This song was the title single from The S.O.S. Band’s fifth album Just The Way You Like It in 1984. After their massive success with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis writing and producing the previous year’s smash “Just Be Good To Me,” Epic Records wanted a soundalike single for their next album.

“Just The Way You Like It” takes special care to not fix anything that isn’t broken, employing similar sounds, basslines, drum patterns, chord structures, the same key, and even retreading the lyrical theme of acquiescence to a non-monogamous relationship. Though a safe gamble, it paid off reaching #6 on the Billboard R&B chart that year.