"L'amour n'est rien..." (English: "Love Is Nothing...") is a 2005 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. The song was released as the fourth single from Farmer's sixth studio album Avant que l'ombre... on 27 March 2006. "L'Amour n'est rien..." was illustrated by a music video which was perhaps one of the simplest in singer's career, and in which she performs a striptease. The song had some success in France, where it reached the top ten, but was especially successful in Russia where it was often aired on the radio.

In the summer of 2005, this song was announced as the third single from Avant que l'ombre..., but "Redonne-moi" was chosen instead. Finally, "L'amour n'est rien..." was aired for the first time in a short version, the radio edit version, on NRJ on 24 January 2006, only three weeks after the release of "Redonne-moi". On 24 March, a remix with R&B sonorities, 'the sexually no remix', produced by The Bionix, was heard on the radio. On 11 April, the promotional CD maxi, then eight days later, the 7" maxi, were successively sent to radio stations.

As opposed to the other singles from Avant que l'ombre..., this song was regularly broadcast in its single version on many French radios such as MFM, Chérie FM and RFM, and also both in its radio edit and remix version on NRJ and Fun Radio.

The single's release was made in two times: first, the CD single on 27 March, then the CD maxi on which the remixes were available, on 7 May.

"L'amour n'est rien..." is the only song from Avant que l'ombre... whose music was composed both by Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. The music, the most cheerful and lively of the album with "Peut-être toi", was inspired by a free ditty which was also covered by Dorothée in her song "Hou! La Menteuse!". The lyrics seem to be autobiographical: Farmer evokes both her silent temperament and her thirst for sex and love. Unlike other Farmer's songs, "L'amour n'est rien..." is an optimistic song, in which "the singer kindly laughs at herself" and seems to address her critics who accuse her of being too pessimistic in her songs. At the end of the refrain, she answers that "she does not oblige others to adhere to her lifestyle". The song deals with "sex, religion and death", and uses various neologisms. It makes the "apology of a blossomed sexuality".

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