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Tackling themes like romance, mortality, and the romance of mortality, The Cure<\/a> have always been shoehorned into the gothic new wave category, and that is pretty spot on. After all, most of the band\u2019s best songs include these topics in one variant or another, and often, it\u2019s the moments where it all swirls together more ambiguously that their music truly shines. <\/p>\n Robert Smith<\/a> has always been aware of this, but also knows how the material is rarely ever as black and white as simple labels like gothic or post-punk, and that\u2019s mainly because it is too simple a label to apply to the legacy of The Cure. <\/p>\n From the start, the frontman has taken his influences and channelled them to pour his own thoughts and ideas into art, ranging from his childhood upbringing and how he perceived the world around him in his youth to the relationships he experienced as he grew older, as well as the concept of memory in between all of those intricate lines, the kinds that rewrite our consciousness and fabricate their own emotions, even though they\u2019re no less real.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the core of The Cure, and the proof that the music extends far beyond any style or genre: much of the music, sonically and lyrically, tackles existential musings that are far too abstract and yet painfully real to be condensed into something singular, with the themes surrounding existence and its pitfalls exuding from the nucleus of everything we encounter in our short time on earth, and how the poetry in it helps us make sense of it all.<\/p>\n Of course, the sonic elements help to drive these points home, too, such that, if The Cure\u2019s music didn\u2019t sound the way it did, then these themes wouldn\u2019t be as powerful, and if Smith\u2019s lyrics didn\u2019t hit home, we wouldn\u2019t resonate with his concepts as much. But we do because there\u2019s something familiar about it, specifically, the way that he managed to blend his different influences across rock and synth-pop to build a world that completely stood on its own.<\/p>\n Like many of his peers, he built those narratives on the shoulders of others, utilising cherished favourites like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Siouxsie Sioux, Joy Division, Pink Floyd, and countless others to bridge the gap between his generation and the things that he was experiencing in his own life. Jimi Hendrix also informed much of Smith\u2019s musical patterns<\/a>, and David Bowie was another who became a constant touchpoint across most, if not all, Cure albums.<\/p>\n