"No More "I Love You's"" | ||||
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Single by The Lover Speaks | ||||
from the album The Lover Speaks | ||||
B-side | "This Can't Go On!" "Of Tears" |
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Released | 1986 | |||
Format | 7" single, 12" single | |||
Length | 4:04 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Writer(s) | Joseph Hughes, David Freeman | |||
Producer(s) | Jimmy Iovine, The Lover Speaks | |||
The Lover Speaks singles chronology | ||||
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"No More "I Love You's"" | ||||
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Single by Annie Lennox | ||||
from the album Medusa | ||||
B-side | "Ladies of the Canyon" | |||
Released | 6 February 1995 | |||
Format | 7" single, CD single | |||
Recorded | January 1994 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 4:50 | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Writer(s) | Joseph Hughes David Freeman |
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Producer(s) | Stephen Lipson | |||
Annie Lennox singles chronology | ||||
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"No More I Love You's" (stylized as "No More "I Love You's"") is a song written by Joseph Hughes and David Freeman and first released in 1986 by their band, The Lover Speaks, with keyboards by Barry Gilbert. The song was later covered by the Scottish singer Annie Lennox and became a hit for her in 1995.
"No More "I Love You's"" was the debut single for The Lover Speaks. It peaked at the UK singles chart at #58.
"No More "I Love You's"" was the first single released by Annie Lennox from her second studio album, Medusa. The song won her the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 38th Grammy Awards, the first to be awarded to a British artist. The song features slightly altered lyrics from the original version and added background vocals that can be heard around the 2:50 mark of the song. Her version was also featured in the very first episode of The Sopranos and in the ninth episode of Hindsight.
The song became the highest charting solo single for Lennox in the United Kingdom, entering the chart and peaking at #2. It spent a total of 12 weeks on the UK chart. The track also became a Top 25 hit in the United States, peaking at #23. With it, Lennox won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, beating Mariah Carey, Vanessa L. Williams, Dionne Farris, and Bonnie Raitt. The song also topped Canada's RMP chart, earning Lennox her second number one single on the chart, after "Walking on Broken Glass" in 1992.
Lennox's version of "No More "I Love You's"" has been sampled four times. It was first sampled for the Nicki Minaj song "Your Love" on her 2010 single. The song was originally recorded two years before but never intended to be put out for release until it was leaked in January 2010. After becoming a hit, it was slightly rewritten and re-recorded and this revised version was released in June 2010. Prior to the official release of Minaj's song, the cover was sampled in 2009 by Jason Derulo and Auburn in their song "How Did We". It was then sampled by J.R. Rotem for singer Razah's 2010 single called "I Remember", using the same instrumental beat used for "How Did We".