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* \"I\'m Not In Love\" by 10cc is clearly a satirical AntiLoveSong, yet has been a popular \'\'slow\'\' for couples for decades. Music/ToriAmos covered it in 2001 and changed chairs with the song, by actually addressing the fact that the girl in the song informs the guy: \"I\'m not in love with you, either, sucker!\"
Listening to it, it\'s far from \'clearly\' an AntiLoveSong; leaving aside that the songwriter originally wrote it for his wife to try and find ways of saying \"I love you\" without actually saying the words, a listen to the lyrics can suggest that the singer is very much in love with the subject of the song; he\'s just deeply in denial about it. Which makes it an actual love song (if a somewhat darker than unusual example). It\'s arguably more of an ObsessionSong than an AntiLoveSong, and even the AntiLoveSong page makes the case that you can go either way with it. In any case, there seems to be enough ambiguity about it to suggest that people who take it on face value as a love song aren\'t necessarily misreading it, which in turn means that it\'s not necessarily a misaimed fandom.
Listening to it, it\'s far from \'clearly\' an AntiLoveSong; leaving aside that the songwriter originally wrote it for his wife to try and find ways of saying \"I love you\" without actually saying the words, a listen to the lyrics can suggest that the singer is very much in love with the subject of the song; he\'s just deeply in denial about it. Which makes it an actual love song (if a somewhat darker than unusual example). It\'s arguably more of an ObsessionSong than an AntiLoveSong, and even the AntiLoveSong page makes the case that you can go either way with it. In any case, there seems to be enough ambiguity about it to suggest that people who take it on face value as a love song aren\'t necessarily misreading it, which in turn means that it\'s not necessarily a misaimed fandom.
