"I Love You, Oh No!" is a song written by

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, Hajime Tachibana, and

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for

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, released in 1979 from their debut album '' Welcome Plastics''.

Cover versions

The song was covered by

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as "I Love You Ono" – a play of words on both the original Plastics title and

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– and is a likely homage to the original version's Japanese origin. It was released on the band's 1999

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'' My Melody'', published through

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. It was used by

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in a European commercial for the

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in June 2005, and was also featured in Robot Food's snowboarding hit "Afterbang". In 2009, the song was used in a

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commercial for the Studio 15. In 2012 the song was used for the Dior ADDICT Fragrance commercial. In 2013 it was used as the

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for

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's '' Anna and Katy'' - the choice of the show's co-writers and performers,

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and

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References

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