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Love to hear Robert talk so chatty and candidly about production and how everything comes together. I say it often and I'll say it again, he is simply a genius and it's truly amazing how the band just love playing together...for all these years!🖤

I recall that as a teen I played the albums over and over again. They were/are so good and I am pleased they received the award. As a 58 year old fan, it didn’t matter, because they are my band and always will be.

This album is THE most perfect album of ALL TIME, FOR ME. I have already requested that it be played as the last album I ever hear. It's brilliant I feel like it was a spiritual experience seeing the concert tour for this album. ❤ Robert is such a good man. You can feel his passion and that of the band in his music. His interactions with the fans are beyond precious. You never feel like he takes us for granted. One of the most amazing things is how little his voice has changed over the years. The man, the band, the album are all just treasures. ❤❤❤❤❤ ALSO! As a teen when I first discovered The Cure, I of course like many wanted to embody the coolness of the band and especially Robert. I remember all my friends had various ratted, backcombed hairstyles, and we absolutely shunned the sun, and coated ourselves in sunscreen, opting instead for his very pale, red lip look. Consequently, as a woman of 49, my skin is pretty damn great and I directly connect it to building those good habits during the Disintegration years.

Album changed my life.

Melancholy is not the same as "depressing". Several songs in Disintegration have a melancholy feel to them but if the listener also happens to be in that frame of mine, hearing someone sing thoughts similar to your own can be very uplifting because it lets you know you're not alone.

Just saw The Cure last night in New Orleans. Robert Smith and and his music are legend. ❤ Looking forward to the forthcoming album.

When I heard Robert talk about the amount of people that were attending the Hall of Fame induction ceremony and how surprised he was , I was surprised. I think Robert highly underestimates The Cure's fan base numbers... He's so humble... This and Roger's interview were freakin' amazing!!!! The Cure has always and will continue to always be my favorite band of ALL TIME!!! I've been listening to them since 1992 when I was introduced to their sound... Mixed Up was actually my first album and that was already 2 years old... Then I found their greatest album.....Disintegration, been a fan ever since. I have all their albums... The Cure is the greatest band of all time.... Change my mind...

This interview is now a few years ago. The band is now in the middle of their SHOWS OF THE LOST WORLD tour in North America. I attended their Chicago show on this tour. And according to reviews suddenly EVERYONE and their mother & grandmother & cats and dogs, are in absolute love with this band. As I have always been since 1980 myself. Robert continues to amaze and that voice that never changes over these many years, just incredible. Robert Smith will always be my lord and savior. 🙏🎶🎼🎸

Such a treat to hear Robert talk about his work. Thanks so much for the interview.

Good interview. Amazing to think that RS was talking about the "new album" back in 2019. Here it is mid-2023, and we've yet to see the new album. (I did see the live concert supporting the new album, though!) Thank you for posting.

I could listen to Robert talk ALL day. His voice is soo soothing and he's such an interesting person. I appreciate him so much. 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Well done for getting Robert Smith on the show and congratulations for resisting the urge to interrupt. Yes, he does talk at length but you never know when he might arrive at a crucial piece of information or insight we wouldn't have heard otherwise. Also, he's getting to be an old man now. This may be /really/ the last thing he ever does. It's always a tragedy when a great creative person dies and after they do we can't ask them any more questions about their art or their reasons or ideas and we can't hope for any more interviews or songs or material. Once he is gone this will immediately become archive material and a record of who he was. It's crucial to let him say what he wants so we will know what he would have said if we'd asked. I rarely listen to long-form KZfaq videos throughout but this one I didn't want to miss. It's a scoop to have him. I know it's usually the worst of questions but I'd have loved to have asked what my favourite Cure songs are really about. Of course, never really knowing is the point because everybody folds the songs into their own story and give them their own personalised meaning.

Such dry wit-love Robert! What a treat to hear this. Thank you!

Thanks for this. Robert Smith is my spirit animal.

Thanks for sharing with us. Hail #TheCure!!!

It's astounding to me that he was actually happy, having a great time, while writing Disintegration. It was the soundtrack for my own life collapsing in 1989 and to this day evokes those feelings and memories. Which, considering how wonderful my life is now, it is good for me to recall, it keeps me grateful.

I wish Robert's newer listeners would visit his library of music. Pornography is a masterpiece, along with 17 Seconds and The Top.

Excellent stuff!!! Thank you!

I think I saw the. Cure in Sydney Australia at the Trade Union Club around 1984. I have seen them live a number of times since.

What a friggen genius. Makes me feel so dumb. Love Robert for all the strange reasons we all do asCure fans.

This was excellent 👏👏

I saw them on the Disintegration tour, what a band.

Awesome interview and great job by the Debatable team! Two moments had me laughing out loud. 7:48. "The more miserable the music, the happier the band is" and 27:40 "I've given up projecting into the future because everything goes wrong when you do that. Everything goes wrong when you don't, but..."😂

God I love the cure

Yes! The insight about their staying power amongst us older fans coming down to "trusting us emotionally" is a fact. I would also suggest that especially Disintegration is sort of emotionally the gift that keeps on giving. You relate to it differently throught the decades of your life, but you still RELATE! You still feel heard, and your struggles seen. It's the same reason why The Exorcist is my favorite movie, I saw it when I was very young and related to Reagan, but then I grew up, had a child, and I related more to the horror the mom went through, feeling so helpless. As I get even older and my own mom gets closer to needing care, I find myself feeling the heartache, fear, and sense of betrayal the priest has.

I would love to have a few pints with Robert. Since the early 80's I've thought of him as a musical genius, like Mozart. He created music that made life tolerable, and death less appealing due to the thought that that music may no longer be heard. He created songs that make me feel as though i took... "Something", as in euphoria. Not the pop songs, not me, more the Same Deep Water as You, Prayers for Rain. I'm fascinated with how such pieces came from a man, a human, when they have such an intense affect on me. There are a couple pieces by Mozart that i feel similarly. Music is felt, and there's few that have their level of depth, emotion, uniqueness, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, and passionate motivation pouring into their work. Every album the Cure has done was filled with substance, sustenance. One of the only bands that I've heard all their albums, none of the typical 1 or 2 half decent songs per album and the rest feeling empty, and everyone of them worthy of what he hoped for. Robert will always be a "heart throb," which i never thought of him that way (lesbian, always) and only learned recently of that being said of him, he's a man of character, charm, wit, and beauty. That means his wife is amazing! An example of true hearts finding their match.

Still waiting for the new album…..

The new album will be out by Christmas. Lol!

Fantastic

❤❤

Even though Disintegration is a long album, I still can't get over that "Fear of ghosts" is not on it, since it's better than most songs on the actually great album. It would have just fit in the 80 mins.

NYRA bets is using "in between days" as music for their shows, I think they should pay writer rights

it came out about a month before i turned 17 and i played it constantly. for me personally the day i turned 30 was absolutely one of the worst days of my life, it still feels like my youth ended that day. if i had any talent i would have been writing songs of absolute despair over it.

Love Robert and The Cure so much, but... where the f#ck is the new album??!!

I wish theyd get back to that cinematic sound

Does it bother anyone else that the tape is going backwards?

Robert was about 22 when Pornography came out. Dunno why he keeps saying he turned 20 that year (1982).

4 years since this and still no album 😢

Great interview. The captions could be better. LOL. It's clearly auto-generated. Should have shelled out the extra $50 for a human transcription. Robert Smith is a true original. 30+ year fan.

The cassette tape is going backwards.

Niçe that he is honest.......,..surprising thhese days...,..... Lovely album..........so pleased à thousand hours & pornography were meñtioned.....,,....,,..lt still continues .....,.xxxx❤

While I have an English/Scottish pedigree, I have lived in Texas my entire life and have never been to England. Why can I understand every word of Robert's speaking better than the "A.I." that is doing the closed captioning? LOL!!!!

it REALLY doesn't sound like his voice.

What happened to Robert that he can't write a good song since 30 years ? Has success made a failure of our band ?

Why does he hold onto the “Elizabeth Taylor in her last years” look? Cringe.