Who can forget lead singer Robin Zander’s intro, which is still widely viewed on YouTube. “And this next song is called ‘I Want You … to Want Me,” Zander slowly said, pointing to himself as thousands of fans screamed hysterically.
In an interview with Louder, founding guitarist Tom Petersson recalled that his bandmate RickNeilson wrote the song in response to the pop and disco songs that were taking over the radio.
Nielson explained that the idea for the song came to him because he “always wanted what wasn’t there.” “It was the easiest lyric I could think of,” he told the outlet. “It was just as bad as all the other songs that were out at the time. It’s hummable and it’s listenable.”
“We had played that song over the first couple of years live, in clubs and stuff, and it got kind of an 'Ehhh, okay' response," Zander said in 2020. "We didn’t do it every night or anything." [It] wasn’t even in the set that we were gonna do. About 15 minutes before we were going to go on, our manager came up to us and said the Japanese production guy said we needed another song, because our set’s not long enough. He suggested putting 'I Want You to Want Me' in the set, so we did, and that became the big hit off the album. Who knew?"
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