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'Don't You Love Me?' became Eternal's biggest hit to date when it shot straight into the Top 3 on 2nd March '97... It is the girls' 12th consecutive Top 20 hit.
This is already the third song title on the album that starts with the word "Don't". How negative.
I jest of course, but this is negative in the sense that it speaks of bad things happening. I remember feeling at the time that narrating all this real suffering and then asking "don't you love me?" in the chorus seemed a bit self-centered, but I suppose it's meant to imply that the people in the verses are saying that to God or something. Either way, though, it's about as effective a piece of social comment as Jamiroquai's effort, and less funky.
It feels very like a self-conscious effort to launch the band onto the US gospel market, although as far as I'm aware they never had any real success there. For all that the Bennett sisters are by all accounts committed Christians, it feels to much of a cynical move to convince.
Also appearing on: Now 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38
Available on: The Best
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