Video: The Cure: "The Only One"
The Cure's ambitious plan to release a single on the 13th of each month leading up to their still-untitled 13th album may have been too ambitious for their distribution. The first of the singles, "The Only One", is available on iTunes but won't be in U.S. stores until May 20, according to the band's site. Nor was there time for an elaborate conceptual video, but the MTV crew recorded a live performance in the studio, which we see here. Robert Smith may sound like Reggie Youngblood from Black Kids (sounding a lot like him), but he still looks like Robert Smith: same floppily unkempt mane, eyeliner, and broad features, just a few years older. Sort of like the song, a chiming uptempo Friday-I'm-in lovesong for the 1980s-obssessed mid-to-late aughts. Smith is joined here by bare-scalped, tattooed Porl Thompson on guitar, with drummer Jason Cooper and bassist Simon Gallup holding up the rhythm and not-so-gothy section. It's all stark black-and-white and multiple close-up angles as Smith sings, "How I love what you do to me." Show me how you do that trick.
[from "The Only One" single; out now on Geffen]]