That Way (Lil Uzi Vert song)


"That Way" is a song by American rapper Lil Uzi Vert. It was released on March 1, 2020, by Generation Now and Atlantic Records as the second single from his second studio album Eternal Atake. The song prominently interpolates the hook of the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way".

Critical reception

Alphonse Pierre of Pitchfork viewed the song as the rapper's "return to the shoulder shimmying, eye-rolling, singing Hayley Williams in the backseat of a car Uzi, whose animated personality made his meteoric rise possible". In context of the album, Charles Homes and Elias Leight at Rolling Stone described the composition of the song as "a jarringly saccharine sample of the Backstreet Boys' 1999 hit "I Want It That Way"" in connection "with a jittery, steamrolling track built around the music from Microsoft Windows' videogame Space Cadet 3D Pinball". As for Uzi's performance on the song, Carl Lamarre concluded that he is in his "element, spraying lighthearted bars over the breezy track" and called the song an "earworm".

Responses

member Nick Carter praised the song on his Twitter and told Uzi that he wants him to be "featured on our next album".

Cover art plagiarism allegations

The cover art has been subject to allegations of plagiarism. On March 14, 2020, an online artist under the alias of 'hugeriver8' on Instagram claimed that the cover art plagiarizes a nearly identical piece they posted on their blog in 2014. The human figure on the cover art has also been claimed to be copied from a different artist under the alias of 'la_la_la_fries', for a piece of fanart of the guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who, which was first posted on Instagram in late November 2015.

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