The Cure frontman Robert Smith has said that he feels bad about a viral video clip in which he brought an excited presenter down, with a deadpan response to her opening question.
The Cure made their way along the red carpet in the minutes before being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019, American presenter Carrie Keagan stopped the band for a chat. Keagan’s high-octane interview style appeared to catch Smith off guard.
We all have certainly chuckled at the clip of Smith’s typical British reaction to the interviewer, which went viral on various social media platforms in the days after it happened in 2019. But was Smith even aware of the reaction to the clip? Yes, he certainly was. And he told the BBC that he felt bad about the whole thing.
Looking back on that moment from more than five years ago, Smith told the BBC’s Sidetracked that: “I felt bad about that, actually. If I’m honest, I didn’t realise that I was being filmed. So, that’s probably why. We had just come from quite a serious conversation in our dressing room about what we were doing there. And this wave of enthusiasm was just like…”
The frontman has also recently credited his late brother for encouraging him to pursue The Cure full-time, instead of enrolling in further education.
Smith penned the track ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’ about his brother’s death, and previously said that doing so had “helped [him] enormously”.
Speaking to Radio X‘s John Kennedy about the song, the musician and vocalist – who formed The Cure in 1976 – explained: “My brother gave me the idea that I could do whatever I wanted.
The Cure released their long-awaited 14th studio album Songs of a Lost World in November.
