Songs That Changed Music: 10cc - I'm Not In Love

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In the mid-seventies 10cc was one of England’s hottest bands. They put out five consecutive Top Ten albums between 1975 and 1978 – Sheet Music (1975), The Original Soundtrack (1975), How Dare You (1976), Deceptive Bends (1977) and Bloody Tourists (1978). They also had several successful singles including three number one hits. However, it was their innovative 1975 hit “I’m Not In Love” that brought the band chart-topping, international success including hitting the number one spot in the UK and Canada and the number two spot in the US.

The song was written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman who formed one of the bands two songwriting duos. While most groups are lucky to have a skilled songwriter or two among them, 10cc (between 1972 and 1976) had two distinctly talented pairs. Stewart and Gouldman gained a reputation as the more pop-oriented songwriters of the group, while Kevin Godley and Lol Creme were seen as the more experimental writers. With “I’m Not In Love” the band combined these talents, creating a captivating and artistic track that also achieved phenomenal commercial success.

The inspiration for the song came from a comment by Stewart’s wife. He explains:

“At that time my wife and I had been married about eight years….and she asked me ‘Why don’t you say “I love you” more often?’ I had this crazy idea in my mind that repeating those words would somehow degrade the meaning, so I told her ‘Well, if I say every day “I love you, darling, I love you, blah, blah, blah,” it’s not gonna mean anything eventually.’ That statement led me to try to figure out another way of saying it, and the result was that I chose to say ‘I’m not in love with you,’ while subtly giving all the reasons throughout the song why I could never let go of this relationship”

The ironic twist was only the first barrier Stewart faced when getting his bandmates on board with the idea. He recalls, “I wrote the lyrics in a couple of days. […] When I took the song to the band, they said: ‘I’m not in love’? What the fuck is that? You can’t say that!’” However, Gouldman agreed to give the song a try and the pair began their efforts on composing the song around those lyrics. At first they tried to give it a bossa nova feel but the other two members of the band still weren’t convinced.

The band scrapped the track and began working on other songs. However, when Stewart overheard members of the studio staff humming the song, he wanted to try again. Godley agreed that the melody was catchy, but that they needed to find a radically new way to envision the song. According to Steward, Godley had the brilliant idea for the ingenius vocal backdrop saying, “I tell you what, the only way that song is gonna work is if we totally fuck it up and we do it like nobody has ever recorded a thing before. Let’s not use instruments. Let’s try to do it all with voices.” Fortunately, the band had the iconic Strawberry Studies at their fingertips to make this idea a reality.

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