"You Got It" is a 1988 single from New Kids on the Block. The lead vocals were sung by Jordan Knight and Donnie Wahlberg. The second single from the group's second albumHangin' Tough, it peaked at number 3 on the BillboardHot 100 Singles Chart in early 1989, while topping the UK charts in November 1989. On the album, it was simply listed as "The Right Stuff"; the change to the single was likely to avoid confusion with Vanessa Williams' debut hit "The Right Stuff", which charted earlier that year. A Spanish version of the song was made and peaked at number 11 in Spain.
Chart performances
The single appeared in the Top 40 for the US BillboardHot 100 singles chart the week of January 14, 1989, rising from number 45 to 37. "You Got It" reached its peak of number 3 the week of March 11, 1989. Altogether, "You Got It " spent 5 weeks in the Top 10, 8 weeks in the Top 20, and 13 weeks in the Top 40. The song was number one in Australia in August 1989, and in the UK in November 1989. In New Zealand it climbed up to number 2, blocked from the top spot by Bobby Brown's "On Our Own". On March 29, 1989 the single was certified Gold. "You Got It " is commonly regarded as one of the band's signature songs. In the music video, Jordan Knight is seen wearing a Bauhaus T-shirt. The song ranked as number 92 on VH1's 100 greatest songs of the 80's.
In popular culture
The song can be heard in the 1989 film The Wizard. In 1992, "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song on his Off the Deep End album as "The White Stuff," a loving ode to the white filling in Oreo cookies. It was also joked about in the episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" on Family Guy. In a King of the Hill episode, Boomhauer says about a boy band called 4Skore, "You talkin' 'bout that dang ol' boy band, man. Talkin' 'bout prancin' around, ol' 'Oh, oh, oh, oh...'". Kid Rock, on his album The Polyfuze Method, sampled the song on his "Killin' Brain Cells". This song is featured on the gameDance Dance Revolution X2. In the season 8 episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer", Dr. Jinx plays the song on his electric bass to help Dennis have feelings again. In an after credits clip of a season 6 episode of Psych that Joey McIntyre co-starred in, Joey, James Roday and Dule Hill dance to the song. In the 2012 Adam Sandler comedy film That's My Boy, the character Todd Peterson receives a tattoo of New Kids on the Block on his back as a child, which later becomes warped as he grows up. Upon discovery of this, his father Donny Berger responds by singing the chorus of "You Got It " with the lyrics changed so that he sings: "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you got a bad tattoo. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, their heads are fucking warped." The song is used by David Wright of the New York Mets as his walk-up song. In the first episode of Fuller House, DJ, Stephenie, Kimmy, and the rest of the cast dance to a 30-second clip of the song. The song is featured twice in the 2017 big screen version of It, based on the Stephen King novel.
