservient roles forced upon women and the issue of suicide. Tokyo Vice digs deep into the cultural differences between Adelstein and his Japanese colleagues, taking place at a time and era before smartphones or social media and when the Yakuza's influence and reach were much deeper than it is today.
Loosely based on the memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by the real Adelstein, the show co-stars Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Rinko Kikuchi, Shô Kasamatsu, Ella Rumpf, Shun Sugata, and Ayumi Tanida. Tokyo Vice is the latest original show from HBO Max and stars Ansel Elgort as Jake Adelstein, an American reporter in Japan in the late '90s. Adelstein works for the largest newspaper in the world and gets pulled into the underworld of the Yakuza during his investigations. Tokyo Vice's latest episode included some confusion over the meaning of the Backstreet Boys song "I Want It That Way, " humorously highlighting the cultural differences between characters.
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