Songfacts®:

• "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" is a song written, arranged, and performed by Jane Child. The song was held back at #2 by Sinead O'Connor's floating head of doom singing "Nothing Compares 2 U," which held #1.
  
  This is her sole Top-40 hit, although she has a comprehensive music career including work as a record producer. Child has since been on-again off-again in her solo career, preferring studio and session work.
• The video shows Child stalking about in Manhattan; she wanted it that way because she conceived the song there. MTV was still showing videos at the time, and Child had a very interesting look that created some buzz: Cornrows and a chain that ran from her pierced ear to her pierced nose. According to Child, the chain was inspired by Eastern culture. She grew up in Toronto where there is a large Indian population.
• In the UK, the song only made it to #22 on the UK Singles chart; this was because she refused to appear on the UK TV show Top of the Pops. Reportedly, she considered that to be "selling out."
• Child also provided the song "Mona Lisa Smiles" to the soundtrack of the much underrated cyberpunk popcorn-muncher film Freejack.