You Don't Love Me Anymore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| “You Don't Love Me Anymore” | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||||
| Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic from the album Off The Deep End |
|||||
| B-side | "I Was Only Kidding" | ||||
| Released | June 1992 | ||||
| Format | CD, cassette | ||||
| Recorded | June 7, 1990 | ||||
| Genre | Comedy | ||||
| Length | 4:01 (14:07 with Bite Me) | ||||
| Label | Scotti Brothers | ||||
| Producer | "Weird Al" Yankovic | ||||
| "Weird Al" Yankovic singles chronology | |||||
|
|||||
| Off the Deep End track listing | |||||
|
|||||
You Don't Love Me Anymore is an original song by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Contents |
[edit] Track Listing
The following tracks are on the single:
- "You Don't Love Me Anymore" – 4:01
- "I Was Only Kidding" – 3:31
The promo single only contains "You Don't Love Me Anymore".
[edit] Lyrics
The song is written as a soft acoustic ballad, in the style of acoustic guitarist and singer James Taylor. However, the lyrics are of a destructive--literally--relationship between Yankovic and an unnamed girl. Although they were formerly in love, the "flames died down" and they are no longer passionate- in fact the girl hates Yankovic to such an extent that she repeatedly attempts to kill him.
Much of the humor of the song is derived from the stark contrast between Yankovic's delivery and the nature of the lyrics. As the relationship deteriorates, the woman's actions progress from adultery (sleeping "with the whole hockey team"), to bodily harm and pranks (shaving his eyebrows while he slept), to attempted homicide (drilling a hole in his skull and leaving him for dead). All of these actions merely leave Yankovic wondering about the future of their relationship, and with a naive quizzical nature guessing "I've got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore".
The song's length on "Off The Deep End" is over 14 minutes long. However, after the 4 minute song, there are 10 minutes of silence, before 6 seconds of backwards drumming, guitar feedback, and Al screaming at the top of his lungs, after which, the song ends. According to Al, this "most annoying 6 seconds of audio ever recorded" was meant to scare the listener if he or she forgets to turn the CD player off. (This snippet is called "Bite Me".)
[edit] Music video
The music video is a parody of "More Than Words" by Extreme, and continues where the "Smells Like Nirvana" video ends.
Within the music video:
- The amplifier is turned on full blast. Bassist Steve Jay knocks it over instead of simply turning it off.
- Drummer Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz is dressed like Dave Grohl from Nirvana. He drops the drumsticks instead of just putting them down, and takes his wig off.
- Yankovic appears as Gary Cherone.
- Jim West appears as Nuno Bettencourt.
- During the instrumental break between the first and second verses, Yankovic picks up a guitar and tunes it, but puts it back down as the second verse begins.
- Bermuda Schwartz and Steve Jay appear sitting on couches near Yankovic and Jim West. Schwartz appears as Paul Geary and Steve Jay appears as Pat Badger.
- Jay has a pig on his lap instead of a dog, and by the end of the video, eats it. Bermuda uses a blowtorch to light his cigarette, instead of a standard lighter. He subsequently catches fire.
- Steve Jay actually chipped a tooth as he bit into the ham, and he noticeably winces as this happens.
- When the camera pans around the scene, a condom can be seen on a golf club. Al stated that, "Our set decorator was trying to be "funny," and unfortunately neither Jay Levey or I caught it until it was too late. We both thought it was kind of tasteless and inappropriate, and I don't believe we ever worked with that guy again."
- Two musicians not from the original video appear: a pianist (Robert Goulet) and a cellist (Rudy Larosa, the janitor from the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Smells Like Nirvana" videos). The cellist accidentally throws his bow into the pianist's eye, and the pianist gets his hand cut off; later, he is shown with a bear trap on his foot (A reference to the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch, Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days").
- At the end, Yankovic fights over the guitar, pushes the guitar player off the stool, grabs the guitar, and smashes it to pieces.
[edit] Cover Versions
- A cover version of the song was used in a TV advert for the soft drink Irn-Bru ("got a funny feeling you've been drinking Irn-Bru").
- The German band J.B.O. has also covered the song.
