I'M NOT IN LOVE - 10CC
Answers to Talking points

Ad 1) A telephone call between a man and a woman; you only hear the statements of one party.

Ad 2.) He has called her (and not vice versa).
b) He wishes to meet her.
c) He has a picture of her upon the wall.

Ad 3) Little believable - in order to hide a stain, you can cover it up with all kinds of things.

Ad 4.) a) He wants to make her wait ("you’ll wait a long time")
b) He wishes to appear calm and cool.
c) His Ratio does not accrept his Emotio, his being in love.
d) He wants to remain open for a retreat in case she says no without losing face.
e) Being in love causes confusion.
f) He has had bad experience with being in love.

Ad 5.) a) Memories of childhood when adults taught the boy never to cry and to show his emotions.
b) The first-person narrator feels like crying. However, he fights this feeling autosuggestively by the prohibition "Big boys don’t cry!"

Ad 6.) a) It is a forbidden love.
b) The inner conflict depresses him.


Comparison between "Missing You" and "I’m not in Love"

Ad 1) a) Denial of being in love.
b) Contradiction between evident being in love and verbal denial.
c) Contrast between outer coolness and inner exitement.
d) Repetitions and variations

Ad 2) A happy ending is more likely in "I’m not in Love"
b) In "Missing You" "she" is interested in "him", not so in "I’m not in Love".