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The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib

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The Forest by Robert Smith

The video for the forest is also meaningful only because it's the first thing to like really feature the band visually, right? Yes. And I don't know if you've watched it, but it's so 80s and Robert Smith is serving full sociopath. There's that haunting little green, greenish blue light that, you know, it is, it's a bit much for me. The photo shoots are the best. Like you just see like he's absolutely something is going on there,. But they also famously didn't like their videos until, I don't want to get ahead, but they meet their video soulmate later.

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