You're In Love
by Ratt

Album: Invasion Of Your Privacy (1985)
Charted: 82 89
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Songfacts®:

  • On many of Ratt's songs - "Back For More" and "Lay It Down" are good examples - the singer has the upper hand in matters of love. This song takes a different approach, with the lady spinning him like a top.

    "I call it our 'love song,' but it's not. At all," lead singer Stephen Pearcy told Songfacts. "It's kind of a 'danger zone' love scenario."
  • Stephen Pearcy wrote this song with Ratt's bass player Juan Croucier, who brought in the riff. Their producer Beau Hill helped bring it all together. He was great fit for Ratt, producing their first four albums, all of which went Platinum. Hill also worked with Warrant, Kix, and Alice Cooper.
  • The music video starts with a clip from the 1940 movie Santa Fe Trail where a girl tells a guy she's in love with someone else. It ends with a scene from the 1949 Marx Brothers movie Love Happy, where Marilyn Monroe tells Groucho, "Some men are following me." He replies, "Really? I can't understand why."

    In between, there's Ratt concert footage and other love-related scenes from movies and TV shows.
  • "You're In Love" was the second single from Ratt's second album, Invasion Of Your Privacy, following "Lay It Down." Like their buddies in Mötley Crüe, they had a thing for Playboy models. The cover girl on the album is Marianne Gravatte, Playmate Of The Year for 1983.

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