Why 10cc's I'm Not in Love was never played for slow dancing on Dance Party USA

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    “I’m Not in Love“ was originally a song by the British band 10CC and it became a huge hit in 1975, shooting at on the UK music charts. In a way, it still is the ultimate slow dance you find on every classic love song compilation but very few people ever noticed the very cynical and harsh lyrics. The boy in the song may pretend he’s not in love when he probably is, the way he addresses his girlfriend is quite dreadful and mysogynist, making it the perfect song for Tori to sing from a female standpoint. Indeed, to prove the girl he’s not into her, the singer tells her : "I keep your picture upon the wall/it hides a nasty stain still lying there," clearly treating her like an object of both desire and disdain.

    "The singer is really super-cynical, and the lyrics show a superiority complex that doesn’t know its equal in pop music," Tori told Samsonic in September 2001. "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.’" Tori probably refered to the fact that the band’s name, 10CC, was allegedly supposed to represent the volume of the band’s above-average semence (which two of the members and their manager clearly denied years after while one of them confirmed the story).

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