The Cure live : Where's the dark in all this?
Aug 26 '02
The Bottom Line I basically love pop...and The Cure are definitely pop artists...
Recently I've been to a Cure's live show in Rome, at the Sadio Olimpico with a friend of mine.
More exactly....he carried me there. He was absolutely stirred about it, since a month before the date: The Cure have been some kinda adolescence idols for him, or a sort of, and i can easily comprehend that kind of behaviour...
I've never been a fan of them, but i enjoyed it anyway.
Live events have their own soul, their own personality: and a night out with friends, on a summer night, among 'thousands people standing in a field'....makes that hollow feeling grow and grow inside of you, and makes you feel different, more close to the real essence of you, closer to your body.
Moreover I basically love pop, and The Cure are definitely pop artists!
Their music and songs structures reflect the simple and predictable melody backbone that sustained the entire 80's British musical scene. Even their look and the overabused use of keyboards recall that mood.
They mostly differentiate from the barren land of that time thanks to a couple of reasons:
- their unreleasing tunes that never seemed to come to a why, while the ripetitive body of the song acquires more credibility and respectability in your hears, sustaining the whole piece with its personality;
- Robert Smith, primary song writer and guitar player (and real icon of the band), is one of those artists who completely characterizes a music act with his voice and the deadpan way of using it.
And where's the dark in all this?
I can hardly find a definition for dark music, if not an obvious soundtrack of dark behaving and feeling: i'm not an explorer of all the music stuff distributed all around, but in a true and deep respect of dark culture i must assert that the philosophy assuming The Cure as an icon of dark culture was and is still a masquerade!
This is Pop.
Hidden behind a low baritone voice.
Hidden behind a serious pose.
But is Pop.
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Member: Gianni Lapelazzuli
Location: Rome, Italy
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