Originally Posted by
allegro
He said Wish would be the last Cure album ever (he’s said that many times) then the last tour ever. And his hardest core fans accepted that.
Then he changed his mind.
He said The Cure would be the final final album.
I have online Cure friends who followed The Cure around this tour, seeing them 30 times and more, and they are all just ecstatic that they got to be there. They never talk much about the “new album” - if it shows up, fine. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.
Maybe he changed his mind and decided he’s not putting this one out. Maybe he has writer’s block and the only thing he’d write about would be how much he hates some of his fans. Maybe he’s done the vocals and it just takes time to put the album out.
With crazy fans accusing him of awful shit, or relentlessly bitching at him for not doing enough (in South America, he didn’t show up one day to sign shit and you’d think he’d personally pissed on all of them). (“This girl took a bus for 3 hours and made a little Robert doll by hand to give to him, and he didn’t even show her the courtesy of coming down so she could give it to him.” WTF! No, she went all that way to see a band perform, not to hand a senior citizen a fucking effigy of himself.) It’s seemingly never enough.
I can barely crank out the first paragraph of anything, and truly wonder how people expect writers to just “do it come on we’re waiting,” like it’s knitting a sweater or something.
Christ, people were asking about the album in threads where RS’s paintings were being auctioned for charity, and in threads about Roger receiving “treatments” for an illness, etc. It’s just ridiculous. “Gee, do you think Roger might have cancer?” “I dunno, where the fuck is the new album?”
The incessant whining I see all over the internet makes me root for it never getting done, and him putting out a solo ambient album or something akin to “Metal Machine Music” just to stick it up the ass of all these people effectively saying “give me it! now!”
I’d much prefer a reissue of live VIDEOS. And a SOLO PROJECT! And, as mentioned, live albums with extra tracks.
(I suspect - with the stuff I’VE heard - that the new album is on its way and a supportive Stage 4 of the tour is in the works.)
“The internet” has turned into a fucking swirling cesspool of useless shit, save for the pockets of true fans who manage to find each other out there (mostly on IG) and create a happy joyful space.