<P> Written mostly by Stewart as a riposte to his wife's declaration that he did not tell her often enough that he loved her, "I'm Not in Love" was originally conceived as a bossa nova song played on guitars, but the other two members of the band, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, disliked the track and it was abandoned . However, after hearing members of their staff continue to sing the melody around their studio, Stewart persuaded the group to give the song another chance, to which Godley replied that for the song to work it needed to be radically changed, and suggested that the band should try and create a new version using just voices . </P> <P> "I'm Not in Love" has enjoyed lasting popularity, with over three million plays on US radio since its release, and it won three Ivor Novello Awards in 1976 for Best Pop Song, International Hit of the Year, and Most Performed British Work . It has appeared in the films The Virgin Suicides, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Indecent Proposal, Cherish, Whatever, Hunky Dory, Jappeloup, The Stud, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, He's Just Not That Into You, and Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and the television shows Goodnight Sweetheart, That' 70s Show, The Office, Veronica Mars, Big Love, Medium, Cuentame, The Syndicate, Bull, EastEnders, and Skam . The song has been covered by numerous artists, most notably by Dee Dee Sharp in 1976, which revived her career, and the American band Will to Power, whose version reached the US and Canadian top ten in 1991 . </P> <P> Stewart came up with the idea for the song after his wife, to whom he had been married for eight years at that point, asked him why he didn't say "I love you" more often to her . Stewart said, "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 ." </P> <P> Stewart wrote most of the melody and the lyrics on the guitar before taking it to the studio, where Gouldman offered to help him complete the song . Gouldman suggested some different chords for the melody, and also came up with the intro and the bridge section of the song . Stewart said that the pair spent two or three days writing the song, which at that point had a bossa nova rhythm and used principally guitars, before playing it to Godley and Creme . Stewart recorded a version with the other three members playing the song in the studio on traditional instruments--Creme on guitar, Gouldman on bass and Godley on drums--but Godley and Creme disliked the song, particularly Godley, as Stewart later recalled: "He said,' It's crap', and I said,' Oh right, OK, have you got anything constructive to add to that? Can you suggest anything?' He said,' No . It's not working, man . It's just crap, right? Chuck it .' And we did . We threw it away and we even erased it, so there's no tape of that bossa nova version ." </P>

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