You Don't Love Me Anymore

Infobox Single
Name = You Don't Love Me Anymore


Artist = "Weird Al" Yankovic
from Album = Off the Deep End
Released = June 1992
B-side = "I Was Only Kidding"
Format =

• Cassette (Commercial)

• CD (Promo)

• 12" Vinyl (Remix)

Recorded = June 7, 1990
Genre = Comedy
Length = 4:01 (14:07 with Bite Me)
Label = Scotti Brothers
[ Writer = ]
Producer = "Weird Al" Yankovic
Last single = "Smells Like Nirvana" (1992)
This single = "You Don't Love Me Anymore" (1992)
Next single = "Taco Grande" (1992)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption =
Type =


Cover size =
Lower caption = Cover for the disco remix
Border = Extra tracklisting
Album = Off the Deep End
Type = studio
Tracks =
# "Smells Like Nirvana"
# "Trigger Happy"
# "I Can't Watch This"
# "Polka Your Eyes Out"
# "I Was Only Kidding"
# "The White Stuff"
# "When I Was Your Age"
# "Taco Grande"
# "Airline Amy"
# "The Plumbing Song"
# "You Don't Love Me Anymore"
# "Bite Me" "(Hidden Track)"

"You Don't Love Me Anymore" is an original song and single by "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Track listing

cotti Bros. Single

The following tracks are on the commercial cassette single:
# "You Don't Love Me Anymore" – 4:01
# "I Was Only Kidding" – 3:31

The promo CD single only contains "You Don't Love Me Anymore".

Mobile Disco Remix

# "You Don't Love Me Anymore" – 5:00

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 insults (calling him ugly, cheap, and the Antichrist), to adultery (sleeping "with the whole hockey team"), to bodily harm and pranks (shaving his eyebrows while he slept, pulling out his chest hair with rusty pliers, shoving his head into a lit barbecue grill), to arson, to attempted homicide (putting poison in his coffee, cutting the brake lines on his car, pushing him down an elevator shaft, leaving a cobra in his dresser and piranhas in his bath, drilling a hole in his skull and leaving him for dead in a ditch). Rather than alarm the protagonist over his personal safety, these actions merely cause him confusion about the nature of their relationship, naïvely admitting he "get [s] to thinking 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".)

Remixes

In 1992 "You Don't Love Me" was remixed into a disco-styled song. [http://www.weirdal.com/images/rare95a.jpgYou Don't Love Me Anymore Disco Remix Vinyl Single] The song, complete with loops and samples, was remixed by Mobile Disco Records. Yankovic's official site states that, "This is the only authorized extended mix of an Al song that wasn't issued by his label. It's an odd choice for a dance mix since it's a ballad, but with loops and samples, it's even more twisted than Al's original version!" [http://www.weirdal.com/rare95.htm You Don't Love Me Anymore Disco Remix]

Music video

Although the music is original, 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:
*In the original "More Than Words" video, the amplifier is turned on and the bassist simply turns it off. In "You Don't Love Me Anymore" Bassist Steve Jay knocks it over, causing it to crash to the ground.
*In the original, Extreme's Drummer, gently sets his drum stick down and walks away. In the pastiche, Drummer Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz is dressed like Dave Grohl from Nirvana. He violently drops the drumsticks and takes his wig off.
*A close-up shot of the interior of the guitar Jim West is playing reads "Acme Rental."
*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.

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.

ee also

*List of singles by "Weird Al" Yankovic
*List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic

References