| "Games" | ||||
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| Single by New Kids on the Block | ||||
| from the album No More Games/The Remix Album | ||||
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| Released | October 17, 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||
| Genre | New jack swing[1] | |||
| Length | 3:51 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Maurice Starr, Donnie Wahlberg | |||
| Producer(s) | Maurice Starr, David Cole, Robert Clivillés | |||
| New Kids on the Block singles chronology | ||||
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"Games" is a song by American boyband New Kids on the Block,[2] released as the first single from their first compilation/remix album, No More Games/The Remix Album (1990). Employing hip-hop samples with riffs sung by Jordan Knight, and defensive rhymes by Donnie Wahlberg, the song was a dramatic departure from their previously clean cut sound. It also includes shout-outs to Donnie's brother Mark Wahlberg and his group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. The song features a chorus section taken from the movie the wizard of Oz, namely the West witch's soldiers chant: oh ee oh, oh oh. The accompanying music video for "Games" received heavy rotation on MTV Europe.[3]
Feeling the name "New Kids on the Block" was too childish for the group, the band shortened their name to "NKOTB" during the time of the single's release. The song received decent airplay from stations nationwide.
- ^ Adams, Gregory (July 10, 2011). "Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block, aka NKOTBSB, feel the love at Vancouver concert". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
- ^ NKOTB Games song, retrieved 2021-09-10
- ^ "Station Reports > TV > MTV/London" (PDF). Music & Media. 1991-02-16. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-12-12.