Despite the ongoing success The Cure have encountered following the recent release of their 14th studio album ‘Songs of a Lost World’, which earned the band their first Number 1 album in 32 years, frontman Robert Smith sees no plans of slowing down given the new pop song he’s written, which is fit for a future Christmas single.
The Cure are renowned for their emotionally provoking lyricism and dark tonal melodies which continually resonate with audiences. Smith recently spoke to Radio X during a track by track analysis of The Cure’s latest album, where the frontman went on to confess that he’s written a “really catchy pop song”.
Pop songs are not a typical feature in The Cure’s discography, as Smith prefers an “emotional response” from his music, which is telling given the ever-present themes of loss, isolation and angst within ‘Songs of a Lost World’.
The ‘And Nothing Is Forever’ singer stated: “I always just want an emotional response from what I write… Unless I think, ‘This is a catchy idea’, but those days have kind of gone a little bit’”.
The frontman continued: “Although I have written a really catchy pop song! I’m struggling to figure out how I’m gonna release it. Having been up in town all day, the amount of times I’ve heard [Wham!’s] Last Christmas. I think I just need to stick some Christmas words on it and get it out there!”
It wouldn’t be surprising Smith taking inspiration from Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ given its continued success 40 years on. After all, it’s not unlikely for melancholia to meet festivities, given George Michael wrote the most heart-wrenching lyrics and paired it melodically with sleigh bells to produce one of the most memorable festive tracks of all time. In the same way, Smith could utilise his emotionally vulnerable lyricism sprinkled with Christmas vocabulary and instrumentation to make the next big festive hit.
Although the conversation did not go any further into the specifics of this potential festive track, The Cure are in the momentum of releasing more music, after their 16-year hiatus from releasing albums prior to ‘Songs of a Lost World’. Smith unveiled “there’s 32 unreleased songs at the moment sitting in my house… There are two eight track albums if we wanted”.
Their next album which the ‘Alone’ singer anticipates will have 10 songs, be released next summer and exist as the “companion piece” to ‘Songs of a Lost World’, while the other tracks are “completely random stuff”.
It’s clear The Cure are planning on making a substantial comeback not only with a follow up album to ‘Songs of a Lost World’ on the way but an exciting, experimental festive track that could be gifted to us in time for next year’s festivities.
