According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Universal Music Publishing Group, the song has a BPM of 100 and is played in the key of B-flat minor (with a key change to C minor).

[3] An instrument in the song is the sound of Howie Dorough's flatulence while recording the vocals, which producer Max Martin sampled.

In 2017, Dorough said of the incident: "I got in the booth, was breathing in really heavily singing my part, and I guess some extra air kind of came out.

Band member AJ McLean later admitted on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in an episode discussing his recovery from depression and drug and alcohol abuse, that he tried cocaine for the first time on the set of this video.

Complementing the lyrics to the song, the video tells the story of a man who is unfaithful to his girlfriend.