One Way Or Another

This song is about a stalker. The lyrics are very dark and go into detail about a guy with evil intentions, but the music is very light and catchy, which masked the meaning of the song. According to Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry, it was inspired by real events. She told Entertainment Weekly: "I was actually stalked by a nutjob, so it came out of a not-so-friendly personal event. I tried to inject a little levity into it to make it more lighthearted. It was a survival mechanism." Harry says that the title and the idea for the song popped into her head during a rehearsal, and most of the song was hashed out on the spot.

Lead singer Debbie Harry wrote this song with the group's bass player, Nigel Harrison. Harry wrote the lyrics to Blondie's songs, but composer credit for the music was generally given solely to whoever made the biggest contribution. This was often guitarist Chris Stein, who co-wrote "Rapture" and "Heart Of Glass."

This song has appeared in a number of movies and TV shows, often to imply dogged determination, not stalking. Here's a partial list: Movies: Little Darlings (1980) Donnie Brasco (1997) Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) The Rugrats Movie (1998) Coyote Ugly (2000 - Piper Perabo sings it to quell a riot in the bar) The Guru (2002 - performed by Sophie Ellis-Bextor) Mean Girls (2004) New York Minute (2004) Seed of Chucky (2004) Aquamarine (2006 - performed by Mandy Moore) Ready Player One (2018) TV Shows: The A-Team (1985) Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1998) Queer as Folk (1999) Dawson's Creek (2002) The Simpsons (2004) Veronica Mars (2005) ER (2007) Psych (2008) Supernatural (2011)