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Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:26 am
by Capybara
I'd say When I Was Your Age gives it a run for it's money.

Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 4:41 am
by LaikaComeHome
This song is simultaneously amusing and disturbing. Lyrically speaking, this lady puts him through HELL! Poor baby.

It's sad when you can relate to this song. I can relate, only thankfully the people I've felt this way towards weren't homicidal like the lady in the song, just jerks.

Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 2:21 am
by TMBJon
I am listening to a recording of a Vanity Tour show on YouTube right now, and I just heard Al mention that You Don't Love Me Anymore is a pastiche of a band so obscure that no one has ever guessed it, and he will take it to his grave.

:detective:

Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 2:32 am
by weird_el
It's a pastiche of Extreme. They had a hit song and video called More Than Words. Al's video for YDLMA is greatly inspired by it. Also, on the previous page of this thread, avesjohn pointed out the difference between poisonous and venomous. Al stopped mid-song in Milwaukee last week and acknowledged "poisonous cobra" is incorrect.

Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:58 am
by TMBJon
No, he explicitly says in the same introduction that the song is not a pastiche of Extreme. His label insisted that the video be a parody since he wanted to release an original song as a single

Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:54 pm
by Killingsworth
TMBJon wrote:I just heard Al mention that You Don't Love Me Anymore is a pastiche of a band so obscure that no one has ever guessed it, and he will take it to his grave.
Part of me thinks that he said this as a joke given how very generic the song actually sounds compared to a lot of Als' other originals & style parodies.

Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 10:26 pm
by Yankomaniac
Perhaps themselves.

Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Sun May 01, 2022 9:54 pm
by Marko_The_Odd
Killingsworth wrote: Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:54 pm
TMBJon wrote:I just heard Al mention that You Don't Love Me Anymore is a pastiche of a band so obscure that no one has ever guessed it, and he will take it to his grave.
Part of me thinks that he said this as a joke given how very generic the song actually sounds compared to a lot of Als' other originals & style parodies.
So, I have no idea who still visits here, or if there's somewhere else where Weird Al fans now congregate (Reddit?), but I think I might have discovered the actual source inspiration for "You Don't Love Me Anymore". It's Nicolette Larson's "Still You Linger On", from her 1982 album, "All Dressed Up and No Place to Go".

So, I was listening to this album because I picked it randomly up a thrift store a while ago, and I noticed how much the final song on the album resembled "You Don't Love Me Anymore", but I was like "Eh? It's probably just a coincidence. They're just both fairly straightforward guitar ballads, with string and piano parts. Why would Weird Al be taking inspiration from a Nicolette Larson deep cut?" But I decided to do more digging.

Now the song in question is actually an Andrew Gold cover. The original version was released on his 1978 album, All This and Heaven Too. It also bears some semblance to YDLMA, but it also a keyboard part (or possibly guitar?) that shows up throughout, and it doesn't really have the strings that the Nicolette Larson version has. Anyways, he and Nicolette Larson were in a serious relationship in the early 80s and were engaged. He produced her album "All Dressed Up and No Place to Go", but the two broke up after recording had finished.

Now as someone who hasn't paid attention to Weird Al's relationship history, I was of course then surprised to learn that she and Weird Al briefly dated in the late 80s. If we're going by this Ask Al post, somewhere around 89? Perhaps die hard fans know more. Given that a lot of Al's Style Parodies are based on people that Al has developed friendships with over the years, it actually makes sense as to why Al would have been inspired by this song. Perhaps Al was inspired to write this after the two had broken up?

The only instance I could find in my Googling of someone else making the connection to "Still You Linger On" is this Amazon Review of "All Dressed Up and No Place to Go" from 2005.

Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Mon May 02, 2022 5:09 am
by OneWAY
Nice digging! Definitely builds a strong case!

Re: You Don't Love Me Anymore

Posted: Mon May 02, 2022 6:50 am
by mrmeadows
Well, aside from Al saying that YDLMA is based on a song "by a band", and Nicolette Larson is an individual artist, I'd say you probably nailed it.

Also, Larson actually did backing vocals on "Alimony" and "Good Old Days" off the EW album, according to the "Players" page of weirdal.com:
https://www.weirdal.com/archives/miscellaneous/players/