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The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib

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The Cure: A Trilogy of Records

Robert Smith seems immensely self aware. He knew that coming out of that trilogy of albums there had to be some kind of delineating if the cure were to go on right If we had to get past pornography. It was literally like I can't do this anymore. There's got to be something on the other side. A huge moment also around this album is when they start collaborating with one Timothy Pope because they liked his video for soft cells bed sitter. Tim Pope saw straight into Robert Smith's heart and soul. The video for let's go to bed is perfect and it rules. Do you agree? Oh, I absolutely agree.

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