Released 6 March 2000 Label BMG | Genre Pop | |
Format CD single, cassette single Length 3:24 (album version)
3:17 (radio edit) Writer(s) Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher, Sean Conlon, Abs Breen, Jason "J" Brown | ||
"Don't Wanna Let You Go" a single by English boy band Five. Written by producers Richard Stannard and Julian Gallagher, and band members Sean Conlon, Abs Breen and J Brown, the song was released on 6 March 2000 as the fourth single from their second studio album Invincible (2000).
Contents
The song charted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart and also peaked at number five in New Zealand. The music video for the song was directed by Cameron Casey—who also directed the videos for "If Ya Gettin' Down" and "Keep on Movin'"—and produced by Andy Leahy and Richard Fenton.
Track listing
- "Don't Wanna Let You Go" (Radio Edit) - 3:17
- "Battlestar" (Single Remix) - 4:07
- "Don't Wanna Let You Go" (Video) - 3:18
- "Don't Wanna Let You Go" (Radio Edit) - 3:17
- "Don't Wanna Let You Go" (Biffco Extended Mix) - 4:41
- "Interview Request Line" - 3:41
- "Don't Wanna Let You Go" (Radio Edit) - 3:17
- "Battlestar" (Single Remix) - 4:07
Music video
The music video for the song was directed by Cameron Casey—who also directed the videos for "If Ya Gettin' Down" and "Keep on Movin'"—and produced by Andy Leahy and Richard Fenton.
The video begins with binary code on a computer screen. A computerised voice says "OK, I'm in. Five, you're mine." Three members of the band, Ritchie Neville, Sean Conlon and Abs Breen, are sitting in a room and looking at a laptop when Scott Robinson comes in and says "Lads? The freak is officially...back.", and dumps a big pile of fanmail on the table. An obsessive female fan appears to have been constantly sending Five emails and letters in the hope of meeting them, so they decide to go to the girl's address in their Range Rover. The pull up at a mansion and they look round. J Brown touches a large graphic and gets sucked into the girl's computer. While the girl is on the sciencity, she watches the faces of each member of the band. The sparks come through, and she gasps when she tries to escape. Several minutes later, she runs down the stairs, enters a different office and discovers Sean's head inside a refrigerator and she screams in terror. When Five are dancing in the hallway, she runs back into the same office and answers the telephone and there's no one calling. The sparks and electricity crashes on the computer and she runs out while screaming. Five talk when she is trapped in the mansion, then Neville says, "Let's Get J Back". The members turn invisible and she closes her eyes and screams again. Following that, J reemerges, then goes on to rejoin the rest of the band. The members dance and the Five logo comes up. At the final scene, the lightning struck the mansion and she runs away while screaming and it fades to black, her intense scream can be heard at the end. According to J Brown, he had a severe mental breakdown during production of the video after frequent insomnia.
Chart performance
The song debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart on 18 March 2000. It also peaked at number five in New Zealand.