5. I’m Not In Love
(Stewart/Gouldman, 1975)
10cc - The Original Soundtrack

“She’s a little fetish gal - she’s into BDSM. It’s all about power with her. And she’s not really in love; she really isn’t. She was at one time, and she’s having a different adventure now in life. She will walk down many roads.” [AP - October 2001]

You sing ‘I’m Not In Love’ from 10 CC very slowly, you almost spell the vowels. And it was for the first time that I heard how arrogant those lyrics are!  “Yes, it’s ironic that this has been the ultimate slow dance for teenagers in love for years. The singer is really super-cynical, and the lyrics show a superiority complex that doesn’t know its equal in pop music. He just has a hard-on and looks down on the girl he sings about. I think that the men from 10CC where deeply on coke at the time, because this is real cocaine arrogance. Plus the arrogance from a pop-star that has hundreds of girls down at his feet and can say, ‘Alright, you can give me a blowjob, but don’t you dare think I care about you.’ In my song it’s different - ‘You’re not in love? Well, I’m not in love either, sucker!’” [Samsonic - Sept/Oct 2001]

Tori wanted I'm Not In Love “to be almost like an ancient Japanese dance, like a ritual dance. So I stripped the keyboards off, and it became all about the vocal.” Adrien Belew used a drill along with his guitar.[Ice - September 2001]