Olivia Rodrigo’s “the cure” Draws From Smashing Pumpkins, Not Its Namesake Band
The second single from her June album is a vulnerable jealousy ballad that builds to a panic, with strings nodding to “Tonight, Tonight.”
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Olivia Rodrigo Searches for ‘The Cure’ in New Video, Leaning Into a Decades-Long Obsession
The second single from Rodrigo’s upcoming album finds her playing a nurse in a video that deepens her connection to the band The Cure. Robert Smith has been listening.
Robert Smith and the Quiet Defiance of The Cure's Early Sound
In the band's formative years, a young Robert Smith channeled a very English repression into a pop song that refused to fade.