American soul singer and backing vocalist Dennis Englewood said, "When I
first heard my favorite popular 10cc song about broken relationships,
called, 'I'm Not In Love' that I wanted to do soul ballad record of
instead of an epic record, I noticed that there were too many Synclavier
choir voices that sounded awful to me, so I said, 'I don't like those
Synclavier voices that are so horrible! They don't seem right to me! I
can't use that in my soul ballad remake! I'd rather be using real
instruments in my sweet soul ballad cover of the song, originally done
by British band 10cc.' When I also heard Kathy Warren, the studio
secretary from Strawberry Recording Studios say the irrelevant line: 'Be
quiet, big boys don't cry', I said 'No, I can't say 'Be quiet, big boys
don't cry', because that part in the middle sounds very irrelevant and
it doesn't fit the breakup song! Over the instrumental break I'd rather
not say it! I like to make this breakup song more relevant and
sing-songy, so on my soulful version of that song I want to sing in the
range of sweet tenor, almost like in a low falsetto like David Pack from
the pop group Ambrosia and Russell Thompkins, Jr. from the pop-soul
group The Stylistics, plus me and my friends as backing singers wanted
to sound like Ashford & Simpson on backing vocals on that tune in
order to avoid the strange wall of sound."