I Love You For Psychological Reasons
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Dial-A-Song (2015) artwork
| song name | I Love You for Psychological Reasons |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Dial-A-Song (2015), Phone Power |
| year | 2015 |
| first played | January 2, 2016 (25 known performances) |
| run time | 3:01 |
| sung by | John Linnell; John Flansburgh sings background in the refrain |
Trivia/Info
- This song references the rhythm and blues song "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons", which was confirmed by John Linnell in a 2025 interview with the A.V. Club:
Probably anyone who's heard that song and knows this song already knows that that's the reference. It's a lot of words! It's one of those songs that was a huge amount of work, writing all the rhymes and trying to keep it interesting and poetic. I look at the lyric[s] now and think, "Man, I had so much energy! How could I have possibly written all those words?" Obviously, I was drinking coffee.
- Video directed by Paul Sahre. Edited by Zak Tebbal, who also had a hand in the videos for "Trouble Awful Devil Evil" and "College Town". Videography by Minchai Lee [1][2].
Song Themes
Animals, Body Parts, Food, Insects, Jail And Imprisonment, Love, Mirrors And Reflections, Oblique Cliches Or Idiom, Personification, Questions, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Rhymes, Stories, Transportation
Videos
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