I wrote this about the Cure elsewhere where people were complaining about their radio songs:
Their songs that sound poppy are amazing. I love that songs like "Just Like Heaven" and "Pictures of You" and "Friday, I'm In Love" get played all over and they're dark and depressing as hell. Superficially they're light and bouncy and happy; inside they're sick songs of obsession and loss, i.e. standard Cure material.
In other Cure notes, I think they're the only band I know that generates/fuels break-up rumors by releasing an album rather than not releasing one. I can't recall the last time that the release of a Cure album was not followed by Robert Smith and everybody else making comments/reporting that they were done with but it was probably the '80s
