The one thing I love about music is that everyone has their own story to tell – the musician, the lyrics, the way the fans decipher them and also the way a song can also create a memory or a meaning to someone.

Since Five have reunited this year and are doing a tour all of this moth, I thought it would be fun to have a break from Movie Memories and 100 Weeks Of Discovery (which will both return in 2026) and return to the feature Music Memories to look at Five every week of November.

I was quite young when Five were around but I loved them. Their first album was my first ever CD (had tapes before) and I still have it to this day! Lots of their songs have memories for me attached so thought would write about them every Tuesday!

Track: Don’t You Want It
Artist: Five
Original Release Date: 1998

I used to love the first album and I used to listen to it so much, it was always on repeat. Even though I was really young – around 8-10, I can still remember certain feelings I had in relation to this memory and certain memories as they always pop up if I decide to listen to the album (which I am currently doing!)

From a very young age, I have always created music videos in my head for certain songs when they inspire me ( I written many articles about this years over the years, here is an example ). This track I think was one of the first songs that I ever made a music video for because I used to love it so much. Every time it got to the bridge I would be in a weird hypnosis of my own mind lost in the idea of the music video. A sense of escapism and also just something I loved. Music has that effect on me, I can spend hours thinking about something a song says or does.

I used to act out the video in my bedroom over and over again, with the song over and over again on repeat. I don’t remember much of it but parts of it always come back to me when I listen to the song. I remember it was meant to be in a small smoky night club and all the members of the back kept appearing on the dance floor singing to me and that there was a group dance routine in the chorus.

I really strongly remember the first part up to the first chorus, I remember Abz walking backwards then doing a cross over leg dance step when the lyrics go ‘why do we bring the flow so raw’ . I also remember that when Scott sings the bridge the background of people dancing was all dark and blue and then there was this heavenly light around him on a mid shot. I know this is so flipping random to remember this all these years later but this is how long I rehearsed this dance – hours. The dance for the chorus I can remember a very slight part of it where there was legs lifting the top part of the body doing a front to back roll thing, the sort of thing boybands were doing at the time.

It is really funny listening back to the song now because being that young I didn’t really get a lot of the lyrics to the extent I do now and its quite bizarre to think of me that age making a video in my mind for it!

That is all I remember but it always makes me smile. Music has always been my first love and has always had the ability to make me smile and push my creativity.

Facts About Don’t You Want It

• Album track for the album Five
• The album was largely produced by Jake Schulze and Denniz Pop – the latter who also served as the executive producer with Simon Cowell 
• The track was written by the band, Herbie Crichlow, Max Martin, Denniz Pop and Jake Schulze.

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