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

Chica Sato Chikako Sato (佐藤千賀子, '), better known as is a Japanese musician and fashion model best known as the lead vocalist for new wave band Plastics who then went on to form Melon with Plastics bandmate Toshio Nakanishi. The duo became a ...

, Hajime Tachibana, and

Toshio Nakanishi , also known by the pseudonyms Tycoon To$h or Typhoom Tosh, was a Japanese musician and graphic designer who was best known as the founding member of new wave band Plastics in 1976. He was initially a part of the technopop fever in Japan and ...

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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