Didn’t realize back then that this is a love song to another guy, did you?

That’s hot.

If I didn't know better I would have guessed Elton John there.

I always associate the song with my first boyfriend after coming out. He seemed to have the same denial about his feelings for me that the band sings about.

So, it's always been a gay love song in my mind.

INCORRECT! x

Eric Stewart was inspired to write 'I'm Not In Love' because of a chance remark by his wife. “Gloria said to me one day, 'you've stopped saying I love you'. 'Yes, but if I keep saying it, it would no longer have any meaning'. While this was inconsequential banter between us the notion stuck in my mind and when I put the idea to my song-writing partner of a song which said ‘I’m not in love’ and then proceeded to give all the reasons why the singer was totally in love he thought it was great.”

^ Cover story

∆ Wet blanket∆

Rhoda, you forgot your X.

Never mind, I see your x, RhodaBorrocks. But I disagree, this song is totally about a man in love with a man.

Then the man go up into the man...

That song is gayer than George Michael in an itsy bitsy thong in Ibiza.

I feel so stupid. I was high school Class of 79 and I never made the connection. Q

The singer has some Michael Ontkean/T.R. knight going on.

R9 is right and it kills me that I hadn’t had everything figured out by then.

R10 don’t feel too bad, honey, no one was laughing at you!

The disembodied homos are hot. Look at that guy with the mustache. Woof.

The middle guy looks like Bert Convy on acid.

What about Bill Bixby? I’d sing bad songs to him.

Teenaged me didn't get it either, r10. Now it’s so obvious. For some of us, the closet was so final and encumbering.

Bill Bixby looks good.

Bill Bixby was hot.

No idea, but then I thought Sparks' "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us" was sung by a woman. I also assumed Madonna was black when I first heard "Holiday" because it got a lot of airplay on a black station.

I also thought Ariana Grande was a Latina, so there’s that.

I thought Peggy Lipton was a teabag,

There was a guy who used to play it at me. And sometimes when we were out, he'd unconsciously hum it. I broke his heart when I met someone else.

Wait...

Why doesn't everyone think this song is about gay romance?

Because most straight guys don't understand irony, r 24.

I love the story about them bringing in the secretary at the studio to do the "Be quiet, big boys don't cry" part.

”"I'm Not in Love" is a song by English group 10cc”

10cc of cum, STAT!

10cc were a very arty band but they made catchy pop music. Two of the guys Kevin Godley and Lol Creme went on to direct classic 80s music videos like Every Breath you Take, Rockit, Girls on Film and their own Cry