I Want You (Savage Garden song)

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"I have such a soft spot for this song and it just keeps coming back. It's based on a dream that I had where I fell in love with a boy. And when I woke up, I missed him. I didn't know how I would ever feel that feeling again. I had this almost beautiful melancholy, romantic grief. I remembered everything about this boy who I'd never met. The smell, the kiss, the feeling, the butterflies in my tummy, all that stuff. And so I spent about a week mourning that feeling. I used to think, 'Maybe if I go to sleep, I'll see him again.'" [8]

Critical reception

Larry Flick from Billboard noted that the song "has a jittery synth-pop beat reminiscent of such '80s-era Brit-pop heroes as Duran Duran." He added, "Partners Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones are quite the harmonious pair, and they are photogenic enough to ensure instant teen-idol status. Top 40 programmers should waste no time in slammin' this one on the air." [9] British magazine Music Week rated it five out of five, describing it as "a great pop song akin to Roxette at their hook-happy best" and "a challenger for the UK number one spot". [10]

Music videos

Two music videos were released for the song. Both videos present Darren Hayes with long black hair. The first video is a low-budget version released in 1996 for Australian markets. It showed the band performing in a room full of disco lights and Darren Hayes singing on the back of a moving vehicle.

The second video was filmed on a high budget and premiered in 1997 for international markets in conjunction with the single's worldwide and American releases. Directed by Nigel Dick, it features the band in a stylised futuristic warehouse and recording studio. It was filmed on 11 February 1997 at the Harbor Generating Station in Long Beach, California. [11] The international version was featured on the band's compilation Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden (2005), while the Australian version was not available until the release of the compilation The Singles (2015).

In a 2022 interview with News Corp, Darren Hayes "said he only recently discovered the reason he was filmed in a metal head brace [for the video]... was 'because the lead singer looks gay when he moves.'" Hayes added, "They were just going to tell me it was an ‘artistic decision’. I'm still fucking angry about that." [12]

Track listings

"I Want You"
Savage-Garden-I-Want-You.jpg
1997 North American and UK cover
Single by Savage Garden
from the album Savage Garden
B-side
Released27 May 1996 (1996-05-27) [1]
Genre Synth-pop
Length
  • 3:53 (album version)
  • 3:38 (radio edit)
Label Roadshow
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Charles Fisher
Savage Garden singles chronology
"I Want You"
(1996)
"To the Moon and Back"
(1996)
Music videos
"I Want You" on YouTube

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the Savage Garden album booklet. [29]

Studios

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [59] Platinum70,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [70] Silver200,000
United States (RIAA) [71] Gold600,000 [72]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref(s).
Australia27 May 1996
  • CD
  • cassette
Roadshow [1]
United States11 February 1997 Columbia [73] [74]
Contemporary hit radio [75]
Japan23 April 1997CD Sony [76]
United Kingdom2 June 1997
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
Columbia [77]
United Kingdom (re-release)30 November 1998
  • CD
  • cassette
[78]

The song was used in Australian TV series Heartbreak High , during a dance sequence in an episode in which Katerina Ioannou (Ada Nicodemou) falls for her married dance partner.

The song is also used as the ending theme of the anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , during Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable . [79]

This song would later be featured on The CW drama series, Supernatural , during the opening scene of their thirteenth episode of their final season, "Destiny's Child" when an alternate universe version of protagonists Sam and Dean Winchester unexpectedly arrive.

The song is played at the school dance in Dawson's Creek in the second episode of Season One.

The Ryan Enzed remix, The Chica Cherry Cola Song is popularly the theme for viral shuffledance video online.

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