Only Wanna Be with You

"Only Wanna Be with You" is a rock song released in 1995 by Hootie & the Blowfish, the third single from their breakthrough album Cracked Rear View. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, #3 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

The song is about a guy singing happily about his relationship with a unique girlfriend. It is most noted by its music video, which took the artistic form of an episode of ESPN SportsCenter, which was outlining the band attempting (apparently in vain) to make an impact on the sports scene. In addition to SportsCenter anchors Dan Patrick, Keith Olbermann, Mike Tirico, Charley Steiner and Chris Berman, several athletes were included. Among those appearing were golfer Fred Couples, basketball players Alonzo Mourning and Walt Williams, and football player Dan Marino. The video was nominated in the Best Group Video category at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. Parts of the video were filmed on the Poolesville Golf Course in Poolesville, Maryland (located on the grounds of the Poolesville Golf Course), inside the billiards area inside the former Potomac Valley Lodge, Hinsdale Central High School and inside the University of Maryland's (College Park) Armory building (Basketball Courts). There is a version of the music video which replaces a few of the sports scenes and the ESPN portions.

The song makes several references to Bob Dylan's 1975 album Blood on the Tracks. The third verse concerns the narrator and his girlfriend listening to the Dylan album. The verse begins with the lines "Put on a little Dylan/ Sittin' on a fence," a reference to the song "You're a Big Girl Now," which includes the line "Bird on the horizon, sittin' on a fence." Five lines from the song "Idiot Wind" are quoted soon after; the narrator discusses the lines with his girlfriend, who wants to know their meaning. At the end of the second chorus, the narrator says that he is "tangled up in blue," a line later repeated at the end of the song. The band was sued for its use of the lines from "Idiot Wind."

The song was parodied by radio personality Bob Rivers for a song called "Three Inch Tool" with a man singing about his manhood.

A Miami Dolphins website takes its name from one of the lyrics in the song: "I'm such a baby, yeah, the Dolphins make me cry". This was the inspiration for the website, thedolphinsmakemecry.com. This refers to a five-year playoff drought the Dolphins endured.

In December 2007, VH-1 named it #45 on their countdown for the "100 greatest songs of the 90s."